Greek Goddess Minerva experimented with quite a few color hair ideas. It is easy to feel totally overwhelmed when standing in front of the hair color aisle! Minerva has expert home hair color ideas and advice on: Where to begin when choosing a different hair color? Which type of hair color lasts the longest? Is it available in my desired hair color shade? Will it be different enough? Will it lighten my hair? Cover my grey? Be hard to grow out? Minerva expertly tells all.
Glossary of Terms
Artificial Haircolor
Chemically-treated
This phrase refers to your natural hair when altered with a permanent wave or hair color.
Deposit-only haircolor
Deeposit-only haircolor simply adds color. The perfect choice to use as a toner, to refresh the ends of your hair or as a corrective color. Unable to lighten your hair, both semi-and demi permanent (no-ammonia) haircolor fall under this category.
Hair Color
Throughout this site, when printed as two separate words, this term implies the (natural or artificial) shade of your hair.
Haircolor
When printed as one word, this term implies artificial haircolor. Throughout this site, the word "color" may be used interchangeably.
Virgin hair
A rare sighting! When your hair hasn't been even remotely touched with haircolor or a permanent wave solution, it is considered virgin hair. Is your hair sun-streaked? Enviromentally challenged? Challenged as well as a result of heat sytling? All of these factors affect the porosity of your hair therefore.
Semi-Artificial Haircolor
Wash and wear haircolor. Ideal as a means to "try-on" haircolor, blend away your first grays or even as a costume hair cosmetic, semi-permanent haircolor vanishes with just a shampoo. Minerva cautions however that porosity can make your semi-permanent color a bit more permanent. A strand test is always a smart technique!