Many people prefer DIY dyeing to salon dyeing. It would seem that everything is simple and there is no reason to overpay the salon for someone else’s hands and expensive paint. But often home dyeing spoils the hair, and we are not at all happy with the effect. Don't give up! It's all about the mistakes that absolutely everyone makes who tries to change the color at home! However, they can be easily avoided. Here are 20 problems and their solutions. Learn them and painting your home will become simple and convenient!
Mistake #1: You choose the color based on the picture on the package
Sorry, but dye manufacturers don’t know what kind of hair you have: fine, porous or hard and “glassy.” The coloring result depends not only on your natural color, but also on the condition of your hair, previous dyeing and other factors. Use the shade chart, which is usually on the back of the box, to get an idea of what the color will look like on your hair. But don’t rely on it completely either!
Mistake #2: You don't do a color test
Yes, it’s a shame to spend money on a whole package, use only a few drops of paint, and throw away the rest. But the hair is a pity! If you paint everything at once and get a radical black color with a green tint instead of the promised golden walnut, the correction will obviously cost more. Choose a small curl from the side of the neck and check on it what the result will be.
Mistake #3: You don't do an allergy test
Without exception, all manufacturers ask you to first test the reaction to the paint on a small area of skin. But of course you rely on luck. In vain! An allergy to dye can manifest itself in the forms of irritation, itching, inflammation and even hair loss! So, at the same time as testing on a small strand, check the skin’s reaction to the dye. The area should be chosen on the back of the neck or behind the ear: the skin there is sensitive and the place is inconspicuous.
Mistake #4: You're not protecting your skin
You dyed your hair, and then spend three days scrubbing paint stains from your neck and ears? Before coloring, apply greasy cream or Vaseline to exposed areas of skin that may be damaged. And no stains!
Mistake #5: You use hair conditioner before coloring.
The day before dyeing, it is better not to wash your hair at all. But if you really can’t go a day without washing your hair, don’t use conditioner: it closes small pores on the surface of the hair, and the dye will color the strands unevenly.
Mistake #6: You don’t wash off the styling
Yes, you shouldn’t wash your hair immediately before dyeing, but don’t take this too literally: if the day before you did complex styling using foam, mousse, hairspray and gel, be sure to wash it off! Otherwise, coloring is simply pointless.
Mistake #7: You use hair dye on your eyebrows and eyelashes
Never paint your eyebrows or eyelashes with hair dye - your eyelashes may fall off! But this is not the worst thing: the paint can get into your eyes, which can have serious medical consequences for your vision. There are special professional paints for eyebrows and eyelashes, and coloring is recommended to be done in a salon.
Mistake #8: You leave the paint on longer than expected to make the color more intense
Under no circumstances should you leave the dye on your hair too long - this can seriously damage your hair. The dye, remaining on the hair longer than it should, damages the structure of the hair shaft to a greater or lesser extent, and the dye's duration of action is still limited: after 30 minutes (in some cases - 40, read the instructions) it simply stops working. You'll burn your hair, but the color won't get any better.
Mistake #9: You wash your colored hair with anti-dandruff shampoos
Special anti-dandruff shampoos have the strongest cleansing properties. And they will simply wash away the artificial pigments! If you have a problem with dandruff, use special products labeled “for colored hair.”
Mistake #10: You dye your hair more than two shades darker or lighter than your natural shade.
Your hair color should be in harmony with your natural color type. If you want radical changes, go to the salon and consult with a colorist: he will select the optimal range (warm or cool), create the right mix of shades so that the hair tone is in harmony with the color of your skin and eyes, and will carry out the procedure safely and professionally. Home dyeing is not the solution in this case.
Mistake #11: You lighten your hair with a powerful oxidizer
Often, when they lighten their hair at home, girls buy a professional 9-12 percent oxidizer and sit with the applied solution for up to an hour! This is very harmful. A skin burn can cause a severe allergic reaction - so that even more gentle dyes will cause allergies in the future. And the hair turns into tow. Moreover, the color always turns out yellow. And then... ash paint is applied on top!!! And it necessarily contains a blue pigment, which, in combination with yellow, produces a clear greenish tint. We hope all this is not about you.
