#Orange red hair professional

Use professional products to nurture the hair colour you have had. Now don’t freak out when I tell you this secret, but when we want less orange we use blue and less red we use green.ĭo you remember art at school when you mixed 2 colours together and they turn brown? This is what we do in hairdressing, we counteract the unwanted colour with purple for blondes, blue for mid brown and green for dark brown. So what can we do about this?įirstly your skilled hairdresser will know what colours to put into your hair colour to try and counteract these for you. Yes you can have a combination of 2 of these colours, it simply depends on the level of the colour you and your hairdresser have chosen. Its the same for the darker brown tones except you will see more of a red colour coming through. Your hair can start out a beautiful cool mid brown shade and slowly through washing, those orange tones can start to peak through. Mid brown hair has orange underlying pigment. A quick recap is that we need violet/purple to counteract the yellow, which is why so many blondes use a shampoo of this colour. This is why we automatically assume the hairdresser has put some sneaky warm colour in there.īlonde hair has an underlying pigment of yellow and we have previously covered the yellow of blonde hair. One of the big differences with artificial hair colour and natural hair colour, is that natural hair does not fade as quickly as artificial, so you see that underlying pigment less often. This is a fancy way of saying that underneath the colour you have chosen, there is a warm colour hiding there, just waiting to get out! Well my friends the answer is simply science based.Īll hair colour has what we hairdressers like to call, ‘underlying pigment/tones’. Have you ever dyed your hair brown and its faded out to orange or red tones even when you told the stylist you wanted no warm tones? One for all the brunettes out there today.