COLOUR THEORY

WHY STUDY HAIR COLOURING?

• Hair colouring allows us to express our creativity.
• Clients request and require amazing hair colour services that cover gray,
• Enhance haircuts amd help balance out face shapes.
• Hair colour products include strong chemical ingredients so we need to know
• How they work so that we can provide colour services safely.

WHY DO PEOPLE COLOUR THEIR HAIR?

• Cover or blend gray
• Enhance existing colour
• Create a fashion statement or self expression
• Correct un wanted tones
• Accentuate a haircut

HAIR FACTS

• We need to know the make up of the clients hair to determine
• Which hair colour to use.
• The structure of the hair will affect the quality of the hair colour
• By knowing how the products work with the hair you will be able
• To make the best choice for your client

HAIR STRUCTURE

• Hair is made up of 3 major components.
• 1. The cuticle - outermost layer of the hair
• It protects the cortex of the hair and is 20 %
• Of the over all strength of the hair

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• 2. The cortex. - middle layer of the hair.
• The cortex gives the hair most of its
• Strength and elasticity
• It contains the natural pigment called
• Melanin that determines natural hair colour.

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• 3. The medulla -
• The inner layer of the hair.
• Sometimes does not exist in the hair
• Does not play a role in hair colouring

IDENTIFYING NATURAL HAIR COLOUR

• Natural hair colour varies from black to dark brown to red
• And from dark blond to light blonde
• Hair colour is unique to each person.

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• There are 3 different types of melanin
• 1. Eumelanin - the melanin that gives the hair black & brown colours.
• 2. Pheomelanin - the melanin that gives the hair blond & red colours
• 3. Mixed melanin - a combo of natural hair colour that has eumelanin
• And pheomelanin

COLOUR THEORY

• The law of colour
• - The law of colour is a system for understanding colour relationships
• When combining colours you will always get the same result from
• The same combination.
• Equals parts of red and blue always make violet.

LAW OF COLOUR CONT

• Equal parts of blue and yellow always make green.
• Equal Parts of red and yellow always make orange.

PRIMARY COLOURS

• Primary colours are pure colours
• Red , yellow & blue
• They can not be created by mixing other colours
• Blue is the strongest primary colour. & is the only cool primary colour
• As well as bringing coolness to a colour it also adds depth or darkness to any colour

PRIMARY COLOURS

• Red is the medium primary colour
• Adding red to blue based colours will make them lighter.
• Adding red to yellow colours will make them darker.
• Yellow is the weakest primary colour.
• Adding yellow to other colours will make them appear lighter.

SECONDARY COLOURS

• A secondary colour is created by mixing equal parts
• Of two primary colours
• They are green , orange and violet.

TERTIARY COLOURS

• A tertiary colour is an intermediate colour
• Created by mixing a secondary colour and its closest primary colour together.
• They are blue-green, blue-violet, red-violet, red-orange, yellow- orange , and yellow-green
• Natural looking hair colour is made up of primary, secondary and tertiary colours.

THE COLOUR WHEEL

• The colour wheel includes all of the colours.
• ( primary, secondary and tertiary)
• Complementary colours neutralize each other out.
• Ex. Red and green neutralize each other out.

TONES WARM VS COOL

• Colours with a predominance of blue are cool colours.
• Colours with a pre dominance if red or yellow are warm colours.
• Cool colours include, blue, violet and green
• Warm colours include red, yellow and orange
• Warm tones can look lighter than their actual level.

WARM VS COOL TONES

• Cool tones can look deeper than their actual level.

THE LEVEL SYSTEM

• The level system is a system that colorists use
• To determine the lightness or darkness of a hair colour.
• Hair colour levels range from 1-10
• 1 being the darkest and 10 being the lightest.