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Hair Dye For Grey Hair

Hair Dye For Grey Hair

Although more people, men and women, are flaunting their grey hair, the majority of people still desire to cover their grey hair with dye or similar products.  Grey hair is similar in texture and coarseness to silver and white hair colors.  It is famous for being resistant when it’s dyed.

Grey, white and silver hair basically has no pigment.  As a result, grey hair has a very coarse texture which is tough.

Consequently it’s difficult to apply dye to some types of grey hair.  One of the biggest challenges of dying grey hair is getting the color to take and last for an extended amount of time.

There’s a lot of opinions about whether or not the best practice for dying grey hair is to pre-treat it first.

Some professional colorists believe you should pre-treat grey hair to pop open the resistant cuticles and ensure that the dye covers all the target areas most effectively.

As the ratio of grey to natural hair color shifts and becomes the majority, the challenge to dye increases.    (more…)

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If Woman Dies From Hair Dye How Will Hair Color Industry Respond?

The media is abuzz with the BBC news that a British woman is in a coma after allegedly collapsing after dying her hair with L’Oreal Preference Hair Dye.   Physicians believe the woman is experiencing a severe allergic reaction to a chemical in the dye.

The hair dye chemical in question is phenylenediamine (PPD).  This chemical has been for a long time to be the potential cause of allergic reactions to hair dyes and related beauty products.

Why A Patch Test Is Important Before Every Hair Color Treatment

In fact, one of the reasons experts strongly recommend that consumers do a patch test every single time before applying hair color is to prevent a horrific allergic reaction.

It’s also a well-known fact that people using hair dyes for years without any reaction by suddenly have an unexpected reaction. (more…)

Color Wheel Courtesy Of Wikipedia

Hair Color Origin Of Color Wheel

In the world of hair color, the color wheel is a major tool helping to develop stunning hair hues.

Color wheels are nothing new.  They’ve been around for a very long time and used by a wide range of professionals not specifically devoted to hair professionals.

The color wheel shown to the side is titled The Colorist and has been in existence since 1908.  It was developed by J. Arthur H. Hatt.

What Is A Color Wheel?

According to Wikipedia, a color wheel or color circle is an abstract illustrative organization of color hues around a circle that shows relationships between primary colors, secondary colors, complementary colors and related.

Some sources use the terms color wheel and color circle interchangeably; however, one term or the other may be more prevalent in certain fields or certain versions as mentioned above.

For instance, some reserve the term color wheel for mechanical rotating devices, such as color tops or filter wheels. Others classify various color wheels as color disc, color chart, and color scale varieties.   In the world of hair color, it’s most often referred to as a color wheel.   When I was in cosmetology school we all had to draw our own versions of color wheels although most cosmetology books offer a uniform version. (more…)

Clairol Loving Care Hair Color Discontinued

If you’ve been using Clairol Loving Care, it’s been discontinued.  I’ve had a lot of emails from people asking me for a comparable product.

At this point the common wisdom seems to be to switch to Clairol’s Natural Instincts (the original and neither the Brass Free or Vibrant versions) although many users don’t agree that it’s a reasonable replacement.

Clairol Loving Care

Why?  Clairol Loving Care was popular because it was truly a no ammonia or peroxide color wash.  In essence the color was very gentle and would wash out in anywhere from 1-12 shampoos.

Although Loving Care was not recommended for use on top of highlighted or bleached hair, it was a wonderful solution for punching up permanent hair color in-between touch-ups or in some cases for covering gray.

Fans of Loving Care reported the benefits of having a color which was so gentle it gradually washed out, but didn’t dry out tresses and did what it was supposed to do.  Plus there was no obvious root regrowth. (more…)

Hair Color Code And Adverse Reactions – How To Deal

Coloring your hair should be a fun and exciting experience, whether you do it yourself (DIY) or have your favorite professional hair colorist do it for you.

After all, you’re embarking on a new adventure.  Whether you’re changing your base color or just adding a few fun highlights and low lights you desired to enjoy your hair color journey.

Listed below are some hair color codes to follow to make sure you enjoy great hue happenings:

1. Preventing Reactions - Although rare, professional estimates are that there are two main adverse hair color reactions which occur on every million people (men, women, children) who color their hair, or have it colored by a professional.  Even the big guns in the hair color world will have that random client who has a reaction.  The good news?  There are ways to look out for the potential reactions and cut them off at the pass before they occur.

2.  Knowing Your Reactions – Basically there are two types of hair color reactions, allergic and sensitivity. The allergic reaction is a definite and easily diagnosed condition.  (more…)