The best approach to lightening your roots if you already have lighter sections (eg. highlights, balayage or pre-lightened lengths) is to colour match the colour on your lengths.…
Category: Before you Colour
Home Colouring for Men
More than 70% of women colour their hair. We are all used to seeing different tones and colours in women’s hair. It’s a little bit different for men.…
Ten tips to reduce porosity in your hair (and avoiding darker colour results or colour fade)
We would all like to maintain peak colour – that hair highpoint when your fresh colour looks great. However…for a variety of reasons, some of us are more…
Living With Hair While Being Female
In completely non-surprising news, a Moneysaver HQ investigation has found that hair maintenance for women typically costs between $160-$250 every 6-8 weeks, compared to the average outlay of…
Can Phthalates Cause Harm?
Many of us are actively trying to avoid exposure to unnecessary chemicals. Some chemicals are established allergens which can trigger unpleasant allergic reactions from either single use or…
Ongoing, flawless grey coverage – Less colour, more often
If you love your greys, then full power to you. Keep them and enjoy the liberty from home or salon colouring. We admire and respect non-conformist silver foxes.…
Ask our Colourists!
Expertise, included! We don’t just bring you better hair colour with healthier ingredients, we include personalised expert colourist advice too. Colour selection and home colouring are just so…
Customised colour – Duo Colour Kits
Perfect, Personalised Colour Blends Looking for a colour which is a little bit this, and a little bit that and 100% you? Sitting on the bronde fence and…
5 Tips for Flawless Hair Colour at Home
Getting flawless colour isn’t as hard as you think. Here are a few tips to help your hair colour look perfect. Timing really is everything when it comes…
How Hair Porosity Affects Hair Colour
Most non-colourists have never heard of porosity before when dealing with hair. It is always good to learn something new, so we’re letting you know a bit more…
Q. Where does brassiness come from? A. Natural Contributing Pigment
Why, why do we battle brassiness? What is actually going on? To understand brassiness, we must understand Natural Contributing Pigment (NCP). Natural contributing pigment is the varying degree…
5 Tips to Help you Care for your Colour
Well done! You’ve got the colour, tools and techniques to achieve gorgeous colour results at home. Now you just need to keep it looking it’s best by preventing…
Damaged Hair + Colouring
Straightening and drying and lightening and colouring and balayaging and straightening and heat styling and…. Friends, it’s a lot. Honestly, from glancing at hair (in a non-creepy way)…
Please don’t fry your hair
I see over-processed hair everywhere I go. Hair whose condition is so terrible that it frankly doesn’t matter how nice the colour is, there’s no getting past the…
Pre-softening to Colour Resistant Greys
Why is grey hair sometimes resistant to colouring? Grey hair lacks the pigment that is present within naturally coloured hair. Lack of colour pigmentation is usually age related…
Bleach Washing Your Hair
Bleach washing is an easy, effective, hair-friendly way to lift your colour, remove darker pigments and achieve a lighter colour result. If you want to lighten your hair,…
Is your colour safe to use during pregnancy or when breast-feeding?
That’s exactly the kind of question a great mum or mum-to-be would ask, so well done for being fabulous at the mothering gig already! Firstly, congratulations on your…
My colour result is darker than I expected. Why?
Aah, the surprise darker colour result. We do wish it didn’t happen, and that all colouring outcomes were perfect representations of their particular colour, but, alas, it doesn’t…
Lightening Your Lovely Locks
How much can you lighten your hair colour? Good question! The answer depends on whether your hair has been previously coloured. If your hair is natural, virgin, uncoloured,…
Hair Colour Allergies – PPD Reactions
When someone has an allergy to hair dye, they are most likely allergic to one of the chemicals in the dye rather than the entire product. The most…