Color Me Beautiful

Color Me Beautiful! 

Professional Hair Color, Toners, Color Gloss and Glaze Treatments, and Color Locks/Seals:
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know

There are several reasons people color their hair. For some, it is to cover the gray. Especially in mature women, gray hair is often associated with aging -- aging in a world where youthfulness and beauty is celebrated. So washing that gray right out of your hair can make women and men feel and even look younger, thus improving their self-image. Others color their hair for creative reasons. Hair color treatments are great ways to change your hair and personal style according to your mood and personality. (Do blondes really have more fun? Are redheads really more fiery?)    

So, there’s no arguing the psychological effects that come from changing your hair color. But did you know that there are physiological benefits from coloring your hair, too? Yes, you can improve the health and appearance of your hair with professional hair color. 

Benefits from Coloring Your Hair:

Added thickness

Coloring plumps the hair shaft and can make hair temporarily thicker and with more body than before. Hair color adds a coating to your hair that improves and thickens the texture of your hair. So, if you have fine hair, color can be a great way to add volume.

Stronger Hair

Every time you add color to your hair, you add strength to it. Color processing adds a coating to your hair’s strands, which helps make your hair stronger and more resistant to breakage and damage.

Smooth Hair

Salon color can help tame frizzy hair by conditioning it and adding more weight to your hair. And who doesn’t like hair that’s smoother and more manageable?

Shine

Color on the hair can create varied hues that pick up and reflect light differently, which gives the appearance of shine. Multidimensional color can make the hair seem more vibrant and really appealing.

Hair Protection

Hair color protects your hair from environmental effects like pollution, wind, or excessive heat from the sun, as well as cold temperatures in the winter.

 

What Is a Hair Toner?

A toner can be the most important part of your hair color service. It is a salon application that helps correct and/or personalize your hair color. It is used after a professional color treatment to add natural or more visible hues, enabling your hairstylist to make sure you get an even hair color result from root to tip. Toners are most commonly used for shades of blonde hair, but it can be beneficial for brunettes and redheads, too. In order for toner to work, hair has to be bleached or dyed first.

A hair toner is a demi-permanent hair color that can alter the state of the hair’s color and pH level. Toners can be applied in between color treatments, not only immediately right after one, so that your color lasts and looks fresh longer. (Click here to read about the difference between demi-permanent and semi-permanent hair color.)

Correcting Color: Your hairdresser can personalize your hair color with a toner by making it warmer or cooler in tone, and correcting shades. Most commonly, it is used to counteract brassiness (unwanted yellow or orange tones on bleached hair), which is a crucial step in going from a dark base to a light one. It can also come in the form of purple or blue shampoo for consistent use.

Fashion Colors: Growing in popularity for all ages, toners can add a bright pop of fashion color, without actually lifting the shade.

What is a Hair Gloss Treatment?

If you want the impact of a dye job without the commitment, a hair gloss is a good option. A gloss is a type of toner and is a temporary treatment that can help with both the health of your hair and its shade. Glosses typically gives your hair shine and evens out its tones. A gloss provides translucent color and intense conditioning. Semi-permanent hair gloss is typically a professional product of pigment mixed with developer. Direct dyes have just pure pigment and basically stain the hair. You don't have to change your natural hair color to get the benefits of a gloss. There's such thing as a clear gloss, which is an ultra-conditioning treatment for your strands. It will lower the pH level of your hair while giving it conditioning and shine.

What is a Hair Glaze Treatment?

Glaze is basically a gloss with one major difference: It has no ammonia or peroxide and can help to tame flyaway and frizzy hair. It’s basically a deep conditioning treatment that also helps to slightly boost color.  Glaze rests on top of the hair shaft and doesn’t bind as well as a gloss does. Therefore, it’s easier to wash out and you’ll only get about one week of added shine, as opposed to the 4-6 weeks a gloss gives you.

What is a Keratin Color Seal/Lock Treatment?

