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Learn Salon Lingo: What’s Permanent & Demi-Permanent Color?

Have you ever wondered the difference between permanent & demi-permanent hair color? We certainly did, until our wonderful Expert Stylist Nicole explained it so well!

Watch in this video as she shares the benefits of each hair dye, which one is best for highlights, and which one you’ll want to use when covering gray hair. You’ll know just what to ask for at your next hair appointment!

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6 Comments

  1. LOL I am so glad I kept watching all the way to the end! ROTFL
    Thanks for the very visual explanation of the difference between permanent and demi-permanent hair color that was very helpful and the information is more likely to stick with me. 🙂

  2. Thanks, Nicole! :-). I appreciate your geeky thing! Now I’ll understand my stylist better when I ask her about highlight colors next week!

  3. Thank you Nicole! Would you please consider adding more saturated hair color photos or a tutorial for T4’s who are having a hard time transitioning to saturated color? So many of the examples and photos are of dark brown/black or very very light blond. Are there situations where a saturated ash brown or ash blond would still look stunning? I don’t want to go too dark or too light yet, but would love to try all over color. Thank you!

  4. NIcole, I am a T2 whose natural hair when I was a child was blonde. Through the years, and many different hair stylists, I have got my hair dyed blondes, reds, brunettes, and sadly I have had some that were so brassy, and others too gold or too ash if that is possible. Last year when I thought I was a T1 I got my, dyed blonde hair colour, dyed with using gold not ash and adding a POP of brighter blonde in the bang area of my short hair. Then two months later I realized I wasn’t a T1 and thought I was a T3. We slowly started to add copper and mahagony to the golden blonde hair and then added a deeper copper and deeper mahogany and finally removed any trace of the blonde, dyeing to a brown dyed hair colour of the T3 style guide. of course foils were used at different times to get the different looks. I still wasn’t happy with the colour being used by my hair dresser and so I decided to buy a box of the colour I had worn a couple of years earlier before DYT. Finally I got that red I was trying to get at the hair salon. I have now used L’Oréal 66 True Red three times since I was last at my hair dresser’s. NOW the issue I have is that I have finally realized that I am truly a T2. And my hair colour isn’t the RED for a T2 and I would like to get back my blonde hair that is the right blondes for a T2. So through all this message I am asking two questions – 1) Can I box colour at home and what would I need to buy to lightened the red and make sure it doesn’t stay a golden blonde as it lightens? 2) What are the blondes for a T2? Is Champagne blonde a T2 colour? Thanks so much. I hope you can help.

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