Lighten your hair. Hair roots,

Collect as much information as possible about the hair dye you are going to use because they differ a lot in mixing ratio and the lightening effect of oxidizer. 

I do recommend the following hair dyes: Wella, Revlon, Matrix, L’oréal, Swarzkopf , they are the bests on the market.

Also take into consideration that the instructions apply to normal hair structure.

Before dyeing your hair, you must know a few things about your hair, like the absorbency of your 

hair, the thickness, health condition, natural hair colour and the lightening effect of the oxidizer you are going to use.

Vol. 20  – dye to same colour, darken, dye to one shade lighter

Vol. 30 – dye to 2-3 shades lighter

Vol. 40 – dye to 3-4 shades lighter

When you dye your hair roots to a lighter colour, the pigments in your hair change colour to reddish, yellowish. You can offset this by using ash-blonde, more matt colours.

We call lifeless and dry hair ends matt or green. To avoid it, mix red, copper or gold mixton in the colour.

I have written only colouring because never should you dye the whole length and the ends of your already dyed hair just refresh the colour by colouring (temporary hair colour).

Let me explain:

Natural hair colour is no. 7 blonde (hair roots)

The colour of the whole hair is no. 8 light blonde, dry, matt.

Desired hair colour is no. 8 natural light blonde without gold undertone.

Hair dye plan

Hair roots:

8/ ash -shade hair dye. You will need this to offset the orange pigments and end up with the desired natural colour. Use vol. 20 oxidizer to lighten one shade.

Length of hair and hair ends:

Refresh your colour by using no. 9 hair colour + red mixton colour (don’t use no.8 light blonde, because it may result in over pigmentation and the length of your hair is not faded but only dull). Add 1 unit: 15 ghair colour + 2 cmred mixton  + 2 units of developer.

You can make you hair shiny by doing this and don’t be afraid, it won’t get red. (always go for a shade lighter colour to refresh original colour if not faded)

If you dyed your hair with colour no. 8 light blonde than your hair roots would have a shiny gold undertone and the rest of your hair and hair ends would become darker thanks to the absorbency and dryness of your hair. It would be more matt too and could end up with a greenish undertone.

How to take care of your hair after bleaching and colouring

While bleaching your hair, its structure goes through a significant change so you must use products that restore its PH.

Why?

Bleaching powder is alkaline. Due to this chemical property the cuticle (outermost layer of hair) of hair expands and the bleaching powder penetrates.

After having used alkaline products you must stop the expanding effect by applying acid products (neutralizing) otherwise you hair will get damaged.

There should be more acid bits remaining in your hair which contract hairs and restore hair structure to the original condition.

These kind of end-of-dye products have to be applied only after chemical treatments, but never mistake them for hair colour conditioning products.

Every producer has a different end-of-dye PH restoring product that should be used only after chemical treatments.

Water intake is very importantwhen it comes to taking care of your hair, you can achieve this by taking mineral substances.

If the cuticle is damaged a great amount of protein vanishes. In this case you need to take amino acid to replace them but it would never happensince I have worked out a diagnosis sheet for you where you can read about your own tailor made bleaching plan relevant to your natural hair colour and hair structure.

Between hair dyes I do recommend to use shampoo and conditioner containing keratin which moisturizes your hair’s internal structure and makes fibres soft.

I recommend to use argan oil on your hair ends. It builds in immediately. Argan oil should also be used before tanning. Both skin and hair should be protected against dryness.

Keep in mind protecting your hair before blow drying or flat ironing!

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The condition of your hair

I will provide you with a detailed description about the condition of your hair, but our first video is about how to bleach and achieve pastel hair at home.

Have you ever thought that hairdressers consider bleached hair damaged?

While bleaching, your hair tends to suck up more bleach so this can alter the colour of pastel; it might make it darker or greyer. 

You can avoid this if you increase the proportion of mixing by adding mixton. Your hair will never be greyish if you listen to me and follow closely what I do on the video.

Next time I will talk about the colour wheel. It won’t be so easy but I will do my best to explain it clear.

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