Color Lock & Smooth Keratin Treatment Spray is a professional salons treatment that is all the craze. This 2-in-1 formula is used after color or highlighting services to lock color in and prevent fading, while also serving as an express keratin treatment, providing frizz and curl control simply and quickly, and lasts 4-6 weeks. (Click HERE to read more about keratin treatments.) My salon recommends Keratherapy Color Lock & Smooth Keratin Treatment Spray, which replenishes natural keratin and collagen proteins that are lost over time; reduces frizz and blocks humidity; locks in color, extends vibrancy and protects from fading; adds shine and softness; and deeply penetrates the hair while smoothing and sealing the cuticle.

Go Ahead … Color Me Beautiful

Choosing the right hair color shade and color processing techniques can take your hair from dull and drab to gorgeous and unique. Don’t be afraid to try new hair colors, and new looks. Just be sure you find the right hair professional who can achieve the look you want without damaging your hair.

 

Read this transformation story HERE.

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Roswell, GA 30076 |  678-361-4247
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Created by:
Susan Leonard, Communications Marketing Specialist, Writer, and Graphic Designer

50 Shades of Not-Gray ... Silver is the New Blonde!

#GrannyHair – Gray Hair Is The Hottest Beauty Trend Of Spring/Summer 2015! 

For hundreds of years, gray hair has been synonymous with being old, being a grandmother, or a sign that a woman is “letting herself go,” and women everywhere have fought to “wash that gray right out of their hair.”  

But that’s all changed. Women of all ages, from 18 to 81, are embracing gray hair. My clients have been calling me, citing this current trend and saying they are thinking about ditching the dye and letting their natural gray grow in. I think it’s great to be brave in rebelling against a society that is so afraid of aging and judgmental of our elders. It is refreshing to see a trend that challenges the notion that only youthful looks can be beautiful.

Having said that, my best advice is: If you want to embrace your gray, remember that your BEST gray may not be your NATURAL gray. Adding a semi-permanent glosser and cool, ashy highlights can improve the color and texture, and, along with a great haircut, is one of the best-kept secrets of stylish gray-haired women. There’s a shade of gray for every type of complexion. Pewter, Platinum, Silver, Ice, Gainsboro, Gunmetal, Ash Gray, Sterling, Charcoal, Slate, Rocket Metallic, Stone, are among the not-so-natural “50 Shades of Not-Gray”. But I’ll address all that in a minute. 

So, how did this trend of younger women going gray emerge?

Jean Paul Gaultier was at the forefront of bringing granny glam into fashion. The models at his Autumn/Winter 2011 show stalked the catwalk with their hair coiffured into striking gray beehives. A year later Kelly Osbourne and Kate Moss both sported silver locks and since then everyone from Rihanna to Nicole Richie have been experimenting with the look. 

But BuzzFeed and Instagram credit the current BIG trend to 17-year-old Kylie Jenner, about five months ago (that’s Kylie, as in “Kardashian” … are we surprised?).  

As of this writing, the poll on BuzzFeed shows this:

#GrannyHair is the new style trend sweeping social media. The below Elite Daily article has shown up on my personal Facebook wall and Twitter feed a dozen times over the past week alone, and, at the time of writing this blog post, this article been shared 387,000 times!

“In an effort to stay eternally young, most ladies usually run to the salon every time they find a few horrifying silver strands in their color-treated hair.

Now, there’s a beauty trend popping up on our greydar: #GrannyHair. This edgy look is redefining the definition of 'going grey.'

That’s right, grey isn’t just for geriatrics anymore.

Thanks to the #GrannyHair movement, a growing number of girls are getting in on the old lady action and dyeing their ‘dos in all sorts of stunning, silver shades.”

Thinking of trying out the trend for yourself? 

Doing Gray the RIGHT Way!

FOUR London's colour specialist Brooke Bohan advises that this isn't the easiest look to achieve: "It can look totally fabulous if done professionally, but beware it is the hardest of all the colours to achieve with no damage to the hair," she cautions.

"The first step is to have a consultation so that a plan of action can be worked out with the client. It will usually take around six months to get hair to the gorgeous grey colour, depending on how much colour build-up the client already has on their hair. You have to grow out as much of the existing colour as possible.

