Buffer minutes between colour and cut

Colour needs rinse time that a cut does not. Many booking apps offer a colour service and a cut service as two neat blocks. If the same stylist is named on both, and the blocks touch, the rinse has to happen inside someone else’s slot. That someone else is usually the next booked guest, already on the sofa.

We read a Subang Jaya fortnight where colour-to-cut pairs were booked with no gap on four of six Saturdays. The on-site day that followed showed the leftover minutes landing on the 11:30 blow-dry, not on the colour client who had been in the chair since 10:00. The app still showed 11:30 as on time until the stylist was free.

A buffer is not a luxury block. It is the rinse, the glove change, the towel, the walk from basin to chair. Ten minutes is a common starting point in the salons we visit; some colour work needs more. The right number is the one that matches how that stylist actually finishes, not how the service menu was typed.

After buffers are added, a follow-up observation on a matching Saturday is how you find out whether the sofa noticed. One owner found the wait had simply moved later in the morning. That is still a fact worth having before you change the menu again.