Describe your services and consultation style. Makeform creates a hair history questionnaire covering previous color, chemicals, home care, current condition, and goals before the client reaches your chair.
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Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a prompt, tailor it to your services, or send it to the editable Makeform builder.
Audience
First-time clients booking dimensional color
Format
Pre-appointment questionnaire with conditional color history
Prompt size
237 chars
Example questionnaire structure
Pre-appointment questionnaire with conditional color history
What is your natural and current hair color?
Color services in the last two years
When and where was each product applied?
Upload current hair and inspiration photos
What result and maintenance schedule do you want?
Suggested routing tags
Color correction
Lightening consult
Routine service
Ask for dates, brands, shades, and application areas; a simple yes to previous color gives too little context.
Step 1
Ask
history, products, condition, and goals
Step 2
Review
spot unclear dates or overlapping services
Step 3
Consult
compare the response with hair in person
Step 4
Plan
agree on service, timing, and upkeep
A clearer consultation
Gather the timeline while clients can check dates, products, and photos at home.
Ask what was applied, when, where, and whether it was professional or at home.
Surface box dye, henna, repeated lightening, overlap, damage, or sensitivity for follow-up.
Connect current photos and inspiration images with maintenance preferences and timing.
Built around salon services
Start with shared details, then branch into history for the booked service.
Separate salon color, box dye, henna, lightener, and remover by date and area.
Capture the sequence, condition, goal images, flexibility, and openness to several appointments.
Branch for relaxers, perms, keratin, overlap, reactions, heat, and desired finish.
Ask about methods, removal, discomfort, density, home care, and maintenance availability.
Questionnaire workflow
Turn your service menu and questions into an editable pre-appointment form.
Name appointment types, required history, and how far back clients should report.
Require the timeline, then show color, texture, or extension follow-ups when relevant.
Add the link to confirmations so clients can check products, dates, and photos.
Note missing details and use the response alongside your in-person assessment.
Intake options
Help clients recall chronological, service-specific details without answering irrelevant questions.
Field guide
Six sections create a useful record without asking clients to diagnose their hair.
Client basics
Collect identity, contact, stylist, booked service, and appointment date, while keeping administration brief.
Treatment timeline
Identify service types, then ask for date, product, salon or home application, and area affected.
Current condition
Ask what clients can see or feel: breakage, tangling, shedding, texture changes, or scalp discomfort.
Home routine
Ask about washing, color-depositing products, heat tools, protective styles, and swimming.
Goals and upkeep
Ask what clients like in each image, what they avoid, when they can return, and their styling preference.
Photos and review
Request clear photos from useful angles, end with an open question, and route responses for early review.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for stylists and colorists building a more useful pre-appointment intake.
It is a pre-appointment form covering previous color, chemicals, extensions, home care, current condition, and goals. Stylists use the answers for follow-up alongside an in-person assessment.
Choose a period suited to your services, but let clients add older treatments still present on their lengths. Approximate dates are useful when exact ones are unknown.
Separate salon and box color, direct dye, lightener, remover, henna, relaxers, perms, and smoothing. Follow each yes with date, product, applicator, and area.
Yes. Request recent, unfiltered front, back, side, and root images in even light. For inspiration images, ask which color, cut, texture, or styling detail matters.
Yes. Conditional logic can reveal lightener, extension, or smoothing follow-ups only when relevant, keeping routine forms shorter while preserving detail for complex services.
Yes. Makeform supports unlimited free forms and responses, so you can generate, edit, publish, and collect questionnaire submissions without a response cap. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Send it early enough to review and clarify missing details. Include the link in confirmations, give a completion time, and expect further discussion at the consultation.
Review the timeline, note unclear dates or overlaps, compare photos with goals, and prepare follow-ups. Use client-reported context alongside seeing and discussing the hair in person.
Know the story before the service starts.