Once the client is back to as much of their natural colour as possible the technique used is to bleach the hair to bring it up to almost white and then put an ash tone over it.

Only go to a reputable colour salon as it is very easy to end up with yellow not grey and demarcation lines where the build-up of colour hasn't been properly removed."

What’s the best way to embrace your NATURAL gray? Glossers (semi-permanent color) add hues of color and shine and can help you achieve a flattering look. If you are already naturally gray, a gloss application will have a very tonal effect as opposed to a solid, opaque color. The gloss will work with the variation of tone that you hair naturally has, allowing for a more subdued shade. Glossers are not as harsh as permanent/regular hair color. A gloss is very acidic and tightly closes the hair cuticle, resulting in a smooth surface texture that will reflect light and have a much softer feel to it. Regular color contains ammonia, which opens up the hair cuticle and deposits color into it, therefore prone to damage the hair, unless you are getting regular deep conditioning or Keratin Treatments. The best thing about glossers is that there's no commitment to it and it's going to fade on its own, within six weeks. So if you want to change your hair color, it won’t interfere with any type of chemical change you may want in the future.

Look fresh, not frumpy -- a great haircut is key to going gray. Celebrities who have opted for gorgeous gray such as Diane Keaton, Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Emmy Lou Harris all have beautiful haircuts with a few flattering brightening highlights and gloss treatments.

Maintain your gorgeous gray tones by using a silver shampoo to help brighten and remove brassy, unflattering tones. Gray hair has a natural tendency to have yellow tones, and that is definitely one of the 50 Shades of Not-Gray we want to avoid.

Thinking of going gray? Do it the RIGHT way and call Pat Alessi – Salon 1580 for a consultation: 678-361-4247.

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PAT ALESSI - SALON 1580
10800 Alpharetta Hwy., Suite 240
Salon Lofts, Lofts #11 and #13, Roswell Market Place
Roswell, GA 30076
678-361-4247
pat@patalessihair.com
www.patalessihair.com

  Copyright © 2015-2016. All Rights Reserved.  

Created by:Susan Leonard, Communications Marketing Specialist, Writer, and Graphic Designer

Age-Defying Hair Tips from Pat Alessi – Salon 1580

Age-Defying Hair Tips 

For age-defying hair styles, your best friends are bangs, layers and highlights. Tousled pieces hide regrowth, so you won’t need frequent touch-ups. 

A choppy cut with long bangs and bold, sunny streaks are immediate de-agers.

If you’re thinking red, go blonde; red hair, unless it’s natural, is tough on mature skin tones. It will expose and exaggerate blotchiness, brown spots or sallow undertones, but a honey blond with golden tones works every time. 

In your 40s and beyond, TLC is key. Heat styling and chemical processing make hair porous and prone to breakage. Keratin treatments are ideal. Smoother, straighter hair reflects light, de-emphasizing lines and creases in your face. Spend on moisturizing and hair-taming treatments as you would on wrinkle creams.

Your 20-something brunette shade won’t work when you’re 50. Extremely dark hair can look harsh and fake next to mature skin. Erase years by shifting from espresso brown to a softer shade, like maple or chestnut. 

If you want to show off your gray, remember that your best gray may not be your natural gray. Adding cool, ashy highlights can improve the color and is one of the best-kept secrets of stylish gray-haired women. 

Classic shoulder length, long and straight, or long waves are great for a more youthful look in your 40s. Avoid hair longer than shoulder-length 50+. For short hair, choose a short shag, layered bob, or long bob with bangs.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  PAT ALESSI - SALON 1580 10800 Alpharetta Hwy., Suite 240 Salon Lofts, Lofts #11 and #13, Roswell Market Place Roswell, GA 30076 678-361-4247 pat@patalessihair.com www.patalessihair.com   Copyright © 2015-2019. All Rights Reserved.   Created by: Susan Leonard, Communications Marketing Specialist, Writer, and Graphic Designer