Colour correction at Wembley Park

Colour correction is booked at the Wembley Park salon, 3 Weaver Walk, HA9 0GX. This page covers what is specific to having it done at that address: who takes the work, how a long appointment fits into that particular diary, and when in the week to aim for. The detail of what correction actually involves, and why the price starts where it does, sits on the main colour correction page.

Who takes correction work here

Three people on the Wembley Park rota.

• Grace, senior colourist and stylist
• Az, creative cutter and colour expert
• Walker, colourist and Asian hair expert

Walker is worth flagging for correction on dark hair in particular. Asian hair carries strong warm pigment underneath, and pulling old colour out of it exposes that warmth in a way that catches people out if the person doing it has not seen it a hundred times. Grace and Az both work across cutting and colour, which matters more than it sounds on a correction, because these jobs quite often finish with length coming off ends that have taken all the punishment they are going to take.

Fitting two hours into a barber led diary

Wembley Park is the busier of the two salons for short appointments. Dry clipper cuts alone run past a thousand a year here, with clipper cuts and skin fades behind them, and that volume is booked in tight, fast blocks. A correction is the opposite shape of appointment. It is long, it cannot be paused halfway, and it will not squeeze between two haircuts.

Three practical consequences. Availability for correction is thinner than for a cut, so book further ahead than you would for a trim. Turning up and hoping is not realistic for this one. And if you want a cut on the same visit, say so when you book rather than at the basin, because it is a separate block of time that has to exist in the diary before you arrive.

Hours, and when in the day to aim for

The salon runs 10:00 to 20:00 Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 19:00 on Saturday and 11:00 to 18:00 on Sunday. Since two hours is the floor rather than the ceiling, the last workable start is well before the doors close, so a straight after work correction is usually not on. Late morning or early afternoon gives everybody room to let the hair set the pace. Sunday is the shortest day of the week here, which makes it the least forgiving day to book something that might run long.

Getting there, and who the salon serves

Weaver Walk sits in Wembley Park itself, and the regular catchment is the north west of the city, so alongside Wembley there is Alperton, Sudbury, Kingsbury, Preston Road, Neasden, Harrow and Willesden. If you are travelling in for this, do not book anything tight on the other side of it. A haircut overruns by ten minutes. A correction can overrun by considerably more, because the pace is set by how the hair responds and not by what the diary hoped for.

The number for both salons is 020 3488 1492. Availability is on Fresha, and if the slot you need is not showing there, phone rather than assume it does not exist.

Before the appointment itself

Correction here begins with a consultation, and colour work needs an allergy patch test beforehand. Ask about both at the point of booking so the timing works, because neither of them belongs at the start of the colour appointment. There is a separate page on what the consultation covers and what to bring to it.

One last thing, since it stops people booking. Home colour is one of the two things correction exists to fix, the other being work done somewhere else. Nobody on this rota is going to be surprised by what is on your hair, and the conversation goes considerably better if you lead with it.