When it comes to hair highlights in Singapore, the price isn’t just a number. It’s about getting the best for your money. We understand you want clear pricing, but as hairstylists, we have to think about a lot of things. It’s not only about how much it costs, but also what you get for that cost. We consider the quality of products, the time we spend on your hair, and the expertise needed to give you those perfect highlights. So, when you pay for hair highlights, you’re investing in a service that’s tailored to your needs, ensuring you walk out with a look that feels right for you.

What are the Prices of Hair Highlights and Hair Colour in Singapore?

Transform your look with the magic of hair highlights in Singapore! Immerse yourself in a spectrum of stunning hues, from the deepest blondes to the richest caramels. Whether you’re after that trendy, sun-touched glow or cozy, chestnut autumnal tones, highlights are your go-to for adding dimension, style, and a touch of glamour. Each strand becomes a canvas, showcasing a blend of shades that elevate your look to new heights of sophistication.

There are many benefits to choosing hair highlights or hair colours

• Versatile: Highlights can be used to enhance the subtle tones and nuances of your hair giving a completely natural look that seamlessly blends with your hair. If you fancy something a little more dramatic and striking, you may choose thicker streaks or a more contrasting colour. Highlights can also be used to enhance and compliment your style and cut and frame your face.
• Adds depth and volume: For many of us, our natural hair colour can appear flat, one-dimensional, and dull. Adding one or more colours to the hair gives a tone variation that creates depth, texture, and volume.
• Camouflages Grey Hair: Whilst some women embrace a silvering mane, it can be upsetting for others. Highlights can be individually tailored to hide areas of natural grey because they blend in so well.
• Enhances Natural Skin Tone: Carefully selected highlight colours can brighten up your skin tone adding natural warmth and emphasizing your eye colour or best facial feature.
• Less Hair Damage: Because highlights only dye selected sections of the hair, they are far less damaging to the hair than all-over colour.
• Low Maintenance: As highlights grow out you do not tend to get a significant contrast between the natural root regrowth and the highlight colour. This means that touch-ups are needed less frequently.

For best results, it is essential to choose an experienced colourist who can match tones and colours to your natural hair colour, style, skin tone, and features.

Hair Highlights and Hair Colour Average Price Range

 In Singapore, the average cost for a full head of highlights ranges between $100 and $490.  The price variation depends on several factors:-

• The quality of the salon. To avoid disappointment or even hair damage, always choose a reputable, high-end salon such as Hera Hair Beauty. Go for the absolute best that you can afford.
• The Skill and Expertise of the Colourist: Your colour specialist will have a wealth of experience and the knowledge to be able to match your hair, skin tone, facial features, and desired result with the ideal highlight colours.
• The length of your Hair: Long hair will cost more than short hair
• The number of Highlights: Full head highlights will cost more than partial head highlights
• The Technique: There are several different techniques for applying highlights, for example, foils, balayage, or ombré. More complex highlighting techniques will be more time-consuming and expensive than simpler techniques.
• Colour combination: If you would like more than one tone added to your highlights then this may also cost a little more
• Quality of the Products: Low-end salons will tend to use cheaper hair dyes and hair care products. All of Hera Hair’s dyes are top quality and Ammonia and PPD Free.
• The starting point of your hair: This is an important factor that determine the price of the hair colour you desire to achieve. For example, if your hair colour goal is icy platinum blonde but your hair is box dyed black, then will be in the worst situation. For clients with virgin hair, they will be in the easiest starting point for most highlights and colour services without any complication.

