A problem of colour
Life would be no fun if everything was in black and white, and as such, the market is awash with a whole variety of colours, from coloured sculpting foams straight through to permanent, will not be budged 100% white hair coverage colours. What you will find with all of these colours is that they are best suited to doing certain jobs.
Below I will give you the information you may want to know with a run down of what the product is and does.
Below I will give you the information you may want to know with a run down of what the product is and does.
Indola Colour Mousse - These colours are very good, if a little awkward. The way these work is buy coating the hair, and not penetrating the cuticle, making it ideal for people with virgin hair who want to experiment with colour without having to commit. Also it's very good for fashion colours for special events like red nose day.
You can also use this to keep a red vibrant, or to top up a brown or any colour in between visits to the salon.
Most of the time however, these coloured mousses are used on ladies who come in for a weekly wash and finish and don't touch their hair at home.
The downside to using the colour mousse, is that it stains absolutely everything! From your skin and clothes to ceramic brushes, nothing is safe! So make sure you wear old clothes and protect yourself with an old towel and make sure you wear plastic gloves! Also something that I found works well is methodically apply it section by section as you're styling your hair.
You can also use this to keep a red vibrant, or to top up a brown or any colour in between visits to the salon.
Most of the time however, these coloured mousses are used on ladies who come in for a weekly wash and finish and don't touch their hair at home.
The downside to using the colour mousse, is that it stains absolutely everything! From your skin and clothes to ceramic brushes, nothing is safe! So make sure you wear old clothes and protect yourself with an old towel and make sure you wear plastic gloves! Also something that I found works well is methodically apply it section by section as you're styling your hair.
Wella Colour Fresh - I love Colour Fresh! It's a fabulous colour to use that does more than just colour the hair, it completely nourishes the hair leaving it softer, more manageable, shinier and smelling great!
The beauty of Colour Fresh is the fact it comes ready to use in its own applicator flask. Simply shampoo your hair, apply, comb through and leave for up to 20 mintues. The product comes in 2 flavours also, the Baseline Colour, and the Silver line. These have two distinct differences, one is to tone naturally white, blonde or lifted hair, and the other is there to provide an actual colour. They provide upto 40% white hair coverage, and are perfect for ladies and gents looking to cover the odd white hair without having to have more permanent colours applied.
Unlike many of the other True Semi Permanent colours out there, the Colour Fresh range comes with Natural looking shades as opposed to luminous green or bright pink. It does have a couple of Intense Reds however, so if you're ever in need of a colour injection and can't get to your stylist, this can be done at home without causing any damage to the hair.
The beauty of Colour Fresh is the fact it comes ready to use in its own applicator flask. Simply shampoo your hair, apply, comb through and leave for up to 20 mintues. The product comes in 2 flavours also, the Baseline Colour, and the Silver line. These have two distinct differences, one is to tone naturally white, blonde or lifted hair, and the other is there to provide an actual colour. They provide upto 40% white hair coverage, and are perfect for ladies and gents looking to cover the odd white hair without having to have more permanent colours applied.
Unlike many of the other True Semi Permanent colours out there, the Colour Fresh range comes with Natural looking shades as opposed to luminous green or bright pink. It does have a couple of Intense Reds however, so if you're ever in need of a colour injection and can't get to your stylist, this can be done at home without causing any damage to the hair.
As you can see with the shade chart to the left, the colours that are offered by Colour Fresh are greatly varied. This will ensure that there is always a colour to suit you whether you're looking for a radical change that wont last, or if your looking to simply top up your colour away from the salon, you'll have great versatility with these intermixable, Peroxide and Ammonia free colours.
As Colour Fresh is so gentle, you'll be amazed to know that I've actually used a couple of the silver colours as a toner after lifting the hair. The pH balance is perfectly in tune with the hairs natural balance, making it ideal for when you've had a perm, ultra lifting powder or granuals applied, or a chemical relaxer.
