Beware of Dangerous Chemicals in Hair Coloring Dyes

Many of us are becoming more aware of what we put INTO our bodies, but health can be impacted by what we put ON our bodies.

We never stop to think about chemicals we place on our bodies. We assume that they will never really harm us.

But that is a false assumption.

Many hair coloring dyes have ammonia, hydrogen peroxide and aryl amines ingredients in their makeup.

You may be thinking that ammonia and hydrogen peroxide are harmless, but the mixing of these two items may create a potentially carcinogenic chemical that normally does not exist in these two liquids prior to mixing them together.

The other chemical of concern is from the family of aryl amines. This family of chemicals is known to be a risk factor for bladder cancer and have been found to cause cancer in experimental animals.

In Tracy’s ebook, she explains what healthy alternative hair coloring dyes that are safe and will also give you that great look that you expect.

Tracy also points out in her book the good and the bad of coloring dyes as well as other factors you need to be aware of in choosing the right hair coloring dye for you.

You need to educate and protect yourself because your health is priceless.

Tracy has worked with clientele (A-list celebrities) that expect excellent results. They don’t put up with color fading, wrong color, dull and dry hair. Nor should you. See for yourself why she is a respected pro in the Beauty industry and has the answers to your pressing questions.

Meet Tracy Hill - Hair Colorist

I know many of you have spent a lot of money and contirue to do so.but still have many frustrations and challenges with hair coloring either at a hair salon or at home.

And rightly so ...

A lot of work is done by stylists that know little or nothing about how to perform this type of work - even if they call themselves a Hair Colorist.

Some of the common challenges are:

• how that over a short period of time, the hair color starts fading - which Tracy points out - if done correctly, you should never be experiencing this



• coloring your hair gives you dull and dry hair (like straw) and how to avoid this



• covering up graying hair - which can be done properly with a few simple steps
  


• experiencing great colroing until the first shampooing - then it becomes devastatlingly dull and off color.
  

I would like to intorduce you to Tracy. She has been coloring hair for mor than 30 years - for many star-studded clientele who have graced the covers of Vogue, Harpers' Bazaar and Cosmopolitan. As you and I know, these people have very little patience for a shoddy, incapable, inexperienced hair colorist. You need to be the best - the reast in inexcusable!

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Also, I would like to point out, Tracy has been a former international color trainig director for Clairol Ind., L'Oreal and Vidal Sasson. She know these products through and through and can advise you on what is the best for you.

Discover today why Tracy is the hair colorist authority that can answer your colored hair frustations and challenges.

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p.s. Tracy has worked with clientele that eaxpect excellent results. They don't put up with color fading, wrong color, dull and dry hair. See for yourself why she is a pro in the beauty industry and has all the answers.

The Transition Point in a Haircut

The most difficult part of a tapered of fade haircut is making a smooth transition from the direct contact cutting that's on the lower sides and back to the over the comb cutting (or scissor cutting) that's used to do the upper sides and back. Almost always, smooth tapering suffers the most at the place where these 2 methods of cutting meet.


How do you deal with it? Drop down 1 or 2 blade sizes when you're doing the over the comb cutting. What blade you use over the comb will depend what blade you used on the direct contact cutting and also what comb you chose to use.


A wahl comb is thicker. It's almost - but not quite - 1/4" thick at the back bar. A flattop comb is only 1/8" thick. Also, a #1 blade will cut just a bit shorter than 1/8". Just from experience, hair does not feed well into a #2 blade (cutting the hair 1/4") for over the comb cutting.


The short cutting (1/8") will have the comb quite close to the scalp. With a longer cutting, you'll need to hold the comb (for clipper over comb cutting) a bit further away from the scalp.


Below is guide for which blade to use with which comb when doing your clipper over comb transition cutting.


Direct Contact Over Comb

Length of Hair l Hair Length with Flattop Comb l Hair Length with Wahl Comb
3/16" l 1/16" l 1/100"

1/4" l 1/8" l 3/16"

3/8" l 3/16" * l 1/8"

1/2" l 3/16" * l 3/16"*


* = the comb is held 1/8" away from the scalp

* = the comb is held 1/4" away from the scalp

* = the comb is held less than 1/4" away from the scalp

Where Does the Part Go?

Some haircuts have the hair parted and some do not. It all depends on the cut and the hair growth pattern on an individual's head. Some people want a really formal hairstyle with every hair in its place, whereas others like a more casual approach and allow the hair to lie where it wants to.

