Hair Color
All Hair Color articles
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At-Home Hair Color: The Complete Guide
Coloring your hair at home works best for covering gray, going darker or staying close to your natural shade. Get tips for great results.
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Root Touch-Up Products: Start, Upgrade, or Overkill
Are your gray roots showing before dinner plans? See which root touch-up fits your needs, from a quick spray that washes out to an at-home k…
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Box Dye Gone Wrong? Breathe First
Brassy, patchy or way too dark? Most box dye mistakes can be fixed at home once you match the fix to the problem, and some call for a colori…
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Madison Reed vs L’Oréal Excellence
Are you coloring your hair at home? Madison Reed and L'Oréal Excellence go head to head on smell, gray coverage and price, plus a mask to ke…
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Learn the Salon Words Before the Cape Goes On
A plain-English glossary of color, cutting, toning and smoothing terms, each group shown on real work from six stylists.
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Teasylights Whisper, Foilyage Shouts
Both end up in foil and both grow out softly. Five colorists show what changes when the hair gets teased first or painted first.
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Lived-In Color Is Built for Week Twelve
Lived-in color is planned to look as good months later as it does on day one. Six colorists show how it works on blonde, brunette, red and g…
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Balayage Gets Painted, Highlights Get Foiled, Babylights Get Tiny
Six colorists show the real difference between balayage, foil highlights and babylights, and what each one asks of you between appointments.
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Gray Hair Doesn’t Turn Gray. It Grows In That Way.
What's really happening at the root, why silver behaves so differently once it's in, and five women and colorists who wear it well, plus the…
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Keep Coloring or Let the Silver In?
Five colorists and creators show every route through gray, from total coverage and a half blend to a seven-hour silver correction and the bi…
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Gray Hair Needs a Different Routine: Here’s What Changes
Gray hair grows in coarser and drier, which is why it frizzes and turns yellow. A few routine changes keep it soft and bright.
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Why Hair Turns Gray: The Actual Biology
Each gray hair grows in without color rather than fading. Your genes play the biggest role, and the science behind it is pretty fascinating.
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Orange Brass on Brown Hair Wants Blue, Not Purple
Why lightened brown hair turns coppery, why blue shampoo cancels it better than purple, and how to tone without going ashy.
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Purple Shampoo Every Third Wash, Not Every Wash
Four real blonde, platinum and highlighted results from working stylists, plus how often colorists say to reach for the purple bottle.
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Toner Isn’t Only for Icy Blondes
Cool silver, creamy gray-blonde, soft gold and honey brunette: four toned results from colorists, plus the glosses and toners that get you c…
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Glaze, Gloss and Toner Are Not the Same Appointment
A quick in-shower glaze, a bronde gloss, a silver toner and a blonde gloss that tones, with what colorists say sets each one apart.
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How to Remove Chlorine and Fix Green, Brassy Hair After Swimming
Did a pool day leave your hair green or brassy? You can wash out the chlorine, fix the tint and protect your color for the rest of the summe…
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Your Shower Can Do a Salon Gloss
An at-home hair gloss smooths the cuticle, adds shine and can refresh faded color in about 20 minutes. Five creators show the results on bru…
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Why Bleached Hair Needs What It Needs
Lightening strips color from your hair and leaves it more porous, which explains why blonde hair needs extra care. See what it really needs…
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Sun-In Still Works, Just Not on Every Head of Hair
What spray-in lightener really does, who gets soft sunny pieces and who gets orange, and the salon looks it's trying to copy.