If you’ve never colored your hair at home before, you might think it would be a difficult task. Maybe you’ve seen a stylist in a salon doing hair color on someone (you, too), and you’ve noticed the stylist mixing a bowl or two of liquid cream that she applies to her hair with a brush. Or maybe you’ve seen a stylist working on highlighting a person, using hair color in bowls and square aluminum foil. No one does what it looks like easily?
Don’t worry hair-at-home color is so much simpler than anything you’ve seen done at the salon. It does not need any special training. All you need is some simple preparation and patience and you can color your hair.
First, decide where in your home is the best place for you to color your hair. Since the final step of any home-applied hair color is to wash the color out of the hair, you may want to wash the hair color near the bottom or shower. Personally, I find my hair color to be the easiest first thing in the morning, then when I jump in the shower. It’s time to wash out the hair colors (basically killing two birds with one stone).
Next, you need to collect the necessary materials. It’s important to make sure you have everything in one place before you start, because you don’t want to be walking around the house in the middle of applying hair color. Remember that the entire hair color process, from the beginning of the application to the time the color washes off, will take about 45 minutes to an hour (depending on how quickly you apply the hair color and how long the instructions say to leave the color on your hair). Here are some basic elements you should definitely have:
Petroleum jelly: Remove this spot on the edge of your hairline before you start and you will keep the hair color from getting on your skin.
An old shirt or jacket: Make sure you wear a shirt or shirt that doesn’t stain because chances are you’ll have at least a drop or two of hair color on it. Afterwards, wash and keep using the clothes again and again to color your hair.
An old washrag: Wash an old washrag (that you don’t mind being stained) with warm water and keep it close to your hair dye to use to wipe off any stray dirt that drips onto your skin. Rinse and save for your next hair color application.
Old towel: Most hair color is ordered to bring your hair loosely on top of your head; but if the hair is long or thick, let it fall from the top of the head. So that this is not a problem, an old towel (again, that you don’t mind stained) around your shoulders, now, if your hair falls, it falls on the towel and just lay there. As with the washrag, you can save a towel next time.
A timer: The trace of time will be necessary because the color of the hair is in the hair; it is the easiest thing to do in the setting of fear.
Something to do while you wait: Depending on what hair color you use, you should let the color sit on your hair for about 30 – 45 minutes. It would be pierced unless you brought some help, occupying the time. Usually playing on the handle video game or reading a magazine, but you could stick together, do a crossword puzzle, or chat phone
The specific characteristics of hair colors are a little different, but most of the characteristics are now to use the “shampoo-in” process to make it clean,
