Wealden Times | WT188 | October 2017 | Kitchen & Bathroom supplement inside

TIP:
‘If you have to put on
more make-up to make your
only temporarily
new colour work, you’ve picked
brighten or darken.
the wrong shade. The one colour you
Tint may sound like a should absolutely avoid when you’re
subtle colour – but it’s over 40 or 50 is raven black. It will
actually an alternative sap life and colour from your face,’
phrase used by hairdressers says New York haircolourist
to describe permanent colour.
Louis Licari.
Tone-on-tone colour Another
phrase for demi-permanent, see above.
Now you’ve mastered this, get your head around Hair Colour
Level Charts. These are why so many women head for the
salon to have colour done (and that includes me.) There is an
absolutely fiendish universal system for numbering haircolour:
there are 12 levels, with 1 representing black and 12 representing
ultra-light blonde. As a general rule, the first number on the
label of a box of hair colour will tell you the colour level of
that product. However, your own base colour – and where it
falls in that spectrum from 1-12 – will affect the final shade
on you personally. This is why colourists advise that you
don’t stray more than one or two shades lighter or darker
than your current natural haircolour, for optimum results.
But remember: no matter what the language of haircolour, one
picture speaks a thousand words. It’s all very well being able to
speaka da lingo when it comes to knowing your semi-permanents
from your demi-permanents – but, the biggest challenge can
be successfully communicating actual shades and colours to a
colourist. So: you say ‘brown’. Your colourist could be thinking:
anything from milk chocolate to dark chocolate. At
the same time, what’s ‘red’ to you might be pillarbox,
to a colouring professional. (Yikes.) This is where
photographs truly come into their own: brandishing
a cutting torn from a glossy of the colour that you
are hoping for, in front of your hairdresser, can
save an awful lot of confusion. (And, potentially,
tears.) So: keep tearsheets of anyone whose hair
colour you’d love to emulate. You can then
talk through what’s actually achievable and
– crucially – what the upkeep would be.
There has been one incredibly welcome
innovation on the haircolouring front.
Pioneered by
Color Wow, there are quite a few touch-up powders
on the market now. Basically, you brush these onto
roots when regrowth is showing, and they’ll stay
put till you wash your hair again. They can take
a little time to get the hang of, but the compact
has a brush, which you sweep over the powder
and then apply along the parting, working
along the hair shaft rather than ‘painting’
the scalp itself;
Color Wow now have eight
shades, from Platinum Blonde to Black (and
there’s a Red, too), £28.50 at
victoriahealth.com.
And all I can add is: I hope this has helped
you to get your head around the subject…
For more beauty wisdom from
Jo Fairley, visit beautybible.com.
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