We stock the best professional salon hair colour brands – guaranteeing you achieve the latest in hair colouring and the very best salon-quality results for your clients.
Whether you’re looking for permanent or semi-permanent colours, tints or toners, we have you covered from pinks to pastels, black to blonde.
Our full list of the best hair dye brands available in South Africa will help you choose the premium products available online at Hair Health & Beauty in 2024.
Permanent hair colour for salons
We stock the widest range of permanent hair colours and dyes to elevate your salon experience and enable you to achieve lasting, vibrant colour for your clients. These are the brands available online at trade prices.
tint me
This range, created by Hair Health & Beauty and made in Italy, offers 66 permanent shades. They’re produced by a world-class manufacturer using pure micro pigments, the lowest levels of ammonia, shea butter and other nourishing ingredients. The range delivers high quality at very competitive prices, and is compatible with the full range of Compagnia del Colore (CDC) colours.
34 of the most popular tint me shades are available in economical, 180 ml sizes. Also available in the most popular shades is the brand new tint me PRONTO 10 range – a 10-minute processing range offering the same high quality and long-lasting results, in a fraction of the time.
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tint me Toner Light Grey Professional Hair ColourR53.41 – R83.15 -
tint me 3 Dark Brown Professional Hair ColourR53.41 – R83.15
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tint me Tuft Swatch Chart, 53 ColoursR399.00
Compagnia Del Colore (CDC)
Italian brand CDC offers the widest range of professional hair shades – 130 permanent colours – including 52 ammonia-free shades. The colouring creams are formulated with top-quality ingredients, including orange butter and honey, and are offered at affordable prices.
Color Touch
The demi-permanent Color Touch professional range from Wella (which was founded in Germany in 1860 and is now the largest salon colour brand in the world) lasts up to 24 washes. It’s ammonia free, making it gentler on hair than permanent colour.
Illumina
If your clients are looking for “real” colour, consider Illumina permanent hair colour from Wella Professionals. The luminous sheer shades are so good, eight out of 10 stylists say it delivers the most natural-looking results.
Wella Professionals
As well as the Color Touch and Illumina ranges, hair colour giant Wella offers the Koleston Perfect Me+ range. It ensures long-lasting results using the purest ingredients and technology, replacing extreme sensitisers with gentler formulations.
OSMO IKON
You know to expect top-quality hair colour from UK brand OSMO. Its IKON permanent colour range is vegan-friendly and formulated with micro-connective technology, chia oil and tamanu seed extract. The micro-sized colour molecules are easily absorbed to deliver even, beautifully conditioned hair with long-lasting clarity. There are 81 intermixable shades.
BIG Professional
The BIG (beautiful, intelligent, genuine) Professional brand prides itself on setting the standard in four areas of permanent hair colour: safe formulations; fast coverage (as little as 10 minutes); logical and ecological; practical and cost-effective. The range is free of sodium lauryl sulphate, low in ammonia and free of parabens, silicon and gluten. They’re also vegan and tested only on humans.
Bleach & Color
The permanent colour products from Italian brand Bleach & Color (from the same manufacturer as CDC Tint) lift and deposit colour pigments on natural and previously coloured hair in just one step. It offers 16 shades – from light blonde to blue – with the ability to lift up to seven levels.
21 VENTUNO
This Italian brand offers a colour kit that’s super-fast (10 minutes), gives uniform coverage and contains no nasties. There are 16 long-lasting shades to choose from and they’re all vegan.
Semi-permanent hair colour for salons
Browse our selection of brands offering semi-permanent hair colours and dyes in a wide range of shades, available online at trade prices.
Beard Club
Italian brand Beard Club offers its clients a range of premium beard and hair care, including semi-permanent hair colour. Its beard and hair colour gels work in just 10 minutes and are ammonia free.
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Beard Club Beard Color Gel, 60mlR83.92 – R110.00
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Beard Club Hair Color Gel, 60mlR54.00
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Beard Club Beard Color Activator, 150mlR29.25
BIG Professional
Italian brand BIG Professional’s Color Direct is an alkaline direct colour conditioning system with 10 concentrated shades. They can product amazing colours, change or intensify the natural base tone, and create avant-garde effects or gentle natural pastels and highlights.
Bleach & Color
This Italian brand’s semi-permanent range includes intensifier masks in 18 shades. They’re used in conjunction with Bleach & Colour Cream to give a more luxurious, intense colour or to enhance an existing shade or as a toner in pre-lightened hair.
