Hair dye is one of the easiest and relatively inexpensive ways to change the image or at least visually get rid of gray hair. You always want to find the most profitable option so that it is both high quality and cheap. But this almost does not occur. Cheap paints can not only not give the desired effect, but also ruin the hair. The best option will always be to use professional hair dye products, for example, paint from Selective.
Features
Selective hair dyes have been on the market for quite a long time: the Italian brand Selective Professional was founded in 1982. Now the manufacturer has several lines, including non-ammonia, coloring composition and tinting conditioners.
Selective paints favorably highlight the composition. In addition to pigments and dyes, it includes caring components that can not only protect the hair during dyeing, but also make it more shiny, healthy and alive. These components include beeswax, cereal proteins, fruit fatty acids, a complex of vitamins and minerals. The manufacturer has both paints with ammonia, and without it.
Years of experience of the Italian brand allowed us to develop a composition that provides a uniform and deep staining, along with deep hair care.
This solved the problem of damage to the hair during dyeing, which used to be quite acute. Now the products of Selective Professional make it possible to experiment with the image without affecting the curls.
Advantages and disadvantages
Professional cosmetics will always take care of your hair better than an inexpensive mass market product - this can be attributed to Selective products. Their composition provides protection for hair and care in the process of dyeing.
Coloring composition has a pleasant, not suffocating fragrance, which not all hair dye products can boast. This facilitates the use of paint, does not cause discomfort and does not irritate the mucous membrane and eyes.
Sufficiently dense texture does not allow the paint to spread on the skin during staining. At the same time, it is easily applied with a brush and spreads along the entire length of the curls.
While the tools of Selective Professional are professional, there are no complicated manipulations that need to be carried out with them to color the curls.
Selective products do not dry hair when dyeing and do not injure them. Due to its composition, the coloring composition, when ingested, further moisturizes and softens the hair.
The abundance of shades is also an advantage of the Selective Professional line. If for some reason the desired shade was not found, the colors are perfectly mixed together to create unique shades. The manufacturer claims that the composition of the dye composition has been worked out so carefully that in the end there will not be any color surprises when mixing tones and when coloring in one tone. When using one tone, the result will be the color declared on the package, adjusted for the color of the base on which the paint was applied.
Among the shortcomings, users point out the absence of the stated color fastness. On average, it is noted that it lasts for three weeks, after which it is significantly washed out. However, the durability of tone depends not only on the coloring composition, but also on the quality and condition of the hair to which it is applied. Not all curls hold the pigment well enough and can lose it almost completely in a rather short period.
The price is also a disadvantage for some, as it is higher than the price for packing paint in a regular store. Also, Italian paint can not be purchased in the mass market, but only in those that sell professional cosmetics. Also to paint Selective need to buy separately an oxidizing agent, which can cause difficulties.
At the same time, Selective paints have a volume larger than that of a conventional paint. Therefore, one pack of paint may be enough for a larger number of stains. So, for short hair one tube is enough for two or three staining.
What are the?
Selective Professional produces paints for professional use, but they are suitable not only for hairdressers, but also for home use. The stores are mainly the following products.
Selective professional evo
The range of Selective Professional Evo. The most popular and frequently occurring line, which includes Colorevo with more than 100 shades, Colorevo Glitch for color highlighting and its bright palette, as well as Colorevo Blond for coloring in bright colors.
Oligomineral cream
Oligomineralny paint of Oligomineral cream. Separate permanent dye for gray hair, providing full coloring to such hair.
Reverso Hair Color
Ammonia paint Reverso Hair Color. The paint has a more gentle composition without ammonia, prevents damage to the hair and at the same time provides a full coloring of curls.
Direct color
Air conditioning conditioner dye and keratin Direct Color.
Ease of use, caring effect, rich tone - this is about this paint.
Color charge
Color Charge toning care products. Most often they are used to maintain the color after dyeing, but can be used independently for toning curls.
Palette of colors and shades
The most extensive palette boasts Colorevo. More than 100 shades for the realization of any desires and fads. In the palette you can find both natural shades and a number of corrective pigments. With their help, you can get any desired shade, as well as experiment with hair color.
