
Balayage
How often should you refresh balayage?
A full repaint is rarely the answer every eight weeks. Here is a practical maintenance rhythm for brighter, healthier balayage.
September 24, 2026 · 5 min read

Istanbul 1984 · Coquitlam today
Balayage, blonde work, keratin, and cuts that still hold their shape at week six — by stylists with 20–40 years behind the chair.
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Visit Megas on Pacific Street for balayage, blonde highlights, custom hair colour, women's and men's haircuts, keratin smoothing, and styling. Every appointment starts with a clear consultation and a price agreed before the work begins.
What we do
Six of the services we are known for. The full list — every cut, colour, treatment, and price — is on the menu.

Our story
Two salons, four decades, and a way of working that never really changed: a long consultation before anything is mixed, colour built for the head in front of you, and stylists who have spent their whole careers behind a chair rather than a few seasons.
In 2025 that practice moved to Coquitlam. Same people, same standard, new postcode — and a room built specifically for the way we work.
The team
In their words
“I had been looking for someone like Bill in Vancouver for years — truly, he has magic hands. He listened, he was honest about what my hair could take, and the colour is exactly what I asked for.”
“Gazi understood exactly what I wanted without me having to explain it twice. The cut still moves beautifully six weeks later, which has never happened to me before.”
“The colour work is the best I have seen in the Tri-Cities. I will happily drive from Burnaby again — and I have already booked my mother in.”
From the journal
Practical answers from our Coquitlam stylists—written for the questions clients ask before they book and between appointments.