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Getting Back to Natural

11/21/2015

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You want to stop using hair color. Either you’re tired of it, or for various reasons it is healthier for you to stop.  Yes, you can simply stop using artificial hair color. With this option, you will have to deal with the new growth or “roots” showing in progressively greater amounts while the ends remain tinted.


There are other options:
These ideas are for going back to natural from blond. If your hair color has been covering gray or white, use the low-lighting method—adding dark strands to camouflage the gray until the tinted part of the hair grows out and can be cut off


A short haircut:
Cut your hair into a short trendy style that is about one to one and a half inches long. This is often called a pixy cut—stylish and feminine. Some, brave individuals may opt for a clipper cut in the back and sides with a bit longer hair on top.
With the short haircut, the new growth needs only to be an inch or so long. The hair color will be on the ends of the hair and looked ‘tipped.’ While being very stylish, this length is not for everyone


A Tint Back:
This is accomplished by applying a tint of your natural shade over the entire body of your hair. If you aren’t accustomed to dramatic change and your natural color is dark, this can be a shock. Even if the tint back is a perfect match, your hair may appear to be too dark. It’s wise to consul a professional colorist in choosing the shade to be applied.
 
Lightened or bleached hair may require preparation before it will accept the tint. Sometimes it will require a shade with more red or gold pigment than your natural to achieve a natural look. This is because red and gold have been removed when bleaching the hair.


Adding Dark Strands or Low-Lighting:
Like highlighting in reverse, this is putting darker strands through the lighter tinted or bleached hair to blend in the new growth. It often gives the effect of highlighted hair. The tinted strands and natural hair blend and can be grown out painlessly. This technique is done by applying a tint using a highlighting cap, foils or other method. The hair color you put in may fades over time, so you may want to use a tint in a slightly darker shade than your natural color.

Taking it Slow:

Begin by applying a slightly darker shade or "toner" such as medium blonde over your hair. When retouching the new growth, you will not have to lighten it as much. The next month apply a darker shade. Depending on how much darker your natural color is than the blonde, this will take three to twelve months. This is one way to avoid the shock of being blond one day and dark the next.

One More Thing
If you have worn your hair light for a number of years, take into account your skin color may have lightened. This happens when hair turns gray. You may not look the same as you did as a child with dark hair.


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Beautiful Brunettes 

10/12/2015

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Brunettes unite! Brown hair doesn't have to  be boring. There are subtle and dramatic ways to enhance your earthy tresses without making a complete color change or becoming a slave to hair color.

Brunette is beautiful. Your hair color may fit your complexion and personality perfectly, but you may still be looking for a change. The following ten ways to change your brown hair are subtle and designed to enhance you’re your tones, not change your color completely. 



  1. Try a color update with little commitment.  Warm up your hair color with a red or auburn color wash. Glaze your brown hair with a translucent color gloss such as Redken Shades EQ or PM Shines. Your new color will gently fade away within six weeks.
  2. Get lively hair color with even less commitment. Use any of the many color pigmented shampoos to add golden tones, red tones or deeper brown tones. Use blue or purple pigmented shampoo to tone out warmth and create a neutral brown tone. These enhancements fade within two shampoos.
  3. Have you been tinting your hair solid brown to cover gray? It is your natural color and looks ok but it’s boring? Use foiling or a cap to add a few highlights through the bangs area and the top. A weak lightening solution will lighten hair a shade or two, or more if you choose. These few highlights require very little extra work but soften skin tones and brighten your face.
  4. Do you have light to medium natural brown hair? Add lowlights. These are strands of tinted hair that is at least two shades darker than your natural color. The lowlights add depth and richness to your color. When adding them, stay away from the hairline and the part. They will grow out quite easily if you choose not to keep up the process.
  5. To your light to medium toned brown hair, add highlights of at least two shades lighter and lowlights of at least two shades darker. Create fine strands and alternate – lighter, natural, and darker throughout your hair. Again, stay away from the front hair line and the part.
  6. To your light or medium toned brown hair, add strands of blonde and strands of auburn.  The shade of blonde and auburn will depend on how light or dark you hair is. Create very fine strands of the two shades, and watch your hair shimmer as it moves.
  7. Do you have dark brown hair? Add strands of deep red brown. If the red brown is darker than your natural color, all you have to do is add the color. If your natural color is very dark, you will pre-lighten the strands to a gold tone and then apply red semi-permanent color gloss over all of your hair. The red color will adhere to the pre-lightened strands and should stay in over six weeks.
  8. Section off about 1/3 to 1/2 inch of hair all around your face. Lighten the hair in this area about two shades to a lighter brown. This softens skin tones and facial features, and is very easy to  retouch as your hair grows.
  9. Section off the hair in the nape area – all hair below the occipital bone of your head. Tint the hair in this area at least two shades darker than your natural hair color. This is very effective if your hair is layered so that the darker hair extends out from under the lighter hair. If your hair is one length, the dark hair peaks out occasionally.
  10. Are you finding more and more gray or white hairs invading your natural brown hair? Using foil or painting with a hair color brush, add strands of your own brown tone to reduce the amount of graywithout tinting all over.
My Kindle book  Do Your Own Hair Color  tells you how, and gives many more tips on beautiful hair color. Get it now for only 99 cents.

