What is the best way to dye your hair? The most famous brand of cosmetics for a long time remains Loreal - hair dye, the palette of which will provide dyeing in any color, while not spoiling their structure and filling them with a radiant shine. And most importantly, it is suitable for home use. This was a condition for the creation of hair products by the founder of the L'Oreal brand.
A little about L'Oreal
From the very beginning, L'Oreal was created with cutting-edge chemists and technologists who put hair he alth first. A quick response to fashion trends, popularization of home coloring and training of hairdressers ensured the rapid growth of the brand. Now it is a huge concern with laboratories and factories around the world.
The Loreal hair color palette has several lines. This is due not only to the different color, but also to the different structure of the hair. L'Oreal products are used for the primary dyeing of natural hair, tinting the roots and refreshing the color of the strands. Gray hair is masked or completely painted over. It is possible to remove gray hair without affecting natural hair.
Care lines provide a long-lasting effect of he althy hair: their vibrant color and extraordinary shine. Thanks to innovations in the field of cosmetics, L'Oreal coloring compositions do not spoil the hair. On the contrary, they make them he althy throughout.
Funds are divided into categories:
- Persistent (based on ammonia components).
- Unstable (ammonia-free formulations).
- Brightening.
Some of them can be used without special training.
Majirel Series - Professional Product
In the late seventies of the last century, the fashion house released the first hair care paint. This was made possible thanks to the discovery of a molecule by L'Oreal laboratory chemists that can penetrate into the core of the hair. All previous paints remained only on its outer shell, so it was not possible to completely hide the gray hair or provide a truly he althy, high-quality coloring.
The product was named Majirel, which means "increased" in translation. This is both excellent quality and high penetrating power of the paint. The ionène-G molecule, patented by the company, is still used in a number of lines. Remaining a professional tool, this product requires special knowledge. For coloring, the percentage of gray hair is determined and the formula of the coloring composition is calculated in accordance with the table. The paint is mixed with various oxidants. It depends on what result is needed. Correctlythe compiled recipe provides 100% gray hair coverage. Used in salons.
The Loreal Majirel hair color palette contains a natural range, ashy, brown shades of cold and warm tones, golden, copper, red and pearl colors.
Series for home hair coloring
Introduced in the 1960s, Belle Color Shampoo started the development of home care products. In the nineties, Diacolor ammonia-free paint appeared, which painted over hair with gray hair. It was a real breakthrough. Excellence Crème, released after it, became the most purchased product for home use. Since 2005, the Casting line has been a combination of color and care, gaining worldwide recognition from women.
But the fashion for decorative dyeing leads to the use of new synthetic dyes. Loreal hair dye helps stylists solve complex color problems. The 2019 palette includes the following lines: "Casting", "Preference" and "Excellence". These products do not require color studies and are suitable for home coloring.
Series "Excellence"
The Loreal Excellence hair color palette now has twenty-one natural shades. Manufacturers constantly make adjustments to the composition of the collection, and it can change more than once. This resistant paint completely hides gray hair. It stays on the hair for about two months, gradually washing off. Manufacturers position it as a triple protection that adds volume to the hair due to the penetrationnourishing oils, keratin and porosity elimination. Hair receives protection from ultraviolet rays, which prevents them from fading. It is convenient that the mixture is already in the tube.
In paint reviews, users note a sharp smell of chemistry and ammonia, burning. An allergy test should always be carried out before applying this product. Even if nothing of the kind has been noted before, when a histological response of the body occurs, the help of doctors may be required.
This series is not suitable for getting fashionable shades. Its purpose is a classic and the elimination of gray hairs.
Casting series
After a dramatic color change in the first week, everything is fine. But then the dye begins to wash out of the hair, which becomes porous and poorly retains the pigment. Previously, having tinted the roots, five minutes before the end of the paint, they stretched the composition onto the hair sheet. Now, to refresh the color, products without ammonia are used, which include Loreal Casting hair dye. Her palette is richer than that of "Excellence" and is more than thirty shades. It does not contain avant-garde tones, it also consists of natural shades.
