To dye hair with the smallest losses!

To choose color:

The very first thing is to define desirable color. All colors are classified today by very exact color scale which is used also by experts. In this international scale there are 10 primary colors which go from very white to ultra black.

Shades are added to these flowers. Warm shades: gilded, copper, mahogany, red. Cold shades: ashy and lilac. Therefore on paint packages which we buy often there are numbers.

When you see, for example, on packing of Garnier here such inscription "Nutrisse 83", the first figure 8 in this case designates tone height (in scale from 1 to 10), and the second figure 3 – the main shade. Thus, the specified example designates light tone, a gilded shade.

Usually does not consult to choose paint is lighter, than color of own hair. If you want to learn the opinion of professionals, then on boxes with hair-dyes there are tables which specify what colors are most adapted for your natural shade.

Constant or temporary coloring?

Then it is important to define, you wish temporary coloring which turns pale after you wash the head of 6-8 times; semi-resistant (which lasts from 6 to 8 weeks); or permanent coloring?

What do products for these different ways differ in?

Paints for two first do not contain liquid ammonia, so, injure hair less. But at the same time they cannot completely and it is good to paint over a gray hair.

Permanent coloring - the only way to cover all area of a gray hair in uniform color. Also if you are going to dye the hair in lighter color, than the natural, it is necessary to apply paint with liquid ammonia which plays a bleach role.

On the contrary, if you prefer more dark colors, you can choose paints without liquid ammonia which are less aggressive.

In all cases, know that action of the product which was contained in resistant paints is not eternal and that hair, being restored, will fight against artificial paint and gradually "to push out" it.
At last, today there are very light paints which leave at the first washing of the head. (It is ideal for those cases when it is necessary to change quickly and for a while image.)


To paint not to paint?

- On the eve of coloring, stock up with shampoo with good nutritional value to treat then your hair.
- Follow data of the instruction offered to paint step by step, without jumping over stages, without forgetting necessary gloves.
You discipline paint on the head the specified time and, mainly, rinse hair after coloring carefully and long.
- If you dye a gray hair, avoid too light tones (not more clearly than the dark blonde) and those expressional red shades which risk to yield too bright result on white locks.
- After coloring, try to support, restore your hair special products.
- Avoid to do at the same time decolouration and coloring, connecting, these ways strongly injure many hair.
- Do not connect coloring by henna to chemical ways of coloring - this mix absolutely of an otsovetovan! The result of color scale can turn out unpredictable

The main councils for those who want to make multi-colored mesh

To paint separate locks – so-called feathers or mesh, in own bathroom - it is possible provided that you are well prepared. Try to do the thin and separated to intervals curls. Be exact, and prefer rather a quality, than quantity: tens meshy with that both on the other side of the person and behind the head are enough to yield necessary result. By means of a brush, begin to impose paint on each separate curl, having receded approximately on 1 centimeter from a root. It is not obligatory to apply paint to the tip of a hair.

Suitable paints:

"100% of color" of Garnier: resistant paint, exists in 24 shades (8.95 euros)
"Color pulse" from L'Oréal: temporary paint (8-10 shampoos), exists in 10 shades (6.90 euros)
"Country colors" from Schwarzkopf, coloring to match, without ammonia (9.70 euros)
"Expression" from Garnier: temporary coloring, exists in 8 shades (5.95 euros)
"Shampooing couleur" is color shampoo from Schwarzkopf (3.50 euros)
"Masque "Reveil color" is the painting mask for hair from Jacques Dessange (6.45 euros