Hair Highlights Price Guide at a Glance

Average Price Ranges in Singapore (based on our own research in 2021)

Parting and Hairline (Root touch-up) from $50 to $240

Partial Highlights from $70 to $320

Highlights (Full Head) from $100 to $490

Balayage from $200 to $450

Babylights from $300 to $490

Ombré from $150 to $400

All Over Permanent Colour from $60 to $450

Regrowth Permanent Colour (Root touch-up) from $50 to $330

Colour Change and Correction Services from $300 to $700

Creative or Fashion Colour from $200 to $500

All these hair highlights or colour service prices are normally priced thoughtfully by the salons, based on the market rate and competitiveness, the location of the salon, the starting point of your hair, the prestige and reputation of the salon, the level of experience and skill that are included in the service and the time taken for every service among other factors. For hair highlights and hair colour services, if additional services such as toner or bond builder treatment are needed, the price may vary further subject to the practice of individual salon. In Singapore, some salons will also include a complimentary blow-dry-styling in the highlights and hair colour services and others will charge the blow-dry-styling service separately.

Partial Highlights 

Partial highlights are wonderful for adding subtle, natural, dimensions to your hair. Your colourist will select small sections of hair, using foils, often around the face or sections of the top or side of your head. A skilled colourist can achieve a natural, sun-bleached look by carefully selecting small sections of the hair that would naturally lighten in sunlight. Often to achieve a natural look, the colourist will select a tone a shade or two lighter than your natural hair. For a more dramatic effect, you can choose a stronger contrast colour or add a few more sections.

Cost Guide to Partial Highlights

The cost of partial highlights will depend on the length of your hair, the number of highlights, and the number of colours selected. The price will also depend on the quality of the products, the technique used, your colourist’s expertise level, and your chosen salon’s reputation.

Pros of Partial Highlights

• Safe way of experimenting: If you have not dyed your hair before, partial highlights can be a great way of experimenting with colours and tones. With a skilled colourist you can also experiment with the placing of the highlights to create different effects
• Natural Effect: Partial highlights can give a very natural, sun-kissed effect
• Less Damage: Because fewer strands of hair are highlighted, the damage to the hair is less than an overall colour.
• Less expensive: Good quality hair dyes and products and highlighting techniques can be expensive. Only having small sections of hair highlighted reduces the cost

Cons of Partial Highlights 

• If you have long hair and love the glamour of an up-style the highlights may not be visible. Discuss with your colourist the usual way you style your hair and some highlights can be added underneath too.
• Partial highlights are not for you if you’re looking for a dramatic transformation or complete colour change.

Full Highlights 

Your colourist will use foils and wrap even sections of hair to highlight the whole of your head. Full highlights give a more dramatic colour change, whilst keeping fine sections of your natural hair colour. The level of transformation will depend on you, full highlights can subtly lighten your hair adding a myriad of blended colours to create a natural, textured, and top-end look. Highlights can also be used to dramatically transform your hair colour, changing you from a natural brunette to a beautiful caramel blonde, for example.

Pros of Partial Highlights 

• Transformation: You can achieve a dramatic transformation without dyeing your whole head of hair.
• Blended Colour and Tones: An experienced colourist can create a perfectly blended, full head of beautiful tones and colours individually tailored to your exact hair colour, style, and skin tone.
• Choice: A reputable hair salon will have a large selection of colours to choose from. Highlights are a great way to get on trend and try something new.
• Defines and Structures: Whether you have short or long hair, an experienced colourist and stylist can highlight your hair to accentuate any cut or style giving added depth and texture.
• Versatile: Expertly applied highlights will compliment any style. Because the whole head of hair is evenly highlighted, a glam upstyle will look equally as impressive as a shaggy bob.

 Cons of Partial Highlights 

• Hair Damage: Full highlights will cause more damage to the hair than partial highlights simply because more sections of the hair are dyed. Ensure you use a certified, reputable, experienced colourist and ammonia and PPD-free products to reduce risk.
• High Maintenance: Depending on how dramatic a transformation you have chosen, new growth will be more noticeable than partial highlights so you will need to have your highlights (or roots) redone around every 6 to 8 weeks.
• More Expensive: More highlights involve more products and are more time-consuming for your colourist to apply.

Balayage Highlights 

Balayage is the highlighting trend that has taken the jet set by storm. This is not surprising because the effect is more natural and nuanced than traditional foil highlights.

