Will coloring your hair damage your hair?

The fashion industry is taking the world by storm, be it clothes, footwear, accessories, hair or beauty. Girls just give in to the latest trends hitting the market. They want to look stylish by wearing the trendiest clothes and footwear in the town with matching accessories. They want to try the hottest hair color and a suitable beauty treatment procedure to enhance their beauty.

Women all over the world love to flaunt their style thus want to try all the trends ruling the market. Right from the hair, to the nails of their toes, they make sure that it is perfectly done. Well, among others, one of the hottest trends flaring the air is hair coloring. When it comes to hair coloring there is a lot of confusion in choosing the best brand, choosing the perfect color and choosing the best hair professional to do the job right. Now in most of the professional hair salons, there are hair artists who will suggest you the right hue to match your skin tone, the perfect product and the after-care tips. Though hair coloring can be fun, you need to weigh the side-effects it carries along.

Will coloring your hair damage your hair? Now this is the most common question that pops up in your mind when you go for hair color treatment. Though the damage may not show up immediately, but over a period of time, maybe in a few weeks, you might notice some effects on your natural hair.

Dry and brittle hair: The hair coloring products contain chemicals like ammonia that loosens the cuticles of the hair and hydrogen peroxide that acts as a color developer.

1. What does ammonia do: To deposit new color into your hair shafts, the color pigment should be able to penetrate into it for which the cuticle needs to be lifted up. The cuticle acts as a protective layer to protect your hair shaft which has to be removed and this is what the ammonia in your hair color does. Once the cuticle is lifted, ammonia elevates the pH level of your hair. The damage is done right there since cuticle should never be lifted.
2. What does hydrogen peroxide do: After the cuticle is split away, hydrogen peroxide, the harmful bleaching agent removes the natural hair color and gives way for the new color. Since peroxide is a drying agent, it adds to the damage caused by ammonia. The natural color protein in your hair is oxidized making it colorless. Now your hair looks like a dry straw.
3. Color Pigment: Now the color plays its part. Since the cuticle is split up and the natural hair color is oxidized, the color pigment bonds over to the cortex. The color is permanent and remains in your hair till you develop new growth. It cannot be washed off your hair.  

Though there are professional salons where the qualified and experienced hair technicians help to reduce the damages caused by hair color, but still you have to be patient and regular with the hair care methods and use professional range of hair care products for the results to last long. Moreover there are other alternatives that are not as damaging, but they either do not last longer or the effects are not as satisfying. However, with proper after-care you can have those shiny locks intact.

Purity Hair design is an organic hair salon serving Albany and the greater Capital Region.