In this blog, we will explain why certain colour choices might work against you as well as how to make your hair—and you—look completely rich instead.
- Your hair colour deviates too far from its natural hue.
It will be very obvious if you have natural light brown hair that has been coloured a solid, unnatural-looking shade of blue-black. Although you may go darker, you must choose the appropriate hue (for instance, a deep chestnut brown rather than a blue-black) so it doesn’t appear fake and forced. However, while colouring your hair, the most essential thing to do is to match your natural hue as closely as possible and only go between one to two colours darker or lighter.
- You overdid the highlights, making them appear artificial rather than sun-induced.
Highlights are intended to accomplish exactly that—highlight—so that your hair shines, has depth and dimension and draws attention to your skin tone and facial characteristics. When you over-highlight your entire head or go too light, they will not only look fake as soon as you leave the salon but also the demarcation lines near your roots will be more pronounced as the highlighted pieces grow out. Highlights are meant to appear as though they were caused by the sun. Ask your stylist for a beautiful mix of highlights through your hair so it grows softer to get a natural appearance and seamless grow-out phase. Or ask for balayage (when a colourist handpaints the highlights) rather than foils (where strands are folded up into aluminum foil sheets). The closer the colour is applied to your root, the softer and more blended the demarcation line is as your hair grows out. This is why it is well believed that the overall appearance of the balayage technique is more natural. Additionally, with foils, the bleaching is only administered to the hair that enters inside the foils, but with balayage, the bleach is applied to adjacent hairs as it is painted on, resulting in a more diffused and blended look.
- You requested a few very chunky highlights, and got tiger stripes now.
If you want your highlights to stand out with more contrast, speak with your colourist about using the veining method, which enables the thicknesses to be mixed up which makes highlights thinner towards the root and thicker at the ends. This produces a very clear highlighting effect while maintaining a natural-looking finished results
- You self-dyed your roots and went too dark; as a result, your hairline now resembles shoe shine.
The hairs around the hairline tend to be finer than the rest of your hair, thus, the hairs near your hairline tend to absorb hair colour faster and might seem darker. Therefore, choose a second box colour that is approximately one lighter shade for the face-framing pieces and match your natural colour as closely as you can for the overall shade, whether you’re covering greys, simply wish to richen working your natural colour, or altering your hue entirely and going a little darker.
- When picking your hair colour, you completely disregard your skin tone.
Sure, you could simply choose a colour for your hair without considering anything, but if you consider your skin tone, the highlights will appear more natural and match your skin complexion better. Even before choosing a box dye, schedule a consultation with your colourist to have an idea of all your colour selections depending on your skin tone, eye colour, and brow colour. No one understands what looks best for your hair colouring like an expert.
- Your complete head of hair has been dyed with the same hue.
Your hair colour may appear flat if you consistently dye it the same hue, such as a dark brown all over. Given how porous and rapidly your hair can absorb colour, it can even cause your hair’s ends to become a deeper shade—like black—without your knowledge. It is advisable to begin from the back of your head rather than the front when applying hair colour to ensure that you generate depth and dimension, even if you’re just using one colour. If you dye starting from your hairline, it will sit on the thinner face framing pieces longer and absorb more colour. If your hairline has a couple of stray greys, do not touch them with colour until the last five minutes before you have to rinse out the dye, otherwise they will absorb too much dye. The darkest part of your hair is supposed to be located in the back, since the sun typically bleaches out and lightens your hairline, which innately leaves the hair toward your crown darker.
- Every time you colour your hair, you colour it completely from roots to ends.
If there is regrowth, you should only apply colour to the roots, gently blending it into the remaining hair about an inch or so beyond the regrowth. If you consistently apply colour from root to end, the outcome is that your mid-shaft and ends will continue to become darker and darker and eventually appear overly heavy. Make sure your colourist doesn’t apply the full length of your strands with bleach every time you have a touch-up when it comes to highlights. Because hair ends gradually get more damaged and excessively light, which makes the tips appear lifeless and dull as well as causes them to fade more quickly than the rest of your hair.
- Your dark hair became orange after bleaching.
A professional colourist is required while attempting to transition from a very dark to a very light hair colour. This is since box colour can’t completely lift dark pigment from our strands. Additionally, a colourist at the salon will be familiar with the precise quantity of peroxide required (as well as how long to keep it on for) in order to have your natural colour beyond the orange stage. A colourist can determine the specific amount of peroxide to use to get the desired colour and take into consideration how damaged the hair is, something you cannot do when doing it yourself.
- Your blonde has turned into a single solid hue, making it seem phony.
Blonde hair should always have depth and dimension as it will make the blonde hair appear more natural. It’s a good blending of both dark and light tones that will leave the blonde hair with lovely Gisele Bündchen-like colour, but you should not overdo highlights and must balance out blonde hair with some dark lowlights too.
- Your blonde becomes brassy, orange, or grey.
Orange-coloured highlights usually result from using an at-home all-over blonde kit that doesn’t contain enough peroxide to completely extract the pigment within your hair as a colour professional can do it at the salon. Blondes may also appear grey on the hair ends as a result of toner build-up from repeated colouring sessions. Ask your hairstylist to use less toner just on the ends of your hair and to maintain your blond one level lighter beyond where you desire it to be to prevent this.
- Your hair is breaking off and in a complete mess since you’ve been so colour-crazy for so long.
Stop dyeing your hair in just four words. Then, apply a very hydrating treatment mask a few times each week to help repair the hair damage and keep strands supple. For further suggestions on how to restore the health of your hair, it is advisable to speak with a colourist. Ask your colourist to go darker and only deposit colour if you absolutely must change your colour; this is far gentler on your hair than going lighter that requires using bleach.
- Your hair has been coloured in a rainbow-inspired colours layer by layer
It is advisable against applying too many colours at once if you’re doing it yourself. That’s because not every shade is colour matched. Talking to a colour professional who is familiar with the colour wheel chart is best, particularly when you want something with a lot of different shades. Your safest bet is to stick to just one hue if you desire to go, say, pink, purple, or blue. also keep in mind this tip: Keep the hairline lighter as well as closer to your real colour, and concentrate the vibrant colour toward the ends.
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