Color Correction & Achieving the Perfect Color

There is also a lot of other factors that can alter the outcome of good color service, and hair is different from root to tip more often than not. This needs to be acknowledged and the correct level of peroxide chosen for the different parts of the hair.

Hair that is requiring grey coverage may require 6 to 9% peroxide when old highlights, faded tips and shattered ends may only require 1.5 to 3 percent peroxide. When hair colors are pulled through vs remixing the correct level of peroxide for the ends it finishes in a dry (Damaged) Matt look color. When the right level of peroxide is chosen and mixed the result is glossy healthy hair to finish.

A porosity equalizer otherwise known as a protein spray applied to the drier mid-lengths to ends will help even out the more porous ends and will also help the melanin (color) hold in the hair longer.

PRO TIP: The best color option is often semi-permanent with semi activator in the same color as the permanent color and the color correction re-evaluated and added for the mid-lengths to the ends.

Why Don’t Box Colors Work Well?

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Why do box colors not have a good outcome even if the correct shade is chosen? Box colors actually work differently from salon colors, box colors are a cheap imitation of Salon colors, using firstly and foremostly cheap low-grade ammonia, peroxide, Henna and metallic salts.

Box colors actually adhere to the keratin – rather than infusing the hair with synthetic melanin. This is why they build up and become black on the hair shaft from repeated use rather than giving a nice even color.

Box colors also have a single one-size-fits approach to the peroxide levels (usually 6%) which may work for the roots – but it absolutely destroys the ends which often are already highlighted, porous, shattered or Fragile hence multiplying the damage to the hair.