The name balayage comes from the technique that is used to apply the highlights. Using the balayage technique, the highlights are painted onto sections of hair using a freestyle technique that usually starts lighter at the midshaft and becomes thicker further down the section of the hair. Balayage highlighting is an art form and the finished result will very much depend on the skill and experience of the colourist.

Pros of Balayage 

• Natural Effect: We’ve all seen beautiful blends of colour on highlighted friends and family, but sometimes the tones can appear a little uniform or even striped. Balayage creates a more natural, graduated effect mimicking the natural highlights of the lucky, sun-kissed.
• Individuality: The stylist chooses where and how to place the lighter strands of hair. The colourist can place the perfect width of the strands together with pops of colour to highlight and frame your face and accentuate your style. The choice of colours combined with the free-style application technique ensures that the outcome is completely personalized.
• Low maintenance: Balayage colouring technique is designed to give a natural, flattering appearance to grown-out roots so there is no need to constantly retouch the roots to avoid the stark contrast sometimes seen in foil highlighting methods. Some clients return every 6 to 10 weeks whilst others may leave a redo for up to six months, depending on style, length of hair, and growth rate.
• Less Damage: Because the highlights tend to start lower down and only sections of the hair are coloured, balayage is less damaging than an all-over colour or more traditional highlights.

Cons of Balayage 

• Expensive: An experienced and talented stylist is essential to achieve the most desired effects. The price of balayage can vary widely so always book a consultation and be aware of the cost before committing.
• Grey Hair: Like other highlighting techniques, balayage does not completely cover grey hairs. The grey hairs are blended with the highlight colours. Due to the roots of the hair generally being left untouched in balayage the silver vixen may choose a root dye prior to the balayage. The root dye will need to be repeated every 4 to 6 weeks.

Babylights

Babylights are created in the same way as normal highlights. The main difference is that the strands of hair taken in the foils are much finer and the foils are placed closer together. Your stylist will colour more sections of your hair than traditional highlights. These delicate, fine, highlights create a more blended natural, subtle, multi-tonal colour blend. Babylights are perfect for all hair types but are a great choice for fine hair.

Pros of Babylights

• Natural Look: Babylights create a much more natural and subtle look than conventional highlights. Babylights add natural vibrancy and brightness to your hair, especially at the crown and ends, so subtle that they can be mistaken for natural, sun-kissed hair
• Versatile: Babylights compliment most hair lengths and colours with an overall, seamless, blended effect.
• Perfect for fine hair: Current hair trends are perfect for those with thick, flowing, manes but Babylights are the perfect choice for finer, straight hair types.
• Compliment Natural Hair Colour: Traditional highlights add contrast to the hair colour whereas Babylights evenly highlight the whole of the background colour adding vibrancy
• Low Maintenance: Babylights grow out more seamlessly than traditional highlights so you don’t tend to get a marked line of regrowth. Some clients only need to revisit the salon once or twice a year whilst others may prefer a touch-up every six to ten weeks.
• Less Damage: Because small, micro-strands of hair are taken, the dye processes quicker resulting in less damage to the hair.

 Cons of Babylights 

• More Expensive: Babylights take tiny sections of the hair, more closely spaced together and so the process is time-consuming and increases the cost. Pricing of Babylights can vary dramatically so it is advisable to have a consultation at a reputable salon with a certified, experienced colour stylist before committing.
• Does not Add Definition: Due to the overall colouring effect, Babylights don’t highlight and define the shape of your cut and style in the same way as thicker, more traditional highlights. Babylights are evenly placed around the whole head.

Ombré

The term Ombré does not refer to the colouring technique but is rather an overall look that is bang on trend. The term ‘Ombré’ is a French word meaning ‘shade’ or ‘shadow’. So, basically, the hair is gradually shaded from darker at the roots to a lighter shade at the ends of the hair. The shades of colour from darker to lighter blend seamlessly together and create a stunning, graduated effect.

