Hot Looking Gray Hair

What to do when you see that first gray hair. PANIC!! Do you pluck it out or just ignore it? OK! Now that one gray hair is coming in fast and furious. Do you dye, or highlight or just give up and let it happen to see what it will do for that youthful look you are trying to maintain. Since many people by the age of 50 or before have started to go grey. Most of the baby boomers in an effort to preserve a youthful look, most are choosing to dye.
There are a growing number of women who have colored their hair for years and who are exhausted by the tedium of coloring are now going brazenly and vividly gray. Might that brazen idea be right for you? I think gray or white hair tends to look best with pink,olive and dark complexions. If you are sallow or very pale, you will look  washed-out  and should consider highlights or low-lights. If you have that hair that looks mousy as the gray begins to appear it can be brightened and enriched by weaving in highlights and low-lights. These are three that I might consider using on brown hair a honey blonde or tortoiseshell, or mahogany for darker hair.
Another option you can use if you just starting to the first signs of gray is to use a semi-permanent  glaze. Both will stain a lot of the gray and when the color starts to fade, you won't have a line of demarcation. In other words no root line. You can also add a little gold or red to this and it will give some nice highlights to the hair. If you are uncertain between two colors always choose the lightest.
If your grey comes in snow white with yellow tones you can remedy this by using a violet based gloss, it coats the hair and gives great shine. When hair loses its pigmentation, so does the skin.
After you've finished coloring your gray hair, make sure you only use shampoos for color treated hair because more severe shampoos can strip out the color . If you don't like the results you get then wash your hair more often to remove the dye quicker. If your gray comes in wiry, it's because it's dry,  so use a weekly deep conditioner.

Girls with Curls Coloring Cues

Girls with curls that want their hair highlighted or colored, is not much different than girls with straight hair. The process is the same, but you must gauge the thickness of the weave for coloring or lightening to be in balance with the wave of the hair. If you weave to small of strands you will not even see what you have done because it gets lost in the waves of the hair. When the weaves are to large the steaks look like chunks and are outdated. Don't make her look like a clown.
When your going to color be sure that you first examine the texture, the porosity and the condition of the hair. Then decide what the possibilities are and what technique your going to do.
If you decide to highlight take precautions by definitely deep conditioning that hair because by coloring or highlighting you can damage the weaker parts of the hair. Weaker areas are around the hairline. You should take special care in processing also if you use to strong of a developer or over process the hair will break off in some areas. In coloring curly hair don't use flat shades the results make the hair dull and then you have lost the shine.
Remember that textured hair is always in motion a full color from roots to ends is not necessary to achieve the highlighted look. The lighter color is applied more heavily to the middle of the hair shaft and ends. This looks more natural and you won't have to touch-up as often. It also saves the hair from looking over processed. The key to healthy curly hair is to avoid over processing the hair and also from drying it out even further. Before coloring use a conditioner or protein treatment the color seems to hold better. For in between treatments you can use glosses and glazes but no color gloss. This gives the hair shine and helps to control frizz and gives the hair a healthier look.

Girls with Curls

The world today is so different than when I started as hairdresser. Most girls who had curly hair wanted there hair to be long sexy and straight. Over the years hair styles have revolved around long straight hair and sleek looking ponytails and the shiny bobs. As the world and fashion evolves so does hair, and comes many manes of curls and also variations in texture. Many people believe that curly hair is still a thing of the past. Remember when people wanted the curly look and everyone was getting perms. Even men wanted this curly look. I'll bet that if you ask some of the baby boomers, men especially they would answer yes. I have done many of those perms for men out of my apartment because they didn't want anyone to see them with perm rods in their hair. Now going to a salon is great especially when their stylist is a woman.

In our multicultural world, woman can have many types of hair textures that range from waves, curls and the unbelievable kinks. Textured is naturally drier and more porous. Curly hair often appears less shiny and unhealthy looking because the cuticle is more raised. The twists and turns of the hair strands only reflect light from the arcs of the curls. Now you can style curly hair to give it a new and different look.
There are special techniques that you should know when comes to taking care of textured hair. If you want more of ribbon look, this is achieved by separating each curled section into smaller more defined curls by running a conditioning product down each strand like a ribbon. It gives the hair more shine and definition and to create more volume alternate the direction of every other strand. Always listen to what the girl with curls has to say because she has had this curly hair forever.