Tips for Great at Home Hair Coloring

Choosing to color your hair at home, especially for the first time, can be quite intimidating, and the color not turning out right has sent many a woman in tears to the hair dresser or salon, where she will pay twice as much to repair the damage caused. However, it doesn't have to be this way!

Coloring your hair at home, using over the counter products, can be successful and save you a lot of money in the long run as long as you follow the instructions on the kit you purchase, and pay attention to these ten tips for making the most of your at home hair coloring process.

At Home Hair Coloring Tip #1

When you first decide to color your hair, you need to pick a hair color that works for you, and therefore, in the beginning, you want to buy several different hair coloring kits to determine which one is the best for you and your hair.

You want to purchase one kit that represents the color you are hoping your hair color will be when finished, and then buy two more kits, one that is one shade darker than you would like and one that is one shade lighter than you would like.

Unless you are planning to process your hair much lighter (such as 'going blonde' from brunette or red), this should be sufficient.

Using a pair of scissors, cut three small strips of hair from behind your neck, where hair is usually the thickest. The strands don't have to be large, but just enough to be able to see how the hair coloring kit will shade the strands. Follow the instructions for each kit, and when finished, dry the hair strands, and this way you can see exactly how the kit will color your hair.

Pick the kit you like the best, and you're good to go. From this point forward, you can choose the same shade and do not have to repeat this process each time. It should be known, if you're hair is very dark or very red, at home blonding kits usually require more than one step, and may not give desired results by using the box kits - the at home hair coloring for blondes really works best on hair that is already light.

At Home Hair Coloring Tip #2