Mistake #12: You don't paint your roots
Keep in mind: the ends of the hair are more porous, and the roots are denser, so if you immediately apply the dye to the entire length, you will get the effect of regrown hair, when the shade seems to be the same, but the roots look lighter.
Mistake #13: The ends of your hair are too dark
The opposite effect of the previous point: when hair color is applied to the entire head at once, not only do the roots turn out too bright, but the ends usually turn out darker than you intended. Moreover, this is a cumulative phenomenon: with each subsequent coloring, the ends will become darker and darker. Always apply the dye first to the roots over the entire surface of the head, and only then distribute it to the ends.
Mistake #14: You dye your hair unevenly
Well, you don’t have eyes in the back of your head, no! If you don't have a boy's haircut, ask a friend to help you.
Mistake #15: You apply dye to wet hair
And some of the pigments immediately flow down onto your shoulders. Permanent dyes are applied only to dry strands, and, remember, unwashed for about a day.
Mistake #16: You wash your hair the day after coloring
After dyeing your hair, you should refrain from washing your hair for at least a day to allow the dye to set better. And also do not use hair styling products so that the aggressive components in their composition do not interfere with the absorption of paint pigments. Since the dye itself contains degreasing components, after dyeing your hair is clean and there is no problem waiting 24 hours.
Mistake #17: You leave the finished mixture to sit
After mixing the paint with the developer cream, you should immediately begin coloring. The fact is that chemical processes begin immediately after mixing the components, and if the prepared mixture is allowed to brew, the color may turn out dull.
Mistake #18: You dilute the dye with shampoo or conditioner
If, when dyeing your hair, it seems to you that there is not enough dye, do not dilute it with regular shampoo or conditioner! You will lose in quality. Try to use the mass sparingly, since you are sure that it will not be enough, and in the future, buy 2 packages instead of one. Life hack: with average hair thickness, you won’t be able to get by with just one bottle if your hair is longer than your shoulders.
Mistake #19: You use a metal comb
The metal oxidizes and reacts with the paint, affecting the paint result in unpredictable ways. Use neutral plastic, wooden or ceramic combs.
Mistake #20: You paint yourself blue (green, red, purple) for fun.
Scientists have found that radical hair coloring can lead to serious skin diseases. Crimson, violet, green, bright red and blue colors are especially dangerous: these paints contain the substance para-phenylenediamine, which causes inflammation of the skin.
We once wrote about that, but the issue with hairstyles, of course, is not limited to this. Now we've talked to a professional colorist about hair coloring and found out everything you need to know before changing your color or covering your grays at home or in the salon.
Masha Vorslav
Why dye your hair
What is the advantage
professional and
ammonia-free paints
Professional dyes usually do not have recommendations for mixing colors, and, in principle, household dyes can be used for neutralization, but there is a risk of getting your finger in the sky. You can't tell from the photo that accompanies them the shade that will ultimately come out - it's like looking at a magazine photo through studio light and . To estimate it, you need to know what each number in the shade number means. I have clients who know what colors to paint them with. Three, for example, denotes a golden shade, so if you want to get ashy, you can’t use it.
There are also ammonia-free and temporary dyes that do not last very long. Ammonia-free dye does not penetrate deep into the hair; it adheres to the surface and does not damage the hair structure, even if it is dyed a lighter color. Another advantage is that if the color doesn’t turn out the way you wanted, you can correct it with the same dye of a different shade. Ammonia dye radically changes hair color.
It is important to understand that coloring with permanent ammonia dyes is a one-way ticket. After them, the hair may remain of excellent quality, but the native pigment will go away and an artificial one will remain, which may change over time (fading, for example). Well, in general, it’s better to start doing your own coloring with semi-permanent things like shampoos, foams, creams and other things - these are also cool things, the effect of which can be easily adjusted.
You can at least consult your hairdresser about paints. He will tell you what will look good with a particular appearance and how the hair will work with the dye. There are hairs that at first glance are very easy to dye (classic light brown, for example), but even a hairdresser cannot dye them cold blonde. It all depends on the characteristics of the hair, which only professionals know about, so when dyeing at home, you can minimize the risks at least with the help of good dye.
