Hair coloring dates back at least to the ancient Romans, and many companies have used herbal solutions for hair dyeing. Modern Hair Color began in 1909 when a French chemist came up with the first commercial hair color.

What color?

The color is a complex issue, but things the way the light reflected from ITA pigments. Change or the pigment or the type of light, and change the color we see. There are two main types of color: red-yellow (warm) and red-blue (soft tone).

How do I know what kind of color I have?

1. If you have:

· Ivory complexion, peach, cream beige, brown or dark copper color, and

 · Your eyes are blue, blue-green, hazel, green, orange or brown

warm color and then have to choose a warm color hair (with shades or red, gold or honey brown, copper or mahogany).

2. If you have:

A complexion · pink or beige, brown, olive, dark brown or ebony

 · Your eyes are blue or dark green, dark brown or black

cold and then you should choose a shadow color cool hair (highlights of burgundy, ash or platinum blond brown, dark brown, black, gray or white).

What hair?

Hair is a tree, see, and the root, which is under the skin in a follicle (small holes). The tree is dead. Part of life is that the follicle cells and some have just left it at the base of the tree. Thus, the hair grows from of dividing cells at its base, making the cure and the development of pigment. In general, each of our hair grows about ½ inch per month and the life of 3 to 5 years.

Hair is made of keratin, the same Thata of protein in our skin and nails, plus a few other proteins, and a pigment called melanin. There are two types of melanin: eumelanin (brown to black tones) and pheomelanin (yellow ginger-blond and red).

What are the ingredients of permanent hair color?

There are two major ammonia and hydrogen peroxide. Ammonia opens the hair cuticle so color molecules can enter. Hydrogen peroxide bleaching of hair so that you can add new color to create the desired color. Some colors are permanent with the ingredients more natural than others, but probably still some synthetic chemicals.

How is the hair color has changed?

The hair shaft is like a tube. The outer cuticle and within the crust with the pigment. Any color applied passes through the cuticle of the cortex, but not may or may not interact with the natural pigment.

If you have dark hair and want more light, not 2 steps: (1) the color is bleached and (2) the following new color

If your hair colored darker and wants only step (2) is necessary.

The hair coloring is thinking in 3 levels, based in the length of the stain.

 · Level 1, hair color semi-permanent – color molecules are very small. They go through the cuticle hair to the cortex where is your natural color, but Dona't interact with the natural pigment. Because very small theyÂ're leave the hair more easily and if this level isnÂ't Permanent staining. It lasts until 6 to 12 shampoos. Also, do not rinse the hair, because there is no peroxide or ammonia present. Nor does it cover more than 50% gray.

 · Level 2, semi-permanent color hair – color molecules are still very small and passing through the cortex. Here, they combine to form larger molecules. Therefore, washing Dona't faster, lasting through a couple dozen shampoos. This type stain contains peroxide, allowing it to lighten the natural shade and subtle blend better with the current gray.

 · Level 3 permanent hair color – De New, small molecules penetrate the bark but this time to respond to natural molecules and expand to a size too large to be removed. Ammonia and peroxide are both used, so that the hair is first lightened, and then stained with the desired color. Since the final shade is a color combination of your natural color added, which is unique to you.

A "hair color has become so popular because Italy is so easy to customize, Â" Jacquelyn said, the office manager at Salon Cabochon in Sacramento, California. A "and many more men have discovered the pleasure of your hair color change from time to time. I mean, But why pay attention to cut and style? Why not be creative with color, too? Â »

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