Words of Wisdom For Coloring Your Hair At Home
So you want tips for coloring your hair at home?
In that case you might call the following – lessons learned the hard way. These can give you hair that looks like it was colored by the best colorists in the business. Even though it wasn’t.
The first lesson deals with how permanent you want the color to be. It’s really best to go with a semi or demi color your first time. Some dyes like this have no ammonia and others next to none so you’re less likely to wreak havoc on your tresses. Besides test driving a more temporary color, if you don’t like it, the color will wash out in a matter of weeks. Just be sure the product inside the box matches what you’re looking for in terms of permanence.
Lesson two says don’t wash your hair right before you color it. Reason being any moisture left in the shaft tends to dilute the color. Yet don’t go several days without washing before coloring either. Any styling product build up will keep the color from properly penetrating your hair.
When picking colors don’t go crazy if you want it to look natural. Obviously this lesson doesn’t apply if you want something more in the shade of purple, pink or blue. But stylists recommend you don’t stray more than two shades lighter or darker away from your natural hue. Remember styles and tastes in color will change over time. The coloring agents themselves do not.
Ability to color our hair isn’t something we’re born with, right? So read every word of the instructions. That way you’ll know how to apply the product to your hair correctly and for how long.
If you’re trying one of the new coloring products or one you haven’t used before, you want to be sure to find out how you’ll react, if at all, before you slather it all over your head. That’s right you want to do a sensitivity test just like the box says. Nothing like an adverse reaction to spoil an otherwise fun experience.
Newspaper comes in handy when coloring your hair. Cover the floor, countertops or anything else dye can land on. And to keep coloring product from flying all over add just a touch of corn starch to thicken it.
And take care when rinsing your hair. Dye can end up on the shower walls or ceilings – if they’re low enough. And trust me. You’d be surprised how far this stuff flies.
Perfect. Oh wait. Dab some petroleum jelly on the back of your neck, your ears and at your hairline. You’re forming a barrier to avoid staining your skin with the dye. I’ve learned dazzling hair color can’t make up for obviously hair dye stained skin.
Keep a damp paper towel and baking soda close by to wipe up any dye that ends up on any unprotected skin.
Changing the color of your hair is exciting. Just don’t get excited too often. If you color your hair too much your risk creating brittle dry hair from excessive exposure to chemicals like peroxide. This mistake isn’t easily recovered from. Then too you want to moisturize and condition properly after coloring to offset any chemical dryness.
Make a major coloring mistake? You need to make an appointment at your salon. Do not attempt to fix it yourself or call in your cousin to help with like a henna makeover. Most attempts at home remedies will only mess your hair up worse.
Yes you absolutely can get celebrity gorgeous hair color from a box. As long as you take the advice shared here you can get a new look in no time. And faster and for much less than if professionally done.
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Written by Suzan K Bishop on October 30th, 2009 with
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