Colour Process Pt 2

Going blonde can be both super empowering and also high-maintenance, therefore it’s important you’re equipped with the right products and advice to ensure your blonde is kept healthy and glossy all year round. Some home truths...

You Need To Maintain Your Colour At Home You are responsible you need to make sure you double shampoo tone apply treatments towel dry appropriately use the right products for you or be cautious when exposing your hair to heat tools if you don’t take this advice on board and you continue doing what you are advised not to, then whatever happens to your hair is a result of your hair neglect. leaving the salon loving your blonde colour, then a few weeks later it’s feeling brassy and coarse isn’t uncommon. Colour maintenance is KEY. Light blonde colour on textured hair can be the most DIFFICULT to maintain! Colours like this are not for the faint of heart and require major TLC in and outside of the salon. This is why we always STRONGLY recommend that our clients use toning products for at home maintenance. Our shelves are packed with variety especially when it comes to toning. For our blondes we have Fudge Violet Toning Shampoo, Fudge Blue Toning, Osmo Purple Shampoo, Osmo Blue Shampoo, Moroccanoil Purple Shampoo, Indola Pigmented Masks, Olaplex Colour Bombs (Made by me) Maria Nila Pigmented Colour Masks

The reason being is ‘toning’ is not restricted to our blonde clients and ill explain why. Bleach is not a colour Bleaching is a tool that we use to take colour, or pigment, out of the hair. The professional term is a 'pre-lightener'. During this process, your stylist is pulling the pigment from the hair, stripping away the colour but never adding any colour. ‘lightener’ isn’t a colour or a tone. It’s a raw cuticle that is open and if it’s not closed and the pH of the hair isn’t balanced, it can create damage and split ends over time. Lightener leaves the hair yellow, a little orange and sometimes white. Even if you do love the colour it is, it needs to be toned with clear to close the cuticle. Toning is when the colour is added Your final colour comes from the toning process. You can go anywhere with a toner. On blondes, cooler toner makes the colour more silvery and warmer toner makes it more coppery. Toning is the most important part of the colour process. It's not just for blondes Contrary to popular belief, toners are not just used for achieving blonde shades, but are also a must for redheads and brunettes. At-home, pigmented masks can be used to ensure the hair stays glossy and healthy between salon appointments Toners aren't just for colour, but shine too Toners don't just add colour to the hair. Toners can add shine to natural hair and won't affect the colour. By reflecting the light, they give the hair a super glossy varnish-like effect which we call 'glossing'." Ask in salon for a hair gloss. Toning doesn't last Depending on your hair type, toner can last between three-to-six weeks. The general rule of thumb is that previously coloured hair which is more porous will hold colour for less time than natural or 'virgin' hair, which can hold colour for up to six weeks." This leads us too Why a rebooking schedule so important Recommend come in every 4-5 weeks for a bleach retouch. If you wait any longer than 5 weeks, your service changes from a simple root touch up to a colour correction. This is because when you have too much new growth, you can create ‘hot roots’ due to the heat of your head causing the hair closest to the root to process quicker than the rest. ‘heat band’

The heat band is about a 1 inch section of hair growing from the scalp which is heated by the warmth of your scalp. If you leave your colour any more than 6 weeks it is incredibly hard to get a nice clean lift, no its not impossible but it requires more product, different application method and costs more. Some of you may have come across banding in your hair before. Where the roots are quite clean (blonde) then anything after this heat band region is warmer and hasn’t lifted as well