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| Categories of Hair Lighteners | There are various kinds of lighteners. The purpose of the lightening product’s use is to lighten the hair to the desired shade. Professional hair color lighteners diffuse natural melanin available in the hair's cortex and lift dark hair to light. Lighteners cannot lighten black or dark brown hair to the lightest platinum or white. They can change very dark hair to a much lighter color during more than one use of lighteners. Apply only to qualified expert colorists to have the minimal hair damage and a beautiful lightness.
There are different forms of hair lighteners; they are used with professional hair colorists. If you apply preformulated box colors, you have no necessity to worry about hair lighteners. Professional hair colorists should know the lightening options.
There are such hair lighteners applied by professional hair color experts as:
1. Oil Lighteners
2. Cream Lighteners
3. Power of Paste Lighteners
Hair consumers that do not have any need to worry about lighteners since the lightening agents are already available in the prepackaged formulas.
Oil hair lighteners usually include hydrogen peroxide and a sulfonated oil. Oil based lighteners are usually combined with 20 volume developer and one or more lightening activators.
Many of the lightening activators are avoid of ammonium persulfate. The lightener that includes ammonium persulfate combined with the hydrogen peroxide removes any unwanted red, orange or yellow tones in the hair.
Hair lighteners remove color completely. They are the most effective during the first hour after application; moreover, they lighten up to two hours after initial use. Oil hair lighteners provide maximum control while lightening natural dark hair colors. Colored oil lighteners remove pigment and add temporary color tones simultaneously. Sometimes a patch test is conducted.
There is classification of colored oil lighteners according to the action provided on the hair:
Gold - lightens the hair and adds red highlights.
Silver - lightens the hair and provides the hair with silvery highlights to gray or white hair. It is also able to reduce red and gold tones on other types of hair.
Red - lightens the hair and provides the hair with red highlights.
Drab - lightens and provides the hair with ash highlights. It can also lessen red and gold tones. The advantage of colored oil lighteners are neutral oil lighteners that remove pigment without providing the hair with any color tones. Such oil lighteners pre-soften hair for tint uses. Besides, they are usually applied on the hair resistant to color.
Cream hair lighteners are the most popular kinds of lighteners. They're easy in use, because they do not run, drip or dry out as other types of lighteners. The lighteners that run can lighten the hair uneven and streaky. They can be easily controlled and have in their contents conditioning agents that provide protection from the harshness of the chemicals, bluing agents that lessen unwanted red, orange or gold tones and thickeners that provide hair with control when using the lightener to the hair. Colored oil lighteners add temporary color and high light the hair while lightening. They are also able to remove pigment and add color tones simultaneously.
Powder or paste lighteners are the fastest type of hair lighteners, because they include oxygen-releasing boosters and inert substances for quicker and stronger lightening. Paste lighteners are quite beneficial, becausde they hold well, do not run and dry out much quicker comparing with cream lighteners.
Cream lighteners are easily controlled. Powder lighteners are avoid of conditioning agents and may dry the hair and lead to the irritation of the scalp.
If you apply box colors, hair lighteners are already included. If you want to have your hair colored by a professional hair colorist, you should pay attention to the advantages and disadvantages of various types of lighteners.
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