For some reason, years ago it became a tradition that men parted their hair at the left with the hair combed off toward the right. However, the hair should always be allowed to lay the way the hairgrain wants it to lay. Going with the hairgrain means the part is located somewhere on the top, usually on one side or the other. It could also be in the middle or a bit off to one side of the middle or the other. The part must be between the 2 receded parts of the front hairline.

If the hair has a center cowlick, the hair could be parted on the left side, right side, the center, or a little off-center, just depending on how the hair wants to lie. Look very carefully at the hairgrain before making your decision.

Typically the hair will be parted on the same side of the head as the cowlick. If you have a cowlick on the left, usually your part is going to be on the left. The same goes for the right side.

Parting the hair on the same side as the cowlick allows the hair to lie where it wants at the top of the head. This is because typically the hairgrain that has a cowlick on the left will have the hair wanting to move out toward the right. This works vice versa for the right where a cowlick on the right will have the hair wanting to move out toward the left.

About 5% on the population has an unusual hairgrain where the cowlick is on the left side and the hairgrain also moves of to the left. With this unusual type of hairgrain, you would have to part the hair all the way around the back and down on the right side.

If this same type of unusual cowlick is on the right side, you would have to part the hair around the back of the head and down on the left side.

The average and usual way to part hair is very easily done. Just comb the hair forward from the cowlick and place the hair where it agrees with your part. When the hair lays well and doesn't stand on end (even when it's dry), you know that you've put it in the right spot, having the hair lie where it wants to.

The Crucial Minute of a Haircut

If you are just cutting family or friends' hair, you most likely know what they want done. But if you are cutting quite a few peoples' hair or if you work at a salon, you need to find out what they want you to do to their hair. Assume nothing. A gap in communication can have unpleasant results. This means you need to be good at

1. communicating and


2. analyzing the hair.

This time I'll get into the careful questioning and listening skills.

Some of the questions you can ask are-

• How do you like your hair cut?


• Do you want some covering your ear?


• Do you want it really short at the side?


• Would you like the back tapered or blocked?


• Do you want all the ear showing?


• Right now you have 2 inches. How much would you like off?

Ask very specific questions so you get specific answers.

The first haircut you give a specific customer, cut it conservatively and cautiously and leave the hair a bit longer than what you agreed on. Clip one side and give him the hand mirror. Once you get the OK, proceed with the back and on around the other side. If he wants it cut shorter, do that and have him check it again with the mirror. This saves you time because you won't have to completely recut all the way around the sides and back if he wants the entire cut shorter.

You'll often have people tell you, "Oh, just give it a trim." At least 9 times out of 10 people who want a trim don't want much hair cut off. Their last haircut was what they wanted, so they just want you to cut off the hair that's grown out since that last cut. That means you need to find out how long it's been since they've had their hair cut.

Hair grows about 1/2 inch per month, so if it's been 2 months since their last haircut, they'll want you to cut of an inch of hair all over.

While an average haircut may take 15 to 20 minutes, the first minute (before the haircut) is the most important minute of all. If your customers don't like what you did to their hair, they won't be back.

Do You Cut Wet or Dry?

What should you do? Should you cut hair when it is wet or when it is dry? That depends.

If you are cutting hair with scissors, you should be cutting damp hair. If the hair is damp, it can be combed neatly into place and held securely in your holding hand with all the hairs lined up perfectly for the scissors. If the hair is dripping wet, you'll have a soggy mess on your hands with hair clumping and water dripping all over the place. The key word here is damp.

If you are cutting with clippers, the hair needs to be dry. Wet hair clumps and therefore does not feed evenly into the clipper. This will give you an uneven cut. Wet hair bends away from the blades.

However, if you are about to cut someone's hair with a clipper and he has a classic case of "hat hair", you'll first need to wash the hair. Wash the hair and dry it before clipper cutting. You want the hair to feed evenly into the clipper and kinks will bend away from the clipper and give you a very unique looking haircut!

Wavy Hair Can Have 3 Different Looks

Wavy hair can be cut to look 3 different ways.

1. If you cut it short enough it will look straight.


2. If you cut it just a bit longer, there will be some waves.


3. If you leave it an inch long, it will get the curly look.

Decide which look you'd like to achieve and cut the hair accordingly. You can always blowdry the longer wavy hair to straighten it, but you'll have to blowdry it every day if you want the straight look. Cutting it short is simply the easiest way with the lowest maintenance.