The series contains very beautiful shades of blond, bright chestnut, trendy chocolate (cold and hot, milky and bitter) and four silk shades for black-haired women.
The paint is able to eliminate a small percentage of gray hair (though not for all shades), nourish the hairkeratin and give them a he althy look. Sulfate-free shampoos are used specifically to protect the shade, as they are aggressive towards the hair and cause it to lose shine and brightness.
Series "Preference"
Manufacturers called the composition of Preference "the color of high durability." This is achieved by a combination of ammonia dyes and caring components. With proper shampooing, the paint can stay on the hair for two months. The Loreal Preference hair color palette consists of more than fifty shades.
Composition "Preference" paints over gray hair and at the same time gives the hair a fashionable shade. For a blonde, 12% oxidant is put in the box, 9% oxidant is used to raise the tone level and brightening shades, and 6% oxidant is used for all others. Such aggressive products are chosen by the manufacturer for the exact match of the advertising picture on the box and the result. Do not be afraid to apply this paint, as the protective ingredients do their job well.
Chestnut shades
The most common hair colors are chestnut. Golden curls faded with age, which have taken on an ashy color, will refresh caramel tones. The most beautiful colors of the Casting ammonia-free line are Caramel Macchiato, Chocolate Soufflé and Nut Mocha. To create a rich overflow, more than one color of the Loreal hair dye palette is used. The photo shows three shades: "Caramel", "Nut" and"Chocolate".
Grayed blond curls perfectly refresh resistant colors. To give a beautiful fashionable tint, use from the third to the seventh levels of the "Preference" line:
- "Madrid".
- "Castilla".
- "Rome".
- "Havana".
Four red tones can be used to create fiery, amber and wine highlights.
Chocolate Shades
The "Casting" series offers rich shades for brunettes and brown-haired women, which are united by one name - "Chocolate". As with real treats, these are names such as:
- "Ice Chocolate" - to give a rich shade and a golden sheen.
- "Cocoa with ice", "Frosty chestnut" - fashionable cold shades of brown.
- "Chocolate frosting" - smoothes the transition between light and dark tones, perfect for an ombre effect.
Please note that the "Casting" series is not used to reliably cover gray hair.
Shades of blonde
There is a separate fashion for blonde. In addition to the charm of blond hair, they are also practical: they make gray hair less noticeable. Previously, permanent coloring in light colors was accompanied by overdrying and, as a result, a short length. Now unlimited growth is possible, in which the hair along the entire length retains a he althy look and shine. Loreal hair dye color palette allows you to combineproducts from different series: for primary coloring and correction of regrown roots, the "Preference" or "Excellence" line is suitable, for color refreshment - "Casting".
A feature of light shades is unwanted yellowness. In the salon, colorists use a special cyan or blue mixton to avoid this. For home use, you can use a separate collection of blonds from the Preference line. These are fifteen shades from beige to mother-of-pearl. For young people, a light ash tone "Viking" is suitable; for hairstyles, it is better to dye your hair with an iridescent blond. Ladies of elegant age with dull blond hair color can apply beige shades without lightening.
The most spectacular shades of the Casting series are 810, 832, 831, 910, 1010, 1013 and 1021. They are not so resistant as to remain after frequent shampooing. They are used for express toning between successive stainings.
Professional coloring at home
Modern dyes are so diverse that it is sometimes difficult to make a choice. There is an opinion about the quality of professional salon compositions that they are the best. Is it so? Indeed, at the dawn of the coloristic direction of hairdressing, this statement was true. But now, perhaps, only the Mazhirel line requires the study of technology.
If you choose from the Loreal Professional hair color palette, which includes the Inoa, Dia and"Mazhirel", then coloring is best done in the cabin. For home use, they acquire "Preference", "Casting" and "Excellence". The box contains everything you need, you do not have to pick up a balm, look for gloves or a comb.
Conclusion
Quality coloring is possible not only in the salon. A wide range of Loreal hair colors allows you to choose any shade to cover gray hair or refresh the color. Or maybe you want to completely change the image? Then contact brand consultants. Because you deserve it.