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Summary: Learn how to cover gray hair with dye in this free hair care video clip on beauty and fashion.
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Amelia Smith Amelia Smith has been styling all types of hair for about 10 years now. She currently provides her services as a hair stylist at the Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & F... read more
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Questions & AnswersHi, I'm Amelia and on behalf of Expert Village, I'll be talking to you about understanding the laws of hair color. The biggest mistake I see women make as far as grey coverage goes is they don't take into consideration how much grey they have. As we age, of course, more grey appears. So, your color really needs to change over time. The color that you used when you were thirty is not going to be the same color that you use when you're fifty-five. Always make sure that whenever you're choosing a good color for grey coverage, that you're going to stick with an N series. You don't want to put just a straight red on, or you'll have pink hair. And if you put just a straight ash on, then you're going to have green hair. The N has all three of the colors that are in the color wheel. It's got the red, it's got the yellow, and it's got the blue. And those three primaries are what make up the brown. Grey hair is absent of color, so you need those three primaries together in order to cover that grey. Whenever choosing, you're figuring out how much grey you have, it's good to have some little grey swatches like this. They're a little hard to come by, but I'm just going to show you. This is what about twenty-five percent grey looks like. You see it's peppered throughout. And then you start to get into the seventy-five percent and then see, you've got a little bit more white than you do dark. And then of course, when you're ninety percent, you're mostly white. So if you've got, only maybe five or ten grey hairs on your head, you can get away with a semi-permanent. If you've got grey maybe through most of the front, but not so much in the back, you could use a permanent on the front, and a semi on the back. If you're kind of white all over, you're going to want to go with a heavy duty grey coverage color. The Clairol, in the box colors, box colors that you can get at the drugstore, grocery store, they've got some great grey coverage now that is specifically for grey hair. So it's got a double dose of pigment, so it's really going to get in there and cover that grey. Grey hair also tends to be a lot more coarse, and I'm sure we've all noticed those grey hairs that kind of stick out of your head after you've done styling your hair, and this grey hair you can't tame. The best way to tame it would be to color it. Because once you color it, that cuticle softens and makes that hair more pliable. Now let's say you choose to stay grey, and you want to grow old gracefully and just have grey beautiful silver hair. The best way to take care of that is you want to make sure that you always use moisturizing shampoo. And if you smoke you're going to make sure that you going to want to use a shampoo that's got purple in it that's going to counteract the yellow from the nicotine stains that are going to get on your hair from the smoking. And if you ever want to add like a little bit of silver to your hair, I would suggest going to a salon and they can put like an ash colored toner on it. And that will help bring out that silver tone. But I'm sure we've all seen those blue haired ladies. And those are the ladies who have gone and gotten the box color of ash hair, ash hair color and just put it on, and it ends up turning blue. So, with these tips, you should have no problem covering or caring for your grey hair.
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