Colour Process Part 1

The history of your hair is bascially all those dye jobs you have had done from the root to the the ends of your hair. If you have a short pixie crop, then lucky you, as your hair is around 3-4 months old, and will most likely lift to the colour you desire. However for those of you who have a little longer hair, or "down to the small of your back" long hair, like me, then that 6 years of past dye jobs becomes quite relevent in making the plan for your blonde ambitions.

The easiest hair to dye of course is virgin hair and the majority of virgin hair will lift easily, bare in mind some types of hair will take a little longer, like thick dark hair. If you have dyed your hair with permanent hair colour like a black, dark brown or red, you have to expect that these colours will make appearance in your hair lightening journey.

In summary- The history of your hair will determine how much lift (if any) you can achieve.

Until the lightener is applied it is hard to determine how many levels of lift can be achieved in one sitting.

Anytime you go lighter you WILL see warmth.

The reason behind this is whenever we are lightening our hair depending on what level we start with we expose our NATURAL undertone exposing red, orange or yellow.

If you are naturally dark your undertone is red.

· If you are naturally light brown to dark blonde your undertone is orange.

· If you are light blonde your natural undertone is yellow.

Undertones are the colours you have to go through before getting to a ‘pale yellow’ colour.

Now not everyone can achieve this level of lightness.

Only a small percentage of people can get to white without a toner or without damaging their hair.

The condition, texture and elasticity of your hair plus home haircare products used will determine whether you can achieve a healthy, lighter colour. Some people have hair that is so fragile they cannot lighten it at all without breakage.

Tips:

"It is always best to get an intensive repairing hair treatment in the salon after bleaching your hair and opt to have Olaplex added to the bleach mixture so that less damaged is caused.

In the following months you need to put proteins back into the hair to help improve the hair's condition. Proteins are essential to rebuilding the structure of the hair and using protein-enriched products can reduce hair breakages up to 75%. Buy a specific mask for dry, damaged, over-processed hair”