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Tired of Covering Your Gray Hair with Hair Coloring

This question has come up often enough in my classes to know it’s blog-worthy. Just picture yourself down the road a few more years or decades whatever the case may be. You’ve been hair coloring since you can’t remember and now you are tired of the hassle and expense of touching up roots every 4 to 6 weeks. How do you go about going “au natural?”

Most of you know you shouldn’t just let your hair grow out – way to scary! If you see someone using this strategy, please help them out with what you learn here. (The easiest solution you can give them is to go on a mission to find a hair color specialist.) Some women have been left without answers to this question and therefore think they have no alternative but to look hideous in the growing hair out process, or they just keep hair coloring when they really don’t want to.

So, first of all if your hairstylist “hems and haws” think twice and engage a hair colorist. You want a hair colorist who is confident in the strategy they are going to use. If your hairstylist seems shaky, there is a good reason. They are not sure what to do with your gray hair! If a hairstylist takes you on with this attitude, they are surely getting experience at your expense. Follow your instincts carefully on this one. If it just does not feel right, be assertive.

These are my suggestions:

• If your hair has been permanently colored or bleached, a short haircut will be the quickest. Then you can use a semi-permanent hair color or hair color rinse in your natural shade to blend till your hair grows out. You can have a professional blend your new growth by “low-lighting”. Low-lighting is just the opposite of highlighting. Depositing streaks of hair color using a semi-permanent hair color to blend until the old hair color is cut out. Your gray hair will start to come in naturally but without a line of demarcation.
• The darker your hair color is, the trickier the process becomes. The process of low-lighting hair may take a bit longer. This is why going with a short haircut would be a good idea. It will make the process much smoother and quicker.

Next time you place an order at Amazon take a peak at “Going Gray, Looking Great! by Diana Lewis Jewell,” she’s the guru on the topic.

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Thinking Botox? Try an Eyebrow Makeover First

As I was multi-tasking the other morning, I had “The View” on TV while I was processing a hair style makeover and I heard something like this: “Try an eyebrow makeover instead of Botox. It can make you look 10 years younger in just 5 minutes!”

The BS meter in my brain pegged, surely this is corporate happy talk overkill. I knew of course that eyebrows play an important role when I look at a face shape when deciding which hair styles to choose for one of my makeover clients. But could you style eyebrows to make you look younger? This caught my attention so I watched.

Damone Roberts is the eyebrow King. Wax, shape, tweeze, clip and fill is what he was a master at. Sure enough, The five minute claim was true, the process only took 5 minutes! Of course, the three models had a substantial amount of bushiness in the eyebrow department. They all looked remarkably better and a couple looked years younger.

Damone Roberts is part of the “Glam-Squad” on TLC’s new show “10 Years Younger.” The show airs regularly on TLC. They have ten days in which they take to transform their clients into younger and more beautiful versions of themselves. I haven’t seen the show yet. However, I caught the beginning of it once where they were putting some poor woman in an acrylic box to be critiqued by the public on her age I guess. Oh horrors!

Although I think some of his products are overpriced, you can get some eyebrow tips by going to his website – www.damoneroberts.com Although the overgrowth was noticeable on the models he used, I’m totally convinced the right shaping of the eyebrow can be uplifting, a beauty enhancer and a lot cheaper than Botox!

Here are some other eyebrow sites:

 
• http://www.eyebrowz.com/shaping.htm
• http://www.eyebrowz.com/shaping.htm

 

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Your Hair Stylist Really Does Care

Last night my husband and I watched the movie “Barbershop” a warmhearted, life affirming, comedy set primarily in a barbershop on Chicago’s South Side. Calvin Palmer (Ice Cube) owns the barbershop, having inherited it from his father two years ago. Of the seven barbers who work in the shop, five are black males, one is a black female, and one is a white male.

I really liked the dialog in “Barbershop,” and for me the lively talk inside the shop is the best thing about the film. It brought me back to my early days working my first hair salon, my relationship with clients and fellow my hair stylists was like a second family. A real sense of pride that I felt as a hairstylist. I had the opportunity, daily, to make a difference in peoples lives.

A hairstylist knows that if you feel good about the way you look, you will feel good about yourself in general – that’s powerful stuff! There aren’t a lot of careers that provide an opportunity to have this intimate connection with so many people. Quite frankly I really miss that part of my experiences

A hair stylist wants to make a positive impact upon every single client who comes to them for a haircut, perm or hair color job. When a hair stylist knows that they are making a real difference in your life, they will pull out all of the stops and give you their very best in skill and talent.

If you make your hair stylist feel like they are an important part of your life, you will maximize this important relationship. That means giving them some positive feedback from time to time. I’m not talking about condescending compliments when none are due. But good solid feed back about what is going right with your hair style. There must be some good or you wouldn’t keep going back. If by chance you have trouble finding positive feedback maybe then it is time to find someone else. (See my article on finding a new hair stylist).

A good hair stylist has the technical skill of course, but just as important is their CONCERN for your well-being. Your feelings don’t lie. My favorite customers made an effort to connect with me too! But it was very hard to do my very best on a client who was constantly nit picking, whining and complaining and finding fault. Those types of clients made the day very long.

Realistically, they may not hit a home run every time, but if you’re feeling good about your look most of the time –you’ve probably got a keeper and a friend. TELL THEM.

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