KillerStrands Most Powerful Step : After Every Time You Color Your Hair...

Colour After-Treatment Process 

Throughout these posts you may find my views different from the norm, that would stem from specializing in 3 fields instead of one. More often than not I eliminate useless steps and tasks purely developed for tacking on a few extra bucks to a bill or invoice. That just was never me. I work on the theory: the better the job I do, the more people will flock to me, that theory has worked well in life for me.

No sooner said....I am asking you to add a step to your regimen you most likely have never heard of. I would be surprised if many stylists use this step routinely it adds 'time constraints' to an already overcrowded day usually, it is just as important as a neutralizer is with a perm, in my opinion....basically its the same thing.

This is something every person with $150 - $350. highlights should be aware of. Choose your words carefully when trying to find out if your stylist does the step. Be nice!

An after-treatment is absolutely necessary for oxidative hair colour treatment ( which is any color with peroxide). Only with these after-treatments can residues of hydrogen peroxide, alkali or perusulfate's (bleach) be removed. When you put your hair through the coloring process you are shaking up the pH level. After a color, perm, straightening or any chemical process is complete the hair goes into a type of 'mini-shock' and the single best way to 'un-shock' and restore & relax your hair to its original pH level is to apply one of these 'post'-treatment's for 10-20-30 minutes.Depending on the procedure I would even consider wearing IN-TENSIVE overnight to really keep the hair in a stage of BLISS ....Just try it once, it truly is the most remarkable of all my discoveries I feel.

Its really very simple after your last rinse you apply the product to hair, comb thru, leave on: 10-20-30 minutes and rinse. That's it, you're ready to go and your hair is one happy damn camper!

Effects of an after-treatment:
Removes hydrogen peroxide, alkali, and peroxide residues.
Closes the cuticle layer and give the hair shine
Stabilises colour for longer durability of the colour
Protects from creeping oxidation
Makes the hair easier to comb

The trick here is using the right product..it must have the correct ingredients to accomplish the process. There are hundreds of lines of colour...Matrix, Redken, Clairol, Framesi,  each one makes an after-treatment product. Its just not one of those "glitzy" packages or marketing wonders that drown our universe. But a very necessary part of the process for healthy hair. We now make our own product we call IN.TENSIVE that is our number 1 seller here at Killerstrands. Here is the link, as this product works so many wonders you are going to wonder how you eve survived without it.
Take me to IN.TENSIVE in KS store . . .

Killer Strands is located in the heart of L.A. so we have access to many wonderful sources. But, my goal for this site is ...I'd like this site to work for everyone, across the country.

                                 See The Peek-A-Boo Strands of Light Bronze under the dark midnite color so many things can be done to hair now a days it truly is this giant Canvas with a million different brushes to choose from. . . .

So now we have put this after-treatment product together for you - - so everyone is able to have the most fan-tab-u-lous After-Color Treatment in the world  - -  at their very own home.
This little trick of mine, using a "post-color treatment after every single hair coloring will keep your hair strong shiny and undamaged....it truly is, one of the best kept secrets on the hair planet!
This is an excellent After-Treatment, it deals with the pH level better than anything I have found.

Remember, having your hair at the proper pH level (slightly acidic - 4.5 to 5.5) produces shiny-healthy-happy hair.

KC

Killer Chemist

Lets Talk Hair Color Categories <> Beginning w/ Demi-Permanent

There are a four hair color categories in the world of hair color:

• Temporary Hair Color
• Semi-Permanent Hair Color
• Demi-Permanent Hair Color 
• Permanent Hair Color

At this particular time, ALL OF YOU....want to know ALL ABOUT: Demi-Permanent Hair color... 

It lasts longer than semi-permanent, is great for first timers, great for when that first grey hits your temples, is perfect for men/women wanting to color their grey at home with top quality hair color.

I developed a love and deep affection for the newest category of hair color many years ago, as soon as the category was announced, now, nearly every single line has a demi-permanent line of hair color. 

We, carry 3 different demi-permanent lines :  

• Wella Color Touch   
• Schwarzkopf Toners
• Demi Toners for Blondes + Brunettes....Various Brands

When I began in the hair business, Demi Permanent Hair color did not exist. this new category added a whole new plethora of hair coloring ideas and options that are endless.