What influences the result
staining
Of course there are hair types. It is quite difficult to make Negroid and Oriental hair even three shades lighter without damaging the hair itself. The hair of Asians, for example, is so dense that it is impossible to lighten it white without eating up all the keratin with the dye. Very dark hair is a priori warm in color type, and red or orange pigment will appear in it.
Curly hair is also quite difficult to color because it is naturally fragile and brittle. Ideally, you should work with them using an ammonia-free dye. Wavy hair - no matter dark or light - also needs careful coloring. Classic Slavic hair, which we call “mouse”, can also present surprises and even after a cold color dye it can give off red hair.
The final coloring result is predicted based on the color type of appearance. A person may have blue eyes and light skin, but his color type will be warm. You can determine the type by the color of the veins and the iris of the eye: if the veins are clearly blue, the color type is cold and warm shades of the hair will be easy to neutralize. And if there are a lot of warm brownish inclusions in the eyes, it is better to prepare for the fact that the dye may not interrupt the natural red or orange color of the hair.
How to avoid yellowness
when lightening
It’s generally difficult to lighten at home, because the hair has a limit, beyond which it will not become lighter. After it, you don’t need to lighten it, but to tint it in order to neutralize the yellowness and patch up the hair. Good paint contains keratin, ceramides, oils and other tricky formulas that take the place of the original pigments washed out by the lightener. And if you continue to be zealous with lightening, you can simply destroy your hair.
The difficulty of lightening depends on the type of hair. For example, a Caucasian girl needs to take a break between lightening treatments for at least two to three weeks so that the keratin layer of her hair has time to recover. To achieve a good clean blonde, ideally you need two sessions. If your hair has already been dyed, it may take more or, conversely, less time. I had a client with natural red hair who dyed her hair red, and in five hours at the salon we gave her a cool, warm blonde (no one expected that). By the way, if your hair was previously dyed with natural dyes (henna, basma), it is very difficult to use them, because such dyes do not wash out at all and can become discolored, for example, green. So, if you start dyeing long hair with professional dye a year after henna, you must remember that the natural one is still in the middle of its length and has not washed out anywhere.
There is such a color scheme, Oswald's star, that colorists go through during their studies. It makes it clear that everyone’s unloved yellow can be neutralized with the opposite purple, and you can get rid of red in chocolate and coffee shades with the help of special “matting” colors, which are based on green pigment. Colorists use mathematical formulas to determine how much neutralizing tone is needed. So if it is unwise to use a cool tone, you can go from yellow to purple.
How to care for
dyed hair
After dyeing, hair care, of course, changes. For natural hair, you need to use care in accordance with its type (curly, dry, etc.), dyed hair can also be classified as a type. If discoloration has occurred, you need serious moisturizing and restorative care, for example keratin. Keratin is generally a fashionable word now, but the hair really needs it for protection, and bleaching in most cases washes it out and ruins the hair. If they are completely dry and porous, they cannot be completely restored, but they can be made more shiny and dense. There are a lot of products for this, from gentle shampoo to masks. Plus you need to choose a leave-in care (conditioners, oils).
How to achieve beautiful
unnatural color
In the case of dyeing in unnatural colors, the key to success is a competent foundation: high-quality and evenly (that is, without any stains) bleached hair. You can put any color on a good base. In principle, you don’t even need permanent dyes for this. I don't even recommend the long-lasting ones, because one day you like green and the next you don't. There are a lot of pigments in the form of shampoos, foams, and creams that you can use to dye your hair cool colors yourself. Of course, all pastel shades are quite difficult to obtain. I believe that they need to be mixed, the exposure time must be carefully calculated, and applied carefully. Compared to them, rich, acidic colors are not a problem at all. But we must not forget that with them you need to start from the original hair color. I would recommend doing the colored strands yourself, but it’s better to have your whole head dyed by a professional. You also need to know that different brands have different color intensities: one blue may be flat and dull, while another may be deep. It’s impossible to name just one coolest company, because there are a lot of them.
