Archive for the ‘Hair Color’ Category

Roux Fanci-Full Rinse For Blondes

Posted by Faux Blondes On February 8 2010

For a great looking color and hair, there is a tip to maintain a great color without telltale brassiness in between touch ups and/or coloring one’s hair.
Normally, when you or the hairdresser perform a root touch up color process, you would resort to a toner, semi or demi permanent color to dye the roots [...]

Prevent Blonde Hair Turning Green

Posted by Faux Blondes On January 5 2010

By Nancy Jo, Haircolor Advisor
Not when their blonde hair is green! Here is an easy way to keep your blonde hair from turning green from swimming pools and Jacuzzi water. First of all, lets discuss why it turns green. Hair, and especially blonde hair, is porous and that means thirsty hair. Your thirsty blonde hair [...]

Bleaching Virgin Hair

Posted by Faux Blondes On December 13 2009

by KimmyAKALady_Luna, modified by Faux Blondes
What is ‘virgin hair’? This part is the most important because this focuses on a group of people who have never done this (dyeing and hair coloring) before. Virgin hair technically means that hair that has never been colored or dyed at all. I mean, nada or zippo. If you [...]

The Science of Hair

Posted by Faux Blondes On December 13 2009

By Hair By Design
The active ingredients of the vast majority of hair treatment chemicals raises the pH of the hair so that the structure of the hair can be altered by other ingredients of the treatment. PH is a scale of how acid or alkaline something is. A neutral pH on this scale is “7″. [...]

Highlights & Lowlights

Posted by Faux Blondes On December 13 2009

Known as “frosting” in hey days, highlighting mainly can be done with either highlight cap or foils. Both are different but have similar results. Most salons choose highlighting method for better distribution of color or bleach, add dimension to one color hair and less prone to breakage. Highlight cap is a plastic cap that has [...]