• great choices for Hair Color "first timers"
• clients 'new' to Gray hair
• even "teen" Hair Color benefits from new class of hair color
• men, perfect for men's hair color 
• let alone all tricks we use it for in Hair Shows + Editorial Shoots 

 We use multiple Demi Permanent brands of Hair Color here at KillerStrands

 Demi is used on almost all Hair Color & Shampoo photo shoots. . . for any & all the boxed hair color brands . I'm sorry to say we don't use the product that is inside the box, we use the most expensive and BEST LINE of Hair Color that exists. What people want and look for is:  ? ? ? ? Shine - SHINE - SHINE - SHINE, and awesome condition. I mean besides the obvious "Photo Shop--ping" and silicone shine serums we have used since the 1990's if you can believe that ! We hi-jacked the silicone serums from the ethnic hair care companies...who found them to help with their FRIZZ 20 years ago which is pretty funny if you think about it.. that's how I found them 15 years ago!  We used to keep our photography secrets - hidden and away from the public. 

A while ago on the front page of the Los Angeles Times were 2 photos of a model  . . . both were in Color ....

The entire page was devoted to explaining in detail how the PHOTO SHOP program works and how almost every single actor, model and even sports celebrities have PHOTO SHOP Editing rights on every Photo taken of them - prior to publishing. The reason this article was in there? Seems one of the Kardashian sisters (who live near here)  had a photo taken of her and published 'accidentally'  PRE- PHOTO SHOPPING procedure. Turns out the young lady is a lot heftier than we see, think or believe her to be. Boy did that news spread, (operative word being 'spread')  - -lawsuits were threatened, yelling and screaming ensued we could hear all the way in my city 20 miles away ( not really but sounds good- - -  right?) all sorts of important things like that were flung from email to email.!! The result? The article on the front page of the Los Angeles Times, when I saw that initially I just laughed and laughed. It actually was a relief and I couldn't wait to not be restricted by that "silent" code of conduct.... 

Hallelujah! I could finally talk about it all openly and not have to worry I was the one blowing the whistle on the whole process. I WANT all the info out there, so young girls know the truth about these models that they look up to. I want them to see and hear how much work we go to, to make them look perfect , its something they can never achieve and it took me  a lot of years to comes to Terms with myself.....

The 2 photos of the model ( which were huge) showed the difference in very explicate detail, the photo on the left was the "Before" Shot.....the photo on the "right" was this woman "Photo Shop-ped" and 'After'. The article was a good one, I didn't even need to read it, I knew exactly what it said.... but when you have based a huge portion of your career on the deception we call advertising.... 

Well ---> It was as if I had been holding my breath for years, and I finally could let it out . That is what that article and those photos did to me and I'm sure every single other artist that works on advertising & photos and in that genre, from make-up people, to hair, to production, to P R, to Publicists, Agents, to the Celebs themselves. The truth finally out there.. OMG, don't you just LOVE the Internet..... here are the photos:

 

This is what young girls strive to make themselves like. . . something that just isn't even real. Please educate your daughters and yourself on this deception.... that is very carefully crafted.

Now, let me get back to Demi-permanent Hair Color.The newest classification of hair color which is called Demi Permanent is deposit only and referred to as 'semi' permanent by some manufacturers, it is very similar to semi, but more long lasting.  Some of the European companies have chosen to use super low volume peroxides to differentiate the semi from the demi lines. But if you read the first post, which I hope you do/did . . . “True” Semi-Permanent hair color is not mixed with any sort of developer or catalyst and that is how I feel it needs to stay. I teach you all this, in the hopes honestly, it depends on the manufacturer, the Colorist or the school as to how it is defined. My education is Vidal Sassoon based which is known as the "Harvard of Hair Schools" so I think you'll be safe using my criteria.

First of all it helps if you understand a little bit about the technical side of how hair dyes work. Semi-permanent color consists of tiny molecules that enter through the cuticle but they don’t affect the natural pigmentation of the hair. Because these molecules are so small they can be washed out after only half a dozen washes.This is the one and only hair color that does not change your own hair color at all. The rest do, which I know is odd to many of you. But there are no rules in hair color, there is no one single HAIR GOD that regulates how the hair color system works.  The hair color manufacturers make it up as they go along.

