Comments on: Hair Color Hacks – Tricks To Color Your Roots

By: Bonnie Steen

Bonnie Steen — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:47:40 +0000

My name is Bonnie Steen, and my product, “Roots Only”, is a hair color applicator comb designed specifically to apply hair color solution to new growth, leaving already colored hair free from solution. The hollow teeth allow the solution to reach the scalp first. You just comb and squeeze. You are finished with the coloring application in less than 5 minutes…with professional results. Go to http://www.rootsonly.com for more information.

By: Amber

Amber — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:07:49 +0000

loven tha hair its pretty but thanks for the tip on tha hair dye;D

By: enid

enid — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:39:25 +0000

i have my color done professionally every 4 weeks…. the roots get a touch up. but after 2 weeks i see the regrowth….so…..what i do is get loving care…and just color the roots on top and sides around my face. no were else. the rest doensn’t show because my hair is really long. i have not had a problem…. and loving care is not permanent. what i have put on my hair at the salon is goldwell the regular full strength color for a root touch up and every few months she uses Courance…sp? wich is a color wash. just a trasparent was of color that isn’t hard on my hair…it makes it so silky and shiney. and smooth. i have course thick hair and this makes me hair perfect.

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:26:05 +0000

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

nikki — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:47:34 +0000

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?