BLUE HAIR COLOURS

Guest · 2013-11-19T10:01:57Z

Hi Everyone,You might know me for the work I do with varying products in the retail market. I wanted to ask some of you what experiences you have had with blue hair colour recently, because I am noticing a factor arising with this shade that wasn't there before.In all my experiences (both using on clients and even myself), blue was always the shade that washed from the hair the fastest. However, several years ago the EU removed the previous blue pigment from the approved list of ingredients. At the time, it was causing manufacturers bother because the only blue pigment they could use was the denim blue style and not the vibrant neon (this was the one removed from the list). However, I continued to see bright blues still on sale in the market and knew many manufacturers had found a way around this and discovered a new EU approved pigment.So I jump to now the fact that over the past few months I have been contacted more and more by people who have claimed to use my Decolour Remover product and seen absolutely no result from blue. Here I have to point out that hair colour removers (sold in retail) are not designed to take out fashion colour. Fashion colour is an entirely different technology and works on a stain. Hair colour removers use an active called 'Hydrosulphite' which is known as a reduction agent. It has an eggy smell (like perm lotion) and works by splitting the colour molecule from the oxygen molecule (which was introduced into the hair by the peroxide in the developer). Once the colour molecule is split from the oxygen molecule you can flush the colour molecule out of the hair. However, if the colourant used was a direct dye (such as any fashion colour) the principle is entirely different, as only one colour molecule went into the hair and something called 'cuticle staining' occurs. Here the colour molecule imbeds just on and within the cuticle. Famously, red was always a pain (with direct dye), because the red colour molecule is very small and would be prone to staining the hair hair fibre (the keratin) if the hair was very bleached or porous. Therefore, the shade became harder to fade and reduce. However (and as I said), a hair colour remover would not technically do anything to take out a fashion colour - although the process (with the cuticle opening and the solution entering the hair) can (in some cases) make it look as though it's taken it out - this is down to the cleansing process and not the part a and part b chemicals.So back to my issue with the blue. Blue always faded from the hair very quickly - why? Because the blue colour molecule is large, unlike the red it was harder to imbed into the cuticle. In my experience, on the first wash you noticed a significant reduction in the shade and by the third (even on highly bleached porous hair) it was gone. However, something has now changed.As I stated, I am hearing from people who cannot get bright blue out of their hair. I therefore go back to my original point that several years ago the EU removed the previous blue from the approved list and manufacturers must have found a new blue technology. This leads to my concern. In the US, several blue fashion colour manufacturers have been creating a 'bright blue' shade for some time using a silicone technology. Here the blue molecule is delivered to the hair fibre within a silicone compound. Whilst the result gives a bright blue that doesn't fade, this silicone will prevent the blue from leaving the hair (no matter what you do to it - even bleaching it). These manufacturers will state on their packaging the blue is completely permanent. However, I have concerns some products sold in the UK are now using this same technology but not informing consumers of such on the packaging - still allowing them to think its temporary.I have not yet been told (by any consumer) what brand of blue they have used (that won't come out), so in all honesty I don't know which company is doing this - but at least one of them is. I don't think this is a universal issue with blue fashion colour, but to do with one specific shade. I wondered if any of the members here had found this similar issue with blue not budging from their hair (of late)? The removal of general fashion colour has to be done in quite a specific way, however with this particular blue I am hearing stories that even hairdressers cannot get it out with bleach!Any feedback would be great.Kind RegardsScott Cornwall

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Janineb

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Yeah, that's one of the ones I was referring to 🙂

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Posted : November 20, 2013 1:08 pm

katiesiepierski

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its pretty crazy how some of these blues are sticking even after tons of fading treatments, color removers, bleach, etc...with all the fading issues and after all thestuff i had to do to fade it out of my hair, im scared to use any of those blues again neat ot close to neat

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Posted : November 20, 2013 3:18 pm

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