Hair
Coloring Advice
For
people who go to a hair colorist and for those who do their
own hair coloring at home
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Doris Möller |
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Many people believe that they can’t perm
their hair if it is colored. Yes you can have
a perm even if your hair is colored. Make sure that you use
a perm lotion for colored hair. |
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Can you perm hair that is streaked (highlighted)?
Yes. Use a perm lotion for colored hair and if you have more
streaked hair than virgin hair, use a perm lotion for bleached
hair. |
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How can you best prevent your hair color
from fading? The best way is to keep your hair
in the best condition possible. How can you do that? Hair conditioners
are mostly cosmetic and once your hair is in bad condition a
hair conditioner can only make your hair easier to work with,
not restore it. When you color your hair (with permanent hair
color) only apply the color on the re-growth. Don’t
put the color through on the rest of the hair. Not
even for the last ten minutes of processing time. Using this
technique has two major advantages. One is
that by not applying hair color on the part of your hair that
has already been colored, you avoid drying it out and therefore
keep it in good condition. The second advantage is that this
technique makes hair colors look more natural and adds the most
natural looking highlights. (If you have spent weeks on the
beach your color will have faded too much and you will have
to bring the color through the ends). |
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When coloring your hair at home are you
afraid that the color you have applied might get too dark?
Do you wash it off before the required processing time has elapsed?
It is not a good idea to wash your color off before the required
time because you are interrupting the coloring process which
means that you didn’t give it enough time to deposit all
the color pigments. What you get is a hair color that is half
finished. You need never worry about your hair color getting
too dark because the color of your hair will never go darker
than the color you have chosen. For instance, if you have decided
to use a light brown shade you never have to worry that it will
become black. You could leave your color on for two hours and
the result would still be light brown. |
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If your scalp is sensitive when
you have your hair colored ask your hair colorist
to mix your permanent hair color with 10 volume peroxide instead
of 20 volume. (Unfortunately you can not do this if you use
a high lifting hair color). You may also rinse with tonic water
after rinsing off the color. |
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If you want to get a better effect
using henna, then mix henna with very hot coffee
and add some vinegar. |
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| To soften the harshness of white/gray hair,
put in highlights/streaks. |
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To avoid having too many highlights, only highlight
the re-growth. This will prevent your hair color from becoming
too light. The beauty of highlights is the contrast. Light and
dark. |
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When you buy your hair color at
the drug store check the package instructions
to see if you are buying a hair color that washes out or a hair
color that grows out. |
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Highlight your hair taking in consideration
the shape of your face. For example, have more
highlights on top and less on the sides if your face is square
or round. If your face is long, then put fewer highlights on
top and more down to the nape and on the sides. |
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Adding highlights using the painting
technique. When you paint on your highlights
and if you want them to be light you have to remember this technique
will not make them really light. The only time it will is if
your base color is already quite light, such as light blond. |
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| To cover white roots around the hair line.
If you have a lot of white hair you will have found that the
roots shows after a period of three weeks in the area of the
hair line. Use a coloring stick in the same color, dampen it
and apply it on the re-growth around the hair line. |
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Why a temporary rinse is ineffective
on your re-growth. When your roots are growing
out and your gray hair is showing you may think that if you
could just put a rinse on in between hair coloring it will temporarily
cover the gray. One of the reasons why this doesn’t work
is because the rinse is very watery and doesn’t stay on
the roots. Instead it will go onto the ends where it gets absorbed
because this hair is more porous. |
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