Haircoloring Introduction to Color....

I am only 10-15% grey...Can I use Colorance if I am not completely grey?

There are no red tones in gray hair? Now your confusing me. You made mention you wanted to eliminate red tones in your haircolor. Gray hair is unpigmented hair....there is no pigment in gray hair. You can't use Colorance to color gray hair it's a demi permanent color which means it will only blend gray not cover it.

I will agree to disagree on that Claude . Pearl toned down reddish/brassy tones better than any ash ever has in my 22 years of hairdressing.

Pearl will not eliminate red tones in your hair. Pearl is violet based color that is sometimes used to neutralize gold tones on blonde hair.

With Goldwell you should use their Colorance Demi Permanent line of color and mix a Ash Series and Gold Series in equal parts to get a green base. That will neutralize red tones. The mixing ratio for Colorance is 2 parts developer to 1 part color.

So when mixing you would use 20 mls or Developer and 10 mls of color....5 mls Ash & 5 mls Gold if you want a green base.

Make sure it's Colorance and not Colorance Plus or Colorance Soft Color. You want the regular Colorance color. Mix 7G & 7A and try a test strand. As for you getting back your original color I can't see your hair so I can't help you there. Is your natural color lighter or darker than the previously colored hair? If it's darker then yes perhaps if it's lighter then it would need to lightened via bleach then recolored because putting more color over previously colored hair will not lighten the hair. It's one of the fundamental laws of color.


Edited by Claude - March 18 2008 at 7:37am

But do you think that green base would neutralize my underlying red pigment?

I am not that grey...10 % maybe...

Can you explain to me if I for example want to neutralize red with green...Do I use only for example 7A or I mix 7A with 7N and in what percent?

If that with green base doesn't work out I will try pearl.

I've found on this topic that goldwell ash is blue based...and blue counters orange right? Since I have red tones should I use ash with green based tones as neutralizer for my red pigment? And do you know which companies produce green based ash?

Thank you!


Edited by angel84 - March 17 2008 at 12:10pm

angel84 I would try a pearl instead of ash my hair is a level 7 too & has a huge amount of red underlying, when I was tinting I used a pearl as the ash would always see some reddish coming through but not with the pearl ,   using a low level peroxide will help too unless you want a lift or two than the red will show even more.

Good Luck.

Thank you PerfectBrunette   I was very nervous about doing them, as I had not used the cap before.  I had only used Loreal Experte where you get that mascara type brush to use, which is ok, but I tended to get some colour on the hair underneath the highlights.

Hi, thanks Miffny, yes it certainly is a better colour than it was last week.