Why hairdressers hate home hair color

I end up with washed out looking redkin or some other brand colour and ash instead of platinum blonde! My point! Paying Or by a listened person! I do know. Guy Tang has an excellent you tube tutorial on this and explains how and why. So you can have a s hair dresser doing the same thing for all those years! Bare minimum! Not all that graduate have a clue! As a stylist myself, I can relate and agree to everything omg this post…. Also, amateurs are not always knowledgable in choosing the right level of color.

Good points. Some products like Swartzkopf, Clairol No respectable hairstylist claims this as professional and all brands have varying levels of ammonia. The higher the ammonia content the more damaging the product. I personally use an ammonia free, resorcinol free and ppd free formula of professional hair color. I completely agree with Melissa about the metallic box hair colors from Wal-Mart they are completely damaging for your hair. Box color users usually overlap creating a big mess with bands of different porosity and elasticity.

Thank you Nicole for acknowledging that hairstylists are trained and can work miracles with color. Be FAITHFUL to use good quality hair products and the care instructions given by your professional it will save your hair and your relationship with your professional colorist. I am a chemist and work in a lab. I myself use boxed hair dyes with no issues.

Swarzkopf is the best I have used. And FYI professionals use it as well. My stylist loves my hair color. And you can also purchase hair dye from a beauty supply store that the professionals use as well. Which is also a fraction of the cost for going to a salon. Do you do hair still? If so, where? You are the only helpful and not rude person on this post, lol. My hair is healthy and gorgeous. I constantly receive compliments. My color is perfection. It looks natural and healthy. I do not agree with this article.

In your profile picture any professional will tell you from midshaft down, your hair is brassy and needs a toner. Box color lifts 2 shades which means if you are dark blonde, you MAY end up with a very Golden medium blonde at best. The color on the box is showing you what the color looks like on white hair.

Have you ever got a drop of Clorox on black pants? Box color works the same way. I think this is kind of a self serving article for stylists. If you think your hair looks great, awesome… Stick with it. Next time you need surgery… Do it yourself.

Oooh, bitter much? I think someone needs a nap. Yeah Okay. Whatever helps you sleep at night. Looks like I hit home on that one. Happy new year!! Wow and greedy to boot — I think I will trust business insider on this one. Jesus, are you bi-polar?! Good for you. A piece of paper? Just like mine? You sound very unprofessional. By your posts you sound like a very nasty individual and detract from the discussion..

I went to salons for years and years and years….. I was blessed to go to top salons and they did a good job usually it took a few times to get the color just right….. Well times have changed as they so often do and I have had to cut waaayyy back on everything.

I actually have not visited a salon in 9 months! Even cutting my own hair…. I am learning about color ….. I have purchased highlight packets from Sallys several months ago but still hesitant to take that next step. All of this is being said because you are absolutely right ….. Its probably time for me to go get a cut by a professional …. You and those LIKE You are the reason most cosmetologists get a reputation for being rude, catty and un-professional.

No one has said here that stylists have no value. I go to mine for a beautiful haircut and sometimes lowlights and highlights done. As a chemist I myself use Swarzkopf to color my hair and this product is also used at salons. And in conclusion I certainly would not visit your salon. Not care that came afford to spend XYZ go do your hair so tete no need to troll about it. Clearly if paying for box color that is case and no one cares.

This organic color system or professional products are not for you,so keep moving. FYI I always tip at restaurants and also my hairdresser. My hairdresser has also told me that Swarzkopf makes excellent hair products for sale to the public. I often do my base color myself and she does the highlights for me with the products she uses in her salon.

And I had a terrible experience once whilst getting my hair dyed by a Professional. I did tip her and she corrected her mistake and gave me my money back. If you do a great job with your box dyes… Stick with them. They are simply incompatible with one another. The metallic dyes of box color do not remove easily from your hair.

If you get great results with the box… Fine. Color correction is expensive. I am also a fan of entrepreneurs and smaller businesses. No one is perfect. And always communicate. But be advised the metallic salts are NOT good for your hair or your scalp. Its so amazing to see this thread and how stylists rant about how knowledgeable they are on their work , but what i would just love to know is where is all this knowledge and expertise when i sit in that chair of unpredictable, unprofessional terror!!!

I have honestly been going to salons for over fifteen years or more experimenting with different ones, just to see if for once just for once one of them could get it right!!! Without me walking out cringinging my god dam teeth. And yes ive done research , and i told and showed what i want, i told them what i dont want and yet its exactly what i dont want. And no im not a low confident bad tiping customer, actully im quite the opposite because im so god damm willing and optimisic each time i vist a salon.

Hoping that i will walk out and feeling for once that my is well spent. See i dont know where all this knowledge of hair colring goes but ive never seen this expect work in a solon , just hair stylists experimenting on peoples hair thats all. My solution? Jen, I completely understand the frustration. There are, unfortunately, a LOT of really unprofessional and untrained stylists. I look at every opportunity as a challenge to better myself and always improve.

I go to a salon school for my cuts and colors. I speak up! They HAVE to listen to you. Its their job. Even pros I stop them and say something. Even better find the picture you like best of a hair cut and show it to them.

Say exactly what you want even before they begin. Be very clear. Also avoid crappy chain salons! Not that every hair dresser their is bad at their jobs but I find soo many women get scared off by how terrible a job they do.

Great clips in my area is renowned for chopping people hair off badly and unevenly. If they are selling drug store shampoos inside, run away. I have seen, Garnier Fructis, in a salon. I walked away. Also read reviews about your hair salon before you go. See what they say about them. I paid 28 grand to attend 15 months of school to understand the science behind why hair does what it does.

