Hairs is 1 of the most important part of your personality. If you want to look beautiful, you should try to maintain your Hair color and a good Hair style. They can add a lot to your personality as personality is all about how you look and groom yourself. About more than 1/3rd of total women that makes 70% of women over the age of 18 years use Hair colors and about 10% of men over the age of 40 years use Hair colors.
More than 5,000 chemicals are used in different Hair products. These chemicals may depend on the type of color and coloring agent that you choose for yourself.
The first safe commercial Hair color was manufactured in 1909 by French Chemist Eugene Schuller. Paraphenylenediamine was used for the manufacturing of this Hair dye. This dye was made in the result of so many chemical reactions that took place between the Hair molecules, pigments, peroxide and Ammonia. All these things are essential for Hair coloring.
Types of Hair Colors
Following are the few types of Hair Colors:
- Permanent Hair colors
- Gradual Hair colors
- Temporary Hair colors
- Semi-permanent Hair colors
1. Permanent Hair Colors
Permanent Hair coloring agents make up about 80% of the market. These agents do not wash easily.
2. Gradual Hair Colors
These Hair colors are applied with the passage of time to have the desired shade.
3. Temporary Hair Colors
Temporary Hair colors are washed by the application of shampoos.
4. Semi-permanent Hair Agents
They stay even after multiple washes and don’t go quickly.
Disadvantages of Permanent Hair Color
Permanent Hair colors can alter the texture of Hair; they bind to the surface of Hair, making them weak, dry and brittle. The damages of Permanent Hair dyes can be minimized with the use of conditioners containing Silicone in it.
Bleaching of Hair
Hairs are always bleached with the Hydrogen Peroxide. It removes the original color of them and makes them White or Yellowish White. Hair bleaching may not lead to the falling of Hair but it usually makes your Hair dry and brittle, same can be done with the dyeing of Hairs. New growth of Hair is not affected by the Bleach so they grow normally.
Frequent Changing of Hair Colors
Frequent changing of Hair colors can damage your Hair, making them dry and brittle. People should wait for at least 4 weeks between colorings. To maintain the color that you have, people should just color their new grown roots that can be seen. Hair grows about 0.3 mm to 0.4 mm every day on your Scalp, so it may grow up to 8.5 mm to 11mm in 4 weeks.
Exposure to Water and Sunlight
Damage to colored Hairs can be prevented by limiting the exposure to Sunlight and Water. Sunlight may lead to the fading of Hair dye and frequent washing can make Hair dry.
Coloring of Eyebrows
The products that you use to dye your Hair should never be used for the Eyebrows; it may lead to serious reactions on the Skin or in Eyes because they come in direct contact with the Eyes. The FDA advices people not to use Hair dyes on Eyebrows or Eyelashes at home or at parlors. If you want make the color of your Eyebrows darker, you should try to do it with the Eyebrow pencils, gels or Powders that are made especially for Eyebrows. It is not necessary to match the color of your Eyebrows with the Hair dye. It does not matter if the color of Hair and Eyebrows is not same.
Natural Look in Old Age
The color of our Skin becomes transparent with the passage of age. Too dark Hair color can make you look pale and too light Hair color can ruin your complexion, in other words it makes your complexion dull. For a natural look, Hair experts say that people should change their Hair color, in order to enhance the beauty and looks.
Result of Hair Colors on Gray Hairs
Permanent Hair colors give best result on more than 50% of Gray Hairs. Gray Hair has fewer pigments. Pigments are the substance that may give color to the Hair. The permanent Hair coloring may take away pigments from the Natural Hair so, the addition of artificial color to the Gray or natural color gives a balanced look to your Hairs.
Motivation for Hair Coloring
About more than of 3rd of women over the age of 18 years use Hair colors. All of them have different motivations, some want to hide their Gray Hair, some wants to change their looks and some want to look stylish or adding some classy look to their Natural Hair color.
Pre-testing Of Hair Dye
FDA suggests that before applying the dye on your Hair, you should try to check a bit of it on your Elbow, inside or outside. It should be tested 2 days before its application on the Hairs. The result will be shown within 2 days, whether it suites you or not. If any rash develops, this means it will not suit you. This is known as patch test, people should do this at least once before applying on Hair, it will make you sure that you are not allergic to this exact dye.
Henna, a Natural Hair Dye
Henna is a natural dye that is prepared from the leaves and roots of Mignonette Tree. It is a semi-permanent type of coloring dye.
It produces a color of Brown, Orange-Brown, Reddish-Brown shade however more products can be added to Henna to produce colors like Blue and Black.
Gradual Hair Dyes
Gradual Hair Dyes are mostly used by the men to color their Gray Hair. These Hair dyes may contain Lead Acetate in it; this Lead Acetate is known as “Probable Human Carcinogen”. This chemical is tested on the animals. The FDA says that these products, which contain Lead Acetate, are safe to use. People should carefully see the instructions and harmful products should be kept away from the kids.
Risks from Hair Dyes
An analysis of 4 studies shows that women who used to dye their Hair before 1980, they may be at risk of non-Hodgkin Lymphoma as compare to those who have not dyed them before. Now manufactures have changed the formulas for the making of Hair dyes in the mid to late 1970s. There is no evidence that Hair coloring have caused damage to the Hair.
Researches about Hair Coloring
An American Congress of Obstetricians Gynecologists recommends that is not completely safe to dye the Hair during pregnancy even though some of the Dye is absorbed in to the Skin.
The American Academy of Family Physicians suggests avoiding the exposure to Hair dyes and other Hair treatments during first 3 months of Pregnancy, in order to avoid the future complications.
If you are pregnant and you want to change your Hair color, you should consider Highlights because fewer chemicals are used for the process of Highlighting Hairs.
If you want to color your Hair, you should have complete information about the process the Hair dying, so that you Hairs may not get damaged.
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