hair color
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return to natural color:
PROBLEM:
You
had bleached blonde hair and tried to color it back to your natural color,
and it turned an undesirable color, or you went dark and now want to be
lighter again.
SOLUTION:
There
are far too many variables here. This is the most difficult problem
to solve. You not only need to go to a salon, you need to find the best
that money can buy. It can usually be done, but it will cost you.
You will need to book off 3 to 6 hours at the salon.
Color
is a very complex issue and very few stylists do it well, much less doing
it yourself. For this reason alone we do not recommend that you color or
try to remedy color problems yourself. The results can be traumatic, expensive,
and take years to correct.
Listed below
are some of the basic rules of color. Print the list out so that
you can refer back to it. In this section we could only address a
limited number of color disasters, but the information should be
useful to you in the future.
BASIC
RULES:
1. Consult
a color wheel. Hair is science and color science is based on the
color wheel. For example the opposite of orange is blue, etc.
2. Consult
a hair color chart. 1 = Black through 10 = Pale Blonde
3. You
can only alter hair color by: a) depositing color (darkening), or b) lifting
color (lightening).
4. There
are two types of color in hair, natural (pigment you are born with), and
artificial (color that you have added).
5. All
artificial colors are created with three primary colors, yellow, red and
blue. These color molecules have different molecular weight.
Yellow is the smallest and penetrates the hair shaft the deepest and is
the most difficult to get out. Next is red. Blue is the largest
molecule so it will be the last to adhere to the hair shaft and will be
the first to fall off. This is why hair more often than not turns
orange, lots of yellow, a little red, hardly any blue. Whatever color
that you want to achieve, in the end it is a combination of those three.
Do not confuse this with light or dark hair. That is color density,
not color. First you must achieve the level you want to be, then
the color you want to be. |