The velvety touch and luminous shine makes hair look and feel healthy, while the active ingredients nourish the hair and bring the pH balance back to the natural balance of the hair.
A subbranch of Colour Fresh is the Perfecton Rinse, and these none permanent colours are instant injections of colour for White, Bleached and coloured hair. These come in colours which dont actually contain depth, but are simply tone. Should you apply these rinses to the hair, you'll be able to get an instant colour injection, meaning you can get more vibrancy out of your colour.
These aren't available to the general public, and are only available from Wella Professionals directly, however, you can ask your stylist for a colour rinse which they will normally give you complimentary with certain services.
There are also extra little things it can do, for example, after a perm, the neutralizer can be infused with Perfecton to provide a little extra tone to hair after it's been permed, because a perm will lift out some of the tone.
Again these services are strictly professional, however, feel free to ask for a Perfecton shot to be applied to your neutralizer after a perm.
Also, Perfecton can be used before applying dark colours to previously bleached/lightened hair. This stops the hair taking on a green, matte look.
Now the next colours I'm going to introduce you to are the next step up. These are quasi permanent colours, and come with their own specially designed developers. These colours are the Colour Touch and Colour Touch Plus ranges.
As Colour Fresh is so gentle, you'll be amazed to know that I've actually used a couple of the silver colours as a toner after lifting the hair. The pH balance is perfectly in tune with the hairs natural balance, making it ideal for when you've had a perm, ultra lifting powder or granuals applied, or a chemical relaxer.
The velvety touch and luminous shine makes hair look and feel healthy, while the active ingredients nourish the hair and bring the pH balance back to the natural balance of the hair.
A subbranch of Colour Fresh is the Perfecton Rinse, and these none permanent colours are instant injections of colour for White, Bleached and coloured hair. These come in colours which dont actually contain depth, but are simply tone. Should you apply these rinses to the hair, you'll be able to get an instant colour injection, meaning you can get more vibrancy out of your colour.
These aren't available to the general public, and are only available from Wella Professionals directly, however, you can ask your stylist for a colour rinse which they will normally give you complimentary with certain services.
There are also extra little things it can do, for example, after a perm, the neutralizer can be infused with Perfecton to provide a little extra tone to hair after it's been permed, because a perm will lift out some of the tone.
Again these services are strictly professional, however, feel free to ask for a Perfecton shot to be applied to your neutralizer after a perm.
Also, Perfecton can be used before applying dark colours to previously bleached/lightened hair. This stops the hair taking on a green, matte look.
Now the next colours I'm going to introduce you to are the next step up. These are quasi permanent colours, and come with their own specially designed developers. These colours are the Colour Touch and Colour Touch Plus ranges.
To begin, I'll start with the Colour Touch range. This is split in to baseline Colour Touch, Colour Touch Sunlights and Colour Touch Relights.
The Baseline Colour Touch comes in a variety of colours, and provides some grey coverage and gradually fades away giving a far more natural look. This colour is perfect for the client who has around 50% White Hair and want to gently blend their colour.
The hair after treatment is up to 63% shinier, and with 53% more multifaceted colour compared to untreated natural hair. The luxury formulation of the colour has a very pleasing scent, and after the colour, you'll be amazed at the smooth, silky feel and light reflection.
The beautiful colours that are available are also inter-mixable so if you require a colour as unique as you, you're stylist will be able to create vibrant reds, champagne blondes, and expensive browns to suit you.
The Sunlights range is a wonderful way of achieving a natural sun kissed look, your stylist will be able to create a variety of stunning looks using master techniques. These colours are very gentle and are able to lift up to 2 shades, giving you that beautiful sun kissed look. You could even have these as highlights with a colour between the foils for a full, beautiful colour with expertly balanced highlights.
There is a Relights range also, allowing your stylist to refresh your colour when it has faded, it can be used as an intensifier for all other colours in the Colour Touch Baseline range also, so if you want a uniquie, vibrant colour, speak to your stylist who'll be more than happy to discuss this with you.
