Why We Color With Wella
Every salon chooses a color house, and most guests never think to ask. But if you’ve ever wondered why your color looks different — richer, truer, kinder to your hair — at one salon than another, the answer usually starts on the color bar.
At Canterbury & Co., our team colors with Wella Professionals. That isn’t a supplier decision that happened by default. Before founding the salon, Alli spent years as a Wella Professionals color educator, traveling across the US teaching color theory and technique to other stylists. When it came time to build her own salon, the color house wasn’t a question.
What Wella means for your hair
Consistency you can book against. Wella’s shade system is one of the most precise in professional color. Your formula is recorded, repeatable, and adjustable in increments small enough to matter — so “the same as last time” actually is, and “a little warmer” means exactly that.
Condition comes first. Modern Wella color is built to respect the hair it’s on. Lightening and toning are designed to work with conditioning systems rather than against them, which is why well-maintained Wella blondes don’t feel like straw by October — Florida humidity notwithstanding.
A shade range that covers real people. From gray blending that doesn’t flatten to dimensional lived-in color, vivid work, and the soft money-piece brightness that photographs so well — the palette is wide enough that your color can be yours, not the closest available approximation.
The education never stopped
The educator’s habit is hard to break. The whole Canterbury & Co. team trains on Wella color and Wella’s in-salon treatments, and — as a Bb.Exclusive salon — we train across the full Bumble and bumble range for everything after the color bowl. Whoever’s chair you sit in, the product knowledge behind it is the same.
If you’ve been searching for a salon that colors with Wella — or you’re a Wella loyalist who just moved to Fort Myers or Estero — you’ve found your people. Come have a consultation; bring your color history if you have it, and we’ll talk about where your hair wants to go.