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Basic Hair Color Tips for Home Coloring

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If you are going to color your hair at home, you will need some basic hair color tips before you make a mess. Its much easier to plan so you make fewer mistakes! Color disasters happen all the time! Most of us have experienced them unfortunately.

Before you color your hair, you'll need to figure out what your base color is. There is a wide range of natural hair colors levels and you should know yours! If you've been coloring your hair, you should already know what your hair color level is, however if you've been using a box to color your hair, you might not.

If you want to lift your hair color and have a lighter color, you must understand that hair goes through stages of decolorization. You must remove certain colors to achieve the color that you want. On the other hand, if you have lighter hair and want to go darker, you must be careful not to go too dark. That can lead to hair much darker than you intended. Blonde hair grabs color and dark hair colors have very dense color molecules that are hard to remove once their in place.

This video gives you some good basic hair color tips and explains a lot of the basics that most people just don't realize. If you are doing a root to tip color, always be sure to buy enough color to cover it all. There's nothing worse than starting a color and running out. That's happened to a lot of people I know and they had to run back to the store in the middle of coloring their hair. Not good! If you've got really long hair, you may even need 3 bottles of color.

Of course, you will get much better results if you don't buy the hair color in a box. I detest these! As a Cosmetologist for over 17 years, I've seen a lot of really bad results using these! Its much easier and less expensive if you buy colors and developers separately. That way you can really zero in on the colors you want. That's one of the best hair color tips anyone can give you!

More hair color tips to consider depend on the condition of your hair. If your hair is fried or unhealthy, you'll need to do some deep conditioning treatments before you color. Also, if you have frayed ends, you may want to trim your hair before you color. That way the color will distribute more evenly.

If you've ever wanted to learn about coloring your own hair and know more information about it, you can buy my inexpensive hair color ebook which explains a lot! (To learn more about it, follow the link at the bottom of this page.) Lets all have great hair and great hair days together!