How to Choose The Right Hair Color Product

Choosing Hair Color Product - How does one successfully achive beautiful and natural looking hair color with truly delightful results!.

Only a thorough knowledge of all the available hair color techniques, product types and maintenance will help you make confident decisions about how to choose the right hair color.

Semi-Permanent Hair Color

This is one of the least damaging color process for hair.You can only use this type of hair color product to darken your hair (no lift). Semi-permanent hair color can not cover gray hair and gray coverage is very low. Depending on the manufacture, you can expect 30% to 80% gray coverage.

you need to maintain the root regulary. Using a Semi-Permanent hair dye is a good way of testing a color without long term commitment or risk of damaging the condition of your hair.

Demi-Permanent Hair Color Color

This type of hair color product containing a much higher percentage of peroxide, but no ammonia. Roots need to be touched up every 4 to 6 weeks (Fade after about 24 washes). Gray coverage is higher. These type of color treatments normally last more than 10 weeks. You can only use this type of hair dye to darken your hair(no lift).

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Permanent Hair Color

This type of hair color product containing peroxide and ammonia. Can make hair darker or a few shades lighter. Permanent hair color treatment lasts until new hair grows out. Like Demi-Permanent, roots need to be touched up every 4 to 6 weeks. Disadvantage of permanent hair color is growth of new hair. It is a different shade and will leave a line. Permanent hair colors can also dry out your hair and cause damage, unless you use good moisturizing products.

How to Repair Hair Color?

If you color or dye your own hair at home then there are some home hair color products you can use to repair the damage, fix or remove the color but it isn't easy. The problem is that if you used a home hair color kit to obtain a lighter color, your hair has been bleached and colored in a single process. So the color needs to be added back in a process called "filling" before using the final color formula.

Whatever you do, don't simply buy a box of your original color and try to cover over a bad dye job... it won't work. Fixing hair color gone wrong is a multi-stage process so a trip to the salon may be in order.

Here you can read more about how to remove hair dye or hair color with the help of products or home remedies.

Color Processing and Color Techniques

Highlighting - Adding Dimention

Coloring select strands in the hair with a permanent hair color, lightener (bleach) or toner. Highlights contrast natural color and are created with foils or a cap. With Highlighting, strands of hair dyed with lighter shade than your natural color. Root maintenance every 2-3 months. Highlights add a new dimension to hair color.

Lowlighting - Creating Depth

Adding darker strands with permanent or demi-permanent hair color to the hair to "tone down" a too light look. Also created with foils, caps, or combs. The effect complements the natural color and add depth to hair. Root maintenance every 2-3 months.

One trick to create an illusion of thicker hair for fine hair is to apply darker hair color to some of your underneath layers (normally one or two shades darker than your hair color ). This color technique will make your hair look thicker and will add additional depth to your hair.

Toning or Glazing

Applying a hair color (Semi-Permanent) after hair has been decolorized to give it tone and dimension. require maintenance and reapply every few weeks.

Decolorizing

Removing natural hair color with a lightener or bleach. I strongly recommend that you don't bleach your hair at home and leave your highlighting to professionals. You can overprocess and damage your hair or get a bad shade of orange color.

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