 DROP GOES THE JAW of most of you!

I have seen "Semi-Permanent Haircolor Boxes" where they provide developer in the box. That is a major hair color company going AGAINST the rules of haircoloring in order to sell a product to you. As you can see a semi-permanent hair color Can not and Should not COME with DEVELOPER. Maybe if I put this here, people that come to visit here,  will begin to learn and someday some of you will begin getting mad, when your hair color has been destroyed due to that fact. You must start writing .... start turning those companies IN.   Where do you turn them in? start with your local congressional Rep (Google it) and then CC the Food and Drug Administration (Google it).

Demi-permanent color also enters through the cuticle but it combines with other molecules in your hair to make it larger molecules and these take longer to wash out....Demi permanent color is used with any developer 3 Volume all the way to 18 Volume. So many of you get all in a fluff when I tell you 15 Volume is Demi the same as 10Volume ...the same as 6 Volume ... all of which we carry.  Hair color is a scientific science it is not an Artistic painting. If you follow the rules of the science that I try to teach ........you will have successful color. It also involves color theory from the artistic world though so you cannot just be a Cosmetic Chemist. When that web site online that claims to be all Cosmetic Chemists and they answer all your questions and they claim" they don't work for anyone". Ask yourself ........who do you know who works all day on a business does it for free??? My answer to you........No one.  The Cosmetic Chemists  HAD to get together with the hair artists in order to make the hair color chemistry work correctly, because they did not understand color theory at all.

....which brings us to Permanent hair dyes, these react after entering your hair because they use ammonia and peroxide which shrinks as the molecules of color go in the hair strands and then makes the color molecules EXPAND so they cannot get out once inside.... it makes the molecules much too big to be washed back out of the hair. If you keep this information about molecules in mind when deciding which hair dye to use then it will stop you from choosing the wrong product.
Always make sure that you do a strand test before dying your hair, this makes sure that you have the color you want and that you don’t react to the dye, remember different dyes from different makers have different chemicals in them. There is no UNIVERSAL SYSTEM over-seeing the hair color business . . . that implements these rules/laws .  Its up to each hair color company to follow what we hope is this universal LEVEL System I talk about so much.

 Remember . . . You may ALWAYS request a Free Strand Test with your purchase, I do that to show you how much I believe in them.

  If you have long hair make sure that you cover it properly with the color in any of the categories.... otherwise you will end up with streaks you don’t want and make sure that your hair is clean and damp before applying the dye.  For the absolute best application I would ALWAYS suggest applying one of our Malibu2000 COLOR PREP Applications.  Make sure that your bathroom or wherever else you dye your hair has plenty of fresh air - its just great for the lungs and health...don’t use hair conditioner for a day or so before putting on the hair dye but you should shampoo your hair to makes sure that it’s clean. 

 When using Level 7 and darker I would suggest using a Barrier Cream       which you apply around the hairline....it keeps the color OFF the skin, at the end of the process with darker colors. On the flip side there is also color-OFF that is used when the procedure is done and you didn't get it all off the skin.

If you stain your skin when dyeing your hair then rub a little stain remover. You will lose some hair when dying it but to keep this to a minimum after you have dyed it rinse it with cold or lukewarm water.

I like to think of Demi Perm Colors as any color line that uses above 5 Volume and below 19 Volume Developer, which makes this the perfect category to be used on men's, the first grays and up to 20 -25% Gray.

I use Demi Permanent Hair color on almost everyone EXCEPT if you want to go LIGHTER, that is the BIGGEST difference....in Demi-permanent color and Permanent color. The only action that will happen is Deposit of color - no lift <> no lightening......so remember that. There is no SUCH THING as a Semi-Permanent Blond no such thing as Demi Permanent blond. Those words make absolutely NO SENSE. If its a Level 9 blond that means it is a TONER .....remember why? because the developer is 10 or 13 Volume and that means its deposit only.  

I am of the belief that depositing color in the hair strands of either gray, white, or simply middle-aged (weak) hair can add:

• strength
• shine
• illusion of thickness
• reduce frizz & tangles 

This formula generally imparts vivid color results, and is ideal for covering un-pigmented hair, refreshing faded permanent color, depositing tonal changes without lift, corrective coloring and low-lighting.

