Permanent Hair Color

What Brands of Demi-Permanent Hair Color Are Available?

Whether you want to cover up a few strands of gray or just want to update your look, coloring your hair is a quick fix for a fabulous 'do. But the type of color you choose can make a difference in the health of your hair and how often you have to...

How to Get Your Hair From Black to Blonde With Semi-Permanent Hair Color

Going from black to blonde is more than a bold statement: it's also a daring challenge for the self-made stylist. To lighten your locks, you'll have to bleach them -- a project best saved for the safety of the salon. Semi-permanent dye only coats...

Recommended Semi-Permanent Hair Colors

Semi-permanent color is one way to try out a new hue on your locks without fully committing to it. If you're just not quite sure about the color change, semi-perm might be the way to go. But you need to educate yourself on hair color choice and...

Are There Any Permanent Hair Dyes That Are Not Harmful?

The smell that bowls you over when you walk into a salon or mix a bottle of hair dye at home -- the choking fumes that make your eyes water and your throat catch -- may do your health damage over time. Those are ammonia, peroxide, coal tar dyes...

Semi-Permanent Hair Color Hairstyles

If you like to change your hairstyle practically as often as you change your clothes, semi-permanent dye was practically made for you. It’s gentler than its more permanent cousin, and what you see is what you get: Meaning the dye is actually...

Does Perspiration Affect Permanently Applied Hair Color?

Sweating out your hair color while you work up a sweat sounds crazy -- but it can happen, even with permanently applied hair color. Gradually, the salt in sweat bruises the hair follicle, letting out the color pigments trapped inside. While it's...

Permanent Hair Coloring Guides

It’s time to cover those grays for good. There are three types of hair color: Semi-permanent, which can only darken hair and fades easily; demi-permanent, which lasts four to six weeks; and permanent, which can both darken and lighten hair...

Can I Use a Demi-Permanent Hair Color After a Relaxer?

You've got to be careful when using relaxers and hair dye together, since the wrong combination can really fry your locks and cause hair breakage. Demi-permanent hair dye seems like a good compromise at first, but it's a tad too rough for newly...

Instructions for Revlon Colorsilk

Revlon Colorsilk hair dye will transform your boring locks into something fabulous. This permanent hair color provides a long-lasting shade with minimal damage to your hair. But just like with any other at-home hair color, it’s important to...

How to Take Permanent Hair Color Off of Fabric

If you've had a no-brainer moment and slopped hair dye on your favorite blouse or sweater, don't feel bad. Everybody has that regretful moment from time to time. Unfortunately, you can't turn back time and undo the damage. You can't procrastinate,...

How to Recolor Hair After Non-Permanent Coloring

Non-permanent hair color gives you flexibility without the risk of a fashion fail. When a temp dye job goes right, you can recreate it using the same hue. Keep the look going or, if it's a total bust, recolor your locks with a different hue or...

How to Remove Permanent Hair Color From Skin

So you decided to give yourself an at-home coloring job, but by the time you are finished, the dye is on more places than just your hair--including your skin. Sure, you saved some money by opting to turn your bathroom into a salon, but now you're...

How to Use a Demi-Permanent Hair Color After Henna

If you're tired of the red henna hair look, dyeing over it with a new color is not that simple. Henna alters the structure of your hair follicles so they resist dye penetration. While this makes hair color tricky, you can finesse a workaround that...

Does Hair Dye Permanently Alter Hair Color?

Coloring your hair can be an anxiety-inducing experience. It's hard to tell from the box exactly what shade you'll get, and the dye itself might have a strange hue unrelated to the final color when you apply it. What if you hate the result? Most...

How to Improve Porous Hair

If you walk outside and your hair gets so frizzy it looks like the Bride of Frankenstein's coif, it's a safe bet you have porous locks. If your hair is extremely flat, or if you get it relaxed, permed, chemically straightened or permanently...

How to Fade Demi-Permanent Hair Color More Quickly

Are you desperate to break up with your hair color? If you colored your hair with a semi-permanent or demi-permanent hair color, the good news is you can ditch your hair color quickly. With the help of a special shampoo you can give your hair...

How to Protect Skin From Semi-Permanent Hair Color

Nothing wrecks a fabulous new hair color faster than a matching ring of stained skin all around your head. Unfortunately, the same pigment that transforms your hair color is also easily absorbed into the skin. Fortunately, there is a product that...

How to Prepare Hair for Permanent Color

When you decide to color, you've got lots to think about. While choosing your new shade might be first on your mind, there are other details, too. To get the best results with vivid color and killer shine, your hair has to be healthy. Start...

How to Highlight Hair Over Permanent Color

Honey, you're never going to get highlights with that bottle of color. Once you go color, you can't go back. Well, you can, but it takes more than that measly bottle of color. You need muscle, a.k.a. bleach. With the right stuff you can add a few...

How to Lighten Permanent Hair Dye

There's something you should know about permanent hair dye; it's quite permanent. Sure, it fades a little, and the tone can change over time. Yet, once you have it, you're pretty much stuck with it. You can color over it to make it darker, change...

How to Get Permanent Hair Color Out

We've all heard of hair color horror stories. While most of them are funny when they happen to other people, it's a nightmare when we experience it ourselves. Some dark-haired women have been left with orange hair when attempting to go blonde....

How to Lighten Your Dark Hair With a Permanent Hair Color

Girl, step away from that bottle of bleach! It's much too harsh for what you want to do. Yes, your hair is naturally dark, but it's all you. It's what Mother Nature gave you, and you don't need bleach to lighten it up a little. Hair color lifts...