What is hair color?

Before I get into this.. my insturctor says.. you lighten hair you bleach towls. you dye clothes you color hair.. I am not going to sit here and tell you how to color your hair at home.. the reason is 99 percent of the time you will not be happy with an at home kit.

With that said.. the next question is; what is hair color? its a method of changing the color of your hair by chemical process. there is so much to say about hair color and so many types and brands

First thing a stlist will do is determine what your hair is what level your hair is.. the levels are 1 - 10 . 1o being the lightest and 1 the darkest. Level do not mean blonde is level 1o because you can have a Level 9 or 8, or even 7 blonde .. then there is level 6, 5, 4, which are the medium tones.. then you go into 3, 2, 1 which are the darker tones.. Now i can throw in a monkey wrench into the mix.and red. which can be any level from 1o - 1 .. After that the stylist is going to determine your hair texture, is it fine medium or corse. The texture is important to know because fine hair sucks color up quickly whereas corse hair takes longer to process. Next, what if any other chemicals you have used. the porocity of your hair Another thing a stylist has to take into concidration is if there is any grey in your hair .. total grey hair is the same as a level 1 blond.

NOTE Asian hair and ethnic will never be a level 10 there is way to much pigment in there hair to safely lighten it, Asain hair can never be marilyn monroe blonde their hair will fall out before it gets that light Asian and Amercican Indain hair is the only type of hair that you may actually see the blue black color you some times see in comic books.

you can safely change the level of your hair up to 4 level with hair color. Anything more your going to have to use lightener.. which can go up to 7 or so levels.. this is why i say asian hair cannot go level 10 blonde because you would have to go 9 levels to get there..

Now that I got that part down the next thing you have decide is what you want your hair to look like. and whats the best product to use to get there.

there is:

tempory color - washes out the next shampoo

simi permanant color- washes out in 6- 8 shampoos ( depending on hair porosity and the color used)

demi permant color - deposits color but does not lift ..

permant color - lifts and deposits color ( can lift up to 4 levels )

and last but not least lightener, which lifts pigment out of your hair can lift up to around 7 levels depending on the devolper used.

color is not just as simple as opening a box and filling your hair full of it. A lot of what a stylist does is is formulate the color to get to the desired look a customer wants from hilites to all over color

I know thats what I have just typed out is just the tip top of the info about hair color but I hope it helps someone out there