Hair Care Treatments
Which Hair Color Should I Choose?
CHRISTOPHER COIFFURE always recommends selecting a color that complements your skin tone and eye color. All hair colors require the right products and proper hair care to maintain their beauty and health. Limit your hair washing to three times a week if you want the color to last longer. If you want to enhance your eyes, consider trying a contrasting color. Individuals with green eyes can highlight their features with copper tones. If you are a brunette and wish to go blonde, CHRISTOPHER COIFFURE recommends colors like honey or caramel highlights, as golden shades are easier to maintain beautifully in brown hair. If you desire a lighter result, your hair will require more than one coloring treatment.
How Often Can You Color Your Hair?
On average, your hair grows about one centimeter per month. Hair color should ideally be refreshed every six weeks if you want to avoid significant color differences. All hair color changes over time. CHRISTOPHER COIFFURE recommends that clients with highlights, balayage, and babylights have a toning treatment between each coloring session. Toning color strengthens your hair from within and gives it a naturally radiant shade with visible light highlights. Just as it’s easier for a dentist to keep your teeth healthy and beautiful with regular visits, the same applies to your hair. If too much time passes between your recommended treatments, it can affect your hair’s health, which in turn can limit your coloring options and hairstyle choices.
Client Recommendations Before a Coloring Treatment
Wash your hair no later than the day before your treatment, avoiding the use of too many styling products. This way, the natural oils in your hair will protect your scalp.
Avoid wearing tight or white clothing to your treatment, as this will make the process easier and more comfortable for you.
Stop using silver shampoo one week before your treatment if you want a lighter hair color. Since your ends absorb more from silver shampoo, it can challenge an even coloring result.
If you have used home hair color, henna, or lightening sprays, you should contact the salon before booking an appointment. This ensures that enough time is allocated for you to receive the best treatment.
Highlights
Highlights/Stripes. Highlights can add a lot of dimension to your hair and give flat hair more volume, as the color lifts the hair more. The hair is divided into small sections, which are woven with a comb. The hair is then wrapped in foil to separate the colored hair from the uncolored hair. When creating light streaks with this method, you can get highlights all the way to your roots.
Balayage
A freehand technique where the stylist paints color directly onto the hair with soft brush strokes. This achieves a natural result without the harsh contrasts that can occur with traditional highlights.
Balayage can only lighten the hair naturally when performed as a freehand technique, mimicking the sun’s lightening effect on your hair. Therefore, if you are a brunette or darker, it will require more than one treatment to satisfactorily lighten the hair.
What is the difference between balayage and highlights?
Balayage has a darker base and a more naturally lightened appearance, while highlights feature a lot of color play and can create a high contrast with color extending all the way to the roots. With balayage, your hair is not wrapped in foil, so it cannot be lightened as much as with traditional highlights. If you often put your hair up in a ponytail, highlights are recommended. In updos, balayage can resemble roots. If you’re concerned that highlights may look too unnatural, there are also baby lights available.
Babylights
In the classic method, the highlights are very thin and fine, resembling those of a child who has played often in the sun over the summer. These delicate highlights are carefully woven and result in less noticeable regrowth, achieving a more natural look. In the modern method, often seen on social media, the stylist places many thin strands close together. This technique provides a more lightened effect on the hair and is recommended for clients who had blonde hair as children.
Full Color
Full color is a classic coloring technique where the hair is colored from root to tip. With a full color, it is possible to make the hair significantly darker than your current tone, while there are limitations to how much the hair can be lightened.
Toning Color
Toning color is a gentle hair color that lasts for six weeks. It adds shine to your natural hair color and can cover up to 70% of gray hair. Toning colors are best suited for refreshing the color tone in your hair or altering your hair tone to create a more natural harmony with your skin. Toning color is the mildest hair color available. The color can strengthen weakened hair, as it fills the hair from within with nourishing ingredients. If you have never colored your hair before, this coloring solution is recommended by the salon. For individuals who have started to see their first gray hairs or do not want extensive maintenance, toning colors are the best match.
