Why You Should Retouch Hair Coloring at Home

Series Summary

Hair coloring is the process by which one changes the color of their hair through a chemical process or a hair dye. By lightening your hair you are in fact applying a chemical process to your hair that removes the color pigment from it. If you are darkening your hair then you are in fact staining the pigment either temporarily or permanently depending on the type of hair dye you are applying, temporary or permanent. There are other special effects that can also be done in place of coloring your entire head of hair. A good example is streaking your hair which is coloring only pieces. This give the hair more of a messy look and is very popular in the Western world.

In this free video clip series our expert will walk you through the step by step process of dying hair at home from the products and preparing the hair to caring for the hair in the weeks after. These tips and techniques are valuable to hands on people and anyone wanting to save money by staying away from expensive salons. You will be told exactly what supplies you will need and how to make sure it comes out just right and there is also information on retouching another coloring job that might not be quite up to par.

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Lillian with Salon of Scottsdale in Albuquerque, and on behalf of Expert Village.com, I am here today to talk to you about retouching your hair color at home. After my presentation and demonstration, if you have any further questions on this, you could reach me at area code 505-235-9434. Why would we retouch our hair color at home, or why would we retouch our hair color at all? Some people refer to it as new growth. Some people refer to it as retouching the roots. Why would we do it? The reason we would do the roots only is, basically to protect the rest of the hair from further damage; and retouching the roots would be just that: retouching just the new growth from the time that you have done your color before, to the time of your next color."