The Baseline Colour Touch comes in a variety of colours, and provides some grey coverage and gradually fades away giving a far more natural look. This colour is perfect for the client who has around 50% White Hair and want to gently blend their colour.
The hair after treatment is up to 63% shinier, and with 53% more multifaceted colour compared to untreated natural hair. The luxury formulation of the colour has a very pleasing scent, and after the colour, you'll be amazed at the smooth, silky feel and light reflection.
The beautiful colours that are available are also inter-mixable so if you require a colour as unique as you, you're stylist will be able to create vibrant reds, champagne blondes, and expensive browns to suit you.
The Sunlights range is a wonderful way of achieving a natural sun kissed look, your stylist will be able to create a variety of stunning looks using master techniques. These colours are very gentle and are able to lift up to 2 shades, giving you that beautiful sun kissed look. You could even have these as highlights with a colour between the foils for a full, beautiful colour with expertly balanced highlights.
There is a Relights range also, allowing your stylist to refresh your colour when it has faded, it can be used as an intensifier for all other colours in the Colour Touch Baseline range also, so if you want a uniquie, vibrant colour, speak to your stylist who'll be more than happy to discuss this with you.
Colour Touch Plus is the latest addition to the Colour Touch family. The colour can cover up to 70% of white hairs, yet is still gentle. It lasts longer and comes in a varriety of rich and luxurious tones and shades. It has it's own creme developer, which leaves hair feeling smooth, healthy and nourished, full of life and shine.
Should you like the idea of this slightly more intensive semi permanent colour, discuss the options with your stylist. If you've been having highlights but are beginning to feel a little too light, you can also use this colour between your foiled highlights to make the rest of your hair a more natural colour. Ideal at the end of summer when people start having darker colours applied.
The beauty of using this nourishing product is that should you decide to highlight through it at a later date, such as when it's getting into summer and you want to feel a little lighter and brighter, because it gently fades, when it comes to having highlights or even a full on colour overhaul, the lightening products that will be used are much more gentle, meaning the hair will be in better condition.
Should you like the idea of this slightly more intensive semi permanent colour, discuss the options with your stylist. If you've been having highlights but are beginning to feel a little too light, you can also use this colour between your foiled highlights to make the rest of your hair a more natural colour. Ideal at the end of summer when people start having darker colours applied.
The beauty of using this nourishing product is that should you decide to highlight through it at a later date, such as when it's getting into summer and you want to feel a little lighter and brighter, because it gently fades, when it comes to having highlights or even a full on colour overhaul, the lightening products that will be used are much more gentle, meaning the hair will be in better condition.
If you're in need of a more permanent colour, then be sure to use a salon that uses Wella's Koleston Perfect. The worlds most popular colour, you will be guaranteed perfect results each and every time. Using it's own specially developed creme developer your stylist will be able to unlock a whole new world of colour to you by using Wella Koleston Perfect.
Offering permanent results, this colour will cover 100% of white hair, and thank's to it's Trixiluv technology, vibrants coppers and red last fars longer, and offer a natural shine and feel. So from your Ice cool blondes to your velvety blacks, you will always find a colour for you.
If you need to give your hair a little extra lift, the Special Blondes offer you 5 levels of lift without the need to pre-lighten, meaning healthier hair that is beautiful, shiny and expertly blended.
Should you want something a little different, your stylist will be able to create colours as unique as you with the Special Mix, which offers a variety of pure tone colours making the possibilities endless.
Koleston can and should also be used after Ultra Lift services from the Blondor range. These colours when applie to lifted hair will provide extra tone and expertly prescribed colour mixtures to ensure that the colour you recieve is perfectly balanced and consistent. They will banish yellow and orange tones, ensuring that your end result is one that you will love. These toners will also ensure that any residues from the Blondor is killed off should Seal and Care have not been applied before hand.