 First of all it helps if you understand a little bit about the technical side of how hair dyes work. Semi-permanent color consists of tiny molecules that enter through the cuticle but they don’t affect the natural pigmentation of the hair. Because these molecules are so small they can be washed out after only half a dozen washes. Demi-permanent color also enters through the cuticle but it combines with other molecules in your hair to give larger molecules and these take longer to wash out, which brings us to Permanent hair dyes, these react after entering your hair because they use ammonia and peroxide and this makes the molecules much too big to be washed back out of the hair. If you keep this information about molecules in mind when deciding which hair dye to use then it will stop you from choosing the wrong product.  

Always make sure that you do a strand test before dying your hair, this makes sure that you have the color you want and that you don’t react to the dye, remember different dyes from different makers have different chemicals in them. If you have long hair make sure that you cover it properly with the dye otherwise you will end up with streaks you don’t want and make sure that your hair is clean and damp before applying the dye. I feel using our product that is a pH BALANCER  and is called INTENSIVE....helps with the shine and the longevity of the color on the strands...

By their very nature, demi's or deposit-only hair colors darken the natural hair color when applied. They cause little or no damage to the hair and are generally positioned as gentle and mild due to their low ammonia or no ammonia content. In recent years, many top  colorists will apply demi to the 'lengths' of the hair while permanent is applied to the roots. That is how the true color application should be applied.

Apply Permanent color to the base and Demi Permanent ot the ends to refresh the color if you are just trying to stay the same color.

This fights the build-up effect that can occur on previously colored hair and is also less aggressive, resulting in less damage.

Demi-Permanent Hair Color

• contains no ammonia
• is mixed with an activator, such as peroxide
• activator lifts cuticle slightly so color sits in and under the cuticle
• lasts 18 to 20 shampoos
• fades gradually and then washes out to the original color of the hair
• used for toning, changing tone, filling in highlights, and going darker
• good way to temporarily change hair color to try something new
• also recommended to color hair that is already significantly damaged or over processed

Demi-permanent hair color is, in fact, permanent hair dye mixed with low volume (usually a 5,10 up to 15 Volume) developer that blows off the ammonia from the permanent tube so that only color molecules penetrate the hair shaft.

Demi-permanents are much more effective at covering gray hair than semi-permanents, but less so than permanents.

However, demi-permanent hair colors must be used with caution because they are, in essence, permanent color and the darker shades in particular may persist longer than indicated on the box.

The two best lines in this category are:

• Wella Professional meaning Koleston Perfect, Illumina, Color Touch,Blondor, MAGMA
• Schwarzkopf : Igora Royal, Vibrance, BlondME

to date I have tested most every line and am still headstrong about these brands: its results & quality are top-of-the-line
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Shhaarroonnn - America's Got Talent Judges' Hair Color Formula . . .

Sharon Osbourne has held a soft place in my heart since she first appeared on what was one of the very first Reality Shows on MTV... 20 years ago. . . . . .

I never knew who Ozzy was and when I found out by watching this show I became a lifelong fan . The whole thing was just a crazy - crack-up, funny - funny show and the best part is .. it truly was Real. That was before they came up with the idea to manufacturer reality shows... But, its nice to see this family remained intact throughout the whole debacle. It seems they have calmed down and now seem soooo non-radical what with Jack developing MS and having a baby all at once it seems.

 I have colored many a woman's hair Sharron's color... it has always been this great Violet Red....in the coloring world we refer to it as VRV or the Violet-Red-Violet Tone. So, without going into too much of the Killerstrands Teaching Song & Dance ... I am going to give you a few simple rules before you tackle this formula on YOUR hair..... that must be followed.

Sharon has the most incredible head of hair - ever - she has enough hair for 6 people ....which I honestly feel makes her hair just look like an illuminated Crown..

She like so many of my former clients has a Salon built right in her home......so 'we' go to them..... she doesn't have to leave the house to have her bi-monthly toners applied to refresh the boldness this particular color demands to look like it does on-camera.

So there is 'what' you need to be aware of...... but nowadays, its easy to get a colored shampoo We make a Red Violet one or a Red or a Violet Tinted Shampoo its called - Bleeding Heart in  BURST  that will keep it fresh and shiny  and they have been super popular hear in California........

