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The 4 Steps of Every Hair Color Service

This quick refresher will remind you that delivering beautiful hair color requires an orderly progression of steps.

July 10, 2011
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The 4 Steps of Every Hair Color Service




Remember cosmetology school? You probably learned a few simple steps for your basic hair coloring service. For review, Georgia hair designer and Farouk educator Randy Stephens lists his for-sure four:


  1. Determine the hair's natural level.

  2. Determine the level to which you want to take the hair.

  3. Determine the tone; you're trying to get the hair either warm or cool, and then select a color.

  4. Determine what developer you need to use with the color you've chosen.

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"Farouk has 82 colors and eight additives, and with those 90 colors you can mix anything you want," Stephens remarks. "Use a color wheel. If you're afraid of color and you need a little confidence, the color wheel makes it simple."

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