Box color is shit. That means for the woman whos touching up her delicate fine hair naturally light roots the box color is going to treat your hair the same way as thick coarse dark asian hair. Therefore in longevity, leading to overprocessing and multiple layers of pigment overlaid. Lets say this, your box color is applied in a warmer environment, say you live in texas.

Your natural body heat kicks up the color a smidge too much. Your roots turn hot. Not terrible. Just too yellow and too light. Now what? Do you understand the physics behind why that happened? Do you understand how to fix it? Buying another box of color is NOT the answer on this one. This is where the science and understanding that we attend school to become a professional kick in. We are professionals because we personalize color for every individual. For those of you who have gotten away with box color for so long and insist it has always been better, good for you.

Keep layering that hair shredding garbage on it and then when your hair is falling out in 15 years wonder why? Some people can get away with it for so long but I hope you never have any intention of changing anything about your current color because unless you are trained to factor in your natural color, your previous color, your desired tones, how to cancel undesired tones, the integrity from root to end, and can predict the perfect level of lift or deposit, you are going to end up with a ratchet mess.

Last couple of things. Please dont look for the cheap route of going to a professional. Professionals charge based on their value. Sure you can go get a cut and color for 40 bucks but there is a reason it is 40 dollars. That stylist probably does little to no continued education, which lowers his or her value. Dont look for a bargain and expect to walk out with kardashian hair.

Its common sense. Lastly, for the love of god, please dont sit down in my chair, ask me for fire engine red, perfect pastel lavender, or even a beautiful blondette balayage, and go home and wash your hair with some suave bullshit and wonder why your color didnt last. You need to invest in your hair and the money you spent on it.

Unless your okay literally watching it rinse down the drain. No professional product that any stylist in their right mind would guarantee their work with comes from the shelves of walmart or amazon. But no. Rant over. I use box color because of the convenience and cost. I went to a stylist twice for color in the past year and the box color covered my grays better than the stylists who charged my ten times the cost and spent a lot of time.

My hair has a lot of orange undertones and I explained that to one doing highlights for me. She had to lighten past the orange and then add color. Also I use regular grocery store products for shampoo, styling products, etc.

I own a MyMeElos if I want to do light treatment after shaving. I suppose if I won the lottery and could spend a lot of time and money to pay someone and buy better quality products my hair might not be the dunb curly frizball it is with dumb orange tones but most women look just beautiful with box color or salon color. I can tell the ones who go to the salon and buy the fancy makeup and spend a lot on their clothes.

They do look nicer than I do. But I am not going to be like that living on a box color budget. The people I see and know with box colored hair hilarious! In my experience, it did not work at all. I had dyed my hair black with manic panic and used Loreal extreme platinum, and my hair just turned brown.

Hair salons usually do NOT do the best job and doing it yourself ensures it gets done right. Especially black hair color. Color treated hair can only be lightened with bleach. I came across this article while running a plagiarism check for my website. Please properly cite your source. I would link to your website if I wanted to offer your ideas to my readers and I expect the same in return. Keep in mind that your stylist has invested a lot of money. He will have the tone the client brought in.

The three best-known and most important international brands worldwide have scientists in their laboratories working tirelessly to produce the most sophisticated hair dyes with the best results. Of course, the same goes for the pharmaceutical industry that launches specific drugs and generic drugs.

Are they the same thing? It does suffer. Sometimes, even that suffering leads to irreversible damage. To prevent the hair from suffering, stylists continue to train ourselves all our lives by taking courses and seminars to learn all the latest innovations for our beloved clients.

All salons have one or two full color palettes. So, whatever color the client brings, the stylist will have it. On the other hand, the time and dedication from colorists will be the same whether the client brings the hair dye they use one from the salon. Therefore, the cost of the service should be the same. For many women, hairdressing is an agony. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads.

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List of Partners vendors. Home hair coloring can be a scary thing. So scary, in fact, that some people grow up being told never to touch their own hair and to always opt for a salon. However, it's a myth that doing your hair color at home is always bad or dangerous. You just have to go into the experience with a little knowledge.

If you're covering some gray, or want to change your hair one to two shades up or down, or just want to change your tone, you can likely do it at home. Though, there are risks. We chatted with a few of the industry's top hair colorists to uncover what those are. Keep scrolling to learn everything there is to know about box dyes, as well as why you might want to think twice before using one.

Home hair color also known as hair dye or box color can be purchased at your local drug store, beauty supply, or discount store. The color is usually easy to mix with little to no measuring, though, it comes with no options to alter the pigmentation.

The dye itself is typically a more concentrated formulation than salon hair color because the color has to be strong enough to work on anyone's hair. This means the formula is the same, no matter how thin, thick, coarse, dark, light, highlighted, color-treated, or chemically processed your hair is at the time of application.

In other words, box color doesn't discriminate. Mahshid Baghaei, a colorist at NYC-based mizu Louis Licari salon, says "Coloring your hair at home may seem like a good idea due to its potential cost-effectiveness, as well as not having to take a trip to the salon, but keep in mind that this process requires taking fine-grained details into consideration that may not always be recognized by a client's eye.

Meet the Expert. As such, you have to be super mindful of how long you leave it on your hair so as to not end up with a beauty catastrophe. Rob Peetoom, the founder of Dutch salon chain Rob Peetoom , says that going blonde usually stains hair in a totally unexpected way and often turns out dark and brassy.