What's worse for your hair? Light <--> Dark?

It doesn't matter! Haircoloring is damaging to the hair if it's not done properly. Permanent haircolor will break 3% of the disulfide bonds in a strand of hair everytime it's used. Disulfide bonds account for 33% of the overall tensile strength and elasticity in a strand of hair.

One of the worst mistakes for those women who color their hair at home with boxed haircolor is that they color their roots then pull the rest of the color through the previously colored hair to refresh the mid-shafts to ends. The end result is that the hair gradually overtime begins to tangle easily and really becomes chemically damaged. It's a progressive thing that happens over time and for those women who do this to their hair oh lets say every 5-6 weeks or 10 times a years or so keep doing this and their mid shafts to ends really start to suffer. Their hair takes forever to dry because it's chemically damaged because of what they are doing. Yes it says to do it on the box...BUT what you really should do is pull a semi or demi permanent of the same color thru the rest of the previously colored hair and not keep pulling permanent haircolor through the hairstrands because damage can and will occur.

Oh and a quick word on bleaching for those who think it's more damaging. Any chemical process on a person's hair can be damaging if it's not done properly. Bleaching is more risky but if it's done properly it's no more damaging that any haircolor.

Perhaps the most important thing after a color service is the aftercare of the hair. Professional products do make a difference. Get yourself a nice moisturizing shampoo and conditioner. A leave in conditioner. You need products to restore the mosisture to the strand of hair that the chemical service dried out.

Hope that helps ya...now I'm off to the salon got a busy day ahead of me.

Cheers!


Edited by Claude - April 21 2007 at 6:58am