Endowing new hues to your image

Hair colouring is a tremendous and almost safest way to change your manifestation and therefore to change the other persons attitude towards you. In short hair colour proffers an instant change to anyone’s looks that is from simple and subtle to major and dramatic. Hair colouring can transform you from the modest, classical type of woman into bright red pretty girl. After all those days are gone when guys choose their brides by looking at their long black hair and the best thing about colouring your hair is when you get tired you can easily get back that romantic charm of black hair with a saying that “natural things always look good on me”. Anyway, hair colouring helps you to become more attractive. So who said that who said that you need to live with that naturally dark hair for the rest of your life? Just because of myths that colouring your hair will damage your hair texture which is completely wrong, you need to follow few basic things before colouring your hair and you can see a drastic change in your appearance. To start off with......  Choosing hair colour (“a tuff job”)

Choosing a proper hair colouris really complicated than looking at the hair colouring boxes and out of thousands of shades choosing the best among them that looks pretty on you. If done correctly, the hair colour that you choose will harmonize your skin tone. This is the basic of all and if you opt for a hair colour that doesn’t go well with your natural colouring can give you the blues and leave you red in the face! Choices are too much these days once the time was their when your hair colour choices were blonde, red, burgundy and black but those days are long gone. Each basic hair colour comes in full array of choices from platinum blonde to jet-black and hot pink to natures green and you can find all these in colour guides the one to include is Wella’s colour guideone of the customer of Wellahair product when asked
mentioned that “this is the most easy way to choose a hair colour”.
The best thing one can do is to choose the results you want from it, which basically depends on whether you are covering grey hairs, highlighting or using hair colour for a makeover. This will help you to cut sort the list of colours that you have in your mind. Then next thing one can do is choosing the type of hair colour which includes: - temporary hair colour, semi permanent hair colour , demi hair colour( a sort of semi permanent colour which is mixed with permanent colours with low volume which reduces the ammonia content in permanent one because of this it is more in use.) and at last highlighters. Now it’s time to take out the colour wheel and choose the best suited one, depending on your skin tone, eye colour and natural hair colour. When talking about the skin tone it’s really a difficult task to choose accordingly well for this the categories are “warm” and “cool” under which the shades can be chosen. People with warm skin tone usually have red or golden tones to their natural hair colour.

Hair colour can range from bright red to a dark brown to blonde. Cool skin can range from very dark brown to pale. Cool skin tones often have pink undertones. After determining the true skin tone then it’s time to colour your hair and believe these all points will definitely help to figure out the best suited hair colour to flatter your natural colouring. Time to colour (“get coloured”) Hair colouring techniques depends on what style you are opting for one of them is highlighting, very much popular among college going students again depending on short and long hairs. Highlights are more preferable for long hairs, subtle highlights around the face will brighten the complexion, according to one of the customer using “Revlon hair colour” and she also shares her experience by saying that “to keep the colour everlasting it need to be touched up every 4 to 8 weeks as highlights last up to 2 or 3 months only”.
There are basically four types of highlights: basic foil highlights, hair painting, chunking or piecing and lowlights. The very first one is the basic one for those who are going to colour their hair for the first time. Chunking or piecing is one of the colour technique of nineties which involves alternating three or more colour into chunky highlights spread out over the entire head. Then comes lowlights in which darker contrasting colours are interwoven with the highlights against the base colour, a sense of playing with colours and a good knowledge about colours will help you to dig up an excellent hair colour according to your personality. Then off course there are changing trends in fashion world, so whatever catch your eye and you think that diversity in modern hair colours and hair colouring techniques leave you with a different hairstyle and a not so regular appearance you can go for it and you will see that how colour can make you look confident After car Nothing in this world is forever so to keep the hair colour intact some after care is needed this includes using colour-enhancing shampoo an conditioner once in a week. The next important thing is to protect your hair from the sun, if you are a person who spends a long time in the sun it’s preferable to wear hat or scarf. Thirdly avoid using hot water and hair spray as it fades your hair colour.

                                                                                                                                                                  Shampa Saha
                                                                                                                                                                  BA (Journalism, Psychology &
                                                                                                                                                                  English).