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Hair color – How bleaching works, hair products and what do they do.
When bleaching the hair from dark to light, the hair has to lighten the black and brown pigments followed by the red, orange and yellow pigments.
The oxygen lightens the natural and artificial colour pigments trough a series of colour changes: black, brown, red, cooper, orange, yellow and then white. The decolourised melanin is now known as oxymelanin. Ammonia in the bleach opens the cuticle and neutralises the release the nascent into the cortex. The nascent oxygen, once in the cortex, lightens the colour molecules by removing the colour pigments making the colour molecules colourless. This turns them into oxymelanin.
Red and orange pigments are harder to remove than black and brown colour pigments. When bleaching the hair soon turn red, orange, yellow, as the black and brown pigments are removed. This why we are often left with an unwanted reflect.
A toner may need to be used to neutralise this reflect if it cannot be removed by bleaching alone. A toner will also close the cuticle and shine the hair after the ammonia has treated it harshly.
Recomended hair products for blondes:
Wella SP 3.0 Enriched Mask for Unruly Hair 400ml
Wella SP 1.2 Repair Shampoo for Damaged Hair 250ml
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