How to Cover Deposit-Only Hair Color

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Amelia and on behalf of Expert Village I'll be talking to you about understanding the laws of hair color. Deposit-only color does exactly that. It only deposits color on the hair shaft. In other words it will lay a coat color just on the hair shaft. So it's really kind of a stain. These are your glazes or your toners. These are great for if you've got some blonde highlights and you're just wanting to tone them down, they've gotten too light over the summer. You could go in with a deposit-only and just apply it. And you don't have to worry about it turning strange colors, turning green or purple or pink, unless you've got over porous ends. So, you know, with deposit-onlys, you can have a lot of fun with them. They're great for trying on color. Let's say you want to be a red head for a few months, you can deposit-only your color, just use a deposit-only red, and it will fade off. You don't get that line of demarkation just like a semi-permanent. However, the difference between a deposit-only and a semi-permanent is that a semi-permanent may blend grey, where as the deposit-only is not really going to blend grey. A deposit-only will also work well as far as maintaining your color. So let's say you use permanent color, and you want to kick up the intensity, it's really important with red heads, or if you're a blonde who tends to pull gold, or warm, or that brassie color that a lot of women see, then you can go to the store and you can get some of the deposit-only glazes and just apply those. Usually they're shampooed in and it takes about fifteen minutes to apply, last two or three shampoos, gand they're great, great for toning, great for glazing, and great for adding shine to your hair. "