PREVENT HAIR LOSS EFFECTIVELY
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Generations of humans have seen the vanity fall short in extent when it comes to staying young and attractive. Especially noticed a lot amongst women, this vanity has since long cost them a lot. Be it Cleopatra, who lost her love and life for beauty or the contemporary artistes, going for a face lift every second day, the effects have been seen amongst all and how.

Amongst all the various modes of applying vanity to our lives, one of the most common happens to be by coloring or dying our hair. While many are happy with the hair color they have originally inherited, staying in fashion does require a few sacrifices and coloring your hair is one of these. For those uninitiated, let us first explain what hair coloring is actually all about.

 Hair Coloring and its Types

Using a colored dye to color human hair is what hair coloring is all about. While some use simply to bring about a change in their appearance and style, others employ it to mask those white and grey strands, quite reflective of the growing age or malnourishment.

There are plenty of hair coloring options in the market. While the color palette ranges from the darkest black to the lightest blonde, wavering in between various shades of reds, browns, yellows, even blue, pinks, greens, violet etc, a person is spoilt for choice. However, choosing a color that matches with your skin and eye tones will be the best option for you, in order to prevent you from looking like a complete weirdo out of some alien magazine! The hair colors can be broadly divided into four categories, depending on the duration of the color stay on the hair.

  1. Temporary hair color – Temporary hair color, just as the name suggests, is a hair dye which simple masks the hair, not penetrating the hair follicle. Hence, the temporary hair color looses its color after one or two shampoo washes itself.

  2. Semi permanent hair color – These types of hair color make their effect by depositing over the hair, while penetrating the hair follicle partially. Due to this penetration, these semi permanent hair colors can stay on until four to five washes but no more.

  3. Demi-permanent hair color – launched recently, these type of hair colour are mild when compared to permanent hair colors but having almost the same life. These types of hair colors are formed by mixing the permanent hair color in a lower volume developer when applying onto the hair. This results in the loss of ammonia from the hair color and proving to be milder on the hair shaft and follicle.

  4. Permanent hair color – containing both, the developer and the oxidizer, for the best and long lasting color, permanent hair colors are the ones with maximum effect in the whole lot. It is best used when employed to cover the grey strands and hair on the scalp. The ammonia agent and other chemicals make for the deepest possible reach to the hair follicle, shaft and fiber.


Side-Effects

While these are few of the types of hair colors available in the market, most of these, which work by penetrating the hair fiber and follicle, cause damage to the hair to some extent. When performed by experts, the hair coloring may not be quite as harmful as when using local hair dye products and unskilled hands. The presence of ammonia and the oxidizing agents make for brittle hair and hence, might increase hair fall and hair breakages amongst people. Meanwhile, many cases of extreme dryness and rough hair have also been resulted out of the hair coloring.

Besides, the hair colors involve certain chemicals to replace the natural elements in the hair shaft and scalp. For the same reason, at times, these new chemicals react with the skin and cause certain ailemnts. Usually, it is an aniline derivative or p-Phenylenediamine (PPD), which is found in the permanent hair color that results in the most cases of skin irritation and allergies. For example, one might notice redness, allergies, swelling, skin irritation, skin discoloration, sores, itching, burning sensations, etc. Some speculations are also on about the tentative arsenic or lead poisoning due to the presence of certain chemicals in the hair dyes and hair colours.

Some Alternatives

In order to save you from the pain of the side effects of hair colors and dyes, market is also filled with natural hair dye options. Using natural products like henna, indigo, Cassia obovata, senna, turmeric and amla, katam, black walnut hulls and leeks can also provide people with overtly sensitive skins with the desired results of a hair color in a completely harmless and safe way.
 
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