Sorry, but dye manufacturers don’t know what kind of hair you have: fine, porous or hard and “glassy.” The result of dyeing depends not only on your natural color, but also on the condition of your hair, previous dyeing and other factors. Use the shade chart, which is usually on the back of the box, to get an idea of what the color will look like on your hair. But don’t rely on it completely either!
Mistake #2: You don't do a color test
Yes, it’s a shame to spend money on a whole package, use only a few drops of paint, and throw away the rest. But the hair is a pity! If you paint everything at once and get a radical black color with a green tint instead of the promised golden walnut, the correction will obviously cost more. Choose a small curl from the side of the neck and check on it what the result will be.
Mistake #3: You don't do an allergy test
Without exception, all manufacturers ask you to first test the reaction to the paint on a small area of skin. But of course you rely on luck. In vain! An allergy to dye can manifest itself in the forms of irritation, itching, inflammation and even hair loss! So, at the same time as testing on a small strand, check the skin’s reaction to the dye. The area should be chosen on the back of the neck or behind the ear: the skin there is sensitive and the place is inconspicuous.
Mistake #4: You're not protecting your skin
You dyed your hair, and then spent three days scrubbing paint stains from your neck and ears? Before coloring, apply greasy cream or Vaseline to exposed areas of skin that may be damaged. And no stains!
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Mistake #5: You use hair conditioner before coloring.
The day before dyeing, it is better not to wash your hair at all. But if you really can’t go a day without washing your hair, don’t use conditioner: it closes small pores on the surface of the hair, and the dye will color the strands unevenly.
Mistake #6: You don’t wash off the styling
Yes, you shouldn’t wash your hair immediately before dyeing, but don’t take this too literally: if the day before you did complex styling using foam, mousse, hairspray and gel, be sure to wash it off! Otherwise, coloring is simply pointless.
Mistake #7: You use hair dye on your eyebrows and eyelashes
Never paint your eyebrows or eyelashes with hair dye - your eyelashes may fall off! But this is not the worst thing: the paint can get into your eyes, which can have serious medical consequences for your vision. There are special professional paints for eyebrows and eyelashes, and coloring is recommended to be done in a salon.
Mistake #8: You leave the paint on longer than expected to make the color more intense
Under no circumstances should you leave the dye on your hair too long - this can seriously damage your hair. The dye, remaining on the hair longer than it should, damages the structure of the hair shaft to a greater or lesser extent, and the dye's action time is still limited: after 30 minutes (in some cases - 40, read the instructions) it simply stops working. You'll burn your hair, but the color won't get any better.
Mistake #9: You wash your colored hair with anti-dandruff shampoos
Special anti-dandruff shampoos have the strongest cleansing properties. And they will simply wash away the artificial pigments! If you have a problem with dandruff, use special products labeled “for colored hair.”
Mistake #10: You dye your hair more than two shades darker or lighter than your natural shade.
Your hair color should be in harmony with your natural color type. If you want radical changes, go to the salon and consult with a colorist: he will select the optimal range (warm or cool), create the right mix of shades so that the hair tone is in harmony with the color of your skin and eyes, and will carry out the procedure safely and professionally. Home dyeing is not the answer in this case.
Mistake #11: You lighten your hair with a powerful oxidizer
Often, when they lighten their hair at home, girls buy a professional 9-12 percent oxidizer and sit with the applied solution for up to an hour! This is very harmful. A skin burn can cause a severe allergic reaction - so that even more gentle dyes will cause allergies in the future. And the hair turns into tow. Moreover, the color always turns out yellow. And then... ash paint is applied on top!!! And it necessarily contains a blue pigment, which, in combination with yellow, produces a clear greenish tint. We hope all this is not about you.
Mistake #12: You don't paint your roots
Keep in mind: the ends of the hair are more porous, and the roots are denser, so if you immediately apply the dye to the entire length, you will get the effect of regrown hair, when the shade seems to be the same, but the roots look lighter.
Mistake #13: The ends of your hair are too dark
The opposite effect of the previous point: when hair color is applied to the entire head at once, not only do the roots turn out too bright, but the ends usually turn out darker than you intended. Moreover, this is a cumulative phenomenon: with each subsequent coloring, the ends will become darker and darker. Always apply the dye first to the roots over the entire surface of the head, and only then distribute it to the ends.
