When it comes to getting a new hair colour, you can do everything right. From stalking Pinterest to find the perfect beachy-balayage reference pic, to eating beans on toast for a week so that you can afford to go to a fancy hair salon. All that effort, and then you walk out of the hairdressers feeling underwhelmed… Why? Your new hair colour isn't quite right.
We've all been there.
In the hopes of putting an end to dodgy dye jobs, I would like to shed a little light on the most common colouring pitfalls – the mistakes we don't even know we're making… From picking the wrong shade for your skin tone to colour placement that doesn't flatter your face shape. Here's what not to do…
The 5 most common colour mistakes:
1. Bad colour placement. "This is where the highlights are not strategically placed throughout the hair to suit the client’s facial shape, hair texture, and length."
2. A dodgy ombré. "This is often done free hand, so you need to be careful as if the colour isn’t blended perfectly it can look awful
3. Colour bands "are another faux pas, which is essentially when a colourist hasn't quite matched your roots to your mids-lengths and ends, so the finish is disjointed and off balance."
4. Bleeds."Nope, we're not talking about a hair stylist snipping your ear, this is when a colour expands while in the foil. This can happen if too much is used or the foil isn’t folded properly. Ultimately it leads to the colour over flowing (bleeding) out from the foil and onto parts of the hair that you don't want to be coloured . Not a good look."
5. Breakage. Need I say more….