DIY Hair Coloring: 12 Risks & Why Professional Salons Are Safer

Hair colour at home aiding in damaging your own hair!

Surprisingly, I meet a lot of people who give me strange looks when I say that hair colouring at home is bad. They instantly think me to be someone who loves spending uselessly, even where there is a chance to save. But the truth is – hair colouring at home is bad.

Remember that day when you decided to save some bucks by being your own hair colourist? I remember a close friend going through this horror. All she could see later was a dirty and lifeless brown!

The corrective services cost her more than what hair colouring would have cost! Experts too say a loud NO when it comes to hair colouring at home. To spare you the horror of such unfortunate event, here is you should NOT colour your hair at home.

Why Steer Clear Of Box Colours?

1. For one, you are not a professional hair colourist. The professionals are there for a reason. They know the colour that would suit you the best.

2. The professionals use other products that enhance your colour. These make your hair colour come out shinier, brighter and healthier too. They use specific conditioners, shampoos and deep conditioning which prepare your hair for colouring.

3. Box colours require mixing. This mixing bit is crucial. If by mistake you add more bleach, it can make you look scary and eerie.

4. It is really difficult to get proper highlights done at home. Professional interference is a must there.

5. Each time, the box screams ‘new formula’; users assume it to be an improvement. But they tend to forget the fact ‘what may be good for others may be terrible for them’. The professionals have a tested formula which can never go wrong. Hair colour is not a regular affair. If something goes wrong, you won’t be able to wipe it clean.

6. Each time you colour your hair at home, you are getting one step closer to hair damage.

7. The stylist would get a better view of your head and hence colour your hair evenly. If you do it yourself, there are high chances of you missing out few strands and sections of hair here and there.

8. Most often the hair colour that the model is shown wearing on the colour box, varies a lot from what you hair turns into after the application. Percentage of your hair colour turning out the same are less, really less.

9. Corrective services coupled with mental tension, time, sacrificing the health of your hair, after an unfortunate hair colouring accident will cost you much more than simply availing the services of the professional.

10. Since you don’t have prior experience with DIY hair colours, you won’t know how long to leave it on. Self application is difficult and there are very good chances that besides your hair you will also end up colouring your forehead, ears and temples.

11. Store-bought hair colours often prove to be much more damaging for your hair. They have more peroxide in them and hence dry out hair immensely.

12. We all have different hair and the colouring requirements also differ. ‘One size fits all’ claim of box colours is totally faulty.

So these were some of the negatives of colouring your hair at home. With these facts in black and white, you must think twice before picking up that colour box again.

Worth Noting:

After dying your hair it is important that you use shampoo and conditioner especially formulated for treated hair. This will prolong the colour and the radiance of you colour-treated hair.

To sum up, with professional hair colouring, what you see is what you get. Tell us what do you prefer, hair colouring at home or visiting your stylist? Leave us your comments below.