Mistake #14: You dye your hair unevenly
Well, you don’t have eyes in the back of your head, no! If you don't have a boy's haircut, ask a friend to help you.
Mistake #15: You apply dye to wet hair
And some of the pigments immediately flow down onto your shoulders. Permanent dyes are applied only to dry strands, and, remember, unwashed for about a day.
Mistake #16: You wash your hair the day after coloring
After dyeing your hair, you should refrain from washing your hair for at least a day to allow the dye to set better. And also do not use hair styling products so that the aggressive components in their composition do not interfere with the absorption of paint pigments. Since the dye itself contains degreasing components, after dyeing your hair is clean and there is no problem waiting 24 hours.
Mistake #17: You leave the finished mixture to sit
After mixing the paint with the developer cream, you should immediately begin coloring. The fact is that chemical processes begin immediately after mixing the components, and if the prepared mixture is allowed to brew, the color may turn out dull.
Mistake #18: You dilute the dye with shampoo or conditioner
If, when dyeing your hair, it seems to you that there is not enough dye, do not dilute it with regular shampoo or conditioner! You will lose in quality. Try to use the mass sparingly, since you are sure that it will not be enough, and in the future, buy 2 packages instead of one. Life hack: with average hair thickness, you won’t be able to get by with just one bottle if your hair is longer than your shoulders.
Mistake #19: You use a metal comb
The metal oxidizes and reacts with the paint, affecting the paint result in unpredictable ways. Use neutral plastic, wooden or ceramic combs.
Mistake #20: You paint yourself blue (green, red, purple) for fun.
Scientists have found that radical hair coloring can lead to serious skin diseases. Crimson, violet, green, bright red and blue colors are especially dangerous: these paints contain the substance para-phenylenediamine, which causes inflammation of the skin.
The main mistakes when dyeing hair
The modern palette of hair colors already includes about 150 shades. In such a variety, it is easy to get confused and difficult to decide on the appropriate color, but the process of hair coloring is no less complicated. After all, the important thing here is to get the shade you want and cause as little damage to your hair as possible.
To ensure that the result meets your expectations and your hair remains as healthy as possible, just follow the advice of professionals and avoid common mistakes.
No initial consultation
Even if you plan to dye your hair at home without involving a specialist, you still need to consult with a specialist. Dyeing your hair without the advice of a specialist is like taking pills without a doctor's prescription - it can lead to a number of very undesirable consequences. A specialist will assess the condition of your hair, recommend the most appropriate, competent care after coloring and answer all your questions, which will help you avoid many unpleasant mistakes in doing your own coloring.
Dyeing on unwashed hair
It has long been no longer relevant, although it is still alive, the myth that before dyeing your hair, in order to save the strands, do not wash them for several days before dyeing. Modern dyes have a fairly soft composition that does not destroy the hair structure. And if ammonia compounds are used in painting, then even the sebaceous shell will not save the curls from damage.
In order to correctly reveal the depth of tone of the hair, the hair must be clean and completely dry, otherwise you can make a mistake with the color. In addition, styling products and dust can remain on dirty hair, which when dyeing can lead to unpredictable color results.
No clear picture of hair condition
Assessing the depth of tone is a very important step in the coloring process. The specialist needs to know what types of chemical procedures have been applied to the hair in recent years, and it is important not to hide anything. There is a big difference between salon and home dyeing, so if you have previously dyed your hair at home yourself, do not tell the hairdresser that the dyeing was done in a salon. Otherwise, the specialist will take action based on your little lies, which will result in either a patchy or less saturated color.
Various unpleasant “surprises” can occur when dyeing after straightening curls with keratin. The composition could be applied incorrectly and unevenly, causing the hairs to change unevenly as well. In this case, the coloring will appear in spots. To prevent this from happening, the master must feel the client’s hair - where more dye is needed, and where a little less.
Incorrect color wheel selection
With the help of a color wheel, the master understands which tones to use in dyeing in a particular case, so that the new hair color turns out to be saturated, contrary to previous experiments. So, for example, to eliminate the yellow tint in the hair, take the dye located in the color wheel opposite this tone; in the case of yellowness, it is blue. Thanks to the laws of color, you can create an ideal formula for selecting dyes and the percentage of oxidizing agent, thereby predicting the final result in advance.
