Hair coloring

One of the most creative, challenging, and inspiring salon services is hair coloring. Die to its popularity, it also has the potential for being one of the most lucrative areas in which a stylist can choose to work. There are many reasons why people color their hair. They want to cover up or blend gray hair. They want to enhance an existing hair color and create a fashion statement.  They want to correct unwanted tones in their hair. They might want to accentuate their hair cut more. The structure of a clients hair and the desired results determine which hair color to use. The hair structure results in the outcome of the color service. Porosity is the hair´s ability to absorb moisture. When you have low porosity, the hair is resistant. Therefore, it requires a longer processing time. When you have high porosity, your cuticle is lifted. The hair is overly porous and takes color quickly. It is important to be aware of that. Learning to identify a client's natural hair color is the most important step in becoming a good colorist. Natural hair color ranges from black to white. Hair color is unique to each person. Eumelanin is the melanin that lends back and brown colors to hair. Pheomelanin is the melanin that gives blond and red colors to the hair. Every color has a level. Level is the unit of measurement used to identify the lightness or darkness of a color. Hair color levels are arranged on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being the darkest and 10 being the lightest. When determining the natural level, get a half inch section and hold it up so light can shine through it. The law of color is a system for understanding color relationships. Equal parts of red and yellow make orange. Equal parts of red and blue make violet. Equal parts of blue and yellow make green. Primary colors are red yellow and blue. These can´t be created by combining other colors. A secondary color is a color obtaining by mixing 2 primary colors. A tertiary color is achieved by mixing a secondary color and its neighboring primary color. Complementary colors are opposite of each other on the color wheel. The tone is the balance of color. There are temporary hair colors, semipermanent, demipermanent, and permanent. Volume measures the concentration and strength of of hydrogen peroxide. Use 10-volume peroxide when less lightening is desired. Use 40-volume when you want bleach to pull through fast. Never leave the client unattended while coloring their hair because you need to watch the hair process. Single-process hair coloring lightens and deposits color in a single application. Hair lightening is a chemical process involving the diffusion of the natural hair color pigment of artificial hair color from the hair. Be careful while bleaching hair and always watch how fast it´s processing for! New growth is the hair between the scalp and the hair that has been previously colored. Toning the hair helps get rid of unwanted tones. Highlighting colors some of the hair so you have the variety of your natural color with some lighter tones.