Dye Your Hair Online

Dye Your Hair Online

by Melissa Anderson on May 1, 2012

It can be a little tricky trying to find the right hair color. What you think might look good on you could very well be very unflattering in reality. However, you don’t have to dye your hair and learn through trial and error to find a great new color! You can dye your hair online without any commitment using virtual makeover tools.

These virtual makeover tools are very useful if you want to dye your hair online to see what colors would look great on you without the commitment of actually dying your hair.  It’s great because if you don’t like the color, you won’t have to go through the hassle of removing hair dye; simply change it with a click of a mouse. You can see what your hair looks like with a lighter shade, or go completely bonkers and dye it a crazy color. And best of all, most of the tools are free. Most of these sites will require you to supply a photo of yourself, or you can also use one of the pre-chosen models that best resembles you.

One of the best tools to dye your hair online is Real Simple’s Online Beauty Makeover. You can not only try out different hair colors, but styles as well. It also has the option of adding highlights and lowlights to your hair.

Taaz is another great beauty website that offers a makeover tool. You have a lot of options with this, and can change the length and style of your hair as well as the color. The styles available are all based on celebrities, so if you’ve ever admired a certain celebrity hairstyle or color, this tool can show you how you’d look with it! It’s very fun and addictive.

Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, and Good Housekeeping magazine all have a virtual makeover tool on their website that allows you to dye your hair online. You get allot of great features here and you can use their model or upload your own photo. They’re all basically the same program powered by Modi Face that uses the same models.

Another cool makeover tool is Hair Color Booth. This is an app from the makers of Sketch Me! and GingerBooth. It allows you to dye your hair in crazy colors like pink, violet, and blue. It also lets you custom create different shades as well, so the possibilities are endless.  And just a word or warning, it’s very addictive! You can download it on the Itunes store and it will cost you 99 cents.

Clairol also has a virtual hair color tool that allows you to test out and see how different hair colors will look. Because it is mainly a hair color tool, the hair color results will be more realistic than some of the other options already listed.

Most of the tools listed to dye your hair online are free, though you may have to sign up for an account in order to upload your own photo. This is a fun, quick and easy way to test out new colors with just the click of a mouse! What are you waiting for?

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Easy Tips For Hair Color Removal

by Melissa Anderson on March 19, 2012

There are many reasons why you would want to remove your newly dyed hair, or even faded grown out colored hair. Whether it’s just going for a new look, or trying to overhaul a hair dying disaster, hair color removal can be a life safer (or look saver)! Luckily, there are many options for you that make hair color removal easy and effective.

If you’re stylist caused the hair color disaster, most likely (if they are professionals and value their customers), they will try to fix it for you free of charge. If on the other hand, they refuse to do this, you can either try to find another stylist who will fix it, or you can fix it yourself at home with some simple remedies, or try some chemical based products. It’s best to try the natural remedies first, since it is the least damaging.

One of the first you can try is to just rinse it out with hot water. The hot water can help to fade the hair color, and it’s by far the easiest option to try.

If that doesn’t work, you can also try hot oil treatments. This has been shown to be pretty effective in removing hair dye. You can try olive oil, and not only does it help get rid of the color; it also acts as a deep conditioner to your hair.

Another great at-home remedy to remove hair color is laundry detergent like Tide. It’s important that your laundry detergent does not contain any bleach, and test a small strand of your hair first before trying it on your whole head. Also be sure to rinse all the detergent off to avoid any damage.

It may take repeated tries to completely fade away the color with some of the home remedy treatments. However if these options do not work, there are some great commercial hair color removers you can try. There are so many options out there you can try but some of the best include L’Oreal’s Color Zap, One ‘n Only Color Fix, Clairol’s The Uncolor System Hair Color Remover, and Color Oops Hair Color Remover.

Something to keep in mind is that you can only remove hair dye that is darker than your natural color. Also, hair color takes up to 3 days to set into the hair cuticle, so if your hair color is over 3 days old, you may not be able to remove it. At this point, your best bet is to re-dye it with your preferred color choice.

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