The dyeing time was not observed and the nuances of hair dyeing were not taken into account
Many girls (and some inexperienced hairdressers) mistakenly believe that the longer the dye is on the strands, the brighter and more saturated the color will be. There are many nuances here. Despite the fact that the hair is located on the same head, its structure may be different. In the area with the thinnest and most porous hairs (marginal zone), the pigment is absorbed much faster, so this area should be dyed at the very end. But the ends of natural hair may turn out to be much darker after dyeing, if during the process the dye was applied first to them, and only then to the entire length. And there are many such examples, but only experienced craftsmen know about them.
I attended a seminar on coloristics from Estelle and I’m sharing some notes with you.
Let me break it down into possible problems and tell you what to do to avoid them.
1.You have decided to become a blonde.
Well, first of all, paint doesn’t lighten paint. Even if you take the most intense blonde, if your hair is dyed, you will not become blonde or light brown. The color will be rusty, brown, red - whatever you like, but not blond.
Let's say you take powder to lighten. We left it on our hair and started to wash it off - our hair became slippery. You were delighted and thought: oh, what silky hair! Great! No! The powder must be washed off until the hair becomes dry, hard and squeaky. The powder works in very deep layers of hair, and our usual household shampoos - no matter how much we scold them - they are still soft! And they cannot penetrate as deeply as powder. As a result, you will not completely wash the powder with your regular homemade shampoo.
And then... when applying dye to the blonde to tint it, the dye simply won’t take. Since penetrating deep into the hair, it will meet there with the remnants of powder and the powder will lighten this dye. But it will be uneven! Because in some places you didn’t wash the powder, but in others you washed it off. Therefore, the color will appear somewhere, and somewhere it will remain yellow as after lightening.
And the problem will not be in the paint, but, roughly speaking, in you.
Therefore, when buying powder, whether you want to do it or not, but you have to! - You need to buy deep cleaning shampoo. And rinse thoroughly with it - wipe the hair with your fingers, as if pulling it out, pulling the powder from the hair.
After powder and deep cleaning shampoo, the hair is very porous. Therefore, when tinting, the color will not lie evenly. Particularly porous areas will absorb a lot of paint, while healthier areas will absorb less. And the result will be an uneven color, and if you took an ashy or purple blond, then in the end some strands will be clearly purple or gray.
Therefore, again, whether you want it or not, you have to! use a balm (for Estel - ESTEL CUREX DE LUXE BALM FOR STRUCTURE ALIGNMENT) or spray (for example, for Ollin) or mousse (for example, for Highlight - bread mousse) to even out the texture of the hair. And then the tinting will be applied evenly on top of this product and the color will be uniform.
2. Features of acid wash.
There are 3 bottles in the Estelle wash, the 3rd is a control bottle. It should be applied only when you think this is the last wash. If you see that the color is not yet light enough, then apply further washes. After rinsing, the hair may darken. This is due to the fact that there is a lot of artificial pigment from dye in the hair. The wash removes some of it, but some remains deep in the hair. The 3rd bottle pulls this “hidden” pigment closer to the cuticle and we again see that the hair has darkened.
And if the hair has been dyed along its entire length many, many times during the year, for example, then, according to the technologist, at least 5 washes may be needed! And even more.
The color you get after washing will be the one you lightened to during coloring. Let's say you dyed your hair black over your dark blond hair. They washed it off and suddenly became clingy. This only means that this black dye lightened the hair very much at the time of dyeing.
Household paints are more difficult to remove, as they contain more heavy metals, which makes them more durable but more harmful.
We were told an example: a girl comes and she urgently needs to become blonde. Moreover, she is a dyed brunette. This can be done in one day.
She was given several washes, each subsequent one was pulled off with a towel and a new composition was applied. Then, without the 3rd bottle, lightening powder was applied. The hair under the powder darkened at first, since not all the pigment was removed anyway. Then the powder lightens even the artificial pigment. After lightening, tinting paint was applied to neutralize unwanted shades.
3. Undesirable shades.
To neutralize yellow you need violet.