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Special One Color Intensifier Masks, 200mlR139.14 – R257.17
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Bleach & Color + Special One Color Tuft ChartR499.00
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Special One Color Stabilizer, pH 3.5, 200mlR124.93
Celeb Luxury
This brand was started by stylists who wanted to create products that revolutionise hair colour maintenance. Its hero products, Gem Lites Colorwash shampoo and Colorditioner, replenish and revitalise colour through Colorposit technology. Its products are 100% vegan and free from gluten, sulphates, PPD, ammonia and peroxide, and are cruelty free.
Color Psycho
OSMO, one of the UK’s leading professional brands, packs a punch with its semi-permanent range, Color Psycho, of 15 wild and outrageous shades that work best on pre-lightened or bleached hair.
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OSMO Color Psycho Starter Kit, 7 ColorsR773.80
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OSMO Color Psycho, 150mlR150.77 – R153.63
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OSMO Color Psycho Color Tamer, 250mlR108.02
Crazy Color
Bright, metallic, neon UV – if your clients want to express themselves unapologetically, offer semi-permanent Crazy Color. The brand started in the UK in 1977 during a time of free expression and has continued to offer a range of products in shades that push the boundaries of hair colouring.
Danger Jones
This brand is built on artistry in the colouring industry. It shows in the stunning packaging of its semi-permanent hair colour and in the names – Burnout, Cheap Date and Exotica. The real point of difference, however, is the super-concentrated colour pigment that creates deep colours. They can last up to 45 washes on pre-lightened hair and 25 for lighter tones.
KAYPRO
Italian brand KAYPRO offers Tone Supreme, a demi-permanent conditioning gel that tones and refreshes colour in 20 minutes. Caviar extract nourishes the hair to leave it silky, shiny and healthy.
Kerachroma
Kerachroma’s natural “clenditioners” – a keratin-based sulphate and paraben-free conditioning cleanser – infuse hair with colour at every wash. They can be used to add tone on pre-lightened hair or to refresh colour between salon visits. Its Toning Drops turn any shampoo, conditioner or cream-based styling product into a toner.
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Kerachroma Preserve Plus Color Enhancing Anti-Humidity Treatment, 207mlR295.00
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Kerachroma Clenditioner Conditioning CleanserR201.00 – R430.78
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Kerachroma Natural Color + Clenditioner, HoneyR275.89 – R550.19
Manic Panic
Manic Panic, from N.Y.C. Professional, has been a leader in creative colour since 1977. “Tested on celebrities, not animals,” they’re popular with anyone who wants their hair to make a statement. Products include the HIGH VOLTAGE® Classic Semi-permanent Hair Color Cream, Amplified Hair Color Spray and Professional Semi-Permanent Gel Hair Color. Its bold and easy to use products are 100% vegan and cruelty free.
Punky Colour
The name says it all. Punky Colour was born in London out of the counterculture punk scene and has been creating vivid semi-permanent hair dyes ever since. Products include temporary colour sprays, semi-permanent dyes, colour depositing shampoo and conditioners. Created with the highest quality ingredients, you’ll get outrageous colour on bleached or chemically treated hair, with highlight effects on darker hair – no peroxide required. They’re vegan, cruelty-free and vibrant.
PRAVANA
California-based US brand PRAVANA was started in 2004, sold to Henkel Beauty Care Professional in 2017, and continues to deliver high-performance colour solutions, including its ChromaSilk ranges, demi-permanent ColorLush toners, plus ChromaSilk Vivids, Pastels and Neons.
Stargazer
The semi-permanent dyes from this UK brand give a translucent finish, making them ideal for pastel shades, balayages and multi-tone hair dye finishes. Its product are vegan, ammonia and cruelty free.
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Stargazer Semi-Permanent Hair Colour, 70mlR99.90 – R129.00
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Stargazer Semi-Permanent Toner, 70mlR115.53 – R123.00
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Stargazer Natural Shade Semi-Permanent Hair Colour, 70mlR79.70 – R155.00
Superplex
Italian brand Superplex delivers products that nourish and repair hair. Its semi-permanent hair colour comes as ultra-concentrated pure pigments in six colours that can be added to any of its products to create a colour-boosting reparative treatment. The colour lasts one to six washes.
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Superplex Uniblend Pure Pigments, 50mlR278.00 – R301.03
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Superplex Customized Keratin Bonder Step 2 Conditioner Carrier, 200mlR189.00
Hair Health & Beauty is proud to be the leading supplier to South Africa’s hair and beauty industry. Register a trade account here, use our website to order salon hair colour online or see the relevant section of our trade catalogue.