Offering permanent results, this colour will cover 100% of white hair, and thank's to it's Trixiluv technology, vibrants coppers and red last fars longer, and offer a natural shine and feel. So from your Ice cool blondes to your velvety blacks, you will always find a colour for you.
If you need to give your hair a little extra lift, the Special Blondes offer you 5 levels of lift without the need to pre-lighten, meaning healthier hair that is beautiful, shiny and expertly blended.
Should you want something a little different, your stylist will be able to create colours as unique as you with the Special Mix, which offers a variety of pure tone colours making the possibilities endless.
Koleston can and should also be used after Ultra Lift services from the Blondor range. These colours when applie to lifted hair will provide extra tone and expertly prescribed colour mixtures to ensure that the colour you recieve is perfectly balanced and consistent. They will banish yellow and orange tones, ensuring that your end result is one that you will love. These toners will also ensure that any residues from the Blondor is killed off should Seal and Care have not been applied before hand.
There are some times in life where you need to get out the big guns, and Wella Profesionals understand this and are offering the newly relaunched Blondor collection.
Bleach has come a long way since the 1970's and does far less damage than it used to. As such the term Ultra Lift has been adopted.
There are several products in the line, and these all have different features.
The products are as follows:
-Multi Blonde powder: This powder comes with the Tri-Lightening formulation, allowing for consistent lightening and yellow tone neutralizing. It is also highly versatile in the techniques it can be used in. Perfect for on and off scalp lightening, foiled highlights, shoeshines and flashes.
-Extra Cool Blonde : This Award Winning lightening agent is possibly one of the biggest breakthroughs in Ultra Lifting in years. Working as both a lifting formula and a toner, this is one of the most popular products on the market. For use on its own or with the Multi Blonde Powder as a booster, Blondor Extra Cool Blonde is suitable for on and off scalp treatments. So again ideal for use with foils, full head blonding.
- Soft Blonde Cream: This gentle lifting agent is perfect for those with a slightly more sensetive scalp. Coating the hair with lipids preventing moisture loss, this gentle yet powerful formula will provide up to 7 leves of lift, allowing your stylist to achieve beautiful results with that little added extra gentleness.
- Blonde Meches: This lightening product comes in 2 parts. A lifghtening powder and a no-amonia, cream colour base which when working together stop hair lifting after up to 5 shades. These are mostly used when either a guest in the salon has a lot highlights, or when there is a lot of hair to work through. It is for off scalp treatments only, and as such will only ever be used on you when having flashes or highlights.
-Multi Blonde Granuals: These white coloured granuals allow for some truly beautiful results, while using all colour techniques, the pleasant coconut fragrance ensures that you'll never be overpowered by the formulation. You will find that your blonde results are even, well balanced and up to 7 levels lighter.
All of these products are designed to work with the recently launched Seal and Care which is a post ultra lift treatment to ensure that your new blonde colour will be protected.
-Blonde Seal and Care: This post Ultra Lift treatment is a must have - this cooling treatment will soothe and nourish the hair after any Blondor service, smoothing and conditioning the hair to enhance shine, while the colour locking ingredients ensure that no tone is lost. The pH of the hair will also be returned to its optimum level, and after the treatment is removed, a toner can also be applied.
Now the way in which they all work and lighten is completely different, and your stylist will be able to expertly choose the product best suited to you. All of these products will lift up to 7 shades except for the Blonde Meches which will lift hair up to 5 shades before stopping, making this an ideal product for those worried about colour over lightening.
Bleach has come a long way since the 1970's and does far less damage than it used to. As such the term Ultra Lift has been adopted.
There are several products in the line, and these all have different features.
The products are as follows:
-Multi Blonde powder: This powder comes with the Tri-Lightening formulation, allowing for consistent lightening and yellow tone neutralizing. It is also highly versatile in the techniques it can be used in. Perfect for on and off scalp lightening, foiled highlights, shoeshines and flashes.