The whole palette of paint is divided into several groups:
- natural - it includes shades of blond and dark shades of natural tones;
- Super Brightening (Colorevo Blond) - it contains ultra bright shades;
- golden - light and dark shades with a golden subtone;
- copper - blond and chestnut copper shades;
- purple - blond and chestnut shades of purple;
- fantasy - It includes such shades as "Cinnamon", "Burnt earth", "Clay" and others.
The full palette of all colors from Selective Professional can be viewed on their official website interactively.
Instructions for use
The process of using paint Selective has its own characteristics, but, in general, is not much different from the standard hair dye. For staining at home, you will need a container for mixing paint, a brush, gloves, a dressing gown or any other cloak to protect clothes from paint and a towel.
Wash your hair before applying paint. Previously, the paint was applied to oily hair in order to protect the scalp from the coloring composition. Now the colors have a much more sparing composition, so they need to be applied to clean hair, so that the paint can easily penetrate the hair and fill it with pigment.
For staining you need to choose an oxidizing agent with the desired percentage based on the purposes of staining:
- coloring "tone to tone", in a darker tone or clarification to 1 tone - oxidizer 3%;
- there is gray hair, dyeing in a darker tone or lightening for 1-2 tones - oxidant 6%;
- have gray hair or lightening for 2-3 tones - oxidant 9%;
- lightening by 4–5 tones - 12%.
To protect the skin of the hands in the process of dyeing, you need to use protective gloves, and the clothes of the person you are painting should be closed with a cape or a hairdresser.
The paint and oxidizer are mixed in a one-to-one ratio until uniform.
To simplify the procedure of dyeing the total weight of the hair is better divided into zones and process the composition in turn. The mixture is applied to dry combed hair along the strands, from the roots to the ends.
If there is a lot of gray hair on the parietal areas, it is better to start coloring with them.
The dwell time of the coloring composition on the curls is 30 minutes. If it is re-stained, the roots are first stained. The composition is aged for 20 minutes. After that, the paint is pulled over the entire length and held for another 10 minutes.
After the time does not need to rush to wash off the composition of the curls. To make the tone better penetrate the hair, it is first useful to lightly wet the hair along the entire length, to foaming the dye composition for several minutes. To remove the paint from the scalp, massage it well with your fingers in the places where the paint fell on it.
It is necessary to wash off the paint without using shampoo. This will ensure greater durability of tone. The manufacturer recommends the use of plenty of running warm water. Rinse your hair until water is clear. After dyeing, you can use a balm or conditioner to moisturize the hair and soften it.
Reviews
User reviews are not unanimous. Basically, the paint is rated positively by them, but negative reviews are also found.
Most of the reviews praise the depth and color saturation after dyeing. This is exactly what is expected of it, and most users are satisfied with the result.
However, the persistence and saturation of the pigment sometimes does not play into the hands. Some complain that Selective paints color the skin very much. This is especially true of dark shades. Often it is very difficult to wash off the paint from the skin after dyeing. And if it is still possible to somehow decide on the regional hairline with the help of a layer of greasy cream applied to the skin before dyeing, then the skin can be colored for some time.
Also, many users praise the dye for healthy looking hair after dyeing. Curls after the procedure are not confused and look well-groomed.
In some reviews, users complain about the color fastness of not more than three weeks. This is lower than the firmness declared by the manufacturer and lower than the indicators of some other hair dyes.
There are reviews in which users call the paint composition bad because it is almost completely synthetic and contains few natural ingredients.
There are also cases of individual intolerance to paint components when it causes an allergic reaction: redness, itching, peeling of the skin. Therefore, experts advise before use to conduct a test on a small area of the skin. Also, some users noted that in the absence of obvious allergic reactions, the paint still tingled the scalp during staining, although the result was good in the end.
The floral scent, which is claimed to be an advantage of paint, does not satisfy some users, and they complain about its unpleasantness in their paint reviews.
Colorevo not all users could paint over gray hair, although the manufacturer claims that it should. Another part of the reviews claims that on gray hair Colorevo keeps even better than on healthy.
Next you will find a master class on hair coloring product brand Selective.
