How can I remove hair colour? | Abingdon | Didcot | Wantage | Oxfordshire

Before addressing the question ‘how can you remove hair colour?’ it’s important to understand what you or your Stylist are working with. Different types or colours or colour histories may require different approaches. For example, very dark permanent hair colour box colours repeated over time may require a different approach from a henna application which in-turn may require a different approach from a semi-permanent creative colour. The process of removing hair colour can range from one which is straight-forward to one which can prove tactful and yet more considered approach.

Away from the salon, it is possible to purchase ‘hair colour removers’. There can be purchased from supermarkets and they are designed to ‘shrink’ artificial colour molecules in the hair. These are designed for clients that have gone too dark however these can be incredibly strong and when they go ‘wrong’ they can cause issues both relating to health of hair and when applying your new colour post colour removal.

The most popular form of colour removal is bleaching in-salon. If you are interested to learn how bleach lightens hair, here’s how. Whilst this isn’t suitable for every client, most salons will refer to this process as a ‘bleach bath’ which sounds scarier than it perhaps ought to be! The process commits to a slow and gentle removal of historical colour build up (particularly when colour applications are both stubborn and multiple colour applications have been applied over time). The benefit of this process being that is allows your Stylist to tailor both the strength of product, time used to remove colour build up and monitor the progress of the colour removal. This considered approach must be undertaken by a trained professional in a controlled setting. Bleach in the wrong hands can cause you issues if doing it without professional supervision. This process is highly effective when removing colour build up and secondly this allows your Stylist to opt for a lighter shade once the bleach bath has been completed.

The final option is the removal of creative colours (think blues, greens, yellows etc). These colours (dependent upon their profile) can often be removed safely using a specific colour remover formulated for semi-permanent shades. Whilst usually undertaken in-salon, these are typically gentler than shop-bought permanent hair colour removers.