Hair colour advice from the experts

How you got your natural hair colour

If you're need hair colour advice, it helps to first understand how you got your natural hair colour. No one else has exactly the same hair colour as you. It may look black or brown, but there are subtle differences that are uniquely yours. Nature creates a different colour for everyone using only two types of pigment: eumelanin (black pigment) and pheomelanin (red/yellow pigment). Three factors determine hair colour: the type of melanin stored in the cortex of the hair; how many melanin granules exist; and whether those granules are close together or far apart.

If your natural hair colour is:

Black - It contains densely packed melanin granules full of black pigment.

Brown - It contains a loose pattern of black-filled granules OR granules blended with both black and red/yellow pigments.

Blonde - It contains very few granules with very little bits of black pigment.

Red - It contains loosely packed granules containing red/yellow pigment.

Grey - a grey hair contains little or no pigment as the pigment cells in the follicle have died. It will show up as silver, gray, or white as it grows. Eventually, all the pigment cells will die and the hair becomes completely gray.

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