Est. 2002130 E 65thLight led color · NYC

Color Studio · Upper East Side

AbbyHaliti.

French-inspired balayage, flawless color, and expert corrections, crafted with over 20 years of artistry.

Color, Cut & Care

Service & Products

Color

Custom color designed just for you. Healthy, radiant, and beautifully blended. Every formula begins with a consultation in natural daylight, so the tone reads true in any light.

Cut

Precision cuts with effortless movement. Tailored to your lifestyle and look. The cut is the foundation. Color is the makeup that enhances its shape and movement.

Care

Professional treatments for healthier hair. Strength, shine, and long-lasting protection. We finish with Milbon hair care, so your color stays luminous long after you leave the chair.

130 East 65th · between Park & Lex

Inside the Studio.

A boutique color studio built around natural daylight, where color is seen and created by eye, never under artificial neon, because true color lives in its most natural form.

Placed by Eye
Finished Work
Color in Light
The Studio
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03The Studio Menu

Three signatures, five considered classics.

Abby Haliti Color Studio, a boutique-style establishment, specializes in the European French highlighting technique known as balayage. Our guiding philosophy is “less is more.” We endeavor to create natural, effortless color using a contemporary, healthy, and sustainable approach to hair coloring with European French Balayage.

Signatures & classics

The full menu.

Three hands.One signature.

One method, three temperaments. Each colorist trained in the European Method, each with a hand of their own. Choose by the work, not the name.

As seen in VogueVogue2016Olivia Palermo

Why Olivia Palermo Has Exactly Six Sun Kissed Highlights

Six perfect highlights, placed by hand, no two alike, no two equal. The math of light, written into hair.

A signature precision technique, painted strand by strand for one of fashion's most photographed faces. The piece traces how Abby Haliti reduced the entire vocabulary of blonde to six exact placements, a study in restraint that became a benchmark for editorial color.

Hair Color by Abby Haliti · Photographed for Vogue

Two voices, one record.

A two sided record, the publications that have written about the work, beside the studio's own language for it.

In Her Words2
  1. Every placement has to earn its place. Color should look inevitable, not newly done.

    Abby HalitiFrom the chair
  2. I am not chasing brightness. I am placing light where the face, the cut, and the person can carry it.

    Abby HalitiOn her method

As Featured In

48archive features

Press & Editorial.

Two decades of work celebrated across the publications that shape beauty, a walkable archive of every cover, story, and feature, published across local and international press including Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. In 2023, Abby was named a member of the Allure Creators Network.

VogueHarper's BazaarAllureRefinery29Marie ClaireElleInStyleCosmopolitanByrdieW MagazineForbesTatlerGlamourNewBeautyVogueHarper's BazaarAllureRefinery29Marie ClaireElleInStyleCosmopolitanByrdieW MagazineForbesTatlerGlamourNewBeauty