What you use at home matters more than most people think. It’s the single biggest factor in how long your color stays true, how long a smoothing treatment lasts, and whether your blow-dry survives a walk to the beach.
We carry three professional lines at Illusions, and we don’t stock anything we wouldn’t use in the salon. Your stylist will point you to what actually fits your hair and the service you’ve just had — not whatever we’re trying to move that month.
Matrix is the professional color line we work with in the salon, so it’s also the line best matched to maintaining what we’ve just done to your hair. Founded by hairdressers for hairdressers, it’s built around color longevity and condition — the two things that decide whether you’re happy with your hair in week six as well as week one.
Because we use it on the chair, we know exactly how the take-home products behave on the formulas we’ve mixed for you. That’s a closer match than any general recommendation.
It’s the same professional system we color with, so home care and salon work pull in the same direction.
Total Results color care, So Silver purple shampoo for blondes, bond-repair treatments.
Anyone maintaining color, highlights or balayage between appointments.
A salon-driven line built specifically for color-treated and hard-to-manage hair. Color Wow’s formulas are famously lightweight — no waxes, no silicone build-up, nothing that dulls color over time. If you’ve ever had a product that made your hair look great once and greasy by the third use, this is the opposite of that.
It’s also the line we reach for most often for one very local reason: Dream Coat. It puts a water-resistant barrier on the hair, which is exactly what you need when the humidity rolls in off the water and undoes a blow-dry in ninety seconds.
Award-winning formulas that keep color vibrant and hair frizz-free without weighing it down.
Dream Coat Anti-Frizz Spray, Root Cover Up, Color Security Shampoo.
IGK was founded by working stylists and it shows — the range is styling-led, clean-formulated and unapologetically fun. Vegan, cruelty-free and free of sulfates, parabens and phthalates, without the earnest packaging that usually comes with that.
This is the line for texture, volume and the finishing touches. Beach hair that looks like beach hair rather than crunchy hair. Dry shampoo that doesn’t leave a grey cast. It’s the one guests tend to pick up on the way out and then come back for.
Clean, vegan formulas with genuinely modern styling performance.
Beach Club Texture Spray, Good Behavior smoothing spray, First Class dry shampoo.
Guests who want texture, volume and easy day-to-day styling.
The honest shortcut. Ask us at your next appointment and we’ll narrow it further.
Humidity swells the hair shaft. You need a barrier, not more oil.
Sun and salt water pull tone fast. A purple shampoo once or twice a week resets it between toners.
Texture and volume products give fine hair something to grip.
Sulfate-free is non-negotiable — sulfates strip the treatment out and cost you months.
Root touch-up and dry shampoo will buy you a week or two without anyone noticing.
Worth being direct about this, because everyone wonders. Professional products sold through unauthorized online sellers are often diverted stock — product that’s been resold outside the proper supply chain. It can be expired, badly stored, watered down or outright counterfeit, and there’s no way to tell by looking at the bottle.
Buying at the salon guarantees you’re getting the real thing. It also means your stylist can match the product to your actual hair and the service you’ve just had, rather than you guessing from a product description. If something isn’t working, tell us and we’ll change the recommendation.
You don’t need an appointment to buy. Stop in at 24 Steeple Street any time we’re open, and ask — we’d rather spend two minutes getting it right than sell you something that sits under your sink.
Color Wow Dream Coat is the product we recommend most for coastal humidity. It creates a water-resistant barrier that keeps moisture in the air from swelling the hair shaft, which is what causes frizz on damp Cape Cod days.
Professional products sold through unauthorized online sellers are often diverted stock, which can be expired, counterfeit or stored badly. Buying at the salon guarantees the real product, and your stylist can match the formula to your hair and the service you’ve just had.
Use a sulfate-free shampoo. Sulfates strip smoothing treatments out faster than anything else and can cut months off the result. We’ll point you to the right option from the lines we carry at your smoothing appointment.
No. You’re welcome to stop into the salon at 24 Steeple Street in Mashpee Commons during opening hours to buy products or ask for a recommendation, whether or not you have an appointment booked.
Both Matrix and Color Wow are built around color protection. Matrix pairs most closely with the color we mix in the salon; Color Wow adds frizz control and shine on top. Many guests use one of each — a Matrix shampoo with Color Wow Dream Coat.
Guests pick up products at our Mashpee Commons salon from across the Upper Cape and mid-Cape.
Ask at your next appointment, or call and we’ll talk it through.