Pros of Ombré 

• Low Maintenance: Due to the darker roots, as Ombré grows out, there is a natural transition with the lighter gradient parts of the hair simply becoming lower on the head. Touch-ups are usually needed every 3 to 6 months but can be done more often if desired.
• Versatile: You can choose a natural colour contrast giving a sunbleached effect with the tips of the hair the lightest. You can also go for a more dramatic look and choose a stronger or dazzling contrast. Likewise, you can choose where you would like the colour gradient to begin.
• Suits all Skin Tones: Ombré can be adapted to suit all skin tones. However, for the most complimentary option for you, always consult an experienced stylist to discuss before fully committing.
• Less Damage: Because a third or half of the hair is not coloured Ombré is less damaging than some of the other highlighting methods.

Cons of Ombré 

• Can look Cheap: When applied expertly Ombré colouring is beautiful. However, do not scrimp; inexpertly applied Ombré can appear as if you have just neglected to have your roots done for way too long!
• Not Suitable for all Hair Types and Styles: Ombré is best suited to hair that has some body, length, and movement. Ombré is probably not the best choice for very fine, straight hair. Ombré works best on single-layer hairstyles, from an edgy bob to long hair. Due to the gradient colour melt effect, Ombré is not best suited for styles with too many layers.
• If your hair has previously been coloured a darker shade, it may take several visits to your stylist to achieve the desired colour gradient so plan ahead before a big event.

Lowlights  

Just a quick word on lowlights. Many people get confused regarding the difference between highlights and lowlights. Well, basically all of the above techniques such as partial lowlights, full lowlights, balayage, etc. are used in the same way as highlights. The main difference between highlights and lowlights is that highlights are sections that are coloured (or bleached) to a lighter tone than your natural hair and lowlights are coloured to a darker, richer tone.

For lowlights, think rich chestnuts, caramels, and shades of Autumnal reds, golds, and ambers. Lowlights tend to be a couple of shades darker than your natural base colour. Lowlights also serve to give depth, volume, and texture to your hair and accentuate your hairstyle or cut. Some colourists may use a mixture of lowlights and highlights.

Hair Highlights and Balayage Singapore — The Art of Lived-In, Light-Reflecting Colour

Whether you love the soft, sun-kissed glow of balayage or the crisp definition of highlights, the modern approach to colour is all about dimension, movement, and light.

At Hera Hair Beauty, our internationally trained colourists specialise in both balayage and highlights for Asian or Caucasian hair, tailoring each placement to your hair texture, natural base, skin tone, and lifestyle.

Balayage creates effortless, low-maintenance gradients — colour painted freehand to mimic the way sunlight naturally brightens hair. Highlights, on the other hand, deliver precise ribbons of brightness for sharper contrast and luminous lift. Combined or customised, these techniques create a finish that looks refined, natural, and endlessly flattering.

Balayage vs Highlights — Which Is Right for You?

Our Expertise — Balayage & Highlights Tailored for Asian Hair

Our Highlights and Balayage Singapore specialists understand the unique undertones and lift challenges of darker, denser Asian hair. Using a blend of foilyage, micro-weaving, and root-shadowing, we achieve brightness without brassiness, maintaining shine and hair health throughout. Each service may includes bond-building protection, toner or gloss, and a personalised care plan — ensuring your colour stays luminous and touchable for weeks to come.

Why Clients Love Our Colour Work

• ✨ Low-maintenance beauty: Soft transitions mean fewer touch-ups.

• 🌤 Custom tone blending: From cool beige to warm caramel or ash-mushroom brunette.

• 💧 Health-first process: Ammonia-free colour, bond-builders, and precision timing.

• 💫 International mastery: Stylists trained in European and Australian balayage methods.

Book Your Appointment

Your perfect shade begins with a conversation. During your consultation, our colourist analyses your base, texture, lifestyle, and photos for inspiration — then designs your unique colour map and maintenance plan.

Book your balayage or highlights appointment today, or call +65 9237 1254 to schedule a complimentary consultation. Discover how Hera Hair Beauty transforms ordinary colour into art — luminous, dimensional, and effortlessly you.