How Salon Colour Works
Have you ever wondered how the colour ranges we use on your hair in the salon actually work?
Aside from the technical performance of the ingredients, hair colour, be it semi-permanent or permanent works differently to every other colour you could possibly think of; paints, crayons, felt pens, clothes dyes etc.
Colour we use in the salon has to work with your own hairs natural colour. It doesn’t matter whether we are darkening, lightening, or staying on the same depth but changing the tone.
Believe it or not, your hair, no matter how dark or light, it naturally is contains black, brown, red, and yellow pigment.
The % of each determines your own unique hair colour. The lighter your hair is the less amount of dark pigment there is, but it is still there and when you decide what colour you would like your hair to be, this has to be taken into consideration.
Additionally, the blend of natural pigments creates warm or cool shades, the most obvious comparisons here being fiery redheads and cool jet-black hair.
When your Rhona McCallum Hair stylist decides what colours to use to create your bespoke colour, this information is very important in helping choose the best blend of tones to create the finished result.
Artificial hair colour works be enhancing or neutralising your hairs natural tones. When we lighten hair, we expose what pigments your hair is made up of. You can see this in the graphic below.
We also take into consideration the warm or cool appearance of your hair and depending on our target shade we either work with the warm or cool tones or neutralise them, we use something called the international colour wheel to help us here.
So, as you can see, colouring hair is quite complex and takes a lot of experience to achieve the results you are looking for. It’s not like painting a wall a different colour where the paint is applied, and the job is done. Sometimes, your walls may need more than one coat, and sometimes they may require an undercoat beforehand, in many ways this is similar to some of the techniques we use when correcting colour or darkening down highly lightened hair.
Rest assured all the team here at Rhona McCallum Hair are fully up to speed with all the technicalities and the product information needed to achieve great colour results every time!
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