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3 Step Colour Consultation

Every new customer should be encouraged to have a full colour consultation, whether they are looking for a different hair colour ...

Absorption and Reflection

Subtractive colour is created by the destruction of certain colours, for example a piece of yellow cheese only looks yellow to u ...

Allergies

A background knowledge of allergies, how they develop, why they develop and what to look for, will enable salon employees to pre ...

Applying Colour Products

The method of applying a hair colouring product will vary depending on the desired effect, product used and hair type. There are ...

Artificial Pigments

Developed Pigments All semi-permanent hair colours contain developed pigments (see image General Ingredients in Semi-Permane ...

Behaviour of Melanin

Eumelanin (dark grey/brown) can be broken down far easier than the red/yellow pheomelanin pigments. Eumelanin pigments are large ...

Bleaching

Bleaching (bibliography 1) involves partial or complete de-colouring of the existing natural melanin content of the hair. The mo ...

Blonde Products

Bleach Bleach does not technically colour the hair but removes existing colour to create a lighter result (see image The Influe ...

Breakdown of Components

(see image General Ingredients found in Permanent Colour) Some colour-building chemicals are found in semi-permanent products, ...

Colour Consultation Checklist

In order for a colour consultation and treatment to be successful, the following procedures should take place: A clear assessme ...

Colour Psychology

Colour has a huge impact on our everyday life experience. Chromatic Colours Red Red is seen as a positive, energising, emotio ...

Colouring Porous Hair

Care in the context of colouring hair usually refers to condition of the hair. Chemical over-processing, sun exposure and health ...

Colouring Product Differences

The modern hairdressing salon today should have all the necessary tools and knowledge required in order to create, with the occa ...

Combining Form and Colour

Special guidelines apply where tinted or coloured, bleached or highlifted hair is concerned. The use of colour in formed hair ...

Dealing with Colour Correction

There are two important areas to consider when a colour correction becomes necessary or is requested. The first is how to deal w ...

Demi-Permanent Colour

The term demi-permanent refers to a relatively new range of colouring products that combine permanent and semi-permanent technol ...

How Do We See Colour?

Human vision relies on light-sensitive cells found within the retina of the eye. There are two types of sensor: rods and cones. ...

Key Elements for Selling Colour

There are a number of key elements crucial to the process of convincing a customer to have their hair coloured: High-quality, t ...

Mixing Colour

Hair colouring products should always be prepared after a client analysis and with due consideration of hair care procedures. Fo ...

Mixing Peroxide with a Colouring Cream

The process of mixing, for example 50 grams of hydrogen peroxide with 50 grams of colouring cream, will dilute the strength of t ...

Images

	Beneficial Effects of Combining Care & Colour Products
	Colour Compensation on Partial White Hair
	Colour Wheel
	Colouring and Blending White Hair
	General Ingredients found in Permanent Colour
	General Ingredients in Semi-Permanent Colour
	Hair Colour Type Comparisons
	Mixing Primary Colours
	Product Penetration: Semi-Permanent versus Oxidative Colour
	Schwarzkopf Professional Colour Levels
	Schwarzkopf Professional Colour Wheel
	Shade Level versus Development Time for Natural/White Hair
	Step-by-Step Hair Techniques
	The Effect of Artificial Pigment on Different Hair Diameters
	The Effect of Light Refraction on a Black or White Surface
	The Effect of White Light Refracted Through a Prism