Hair Color Research Paper

Since the beginning of time men and women have long connected hair to beauty. In this century more than ever before in history, American women dye their hair regularly. There are many benefits to dyeing hair. It is an easy and inexpensive way, of improving your appearance. Hair-color is no longer a closet secret. However, is that new hair color from the salon or a supermarket? Is the only difference between professional hair color and store bought hair color, the price? How does one enter this hair color craze and come out with beautiful, healthy results?
It is important to learn the risks, the possibilities, and the differences in options if you want to avoid a hair color disaster. As a licensed cosmetologist for 17 years I have had the
Professional hair color contains the appropriate ammonia levels for hair porosity and, which is just a fancy word for damaged, split ends. Professional hair color is broken down into levels of darkness, lightness and varying tones. This breakdown helps your hair stylist choose exactly the right shade and tone to match your underlying skin tone and your personal color choices of makeup and clothing. The method used, to apply hair color, is very important in achieving favorable results. Applying permanent hair color to previously colored hair will greatly damage the stability of the hair shaft and eventually lead to your hair color fading in a shorter amount of time. Professional hair color obviously has many benefits but can be costly. The average cost for a monthly hair color service at a salon is somewhere between fifty to one hundred dollars. If you are choosing to highlight your hair the cost is a bit less because you would not need to touch up the hair color
Box color is very low in protein and conditioning agents, leaving the hair dull and dry over time. Box hair color does not consider individual hair type and condition, nor does it alter the ammonia levels to fit the condition of the hair. In fact, box color in regards to ammonia levels, is the equivalent of spraying windex on your hair seven times. Now how many intelligent consumers would spray window cleaner on their hair? There is no movie stars using box color on their hair, that is just a gimmick to get consumers to buy that beautifully colored hair. It is not difficult to achieve a bad result with box hair color. If you were to buy a red brown hair color from the supermarket and use it on grey hair. The resulting hair color would be pink. So what happens when that new hair color makes you afraid to walk out the door? The repair work begins and if it begins at home, with another box color, the result may likely be worse. Subjecting your hair to too many color processes will greatly compromise your hairs condition and empty your