Tips, tricks and techniques from the professionals

Blue, Green, Pink and Purple: The trend-conscious women wear this fall and winter not just as fashion, but also on the head, because gaudy hair colors are in vogue. Stars such as Lena Dunham, Rita Ora and Kylie Jenner’s make before. We love the looks between pop and soft pastels Grell especially now that the days are cloudy. Colors namely lift the mood! How to obtain them as gentle and nice as possible to the hair, we will tell you.

Enie is shortage hairdresser and dyes her hair a half years since turquoise blue. So it is for their customers a real style model, because many visitors her salon hairdressing chain ‘unisex’ come to her because they also want a colorful head – currently preferably in blue or violet. But how do you get the garish colors actually get into hair?

Basically, everything is very similar to the conventional hair dyeing, says Knapp. A few differences exist but: In contrast to the hair colors that imitate red, brown or blond shades, need garish colors a special underground, more precisely, the hair must be artificially brightened – with an emphasis on ‘artificial’, because only then its cuticle is slightly open and the pigments found in hair maintenance. Even on Sweden blond natural hair holds the artificial color is not as good as on lightened hair.

Easy ephemeral beauty

Still holding the artificial pigment in blue or violet not so good in the hair like its counterpart in brown or red. So far, the color bright colors namely only with the durability of a Intensive tint. A permanent anchoring of the pigments in the hair (as is the case with traditional hair colors) is not chemical-physical point of view with the products currently available possible. The manufacturer of colorful hair colors (eg ‘Directions’, ‘fudge’ or ‘Manic Panic’) have found no method that can inject the dye molecules into the hair and anchor there.

In practice this means: If a rich, vibrant hair color in bright stained wishes must often re-dyeing. After the first dyeing the hair fades very quickly – especially if the mop should be blue. Refills washing after the fourth or fifth time a new pigment, otherwise it’s very fast toward green. Moment, why green and not, for example, light blue? Blonde hair is actually yellow hair and blue pigments is to green when they are too weak to completely overlap the yellow explains General Enie Knapp.

With frequent re-dyeing but you get this problem under control, because at some point so many pigments have attached that the color remains bright and lush long. Three to four weeks you have until the next dyeing time. Enie Knapp’s Tip: The hair wash too often!

Colorful hair dye: After care is mandatory

The chemical change in the bleaching colorful dyed hair is strained and prone to hair breakage and split ends. Lush care with quality ingredients is therefore required! The recommendation of Enie Knapp: At each washing rinsing or after a Leave-in Conditioner. After every fifth wash, the hair enjoy intensive treatment. Sounds complicated, but it must be. Otherwise looks colorful dyed hair quickly rough, dull and unkempt.

What to do if you do not like me?

With colors to experiment and try new things in her hair is great, but do not always like the results. Who is not satisfied, has several options:

Bleaching: This can be a big part of the pigments are dissolved out of the hair. But Enie Knapp warns lightly bleach the hair again: “The dyed hair is no longer in such good shape and re-bleaching can completely ruin it then.”

Washing and drown later

Ok, the last course – but is most gentle for the hair. With deep cleaning the shampoo or dandruff shampoo containing sulfur can be drawn in the first week ever much pigment from the hair. Has the cropping recovered somewhat, then you can bring with a tint the hair in the direction of natural clay.

Colorful hair color: at home or at the hairdresser?

The original color is not a problem that you can make at home, says Enie Knapp. However, she does not recommend to bleach the hair before himself. Either one has yet behind dark spots in the hair, for example, at the back, or you accidentally bleached games several times and the hair becomes so porous that it stops.

Today, Green, Pink tomorrow: How many times can you change?

I watch Lily Allen, Ke$ha and Kelly Osbourne on, you might think hair to dye colorful would be as simple as brushing your teeth. For as they carry many stars and starlets currently almost every week a different, brightly colored paint in her hair – at times also highlights, different nuances. But so simple it is unfortunately not with the stained-dyeing. Enie Just want to put the experiment not too narrow limits, but warns to constantly dye the hair in new trendy colors. This looks super cool, but is a horror for the hair.

Who is its color long faithful, has in the long run more of it. Enie Knapp itself always bleached only the regrown approach, for example, and then over the entire hair the turquoise blue tint. Thus, the stress for the hair is limited and the color is beautiful and lush bright. Their conclusion as a color expert with color-weakness: No big experiments, then see the hair of beautiful.