How To Color Hair – Secrets Revealed
4. Pre-coloring tips
Before you begin to color your hair, it is best to wash your hair with a good shampoo that removes the dirt and pollutants off your hair. Condition your hair few days before doing the actual coloring as the conditioner can interfere with the dye bonding your hair. Get a friend’s help, if you have long unmanageable hair. Doing test strands with your friends will teach you to be patient since the process is time consuming. Very thick, long hair may have to be colored in sections. Do ensure that you don’t re-color already colored hair.
5. Hair coloring: the critical part
While coloring, read instructions on your hair color bottle carefully. Put your hand gloves on and pour the color and the developer into a bowl. Using a color brush, mix the solution well. Now, start at the top front of your hair and make a parting in your hair with the tail of the color brush and another part parallel to the first one. Hold up the parted section of hair and apply color on that strand. Make another parting on the other side i.e. the roots where you previously applied the color mixture. Brush the color mixture onto the roots of the section held up and the roots of the adjacent section just as done previously. In this way, finish up all your hair, strand by strand and leave the color for about twenty minutes. After that, re-coat the ends of your hair, if any of it is remaining and keep it only for five minutes. The key is not to hurry!
6. Post-coloring tips
Rinse your hair thoroughly, apply a conditioner again and wait for a day to shampoo your hair. For post hair color treatments, make sure you condition your hair regularly and use shampoos specifically made for colored and chemically treated hair.
You may take the risk of hair damage, if you use the wrong level of peroxide or if you process your hair excessively. If you keep flipping between various hair colors, for instance, if you go from blonde to brown and back to blonde, without proper conditioning, then you are likely to damage your hair permanently.
Coloring your hair at home requires some amount of practice and expertise. If you are ready to experiment and take a chance, then in a few months you will surely be an expert yourself. If you are unsure about these processes then don’t take a chance, let it be done by a professional. But observe how they do it and learn from them, so that you can do it yourself later.
