Hair Coloring at Home. Do It like an Expert!

Hair coloring is a procedure that almost every woman is au fait with. Even if we don’t want to drastically change the color of our hair, we frequently want to jazz up our natural hair shade a little bit by choosing a hair dye that is similar in color to our own hair. Indeed, colored hair looks marvelous. Luckily, we can help this effect last longer if the dyeing procedure was carried out in the right way and when we treat colored hair appropriately. If you want to learn all the secrets of perfectly conduced hair dyeing at home, feel free to read the article.

How Does Hair Dyeing Work?

How is it possible that hair changes its color and this state lasts really long? It’s all possible thanks to keratin cuticles that each hair has on its surface. They can’t be spotted with the naked eye, but it happens that you can feel them by running your fingers from the hair end upwards. If you can sense a kind of roughness this means that your hair cuticles are risen significantly.

The layer of cuticles protects hair against damage, toxins, UV radiation and water loss. When you decide to change your hair color, this cuticle layer must let dye molecules get into the hair inner structures. In order to help the cuticles rise and make room for the dye, ammoniac is added to hair dyes. This substance reaction is basic which significantly facilitates hair dyeing by making the color penetrate deep into the inner hair structures.

How to Get Hair Ready for Coloring?

Many professional hair stylists, while making arrangements with their clients for the hair dyeing treatment, suggest to get hair well-moisturized in more or less 2 weeks before the procedure. Ammoniac, which most hair dyes feature, contribute to hair dehydration. Hence, if you don’t want your strands to lose water and worsen their condition, keep applying moisturizing masks, conditioners and herbal waters in few weeks before hair dyeing. Basically, if you wish to replenish your hair with moisture, reach for humectants. They are substances able to bind and preserving water molecules. Therefore, choose hair cosmetics that contain glycerin, honey, panthenol, aloe and urea.

Before applying a hair dye, it’s worth realizing that, in most cases, this is dry hair that the color should be applied to. Also, it would be best if the hair was slightly greasy. This natural oil, also known as sebum, provides a natural protection that simultaneously facilitates colorization.

How to Dye Hair at Home. Step by Step Tutorial

1. Prepare the following items: a towel/a styling cape, disposable rubber gloves, a plastic hair cap, a rich cream, cotton pads and a make-up remover lotion.
2. Put on some clothing that you don’t longer wear regularly; some old clothes you won’t be sorry to throw away in case of staining them with a dye.
3. Coat your shoulders either with a towel or a styling cape.
4. Mix the substances a hair dye package contains. Also, spear some time to read the instructions thoroughly.
5. Comb the hair. Use a rich oil to coat hairline skin (forehead, behind the ears area, neck). This will protect your skin against coloring. Also, the cream layer will help you remove the dye way easier.
6. Start coating your hair with the dye. Surprisingly, the tool that significantly facilitates the application is… a toothbrush. Keep putting on the dye strand by strand, starting from the roots by distributing the product to the very hair ends. If the excess of dye stains your skin, immediately reach for a cotton pad damp with a make-up remover lotion.
7. When you managed to coat the hair evenly, put on a plastic hair cap and let the dye sit for as long as the producer indicates on the flayer. Don’t you ever let the dye sit longer than needed because the color of the dye might change its shade; also this may affect hair badly.
8. Before rinsing the dye off, massage it delicately into the hair. It’s a good idea to damp the gloves before messaging so as to soften the dye clots and facilitate their removal.
9. Now it’s time to remove the dye. Use lukewarm water for the procedure. Keep rinsing the dye until you notice that the water dripping from your hair is clean.
10. REMEMBER! If you want to camouflage the roots only, you need to coat them with the dye first. Wait a few minutes and then coat the remaining length of hair with the dye.

How to Take Care of Dyed Hair After Coloring?

Proper colored hair care can reduce damages and might help stay the color true for definitely longer. How to do it?

Post-Dyeing Hair Washing

It would be best if you refrained from washing your just-dyed hair for 48 hours. Thanks to this, the color is supposed to stay on your hair longer because the dye molecules have more time to build in the hair structure. Moreover, use cool water for the last rinsing off. It will help close the cuticles and make the applied color hold longer. It’s worth realizing that cool water doesn’t only help the color stay longer on hair but also it helps locking in the nourishing substances that penetrate hair both while washing and conditioning with a balm.

Cosmetics for Dyed Hair

Dyed hair, apart from regenerating and conditioning substances, needs agents that take care of the color and prevent its fading. Therefore, to pamper colored hair, use special cosmetic series that are dedicated to dyed hair in particular. If you care for hair straightening, reach for a keratin shampoo. It will fill in all the gaps that appeared on your hair structures. Moreover, treating dyed strands with a matching conditioner and hair mask is also important. Best, if you manage to find the most natural cosmetics possible, the ones which are free from comedogenic substances such as SLS.

Last but not least, colored hair should obtain the best care possible. For that reason, it’s a good idea to get a high quality hair oil and apply it to strands at least once a week. Owing to this, hair is expected not to get frizzy as the color isn’t supposed to fade away. Moreover, hair oils also take care of the scalp and prevent dehydrated hair ends. It’s worth realizing that right after the dyeing procedure, hair might change their porosity level. In the light of this, look for oils designed either for high or medium porosity hair.