Red - blue.
Green - red.
Accordingly, if any of these shades appears on the hair, it will be neutralized with paint with the opposite shade, and perhaps even the same corrector will be added.
If you used nettle or some green shampoo in your care - and all this was shortly before lightening - then during lightening there will be a green tint.
Since nettle tannins are green in color and, penetrating into the hair, they restore it, we see the effect of using herbs. On dark hair, on healthy light brown hair, the shade of green will not be visible. But when clarified, it will definitely float up.
4. The color is darker than in the palette.
This can happen if you apply the dye very tightly. In coloristics there is such a thing as denser. Everyone who listens to the technologist immediately asks, i.e. darker?? No, it’s just denser. That is, in fact, it seems to us that the color is darker. But from the point of view of the chemists who made the dye, they didn’t make a mistake anywhere - just like you wanted brown, so you got it, but you applied it so thickly to your hair that the layering turned out to be very dark. And the degree of density also depends on the percentage of oxidizing agent. With 3% the dye is denser and can actually darken by 1-2 tones.
Estelle has a palette for gray hair. Likewise, there are special dyes with 00 at the end. That is, not 5.0 but 5.00, for example, this is also for gray hair. They are more dense. There are more paint molecules on the base. And silver paint for gray hair comes with only 9% oxidizing agent. But many women with very thin, damaged hair take 6% because 9% are simply afraid. In this case, you need to understand that the selected color will be 1-2 tones darker. Since the technology is broken, the dye will be even denser. The solution is to initially choose 1 tone lighter than you chose.
Or there are many layers of dye on the hair along the entire length - if you constantly dye your hair 4.0, then layer after layer it will turn black.
5. The color is not the same as in the palette.
Our hair is like a glass of clean water. If you apply dye to natural, undyed hair for the first time, you get what was in the palette. Provided you don't raise the base too much. For example, you had a light brown one, but they took a chocolate one with some shade. And so we added brown paint to our glass and got brown water.
And then we decided, I want to have a golden tint. And the hair already has dye. And inside the hair, although you can’t see it, it mixes with each other - your old color and the new one - they mix! They are not layered on top of each other.
You looked like golden and decided, but no, I want ashy! And they added ash to their hair in addition to neutral, golden shades (and ash is blue). And inside the hair, yellow and blue mixed and it turned out green. And if the hair is dark - well, usually at 7 and below - the greenery will not be visible. But if the hair is blond, the greenery will be very visible.
Sometimes there may even be a slight greenish tint at 7, visible only in the sun.
You decided, okay, I’ll be red. They applied the same color but with a red tint. And you already have neutral, yellow, blue in your hair (which our eyes see as green when two molecules are close to each other) and then you also added red. Red and green mixed and the result was a neutral color - brown. There may be a slight, slight redness, or there may not be, or maybe there will be! But the color will not be the same as in the palette.
Let's say you have red hair, and you decide to go just chocolate. You need to buy more than just a chocolate shade. And buy a shade with a green undertone. And only then will red mixed with greens give you neutral brown chocolate.
6. After dyeing, the hair remains very dry for several days or weeks.
It would seem that all professional dyes are working and puffing on quality, and some complain that their hair then becomes very dry and gets drier the further they go.
First, they could take a long time to apply. The paint begins to work immediately after dilution - it oxidizes, and during the oxidation process more and more substances are released. And if the technology stipulates that the dye will be on your hair for 45 minutes (for example), and you spent an hour and 10 minutes along with application and exposure, then your hair has already been exposed to more chemicals than if used correctly.
Secondly, in the salon the dye will be washed off with shampoo and a stabilizer - it will stop the oxidation reaction and cover the hair scales. At home you washed it off with regular shampoo; it didn’t stop the reaction. Somewhere deep, deep in the hair, the dye continues to work, it continues to lighten and destroy the hair. As a result, you wake up in the morning and your hair is even drier than it was yesterday.
Or, let’s say, you took a highly praised paint and mixed it with something else! oxidizing agent. Is it okay that half of the care that everyone praises so much about this paint remains in its native oxidizing agent? Of course, you will wash off the paint and not get the quality you were supposed to get.
