Haircolor and Structure
Also known as undertone, refers to the varying degrees of warmth exposed during a permanent color or lightening process
What is contributing pigment?
The _______ is a measurement system that colorists use to determine the lightness or darkness of artificial and natural hair color
What is the level system?
This is a system of understanding color relationships
What is the law of color?
This is the definition of primary colors
What are pure or fundamental colors that cannot be created by combining other colors?
This is the definition of a secondary color
What is a color that is obtained by mixing equal parts of two primary colors?
This is the definition of a tertiary color
What is an intermediate color achieved by mixing equal amounts of a secondary color and its neighboring primary color on the color wheel?
These are the 3 major components that hair is composed of
What are the cuticle, cortex, and medulla?
Also called shade charts or swatch charts, these are essential when formulating color and consulting with clients regarding their upcoming haircolor services
What are haircolor charts?
This illustrates the rules and guidelines of color theory
What is the color wheel?
This is the strongest primary color
What is blue?
These are the 3 secondary colors
What are green, orange, and violet?
This is the definition of complementary colors
What are primary and secondary colors positioned directly opposite each other on the color wheel?
This texture of hair contains melanin that is tightly packed together; it colors more quickly and can look darker
What is fine?
A level 6 with red-violet tones would be written as this on a haircolor box or chart
What is 6RV?
In traditional color theory, when all three primary colors are present in equal proportions, the resulting color is this
What is black or dark muddy gray?
This is the medium primary color
What is red?
To get violet, you mix these 2 colors
What are red and blue?
______ looking haircolor is made up of a combination of primary colors, secondary colors, and tertiary colors
What is natural?
These are the 3 types of melanin found in the hair
What are eumelanin, pheomelanin, and mixed melanin?
For best results, use this kind of light during your analysis whenever possible
What is natural?
Adding white will do this to a color
What is lighten?
This is the weakest primary color
What is yellow?
To get green, you mix these 2 colors
What are blue and orange, green and red, yellow and violet?
Porous hiar accepts haircolor ______ and can also result in a ______ tone than on hair with less porosity
What is faster and cooler?
On the level system, 1 is the ______ and 10 is the ______
What is darkest and lightest?
What is deepen?
In addition to coolness, blue can bring _____ to any color
What is depth or darkness?
To get orange, you mix these 2 colors
When combined, the _____ color is always the dominant color
What is primary?