Hair Color & Styling

Hair By Harry Logan

Hair Color Secrets:

COLOR: Ideally, hair color should compliment your skin tone.

• Pale skin: Almost any hair color will look good on pale skin.
• Pinkish skin tone: You should avoid shades of golden blonde or red color. Ash tones will will neutralize your skin tone.
• Yellowish (Sallow) skin tone: You should avoid shades of yellow, gold or orange. Deep reds will work well.
• Olive skin tone: Most dark colors will work well. You could add richness with red or brown low-light shades.
• European Hair Color: Some salons advertise this type of product as a much better color line than the salon down the road from them. In reality, it depends upon the actual product line itself. Some of the European Color lines do offer more conditioning and bolder shades; however -- certain professional color product lines fade much faster -- requiring you to spend more money more often in touch ups. A secondary consideration is whether or not the salon staff has been properly trained in the "european" color line -- including the expert areas of "fixing" a bad color job. Too often, the salon staff does NOT have enough training or hands-on expertise to claim that their color line is better than the salon down the street and, if that is the case, advertising "European Hair Color" is just a unethical business practice.

HIGHLIGHTS: There are essentially four types of highlights.

Low-lighting: putting sections of darker color into lighter hair.

Chunking (also known as "piecing"): Creating chunks of color in the hair. It is an expensive method that requires frequent touch ups.

Bialiage (also known as "hair painting"): Free-hand highlighting techniques. Should be done within a couple shades of original hair color. Usually designed to work specifically with a particular haircut or hairstyle. Usually the least expensive method.

Foil Highlights: Placing packets of foil in the hair creating anywhere from subtle to dramatic color effects in the hair and hairstyle. Used primarily to optimize and emphasize. the cut and style. Foil Highlights are the easiest for a professional to touch-up. Easiest to place hair color within the style.

Post Color Hair Care: Use a low ph professional shampoo recommended by an experienced stylist (not a "receptionist" or "manager").