Coloring Your Hair Do's and Dont's

Hair coloring is an excellent and almost safest way to change your appearance and therefore to change the other persons attitude. Hair coloring may transform you from the modest, classical type of woman into bright red pretty girl. And when you'll get tired you can easily get back that romantic charm of natural blonde or ash-grey shades. Anyway, hair coloring helps you to become more attractive. There are lots of coloring stuff to achieve the result.

1. Temporary colorants

It can give your hair new look and color but not for a long time. It is made by putting a thin layer of a colorant on your hair. The effect of such action is not very harmful. But coloring dark hair with temporary colorants has almost no effect on them. The better result you can achieve when the hair is light colored. Most vivid are temporary colorants of red and blue color spectrum.

2. Semi-permanent colorants

These contain oxidizer in a sparse distribution and therefore they are more permanent then temporary colorants. Such colorants wash out after about ten to twenty shampoos. The color change during this time goes little by little and is almost unnoticeable, with no grown roots. Such hair coloring gives to the natural color its shine and richness or brightens it up with new fresh colors.

3. Permanent colorants

The universal colorants that can give you any effect you need. They content strong oxidizers which have negative effect on the health of your hair. They are used to achieve strong firm color when coloring grey hair or just for slightly lightening. In all other cases more merciful colorants are used.

4. Lightening

Lightening means are used for slight (3-5 levels and more) dark hair discoloring before using the lightest colorants. They really ruin your natural hair structure. After the use you should wash your head with special emollient shampoos and balms or some kind of intensive hair cure means.

When using temporary and semi-permanent colorants you do not start from your roots but place it all over your head at a time. After that the hair must be kept warm and covered with some kind of polyethylene cap. How long you should you should do it depends on the manufacturer. After you have finished the remains of colorant must be washed up. If the coloration process is serious and you have used permanent colorants you ought to proceed with balms and rinses. The whole process when using temporary colorants should take not more than half an hour, when using semi permanent resources - about 20 minutes and you should wait to complete the permanent coloration for 45 minutes or about so.

It is very actual when changing hair color from dark to light one. But of course sudden color change is not so hard as it seems when the hair is in professional hairdresser or stylist's hands. However hair does loose a lot of its pigment. Only healthy strong hair can stand this procedure easily. Remember, you should avoid sudden color changes and let it handle only to professionals.

As you can see the technical part of the process is not very hard. It is much harder to achieve the hair color that which would go to your eyes, skin, the way you look, your lifestyle. Actually your hair color must be the basement of your unique style

Tips:
If your skin is covered with freckles you should not experiment with deep blonde or brunette colors. It gives the best fit only to young girls with clean skin. The only emphasize face defects if you are older.
If your skin turns red regardless of situation you should avoid red colors in you hair cut (like burgundy, mahogany, red wine)
If your skin color is of a cold shade you should choose colors like ash-grey blond, red wine, mahogany,umber, black.
If the skin has color of a peach the cold shades make your skin look pale. The shades honey blonde, deep chocolate,ginger, rusted deep-brown are the ones you should try.
It is very important to keep the right combination of the skin shade, eye and hair color. Blue eyes, light skin - light hair. Green or deep blue eyes, and sunburned skin - deep blond. Hazel eyes, dark, very sunburned skin - dark hair, etc.
And remember, in spite of continuous advices, your faultless inner sense of the beautiful will help you creating finished appearance.

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