Merced Hair Extensions and Color

A 3-row package doesn’t mean 3 rows of the exact same extension method. ✨

For this Copper transformation, I chose a Butterfly Weft for the top row so I could place it higher for better coverage and blending through her naturally curly, shoulder-length hair.

For the bottom two rows, I chose Beaded Row Extensions for the added density and the ability to completely customize the color throughout each row.

And this transformation actually started before she even arrived. I began custom coloring her extension hair on Sunday, so when she came in Monday, we could focus on her natural hair color, installation and finishing.

That’s one of the biggest benefits of a thorough consultation and my package approach: you don’t have to choose the method. I choose the combination that makes the most sense for your hair, scalp, density and end goal.

One package. Multiple methods. Completely customized. 🤎🧡

📍 Little Citrine Salon | Merced, CA

Fine hair doesn’t always need more hair color to create more dimension. Sometimes it needs the right extension placement. ✨

For this transformation, we chose Butterfly Weft Extensions because they allowed me to place the hair higher and create more fullness, layering and length around her face — especially through those shorter areas at the sides.

The dimensional bronde shades in the extensions did so much of the work for us that we were able to keep her highlighting minimal and simply blend her natural gray rather than cover it.

The result? Fuller-looking hair, beautiful face-framing length, dimensional brunette + blonde tones, and much less reliance on bleach to create the finished look.

Sometimes extensions aren’t just about adding long hair — they can completely change the shape, fullness and color of fine hair while allowing us to protect the natural hair underneath. 🤎

📍 Little Citrine Salon | Merced, California

Fine hair doesn’t always need more hair color to create more dimension. Sometimes it needs the right extension placement. ✨

For this transformation, we chose Butterfly Weft Extensions because they allowed me to place the hair higher and create more fullness, layering and length around her face—especially through the shorter areas at the sides.

And there was an unexpected bonus: the dimensional bronde shades in the extensions did so much of the color work for us that I was able to keep her highlighting minimal and simply blend her natural gray rather than cover it.

The result: fuller, longer, dimensional bronde hair while keeping her natural hair and color routine as gentle as possible. 🤎

If you’re in the Merced area and struggling with fine or thin hair, extensions don’t have to be about dramatically long hair. They can be customized to fill in exactly what your natural hair is missing.

📍 Little Citrine Salon | Merced, California

🍂 Pumpkin spice hair > pumpkin spice lattes. 😂

This spicy auburn extension blend just arrived and I’m already obsessed with the dimension — and I haven’t even added the custom color yet.

Rich auburn, warm highlights, deeper lowlights… basically fall hair in extension form. 🤎🍁

If you’ve been thinking about changing up your color for fall — extensions or no extensions — I’d love to hear what you have in mind.

📍Little Citrine Salon | Merced, CA

What if your gray could actually make your blonde BETTER? 🤍

This is only her second gray blending appointment after years of covering her darker roots—and look at how beautifully her natural silver is beginning to work with the blonde.

Instead of fighting her gray every month, we’re using it to create a cool, dimensional, icy blonde that will become softer and more seamless as she continues to grow out her previous color.

Heavy, strategic highlighting is helping break up that old darker color while her natural gray becomes part of the finished look. The result is already brighter, cooler and so much more dimensional.

For the right client, embracing your natural gray doesn’t have to mean “going gray.” It can mean turning that silver into one of the prettiest tones in your blonde. ✨

Gray blending + dimensional blonde in Merced, CA
Little Citrine Salon | Private Hair Studio

✨ What if you could give your natural hair a break… without giving up your blonde?

This beautiful icy blonde integrated hair topper with a soft shadow root is for a client who LOVES being as light and blonde as possible — but after years of lightening, her natural hair is ready for some recovery time.

She’s also been a longtime clip-in extension wearer, and the repeated clipping has become hard on her fine, overprocessed hair.

Her new permanent integrated topper gives her:

🤍 The bright, icy blonde she loves
🤍 Long, full hair without having to bleach her natural hair to achieve it
🤍 A break from daily clip-in extensions
🤍 Coverage and fullness through the top where traditional extensions can’t help
🤍 Hair she can wake up with, style and wear as her own

Her natural hair is integrated through the topper, creating a seamless result that stays in place and is maintained in the salon.

Sometimes the best way to work toward healthier natural hair isn’t giving up the hair you love — it’s finding a different way to achieve it. ✨

📍 Little Citrine Salon | Merced, California
Permanent & removable hair topper solutions for fine, thin and overprocessed hair.

Sometimes blonde doesn’t need to be blonder — it needs dimension. ☀️🌊

She came in with lots of lightness from Sun-In, but her blonde had become a little too bleached-out and one-dimensional.

Instead of adding more brightness everywhere, I used a combination of foiling, lowlights and freehand placement to bring depth back into her hair while keeping that soft, sun-kissed balayage look.

The goal: blonde that looks like she spent the summer at the beach — not the afternoon in foils. 🤍

Soft roots. Beachy dimension. Brightness in all the right places. And a much more natural grow-out.

If you’re looking for balayage or dimensional blonde hair color in Merced, CA, this is exactly the kind of lived-in blonde I love creating.

📍Little Citrine Salon | Merced, California

Merced blondes: if you keep getting highlights but never seem to get as light and bright as you want, it may not be your stubborn red undertones the toner or your stylist 😲It may be the clock. ⏱️✨

Creating a really clean, bright blonde often requires more than a traditional highlight appointment allows. At least initially.

Sometimes brassy hair needs specific preparation before I ever start highlighting. Sometimes there’s old warmth, mineral buildup or previous color to work through. And sometimes we need 🤍multiple blonding techniques in the same appointment to get all of those pieces working together. I can't squeeze this kind of delicate work into 2.5hrs overlapped with another appointment. 🫤

A standard 2½-hour appointment often isn’t enough. And for some blondes, even 3 hours isn’t enough.

My Light & Bright Blonde Method™.
Is for existing blondes, who don't feel they ever achieve that bright clean blonde 🤍. I set aside up to 4 hours so I have the time to prepare the hair, strategically brighten what needs brightening, address unwanted warmth and create that clean, light, dimensional blonde you’ve been trying to reach.

☑️And this isn’t necessarily something you have to do over and over again. That would not be a good idea.

Think of it as:

Get to the finish line. Then maintain it. 🤍

Once we’ve achieved the blonde you’ve been chasing, we can move into a maintenance plan designed to keep it beautiful—rather than spending appointment after appointment hoping we’ll eventually get there.

If you’re in Merced or the Central Valley and you’re already blonde but keep thinking, “Why can’t my hair ever get THIS blonde?” — my Light & Bright Blonde Method™ may be exactly what you’ve been looking for. Time to stop chasing your tail. Lets get this done! 🤍

I understand the struggle of really fine, soft hair because I live it myself. 🤍

My natural hair is extremely fine, silky and straight, with very little density or natural body. Even something as simple as a French braid was frustrating—there just wasn’t enough hair or texture for the braid to have any fullness or grip.

Since getting my permanent integrated hair topper, I finally have a little more density, texture and pliability to actually DO things with my hair. And today… French braids! 🙌

That may sound like such a small thing, but when you’ve spent years working around very thin hair, having enough hair to create a simple style feels pretty incredible.

Integrated toppers are designed to blend with your own hair and stay comfortably in place, giving you natural-looking fullness without having to put a topper on and take it off every day.

And yes—this is my own hair topper. I wear the same type of solution I offer my clients. 🤍

If you’re in Merced or the Central Valley and struggling with fine, thin or low-density hair, this is one of the options I offer at my private salon studio.