While hair dying in home conditions, we risk to make a lot of mistakes. Some of them can lead to undesirable quality of color and dying, and others - can do serious harm to hair. Womenshealthguide will warn you against mistakes and tell about new ways of hair dying!
We resort to hair dying when we wish to color over gray hair, change image or simply “recover” hair color. But, unfortunately, negligent “home-made” colouring can threaten with very unpleasant consequences - it is possible to spoil hair seriously for a long time.
Choose the color that is close to your basic color type (especially to the color of eyelashes and eyebrowes). Certainly, it is better to dye hair in a salon, but as any hair color is washed off quickly enough, and procedure of colouring it not too cheap, you have to take the whole business in your hands.
Basic mistakes we make while home-made hair dying
Mistake 1: Result of colouring will coincide with the girl’s hair color on packing
The result of colouring depends on your natural color. Use the tablet of shades, which is usually presented on the back side of a pack to understand how this paint will look on your hair approximately.
Mistake 2: Start hair dying without an allergy test
Many of us do not pay attention to manufacturers’ appeals to check up reaction to a hair color on a skin.
Choose a small site of skin on the back side of a neck, behind an ear or on an internal bend of an elbow. The allergy on a hair color can appear in forms of irritation, itch, inflammation and even hair loss! The test should be executed 1-2 days prior to prospective colouring.
Mistake 3: Use a hair color without trial colouring
Coloring all hair at once is a big mistake. It is better to choose a small lock from a neck and test it on it, and see the result. This way you will save yourselve from disappointments.
Mistake 4: Do not protect skin and clothes during colouring
The paint can leave strong spots on your skin and clothes, therefore before colouring it is necessary to cover shoulders with a towel. Use gloves necessarily.
Mistake 5: Use hair conditioner before colouring
It is not necessary to use the conditioner before hair colouring - just wash hair with a shampoo. The matter is that free radicals (such as dirt and fat) should not present on hair, ready to colouring. At the same time, one day prior to colouring it is better to not wash hair at all.
Mistake 6: Apply hair color on dirty hair
One month prior to colouring humidify hair with special masks on a regular basis. Before application of a hair color, hair should be clean! Before hair colouring, it is recommended to cut off dry, split ends.
Mistake 7: Apply hair color on eyebrowes and eyelashes
Do not dye eyebrows and eyelashes with a hair color - you can lose your eyelashes! But this is not the most terrible thing - hair color can come to eyes and this threatens with serious medical consequences for sight.
Mistake 8: Prolong time of colouring (longer, than it it is recommended in the instruction)
On no accont prolong time of hair coloring, as it can damagel hair seriously. Remember, it is much easier to make tone more intensive, than lighten excessively dyed hair. If the result of colouring does not satisfy you, wait for 2-3 weeks before you dye hair again.
Mistake 9: Use antidandruff shampoos on dyed hair
Special antidandruff shampoos have the strongest cleaning properties of all shampoos presented in the market. It is better to use special antidandruff means for dyed hair - such as, for example, Miss Prestige, Clear Vita ABE or an antidandruff novelty from Head&Shoulders “Proof Color”.
Mistake 10: Dye hair more than two tones darker or lighter than your natural hair color is
Hair color should be in harmony with your natural color type (skin color, eye color, natural hair tone).
By the way, recently scientists established that radical hair colouring can lead to serious skin diseases. The colors teenagers like most of all are especially dangerous: crimson, violet, green, bright-red … the structure of these colors includes the substance para-phenylenediamine causing skin inflammation.
Stars also can make mistakes:
Burning black makes Britney Spears looking older
Natalia Oreiro lost her highlight after she become blonde
Brown-haired woman Scarlett Johansson does not look like a fatal beauty anymore
