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Feb 18, 2012

Quiz: What is Your Best Hair Color?

February 18, 2012 By Carleenp Leave a Comment

This fun quiz tells you your perfect hair color based on personality traits. Now, I’m not sure I buy into that completely, and prefer to pick my hair color based on what looks good with my skin tone, but the quiz was fun anyway. Plus, it told me I should be a redhead, which is what I am (with blond highlights)!

For a bit of a fun diversion, click on through below to take the quiz.

Do You Have the Right Hair Color?

Even Mother Nature can goof sometimes. See what hair color you should've been born with here

This is a TotalBeauty.com hair color article

Do you feel like your mousy brown hair color doesn't express who you really are? Were you born a blonde but think you are meant to be redhead? See which hair color best matches your personality with this quiz.

Take quiz

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Jan 17, 2012

How To Get Hair Dye Off Skin

January 17, 2012 By Carleenp Leave a Comment

Dying a person's hair is the process of changing its color. There are three types of hair dye, permanent, semi-permanent and temporary dyes. Dye is used for a number of reasons such as, to hide a person's current hair color or restore it to what it once looked like. For instance, a lot of persons who begin to see grey hair, dye their hair to make it appear darker. Some persons dye their hair to give it different tones to make it look funky or outlandish; some entertainers practice this as a way to "stand out from the crowd" or some simply do it to make their hair seem more fashionable. In the process of dying your hair, it is common for it spill onto other areas of the skin, especially onto the person who is applying the dye. There are a number of methods, items and products that can be used to eliminate dye from the skin, and this article will provide you with step-by-step instructions on how to achieve this.

Required Tools

Soap bar
Facial cleanser
Hair dye remover
Body scrub
Cotton ball
Towel
Vinegar (distilled)
Baby oil or other forms of greasy cream such as petroleum jelly
Oatmeal
Sugar
Water

Instructions

Usually the first option for getting rid of dye from the skin is to purchase a dye -removing product from a beauty or cosmetic store. This is easy to use because the instructions are provided with the package. Some persons don't use this option because the time it takes to get to the store and to get back to start applying it.
Take a cotton ball and dip it into baby oil or some greasy cream and gently scrub the skin on the areas where the dye has spilled until the dye comes out. This process may have to be done more than once onto the affected areas until the dye disappears.
Take a towel and soak it with distilled vinegar, then slowly and gradually rub it into the areas where the hair dye has been spilled until the dye comes out.
You can also use regular soap bars that you use in your bathroom to wash the affected area but this as to be done as soon as the dye spills.
If you happen to have a facial cleanser, this can be used to clean off any extra dye that may have gotten on your face while dying your hair. These products can usually be found in your local cosmetic store or pharmacy.
Body scrubs are great for getting rid of dye because it is made with exfoliating agents that work well on skin. You can also make your own body scrub by mixing oatmeal, sugar and water. Simply add body scrub to the affected areas and gently rub it into the skin until it starts to come out and then rinse the skin with warm water as you go along.
You can use regular toothpaste by either applying it to your fingers or onto a piece of cotton and rubbing it onto the skin. Then allow the toothpaste to sit for approximately 10 minutes and rinse the skin off with warm water.

Tips & Warnings

Try to get rid of the dye off the skin as soon as you have applied it the person's hair because the longer you take to clean it off the harder it is to be removed. If none of the options used here proves to be effective, simple visit a professional who can assist with getting rid of the dye.
There is an effective prevention method to avoid getting dye onto the person's face you're your dying. You can apply Vaseline along the hair lining, behind the ears, around the neck or anywhere within that area that you think the dye may spill. If you don't have Vaseline then you can use any form of greasy cream.
Keep in mind that some persons have very delicate skin and may have certain allergic reactions to some of the products that you use on their skin. So make an inquiry as to what the person may be allergic to.
Try your best when working around the persons facial area, not to let any of the products get into the persons eyes. If this happens you may have to visit a medical doctor.

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Oct 19, 2011

Amazing Techniques For Hair Highlighting And Lowlighting

October 19, 2011 By Carleenp Leave a Comment

Hair Highlighting and Lowlighting

Women are known to manipulate and play with their hair since the ages of ancient Greek, by trying all types of substances found around the nature. With technology coming in the lives of human being, things have turned easy for both men and women. Hair highlighting or lowligting can be referred to changing your hair color, using lightener or hair color of the entire hair or certain section or portion of it. Highlighting deals the selected piece of hair using bleach while, lowlighting is about darkening the selected portion of strands. By trying these amazing techniques, you can enjoy the change in your personality and flaunt your beauty around your friend circle.

The highlighting technique

It involves bleaching the selected strands of hair, generally which are concentrated around your face. This procedure is pretty popular among people and there are many reason of having them. It gives your hair with great visual effects without causing any damage. The roots will not be noticeable until and unless you have some drastic light color. But if you have a very dark hair, this technique would simply make them with tones of reddish or light brown. It’s difficult to apply on the people with blonde hair.

Ways of having highlighting procedures

There are three methods of doing this technique. First comes the Foiling, it entails applying bleach to the many of the fine strands of hair followed by wrapping them in a foil. These are generally done in salons and happen to be the easiest of all giving the best results. Second is hair painting, which involves mere applying bleach in a random way to your hair using a small brush, it can be done at home. Third and the oldest way of doing this is using the plastic cap having some holes on your head, pass the strands from these holes along with a small hook and then bleach all of them. This method is not popular anymore and gives very poor result.

The Lowlighting technique

Lowlights are also called as twilights, and they are totally the opposite of the highlighting techniques. If you choose to have a lowlight technique in your hair, you just have to add darker tones to get a smaller amount of dramatic color difference. These are not visible as the highlighting hair even when you select two or three shades which prove to be darker than the natural hair color. The lowlighting procedures are less popular than the highlighting techniques. It is a good option when you desire for a change; however, do not want to for any kind of vivid change in your personality.

Ways of having lowlighting procedures

Hold a small strand of hair and then color them all with two shades which are darker than any normal hair color. While using this technique, limit your color to maximum to four or three darker shades. When you skip with more than four color of shade, you are likely to get unnatural and ruthless hair appearance. If you find your skin getting stained owing to the color, make sure you rub the area with cotton dipped in a toner having alcohol.

Final word: Once you apply these techniques to color your hair, make sure you go by the book. Always remember that you do not wash your hair for one to two days (24 to 48 hours) to have a perfect and long lasting impact of color in your hair. You can use both of these techniques of highlighting and lowlighting together or can go for separate procedures too. The highlighting can make your hair bright and light; however, the lowlighting technique would make your hair dark and deep. So once you have them enjoy the difference in your life.

About the author: Kate is a blogger and writer. She loves writing on style, fashion and latest trends. Beside this she is fond of gadgets. She recently shared an article on easy beauty tips.