Hair Color Woes & Fixes

Common hair color mistakes are, well, just too common.

Most problems come from overdoing it. Change your color too often, combine color with perms or straighteners or make extreme color changes, and you're making hay.

• Hair Woe: Common hair color mistakes are well, now too common. Most problems come from exaggeration it. Change your color too frequently, combine color with perms or straighteners or make very color changes and you are making hay. If your color is all wrong or too-dark,  put in this quick fix.
• Fast Fix: Use small amount of shampoo, preferably, a cleansing product or one that removes build-up. Two ounces of 20-volume stable peroxide,This is not the hydrogen peroxide you cleanse cuts with, it is specially for using with color and is sold in beauty supply stores. Powdered bleach—1/4 ladle.
• Using an applicator bottle or bowl and brush, carefully apply the mixture to color gone wrong as you watch in the mirror. The moment the mixture changes color (about 5 minutes), rinse well. 
• If you have the opposite problem, hair that hasn't lightened sufficient, also your hair is too dark to go blonde in a single step or your product and timing was off. Whenever you go from light to dark or vice versa.
• Hair Woe: In summer season women's hair color too brassy/harsh and sometime hair's too limp.
• Fast Fix: Try a clarifying shampoo. Chances are, you spent lots of time in brine and chlorine this summer, both stuffs can build up on your hair, weighing it down and causing limpness.
• Add to that the products you use to domestic your hair in summer like hair spray, pomade, wax, silicone serum and your strands are being practically smothered.
• A clarifying shampoo strips off all that build up, leaving hair free to rebound and giving it back its natural body.
• Use a toner. The sun and chlorine can take your once-gorgeous highlights from a honey fair-haired to a brassy orange in no time flat.
• To tone down that orangey, brassy hue, use a toner, found at beauty supply stores. The ingredients in hair toner really reduce brassiness or head to your colorist for a touch up.