Hair Tint, Semi-permanent Dye or Permanent Dye?

Hair Tints

Hair tints refer to dyes that rinse out and only temporarily tint your hair. Hair tints coat the surface of your strands, creating a new hair colour as they interact with your natural colour. They last between 2–10 washes.

Product recommendations:

• Color Refresh by Maria Nila
• Cellophane bx Sebastian Professional
• Hair Tints by La Riche Directions
• Igora Colorworx by Schwarzkopf Professional
• Colorful Hair by L'Oréal Professionnel
• Color Bomb by id Hair
• My Color Reflex by Artego
• Chromative by L'Oréal Professionnel
• KeraFresh Color by KIS
• Color Twister from Selective Professional

Product recommendations:

These shampoos are enriched with dyes and colour your hair as you wash it.

• Colorwash by Celeb Luxury
• Bold Color Wash Shampoo by Schwarzkopf Professional

Semi-permanent Dyes

A semi-permanent dye has an intensity between a tint and a dye. It can darken your natural hair colour and gently covers grey hairs. However, it cannot lighten the hair and rinses out after about 20 washes.

Note: Hydrogen peroxide (H2o2) is always required for intensive dyes.

Product recommendations:

• Wella Color Touch
• Color Touch Emulsion

Covers up to 50% of grey hair. Half of your hair can already be grey for this dye to be effective.
Mixing ratio: 1 part colour cream and 2 parts H2o2 (e.g. 30 g colour cream + 60 g Color Touch Emulsion 1.9%)
PROCESSING TIME: 20 minutes

• Wella Color Touch +
• Wella Color Touch Emulsion

Covers up to 70% of grey hair. If 3/4 of your hair is grey, the dye offers good coverage.
Mixing ratio: 1 part colour cream and 2 parts H2o2, e.g. 30 g colour cream + 60 g Color Touch Emulsion 4%.
PROCESSING TIME: 20 minutes

Permanent Dyes

Permanent dyes can darken your natural hair colour and cover grey hair. They do not wash out.

Permanent dyes completely cover your greys.

Product recommendations:

• Wella Kolston Perfect me+
• Wella Koleston Perfect me+ Pure Naturals

100% gray coverage: To achieve 100% gray coverage, the mixing ratio is always 1:1. All Koleston Perfect me + Pure Naturals dyes completely cover grey hair.

If you want to dye your hair a lighter tone, you have to use bleach. If you have untreated hair or natural hair, you can dye it up to 3 tones lighter.

• Lighten up to three tones: 1 part Koleston Perfect me+ 1 part Welloxon Perfect 12%
• Lighten by two tones: 1 part Koleston Perfect me +, 1 part Welloxon Perfect 9%
• Dye the same colour or dye darker: 1 part Koleston Perfect me+ 1 part Welloxon Perfect 6%
• Processing time approx. 30 – 40 minutes

Please note:

The information in this article is a simply a recommendation! Please read the description of the product you use very carefully. Follow the directions that come with your product carefully, as they also contain notes regarding intolerances and allergies.