Guide to Home Hair Color

With the Pinterest diligently fanning the flames of DIY culture, it’s becoming more and more common to tend to your beauty routines at home. Mani/pedis, tanning, and even waxing have all become acceptable to do in the comfort of one’s own home, and with the rise of high quality box dyes, home hair color is no exception. Unless you plan on taking black hair to platinum blonde, there’s no reason why you can’t touch up your own hair color at home (and save some money in the process). Of course, if you don’t know what you’re doing you could end up making a very costly mistake. To help you avoid that, we’ve put together this list of handy things to know when dyeing your hair at home.

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Obviously the first step in dying your hair at home is to choose the right box of hair dye. Try to choose one that has the least amount of harmful ingredients such as ammonia, peroxide, and alcohol to avoid excessive dryness and breakage. Semi and demi-permanent hair dyes will deposit color but won’t lift, making them far less hard on your hair view full post » Top knots are our favorite go-to hairstyle on days when we don’t have time to go the heated styling route. The style is also helpful when you want to hide the fact that you haven’t washed your hair in, oh, a week. Backstage at Kate Spade‘s Spring 2014 presentation, models were getting the top knot treatment from Garnier stylist Tommy Buckett, who shared his secrets for getting it just right. To get the perfect texture, Buckett raked Garnier Fructis Surfer Hair Power Putty ($6.09, soap.com) through the whole hairline. Next he gathered the hair up high on top of the the head. “We didn’t want it too ballerina looking,” he said. “We wanted it to be a little more chic.” Since the key to a great top knot is getting the hair up high, Buckett had two great suggestions: 1. Flip your hair upside down when gathering hair into the ponytail. This will help you to get it as high as possible. 2. Once you’ve gathered the hair, flip upright and look up to the ceiling, so your head is tilted, which will make smoothing the hair into place that much easier. Once your ponytail is secured, wrap the hair around the base and secure view full post »