hair color ideas and trends

You will run into hair color problems if you try to put color in your on your own. If you don't have money to pay a professional to put loreal hair color on your mane, then you might experience a disaster.
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Many consumers with color correction issues don't realize that hair color can not often be instantly reversed. It can take up to five visits for some serious color problems to be reversed.

Here's some useful hair color ideas that might teach you how to correct hair color problems.

1) The best way to correct hair color problems is to turn to a professional hair colorist for help. However, if you don't have enough money or are simply to embarrassed to call for help then you need to seek out other hair color ideas.

2) Here's a hair color idea for a specific situation: If the hair color used was a light to medium shade, you may be able to cover it with a semi-permanent hair color after a few days. However, dark hair color disasters are very hard to correct because the pigments in the dye are very strong.

3) If your color damage was caused by chlorine, that turned your shade to green. A special chlorine removing shampoo can be used to remove the green hue from your hair. If that method fails to work you can try soaking your hair in tomato juice which will neutralize the green hue.

4) Another solution to color damage is fading the color. This helps especially for color damage that is too bright. Heat, different types of shampoos, and various hair styling products can all cause the hair color to fade. Time and patience again is the key. The color will not fade instantly, but given enough time it will.

5) If you used a semi-permanent dye or a temporary dye, shampoo your hair several times with a clarifying or dandruff shampoo. These will help strip the color out of your hair.

6) If the shade of blonde you chose wound up turning green, try soaking your hair in tomato juice. The red in the tomato juice will help neutralize the green in most cases. If that doesn't work, look for a shampoo that is specifically designed for removing chlorine.

7)If you've used a henna dye to your hair, try a combination of alcohol and mineral oil to lighten the henna. First, apply a mixture of 70% alcohol to strands of hair. After about 10 minutes, apply the mineral oil on top of the alcohol. Cover with a plastic shower cap and sit under a hair dryer for 45 minutes. Apply a shampoo directly to your hair before applying water to remove the mineral oil. Next, lather and rinse hair. Repeat until all the oil and henna is removed from your hair.

8) Another option is to use hair accessories to help hide the color damage. Hair extensions and hats are ideal for camouflaging coloring mistakes. You can also use barrettes and other accessories to distract.

9) One of the biggest mistakes that women can make when dying their hair is to lighten their hair too much. This creates a brassy unnatural color that can wash you out and make you look trashy. To correct this problem you can simply apply a color that is a darker shade of blond, or try a new color.

10)One of the hair color problems that a lot of first time hair dyers face is under-developed hair color. This occurs when you don't let the hair dye process for a long enough period of time. If you are darkening or lightening your hair you may find that your hair has turned a brassy orange instead of the color that it is supposed to be. To fix this problem you will want to simply get a new box of hair dye and reapply it. This time make sure that you wait until the timer goes off before your rinse the dye out of your hair.

To prevent a hair coloring disaster in the future, remember it is usually best to see a professional hair colorist, rather than trying to dye your hair at home. Remember, your hair plays an important role in your self-image and deserves professional attention once in a while!

Here are the most popular hair color trends

Hair color trends for blondes:

- expensive look with natural finish, by weaving different shades of blonde, from sable, mink and vanilla through the hair. The "new" blonde is always paired with lowlights. Tone-on-tone coloring - like blonde on blonde - adds smart sophistication to any shading.

- The current hair color trend for blondes is warm tones...Golds, Coppers, Strawberry's. Also slightly pinkish shades (which are actually cool colors)...look for the word "Champagne.

- Blonde is always hot. Blonde is chic and glam. Blonde is too multifaceted a color to make you look plain and like everyone else around. There can never be two identical blondes. Especially in 2009. Natural blonde is hot this year.

When you want to make it fancy, add rich highlights and lowlights, play with the contrast and shades of color.

Hair color trends for Brunettes :

- Harsh black, purple and stripy highlights are gone from the scene - this season's colors are all natural and true to life, only better. For the perfect tone-on-tone brunette, get subtle golden highlights painted on top of a light but warm brunette base. To add depth, a slightly darker color at the roots and under layers will do the trick
- beautiful brunette! Celebs like Nicky Hilton, who went with a deep brown, are bringing some of the limelight back to the vivacious brunettes of the world.

Think warm tones when selecting your color, and if you're not looking to cover grey, go with a semi-permanent color, or a temporary product like Sebastian Colourshines.
- Always in vogue, brunette will get simple in 2009. Make sure you have your brunette hair look as natural as possible. 2009 is not about black, bright or stripy highlights, sorry.

Think the classic brunette shade. However, absence of highlights doesn't mean you can't improve the color by adding darker shades to make it look deep and carefully groomed.

Hair color trends for Reds:

Reds are always in fashion, right now the focus is on shades of copper. Of course, that's only if it compliments your skin tone. (If you generally don't wear orange, or like how you look in it, steer clear of copper hair!)

Season's most popular reds are warm shades that flicker depth and dimension on an intense base and golden highlights. But also shades of red, from burgundy and strawberry blonde to copper brown and auburn will be among the most wanted shades this year.

- The red color rocks this year. It's a hot color trend, though you must be careful with it as it's not always flattering. Warm shades of red are huge in 2009. Golden highlights on the top are very cute and very stylish.

And again, don't get simply plain red. Play with contract and shades, intensity of color and accents. Besides, the "traditional" red, there are several shades you can opt for - strawberry blonde, copper brown, burgundy or auburn.

Which celebs have an impact on hair color trends? Stylists across the country have named the influential hair color trend setters.

Here are the hot celebs and their trendy hair colors:

Jessica Biel: Belle Caramel
Sienna Miller: Flaxen Vixen
Amy Adams: Enchanted Red
Audrey Tautou: Highbrow Brunette
Anne Hathaway: Mahogany Shine
Gwyneth Paltrow: Sunny Honey