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10 Ways to Update Your Blonde Hair

5/21/2015

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Always glamorous, often soft and even child-like in appearance; blonde hair is one of the most desired hair colors in almost every country.  However, those who have it often find that they want a change. The following suggestions are subtle, natural looking ways to enhance the beauty of your blonde hair and give you an updated fashion.
  1. 1.     Whether you are a natural blonde or chemically enhanced, you can highlight with tiny strands of extra light blonde to make your hair sparkle. This may not require the use of harsh chemicals. If your blonde is natural, you will only need to use a high lift tint.

    2.     Add tiny strands of light auburn or light red-brown hair color to create dimension and to add a warm glow to your hair color. The over-all effect is still blond but with a natural warmth that is great for almost every complexion.

    3.     Add tiny strands of dark ash blonde or taupe distributed throughout to give depth to your hair color without taking away the blonde mystique. Start with more strands of your natural lighter blonde toward the top and front, gradually going to equal parts natural hair and tinted hair in the back.

    4.     Use both highlights and lowlights in your natural blonde hair to make it shimmer every time it moves. Place your foils (saran wrap, cotton, or other medium) in this manner: one highlight, skip a section, one highlight, skip a section, one lowlight, skip a section, one lowlight, skip a section. Repeat. At the back – below the ears and occipital bone use one highlight to two lowlights to give a very natural deeper color blend.

    5.     Apply an allover semi-permanent color gloss to deepen your blonde hair. Using medium to dark blonde hair color will make blue eyes shine and brown eyes intensify. The semi-permanent color will gently fade away within six weeks. See Caution in #6.

    6.     Choose semi-permanent color gloss in a light auburn or strawberry blonde shade to make green eyes greener and brighter and blue eyes bluer. This color will gently fade away within six weeks. Caution: If your hair is very dry or porous, the color gloss may stay in your hair or fade unevenly.

    7.     Part off ¼ to ½ inch hair sections all around your face. Use high lift blonde tint or lightener to lift that hair two to three shades lighter than your natural hair. When styled, this area blends nicely with the rest of your hair and gives you that glamorous star-quality blonde with much less work and upkeep.

    8.     Divide off the nape section of your hair. This is everything below the occipital bone. Use a medium to dark blonde or even light brown tint to darken this area. Your choice of tint will depend on your hair color. It should be at least two shades darker. (Tinting this area very dark can be done for a more dramatic effect. Be aware that this often produces a harsher appearance.)

    9.     Divide off ¼ to ½ inch hair all around your face and all of the hair below the occipital bone in back. Tint this hair one or two shades darker than your natural light blonde for a Florida beach sun bleached effect.

    10. Use color pigmented shampoo to change the tone of your hair color on an almost daily basis. Use golden shampoo to add warm gold tones. Use red shampoo for a strawberry blonde cast. Use purple or blue toned shampoo to take out warm or brassy tones.

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How to Choose a New Hair Color

5/17/2015

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So you want to color your hair. You may want to brighten your natural hair color or you may want a totally new look. You may want to cover that irritating gray hair that is showing up. Hair color is one of the easiest and most exciting ways of expressing your individuality. But with the all of the hair color shades to choose from picking the best color can be confusing. 

It may surprise you to know that there are almost always a number of hair color shades that can be effective and attractive. To decide on the #1 most flattering hair color take a look at your underlying skin tones and the color of your eyes. Your own God given natural beauty can be intensified by a beautiful hair color when it blends with and enhances your skin tones.

Before finalizing this very important decision, look at the skin of your face and neck trying to discern the underlying tones. Ask your hairdresser or a close friend to help. Below are some tips to help with your choice.


The undertones of your skin seem to be Light and warm. You may have been described as having a peaches and cream complexion. Your skin is creamy or pale golden tan. You have green, hazel, or warm brown eyes. 
Hair color that is warm toned and not too dark is most flattering for you.
This includes light golden blonde, strawberry blonde, beige blonde, apricot, light brown with golden or reddish highlights or golden blonde with red highlights.

The undertones of your skin seem to be medium and warm
, almost yellow red. You may have beautiful deep golden brown or copper skin. Your eyes are green, amber, red-brown, or coffee bean in color.
When choosing hair color look for a deep, rich shade. I good choice will be medium to dark golden brown, honey brown, chestnut or mahogany. Add red highlights for an even more glamorous effect.

The undertones of your skin seem to be cool or even blue-red
. You may have alabaster skin or it may be rosy pink, rose beige or light pearl. You have cool toned eyes. They are light blue, gray blue, gray green or sometimes blue green. 
When looking for hair color, look for color that is ‘ash’ in tone, such as taupe or light brown with wheat tones, white blonde, platinum or silvery blonde. Highlight the deeper shades with silvery blonde or wheat blonde..

The undertones of your medium to deep toned skin seem to be cool. People say that you have olive skin. It may be dark olive, grayish brown, dark brown or black. Your eyes may be blue-green, dark blue, dark green, cool brown or they may seem to be black.
Beautiful hair color shades for you are plum toned, burgundy brown, dark brown, black, slate. Highlight any of these shades with plum or eggplant highlights. 


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