Are You Suffering From Broken Hair?

Well, I hope this never happens to you. There is no quick fix. This is absolutely devastating and will result in six solid months of bad hair days.

When your hair does begin to break off (because you wanted to make too drastic a color change), there’s nothing that you can do to fix it or stop the process. The damage has been done, and the hair will continue to break off until all the damaged hair has snapped off. Then you can only wait three to four or even up to six months until it grows back. Hair grows at an average rate of half an inch per month, so it will take a while to “fix” itself.

Although a problem of this magnitude seems unfixable, it can be fixed with a recommended professional colorist in due time and yes – it will cost you.

This problem can be avoided by reading the directions on the box – word for word. And never attempt to color your own hair if you do not know how to go about it.

Again, read the box carefully, or go to a recommended professional hair colorist, or read Tracy’s ebook to give yourself the confidence and proper education to do it yourself.

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.

Part 2, Why Is Your Hair Color Fading So Quickly?

On Monday we covered that by frequent shampooing, the detergent agents strip the color from your hair.


We also discussed that the sun and salt water were also responsible for fading hair color as well. We mentioned suggestions for dealing with the environmental elements.


As shampooing and environmental elements can be culprits for hair color fading, the main reasons for color fading is that


•often the product has been under-processed
•it may be the wrong shade for your hair color has been used
•because of the wrong match, your hair may have been too porous to hold the color formulation that was used.

The reason that hair is too porous to hold the color formulation is because other chemicals have being used. If perms or relaxers are used prior to hair color application, the hair shaft will become too porous to hold the color molecules.


Due to the hair shaft being too porous to hold the color molecules, your hair will result in lighter ends in your final color or worse, color will start fading quickly after the first shampooing.


Refer to Tracy's ebook for more helpful and money-saving tips in dealing with hair coloring success.

Is Hair Coloring Costing You Too Much Each Month?

Unfortunately, whether you get your hair done in a salon or at home, hair coloring does require an investment in time and money.

I'm here to reduce these costs as much as possible through providing you tips and suggestions which are just the tip of the iceberg in regards to Tracy's ebook which covers this topic in greater detail.

We often think that if we do it ourself with an at-home kit, we will save ourselves a fair amount of munee. This is true if you follow the directions exactly as printed on the box. But if you are a little carefree, that do-it-at-home kit will cost you a bundle when you need to go to an emergency salon corrective treatment to straighten out the mistake you made.

A lot of people think that they save themselves a lot of money by waiting three to four months for their next application of color.

But that is wrong.

Because the wait is so long, it takes more time and the use of more color to cover the fading hair and fill in the over-porous ends. If you go monthly compared to every three to four months, you will save more in the long run and your hair will consistently look better.

Tracy covers this in more detail in her ebook.

See for yourself how you can save money and look your best for less.

Why is Your Hair Color Fading So Quickly?

We all know that there is really nothing permanent about hair coloring. As our hair grows, our roots start showing, slowly growing out our color.

But did you know that shampooing frequently is a major cause for fading the color that you put in your hair? Why is that? Well, most shampoos contain detergent agents which have compounds that strip the color from the hair shaft.

Also, both sun and salt water are cuplprits that fade colored hair. You can slow down the fading by wearing a hat or by reducing your exposure to environmental elements. These simple suggestions and others that Tracy covers in her ebook will help reduce your hair color from fading. These tips that Tracy shares will also save you money by not having to repair the damage done by either the overuse of shampoo or by mother nature.

For more helpful tips, see what Tracy has to say in her ebook - "Excuse Me, YourRoots Are Showing"

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.

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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