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.

Hair color

As I have promised you, our first video is about how to bleach and achieve pastel hair, but before you bleach your hair at home (lightening up, neutralizing) you need to be able to recognize:

1, your natural hair color (roots)

2, the quality of your hair

3, your hair condition

Without this information you may cause a lot of damage to your hair.

I will try to explain it in the simplest and most understandable way so you can grab the essence.

How to determine your natural hair color (roots)

Your hair color depth can be best described by the lightness of hair, which depends on the number of pigments in your hair. Black has the most and the darkest pigments but very rare. There are hair colors from dark brown to the lightest blonde. The lighter the hair is the less pigments it contains.

Hair color depths chart:

1 or      2 – black

            3-dark brown

            4-medium brown

            5-light brown

            6-dark blonde

            7-medium blonde

            8-light blonde
            9-very light blond

          10-the lightest blonde

According to how much you want to bleach your hair, black and brown pigments will gradually disappear and different shades of orange and yellow will appear.

Many people cannot determine their natural hair color correctly for example many of you would think that you have light brown hair instead of medium blonde.

This can be a problem because it is crucial what percentage of developer you use, 3 % (10 vol) or 6 % (20 vol) for bleaching. You can achieve the desirable color using both but if a 3 % (10 vol) developer is enough why would you damage your hair and skin with a 6 % (20 vol) developer.

If you use a 3 % (10 vol) developer, the process will last longer but it penetrates yellowish, reddish pigments better.

I have worked out a diagnosis sheet for you to help.

I will share this with you later on.

My next topic is about recognizing the quality of your hair.

Your Virtual Hairdresser Consultant