Hair Dye removal – what do you do?

We have been experiencing many box hair color dye removal requests coming in for emergency help!

BEFORE brassy hair dye from box color

Call us immediately, we can help you find a solution to your box color  hair dye problems. The most popular has been clients that try to do their own blonde hair color dyes resulting in brassy orange or bright banana yellow. Balayage highlights from a box resulting in a digital type looking spotty look and going from blonde hair to brown reds that turn mostly reddishish if that is even a word. Some of our new clients have come in explaining they tried to remove the box color dye without success. It just got worse for them.

Hair color correction is not an easy fix always. May take 20 minutes, may take hours to have multiple applications of remover applied to sections of the hair that may not want to leave the hair. If that is the case, professionally speaking we have to make alternative decisions to give you close to what you want. Tracy Cunningham, Kardashians celebrity hairstylist said it takes an average of 3 months of many highlighting processes to get their dark hair to the prettiest blondes that compliment their skin tone. Pinterest is an awesome source for visuals and we love them but you need to understand that we must consider what you have on your head and try to get you closest to what you like from your pictures. Be realistic and optimistic.

First of all let us address the emotional turmoil that happens when you rinse out your hair and see brassy color that makes your stomach flip. Of course, it’s the morning you decided to have a hair color moment right before you have to go to work. You KNOW you can’t go to work like that but you have to do something. A quick fix….going back to the drug store or local food store scanning the box color aisle trying figure out how to go darker quickly before you punch the clock. You pick the most attractive brunette or look at the color remover depending on how much time you have. To top it off the question always comes up to the cashier, “have you used color remover before?”

After 5 hours hair color removal achieved desired hair color

And here we are another day, happily fixing the box color blunders to save another head of hair without tears. Read about Shannon story.

If you get a chance read more about hair color correction here.

Struggling with fine thin hair?

Night time treatment to thicken hair

Nioxin has introduced their first night treatment clinically proven to promote hair density. Nioxin has taken a skin care approach to the hair care industry. The body’s night regeneration cycles prepares the body to heal. The scientists at Nioxin have developed this night time scalp surface treatment with NIOXYDINE 24 technology designed to build the density of the hair to thicken the strands.

For those of you that struggle with those spots that are starting to thin and veilish, this may be a solution to helping to thicken your hair. Applying the drops to the scalp directly helps penetrate into the root of the hair.

Thin looking hair can be impacted by scalp surface oxidatio. This special ingredient NIOXYDINE 24 contains powerful antioxidants including Vitamin E Acetate, Ginger Root proven to be a antioxidant, Caffeine that hydrates the skin and thickens the outermost layer of the epidermis, reducing roughness and lastly Biotin that targets and neutralizes oxidative damage at teh scalp surface.

The fragrance is light for night time use. It will leave no residue on the pillow and its suitable for all hair types. Nioxin Night Density Rescue is the newest leave-in treatment promotes thickness for fine thin hair. Great for both men and women. Recommended consistent use over 3 months to see results. For more information more information read more from the experts. We carry the Nioxin brand at our George Street location. We also carry Diamax and Diamax Advanced leave in treatments proven to the increase the diameter of fine thin hair strand visibly thicker-looking hair.

BEFORE

Green Rainbow Hair

Rainbow haircolor back natural, what to do?

We have been correcting a lot of haircolor this week at Indulge Salon South George St. To say that we have been busy is an understatement. You would have thought the haircolor bus stopped out on George St and said to all of the passengers, anybody that thinks they have bad hair color – GET OFF and get it fixed. Well, probably most of the bus was left off to visit us. We are very thankful.

The challenges that my rainbow colored clients run into is that they think we can just remove those lemon lime greens, or emerald green, blues, teals, reds, and yellows with one step. Some of these rainbow colors   that don’t want to budge out of the hair easily.

We actually have to do a cleaning process to see if the hair can hold up under the scrutiny of bleach or highlighting products to remove the fabric dye out of the hair. I said it, FABRIC DYE. Most of these colors are not naturally derived and have intense dyes that only show up on pale yellow or pre-lightened to accept the dyes. Our experience is that of an onion, the more we remove those bright colors, the more surprises we see underneath that original bright rainbow color. For example, this client just did her hair by a “friend” The friend did friends work but left it really splotchy and as we started to allow the remover to lift, it went from a emerald green to a teal, to a purplish color. This part can be scary since we really don’t know what is going to emerge. That is why we are professionals and can remove color for you. We can take our clients back to a natural. In some cases, we may have to put pigment back into the hair, we may have to condition if necessary and we may have to reapply in two weeks if they color starts fading due to the client over processing their hair. Once the color is removed, we are left we a raw underlying color that has to be colored either darker or a different tone on the light side. Either way, the color pigments from the rainbow may pop back out to surprise us again during hte coloring process. We may have to fill your hair which is color pigment that we put back in the hair to fill in the gaps similar to filling pot holes in the road. Once we fill the hair, we then have to apply your desired color. You see, this takes time and is not inexpensive.

AFTER

If you want your hair to be any of the rainbow colors, we will have to have a consultation. We will look at what you have and where you want to be. We will talk about the maintenance if you want to keep the colors or eventually fade them out or have them removed altogether. To get the beautiful colors even, we have to take a systematic approach towards getting your perfect end result with the right lighteners and products that will keep your hair healthy. This is not an easy process and can be time consuming.

I know  you guys watch the do-it-yourselfers but truly we end up fixing the

ROOTS GROWN OUT

people who do that. Typically, we will see the hair break off in spots, or the color will be spotty and that is never attractive and the look is not even. The hair color has faded to quickly without the proper coaching on how to maintain the hair.  I know its fun to have all sorts of colors. Its not fun when they all run together into a blob of color. We can usually remedy that mess in about 20 minutes. After we lift off some of that uneven spotty color, we can go from there. If you need help, give us a call. We work as a team to get you where you want to go with your colors.