15 Hair-Color Terms to Know Before Your Next Salon Appointment

If your schedule won't allow hair-color appointments every six weeks, ask your stylist to root your hair. "We do all the highlights, and then we put a gloss, or a toner, or a color on the roots to tone it down," Hill says. "It's just something that takes away the contrast so it doesn't look so bold or blatant in the regrowth. I like to compare it to smudging your eyeliner."