Experienced hairdressers easily navigate hair shades and dye palettes that sometimes include more than a hundred nuances. What enables them to accurately determine hair color — cosmetic or natural? Special skills and… knowledge, of course.

Mixtones are an essential addition to a hairdresser’s color palette. They can be used to create new color nuances, prevent and neutralize unwanted tones, as well as enhance color intensity or soften the shade.

Decapitation (color removal), blonding, and hair lightening — let’s try to understand how these concepts differ from one another.

The trend for blonde hair never goes out of style. Wheat, caramel, platinum, ash — all are popular and desirable shades. Description, guidelines, stages, and tips for hair blonding.

In cases where hair graying occurs unevenly, simply dyeing the hair will not result in an even, beautiful color. This requires a special procedure known as pre-pigmentation.

The lower the percentage of the oxidizing agent, the richer the color; the higher the percentage, the lighter the shade — but at the expense of color intensity. Let’s take a look at the process of coloring natural hair through diagrams.

Overspending on dye and, as a result, an excessively high service price, or excessive saving and a poor-quality result? Unfortunately, both lead to a serious business problem — the loss of clients.

The hidden pitfalls of “gentle” hair dyes. What you need to know to avoid causing damage.