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Summary: levels of gray hair
Lacey Townley is a professional educator at the Aveda Institute in San Antonio, TX. She has been coloring hair for over 9 years. After teaching several years, she has become a master...read more
Hair highlighting is a trick of the trade that many of us have been using for years. A new hairstyle can change dramatically with a little color and color can hide are unwanted imperfections. In many cultures gray hair can signify maturity and wisdom. However, not many of us are in a hurry to show off our life experience. Those who are looking to blend in with the craziness of youth should learn how to properly color their hair with these tips.
In this video series our gray hair coloring expert will begin to describe the different shades of gray. Learn how to highlight your hair with only 25% gray hair. Learn how to blend gray properly into your hair. Using "Aveda" color along with tips from our expert can bring you out of the old and into the new.
"So, what I have here is I have three examples of gray, how gray hair really grows on the head. What tends to happen is usually people start out here and this is more twenty-five percent. So what happens is they have a little bit of their natural color still in the cuticle but they also have the gray which is also the scientific name for gray would be canities and what happens is it starts to grow in as you get older. Also hormones can effect gray coverage, I mean not gray coverage, I'm sorry, can effect how gray starts to appear in your hair. So, what we have is we have twenty-five percent, we have fifty percent and then down here is seventy five. And this is really seventy five to one hundred percent gray. What starts to happen with guests as you get gray is it becomes more of a maintenance situation of you getting your hair colored because a lot of women, even if they even see a little bit of gray, they're like, oh, I need to have my base covered. They don't even want to see it so it starts to get, it starts to be a cost issue. So a lot of women, consumers, choose to go to the store and buy box color and apply it. But what starts to happen is because as consumers you all don't know the chemistry of color, it starts to take on different tones in your hair."
eHow Article: Different Shades of Gray Hair
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