Basics
This is a professional industry coined term referring to artificial haircolor products and services.
What is haircolor (one word)?
The diameter of an individual hair strand, large medium and small diameter hairstrands translate into coarse medium and fine hair.
What is texture?
The varying degrees of warmth exposed during a permanent color or lightening process.
What is contributing pigment?
This is the predominant tone of a color.
What is a base color?
Changes existing haircolor, covers gray, creates bright or natural looking haircolor changes.
What is permanent haircolor?
This affects the uality and ultimate success of the haircolor service.
What is the hair structure?
The hairs ability to absorbe moisture.
What is porosity?
The unit of measurment used to identify the lightness or darkness of color.
What is level?
A system for understanding color relations.
What is the law of color?
No lift deposit only color, formulated to deposit and not lighten hair.
What is demipermanent haircolor?
This refers to the natural color of the hair.
What is hair color ( two words)?
The number of hairs per square inch.
What is hair density?
Hair that has lost its natural pigment and is normally associated with aging.
What is gray hair?
The property of objects that depends on the light they reflect and is percieved (by the human eye) as red, yellow, blue or other shades.
What is color?
Progressive haircolors, containing metal salts that changes hair color gradually by progressive build up and exposure to air.
What is metallic hair colors?
The outermost layer of the hair that contributes up to 20% of the overall strength of the hair.
What is the cuticle?
The cuticle is lifted, the hair is overly porous and the hair takes color quickly; color also tends to fade quickly.
What is high porosity?
The melanin that lends black and brown colors to hair.
What is eumelanin?
Pure and fundamental colors that can't be created by combining other colors.
What is primary colors?
A no-lift deposit only, non-oxidationhaircolor that is not mixed with peroxide and is formulated to last through several shampoos, depending on the hairs porosity.
What is semi-permanent haircolor?
The innermost layer of the hair. It is sometimes absent from the hair and does not play a role in the haircoloring process.
What is the medulla?
The middle layer of hair that contains the natural pigment melanin.
What is the cortex?
This is the first step in performing a haircolor service.
What is identifying the natural level?
The strength of a color, described as soft, medium or strong.
What is intensity?
Permanent haircolors contain uncolored dye pre-cursors, which are very small and can easily penetrate into the hair shaft.
What is an aniline derivatives?