-Extra Cool Blonde : This Award Winning lightening agent is possibly one of the biggest breakthroughs in Ultra Lifting in years. Working as both a lifting formula and a toner, this is one of the most popular products on the market. For use on its own or with the Multi Blonde Powder as a booster, Blondor Extra Cool Blonde is suitable for on and off scalp treatments. So again ideal for use with foils, full head blonding.
- Soft Blonde Cream: This gentle lifting agent is perfect for those with a slightly more sensetive scalp. Coating the hair with lipids preventing moisture loss, this gentle yet powerful formula will provide up to 7 leves of lift, allowing your stylist to achieve beautiful results with that little added extra gentleness.
- Blonde Meches: This lightening product comes in 2 parts. A lifghtening powder and a no-amonia, cream colour base which when working together stop hair lifting after up to 5 shades. These are mostly used when either a guest in the salon has a lot highlights, or when there is a lot of hair to work through. It is for off scalp treatments only, and as such will only ever be used on you when having flashes or highlights.
-Multi Blonde Granuals: These white coloured granuals allow for some truly beautiful results, while using all colour techniques, the pleasant coconut fragrance ensures that you'll never be overpowered by the formulation. You will find that your blonde results are even, well balanced and up to 7 levels lighter.
All of these products are designed to work with the recently launched Seal and Care which is a post ultra lift treatment to ensure that your new blonde colour will be protected.
-Blonde Seal and Care: This post Ultra Lift treatment is a must have - this cooling treatment will soothe and nourish the hair after any Blondor service, smoothing and conditioning the hair to enhance shine, while the colour locking ingredients ensure that no tone is lost. The pH of the hair will also be returned to its optimum level, and after the treatment is removed, a toner can also be applied.
Now the way in which they all work and lighten is completely different, and your stylist will be able to expertly choose the product best suited to you. All of these products will lift up to 7 shades except for the Blonde Meches which will lift hair up to 5 shades before stopping, making this an ideal product for those worried about colour over lightening.
If there was ever a perfect colour, this would be it! Offering lift of up to five levels and a toner, you'll be able to have your highlights done in no time! There are a variety of tones in the collection, including vibrant reds and beautiful, bold blondes. All of the shades can be intermixed, so should you want something unique to only you, you'll find it here!
Magma is perfect for lifting out seriously dark, artificial or natural colour while also adding tone to give you a hassle free colour experience. The way that Magma is designed means that it is only suitable for off the scalp treatment, so this limits you to foils and flashes. However, should your hair require the big guns for whatever reason, this powerful product can provide you with the results you need.
Magma also comes with its own specialist treatment, Colour Complete. This Post Magma treatment is perfectly balanced to the Oxyresistan pigments found in magma, and the pH balance will ensure that hair is at its ultimate balance, stabilizing the colour and ultimately locking the colour into the hair for an unrivaled longevity.
After the Magma service and treatment, you will find hair soft, manageable and full of life, so whether you're looking for a golden blonde or a sultry red, always discuss the option of Magma with your stylist is you have very dark hair, either coloured or natural.
Magma is perfect for lifting out seriously dark, artificial or natural colour while also adding tone to give you a hassle free colour experience. The way that Magma is designed means that it is only suitable for off the scalp treatment, so this limits you to foils and flashes. However, should your hair require the big guns for whatever reason, this powerful product can provide you with the results you need.
Magma also comes with its own specialist treatment, Colour Complete. This Post Magma treatment is perfectly balanced to the Oxyresistan pigments found in magma, and the pH balance will ensure that hair is at its ultimate balance, stabilizing the colour and ultimately locking the colour into the hair for an unrivaled longevity.
After the Magma service and treatment, you will find hair soft, manageable and full of life, so whether you're looking for a golden blonde or a sultry red, always discuss the option of Magma with your stylist is you have very dark hair, either coloured or natural.