Comments on: Hair Color Hacks – Tricks To Color Your Roots http://thebeautybrains.com/2008/04/22/hair-color-hacks-tricks-to-color-your-roots/ Cosmetic chemists answer your beauty product questions! We are a group of cosmetic scientists who understand what the chemicals used in cosmetics really do, how products are tested, and what all the advertising means. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:20:37 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Kathryn http://thebeautybrains.com/2008/04/22/hair-color-hacks-tricks-to-color-your-roots/comment-page-1/#comment-41051 Kathryn Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:26:05 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2008/04/22/hair-color-hacks-tricks-to-color-your-roots/#comment-41051 I have read and been told by colorists that you can put 20 volume peroxide, available at beauty supply stores or the roots for ten minutes, rinse it out well, dry the hair and proceed. Also, you can make up the hair color with 20 vol developer (buy the color at the store, too, instead of a box to make sure). Some box colors just aren't strong enough. I love the box color everywhere except my temples, which either don't take or wash out as if they were just demi- or semipermanent.I am having some luck right now with Robert Craig colors which claim to be peroxide free, but actually aren't--when you add water peroxide is formed. I have read and been told by colorists that you can put 20 volume peroxide, available at beauty supply stores or the roots for ten minutes, rinse it out well, dry the hair and proceed. Also, you can make up the hair color with 20 vol developer (buy the color at the store, too, instead of a box to make sure). Some box colors just aren’t strong enough. I love the box color everywhere except my temples, which either don’t take or wash out as if they were just demi- or semipermanent.I am having some luck right now with Robert Craig colors which claim to be peroxide free, but actually aren’t–when you add water peroxide is formed.

]]> By: nikki http://thebeautybrains.com/2008/04/22/hair-color-hacks-tricks-to-color-your-roots/comment-page-1/#comment-39867 nikki Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:47:34 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2008/04/22/hair-color-hacks-tricks-to-color-your-roots/#comment-39867 This is a very smart column, but I was searching for an answer to a questions I have yet to find...and I don't know if this comes too late in this stream, but here goes: I am graying "flaxen" which is silky, shiny and was impossible to color. Pre-flaxen, I used products like Feria, and ONLY ever colored re-growth, but now my brands don't work...and, to the extent they "take", they disappear with washings as if they're semi-permanent (although they're called "permanent".) So, I tried the root touch-up products...and voila!! not 100% but considerably better coverage at a faster pace! In fact, now I only need to do my roots every 3-4 weeks because the color lasts. BUT now my roots are getting dried and damaged (which never resulted from Feria or the like.) Given what's offered above, these events lead me to believe that these new root products are stronger -- because they both take better and are destroying my hair. Yet, these root products are not advertised as being more potent, and I can't find anything to this effect in my research. Does anyone know? This is a very smart column, but I was searching for an answer to a questions I have yet to find…and I don’t know if this comes too late in this stream, but here goes:
I am graying “flaxen” which is silky, shiny and was impossible to color. Pre-flaxen, I used products like Feria, and ONLY ever colored re-growth, but now my brands don’t work…and, to the extent they “take”, they disappear with washings as if they’re semi-permanent (although they’re called “permanent”.) So, I tried the root touch-up products…and voila!! not 100% but considerably better coverage at a faster pace! In fact, now I only need to do my roots every 3-4 weeks because the color lasts. BUT now my roots are getting dried and damaged (which never resulted from Feria or the like.) Given what’s offered above, these events lead me to believe that these new root products are stronger — because they both take better and are destroying my hair. Yet, these root products are not advertised as being more potent, and I can’t find anything to this effect in my research. Does anyone know?

]]> By: anactoria http://thebeautybrains.com/2008/04/22/hair-color-hacks-tricks-to-color-your-roots/comment-page-1/#comment-26595 anactoria Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:22:54 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2008/04/22/hair-color-hacks-tricks-to-color-your-roots/#comment-26595 Since I henna my hair, doing my roots is not a problem, save for actually /doing/ them. But I recall colouring my hair purple years ago. I don't know what the packets* had in them but they stained my hair (and clothes) like nothing else. Gorgeous colour. Sort of a purply pomegranate. It really suited my colouring! Anyway, they changed their formula and, I found out the hard way, it just -stopped- working on me. I found this out when I coloured my hair and ONLY my roots were purple. The rest was untouched. I had to give up the shade then. I really miss it! (*Disclaimer that these packets weren't typical two step hair colour, but rather some sort of stain.) Since I henna my hair, doing my roots is not a problem, save for actually /doing/ them. But I recall colouring my hair purple years ago. I don’t know what the packets* had in them but they stained my hair (and clothes) like nothing else. Gorgeous colour. Sort of a purply pomegranate. It really suited my colouring!

Anyway, they changed their formula and, I found out the hard way, it just -stopped- working on me. I found this out when I coloured my hair and ONLY my roots were purple. The rest was untouched. I had to give up the shade then. I really miss it!

(*Disclaimer that these packets weren’t typical two step hair colour, but rather some sort of stain.)

]]> By: Courtney http://thebeautybrains.com/2008/04/22/hair-color-hacks-tricks-to-color-your-roots/comment-page-1/#comment-26592 Courtney Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:24:17 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2008/04/22/hair-color-hacks-tricks-to-color-your-roots/#comment-26592 I usually do the "root application" technique when I color my hair at home. It should be listed in the instructions. You put the color only on the roots, leave it on for more than half the time, then for the last 10-15 minutes, comb it through the rest of the hair. This has worked great for my blond hair, which tends to get too light on the ends. I usually do the “root application” technique when I color my hair at home. It should be listed in the instructions. You put the color only on the roots, leave it on for more than half the time, then for the last 10-15 minutes, comb it through the rest of the hair. This has worked great for my blond hair, which tends to get too light on the ends.

]]> By: dr. melba http://thebeautybrains.com/2008/04/22/hair-color-hacks-tricks-to-color-your-roots/comment-page-1/#comment-26575 dr. melba Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:24:25 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2008/04/22/hair-color-hacks-tricks-to-color-your-roots/#comment-26575 This always happens to me- either at a Salon, Or at Home. What I do now after colouring, I use a second process like Clairol's ''Root touch up kit" or Revlon's version... I use that on the roots and it darkens it enough to look natural, and not two-toned. Plus the handy applicator bottle is just enough dye for the roots. If I'm at a Salon, I raise holy hell and let them know that I am paying for them to NOT do this, and they usually fix it. Good Luck. Best, Dr. Melba This always happens to me- either at a Salon, Or at Home.
What I do now after colouring, I use a second process like Clairol’s ”Root touch up kit” or
Revlon’s version… I use that on the roots and it darkens it enough to look natural, and not two-toned. Plus the handy applicator bottle is just enough dye for the roots.
If I’m at a Salon, I raise holy hell and let them know that I am paying for them to NOT do this, and they usually fix it.

Good Luck.
Best,
Dr. Melba

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