
Before coloring your hair
- First, get a cut.
- Make sure that the ends are healthy for your hair to absorb the color better.
- The layered cuts help to highlight the new tone.
- To reduce the damage that can lead to chemical to the strand, start condition, at least one month before. Masks will be your best friends in this process. Apply once a week. The idea is to hydrate the hair to look more uniform color.
- Before applying the dye, make sure you wash your hair in depth.
- If necessary, uses three times before shampoo condition. This ensures the removal of any residue of a product you’ve used previously.
- Thoroughly clean the root.
- Choose the color
- This is the most complex part of the process.
- To reduce the margin of error must know that the intensity of the dye is measured on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being the darkest and 10, the blonder. Brown is the number 5.
- Redheads have its own scale: should know that the 5-1 obtained a violet hue, while 5 to 10 more coppery red.
- If you decide to get streaks for the first time, always choose a shade lighter than your natural color, not to create a subtle contrast, but forceful. At the same time, enlighten your face.
- Remember that the ideal is to choose up to two shades lighter or darker than yours to avoid the change is so dramatic and then you might regret.
- For those who are dyed first, tones say cool or neutral are the most recommended.
- Cover the gray is easy if you choose a tone that goes between the silver and your natural color, So You pretend growth.
- Should the color not be what you wanted, you can opt for a shampoo bleach.
How to dye his hair alone?
- Apply color At home, save time.
- It is important to follow the instructions for each product to avoid disaster.
- Buy your own application equipment, because they include in the package are not always the most effective.
- A process facilitates applicator bottle and prevents spills excessive amounts of color in the strand.
- To prevent your skin also stained finish Apply Vaseline on your forehead and ears with cotton and always wear gloves. This dye resists.
- Program a timer since you started the application.
- Wrap the hair with a plastic cap.
- The heat helps the thread to better absorb the dye.
- Make sure that the place where you have a room temperature is best warm.
- If your hair below the shoulders, make sure you have at least two bottles of dye. You’ll need them.
- With the aid of a mirror covers well the root.
- Removes the neutralizing shampoo color provided by each product.