Hair Color Mistakes

Hair color is a great way to change your looks. It can make you look stunning for an evening party and after that. You can enrich your natural hair color or you can change the tone of your hair color. Hair color can be used to lighten the tone or it can add highlights to your natural hair color.

 But sometimes, instead of getting perfect results, you end up making your hair color a disaster.

But do not panic, just be patient and try to find a way out. Before going for any hair coloring session, first talk to your hair stylist in detail. Try to find out what suits best for your natural skin tone and your natural hair color. Before getting any hair color done, try to figure out what kind of color will emerge out by blending on your own natural hair color.

 When you are trying to color your hairs at your home by yourself, you tend to mistakes if you do not follow certain precautions. Some of these mistakes can lead to undesirable hair color or you may harm your hairs as these hair color products are in fact chemicals. Do not think, hair color as a paint which you can remove by a remover, you will have to find out quick fix solutions to fix that mistake.

Here are few common mistakes, which people generally people make while applying hair color at home.

 1 : Often women think that they will get hair color reflected by the girl’s hair on the packing.

 This is one of the major mistakes. The result of hair color depends upon your natural hair color. Blend of both colors is what you get at the end. To understand how the hair color will look like on hair, use the tablet given on the pack.

2: Start coloring of hairs without testing for any kind of allergy.

Your skin may be allergic to any chemical in the hair color. So do make an allergy test on the neck or behind ear or inside of elbow bend. If allergic to hair color chemical, you may have irritation, inflammation, itching or even hair loss. It should be done 1-2 days before going for hair coloring.

3: Coloring all the hair at once without patch coloring test

If do not commit this mistake, you can save yourself from major hair coloring disaster. Take a small lock from the neck and try color on this and see the results.

4: Before coloring, you have used hair conditioner.

Do not apply conditioner before hair coloring. It will smooth the cuticles and hair color won’t be able to penetrate hairs deeply. Just shampoo your hairs mildly a day before hair coloring session.

5: Applying hair color on dirty and tangled hairs.

Hair color can not give best results if apply it over the dirty hairs ridden with dust and fat particles. Regularly humidify your hairs with special hair masks one month prior to hair coloring. Hair should be absolutely clean before applying hair color. Also get your hairs cut and split ends trimmed top get the even hair color.

6: While coloring, forgot about protecting skin and clothes.

This is one of the common mistakes committed by ignorance. Hair color is strong enough to leave stubborn stains on your skin and cloths. Protect your skin by applying Vaseline on the neck and wearing gloves. Put a thick towel on your shoulders.

7: Not protecting your eyelashes and eyebrows.

It is must to protect your eyebrows and eyelashes from getting dyed with hair color. It can seriously harm your eyelashes; you even loose it. And the worst thing you may do is to letting the hair color come into your eyes; this can pose serious eye sight problem for which you will need medical assistance. Even after taken all care, hair color comes into you eyes, immediately wash them with tepid water many times to rinse out the entire chemical.

8: Keeping the hair color solution for longer time than recommended.

It will not give you any better result instead it will ruin your hair and make them straw like. It is always better to wait for 2-3 weeks for getting them colored again. You can always darken the hair tone more easily than lightening it.

9: Choosing hair color two tones lighter or darker than the natural hair color

Choose hair color which finely blends with your skin or natural hair color tone.

10: Washing hair with hot water after coloring

It will lessen the effect of hair color and will not let it penetrate the hairs deeply. Wash with cold and tepid water.