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Coloring Grey Hair

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Printed Date: January 10 2025 at 9:50am


Topic: Coloring Grey Hair
Posted By: chinni.sohi
Subject: Coloring Grey Hair
Date Posted: May 23 2010 at 2:30am
Coloring Grey Hair

Grey and white hair happen when all the pigment or most leave the hair shaft. These "colorless heads" tend to be more coarse then pigmented hair. This means that the hair coloring process is a little bit different for grey hair, than hair coloring pigmented hair.

  • Your grey hair may have to be "softened" to allow the artificial pigment to penetrate your hardened hair shaft. "Softening" increases the porosity of the hair allowing more pigment to set in. This is made with shampoo, developer, and sometimes bleach. Or by applying developer to the stubborn grey for 5 minutes before applying the hair color.
  • Allow color to stay on hair at least 35-45 min. It may take longer.  The longer you allow the hair color to stay, the better the result.
  • Use one hair color shade darker than the target hair color
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