Color Wheel
What are the Primary Colors?
Red, Yellow, Blue
What is the one step application for tint backs?
Mix the missing pigment and final color in one bowl.
The level System goes from what to what?(numbers and shades)
1 darkest to 10 lightest
What is a way to presoften resistant gray hair?
10 ash with 20 vol.
Is it safe to use powder bleach on scalp?
True or False
False.
What are the Secondary Colors?
Violet, Orange, Green
What is the two step application for tint backs?
Apply the missing pigment and let it process. Then apply the final pigment and process.
What is the Level system?
The level System helps hair colorists determine the lightness or darkness of a hair color.
Mixing a permanent color with 10 vol or less, the permanent becomes what?
Demi permanent fades on tone
What are the two forms of lightener products?
On scalp and off scalp.
What are the Tertiary Colors?
yellow-orange, red-orange, red-violet, blue-violet, blue-green, yellow-green
What are the four steps for formulating?
1. Current Level
2. Desired Level and Tone
3. Developer
4. Enhancing and Neutralizing
What level is considered blonde?
Level 6 dark blonde
3, 6, 9, 12
What grade porosity may need pre-softening to allow the tint to penetrate?
Grade 1.
What are the complementary colors?
Red and Green, Yellow and Purple, Blue and Orange
Why does Gray hair become yellow when bleached?
A color client wishes to be TWO or more levels DARKER than her existing tint. You will have to apply an underlying pigment back into the hair. This is referred to as a TINT-BACK.
True or False
True.
If a client is a level 7 and they would like to be a level 8, what developer should we mix with permanent hair color to achieve this?
20 vol.
A hair color product with a low number is indicating a small amount of lift and a corresponding greater amount of deposit.
True or False
True
To subdue a red orange tone, what should we use?
A cooler based color with blue-green tones
Typically Metallic dyes- These hair color products containing metal salts reacting to air causing color to change overtime
Gradual color?
How many levels can you lift hair in one session?
Typically 7-8 LEVELS, but it depends on the hair's condition, the strength of the bleach, and the developer used.
What are the four main reasons people get a color correction?
Hair is too light, too dark, too warm, or too cool.
What questions should we have when doing a color service? (name at least 3)
What is the current level?
What level do they want to be at?
What is the percent of gray?
What tones will I have to enhance or diminish?
What method of application?