Its what we call a Violet Red Violet  VRV.......... So remember what you have on your hair to begin with.....AFFECTS EVERYTHING IN your Hair Color Results.
If your hair color currently is Darker than the below formula - - you MUST VANISH out the color FIRST.
Vanish is the one and only safe - peroxide-free and bleach-free product that truly removes hair color with not one little tiny ounce of damage....which is music to my ears....
Remember, the most important trick in the world for me doing hair the "Killerstrands way".....is to have it end up as healthy "after" the coloring as it was "before" the coloring

Assuming your hair is  a level 5 or "lighter' the following formula will nail it....

with grey:

5.0 + 55/46V + 44/65RV   + 20 Volume

without grey:

5V + 4RV + 20V  ( 30 Volume only if you are a lot darker and have virgin hair)

Killerstrands Store = Koleston perfect has had the reputation for years for having the best RED + the best RED/VIOLETS

Its funny before I saw these photos I would have sworn you should use more of the Violet Tone than the RV tone.... now I take that back, she looks more Red than Violet.... but Reds are a funny thing, they can completely change a full level in either tone or Level with just one shampoo and you have yourself a complete new hair color each & every day.

Or you can work at it like Sharon does and give yourself toners of those same colors.... only with the Translucent Developer or the Demi.... and poof you have it all in a nutshell.

The Typical Journey a "BOX" of Haircolor Puts You Through

This week was very heavy with emails from those of you - who are caught up in the cycle of using boxed hair color, you want out....but you claim price and knowledge of  'how-to-become' a Crib Colorist'...seems over your head. You think you can't learn a few rules and make the switch -  you think you might as well just go buy one more box-o-crap as I like to refer to it....

So for fun I drew up a little graphic to show you the cycle of how much chaos & $$ that one little box will cost you in :

• stress
• money
• hair health 
• oh and did I mention 'stress' ?

I would imagine many of you are laughing right now??
Or crying maybe ... ??
Well I made this so hopefully it will rattle you a little, and get you to spend a little time with us here at Killerstrands, working out your hair color formula with one of our two lines of hair color. I know it may seem over whelming but we are here to help with this. We have the KILLER 9 Questions and if you answer those and send them in with your order I will send you the answer to your hair color solutions - we will soon have some kits up as I iron out the details of how exactly to do that for those of you who don't take my offer up of sending in your Killer 9 with your order - any order....in which I will then return your Consultation results.
I am prepping a series on : 'Simple & Clear Hair Coloring' that will get rid of all the big explanations and will condense it right back down to the basics of the process.

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As Many Shades Of Hair Color That You Can Think Of. . .

 They are just beautiful works of art, no its not some thing I would ever wear even in my youth...but I appreciate beauty and as a Colorist it is beautiful. Completely.

 Here is the end photo (I;m guessing), but that is what this video is for and it also teaches you to do the fishtail braid, which was one of my specialties all those years ago. Now you get the advantages of see how they prepare for a photo shoot ( they 'tape' different color extensions in ) oh and notice how UN-glamorous the whole situation is ! But do enjoy
KC

I love the Free People world and buy clothes there as much as I can... how I was lucky to happen on this I don't know . . . but here you go

Hair Color Is Becoming An Art Form & Is Completely & Utterly BEAUTIFUL (see below)

 I was going to write you this cold Post about the statistics in the hair industry because I feel it is all relevant....It started like this......... The Total U.S. Salon Hair Care market rose 3.5% to 61.3 BILLION dollars in 2011 - - EVEN in a recession the hair biz rose -- which I think is hilarious. The Congress and the country better wake the Fuck up . .  because Hair color is becoming an art form and no one will be able to stop it. I AM JUST SO HAPPY ABOUT that thought.... Check the following Photos out. . . and be sure to tune in tomorrow. . . . I have some of the youth's idea on hair color.....its all just 'the bomb' ...if you ask me..

This photo wins the KILLERSTRANDS AWARD 

for just the BEST EVERYTHING :

hair- photo- make-up- model- haircolor - just everything. 

.....maybe she did it herself ? 

KC

Killer Chemist

50 Shades of Grey ... How to Get Silver Hair & More Importantly How to Keep It !

Nope its not about the book but what a great title for the post ...huh ?
OK maybe 10 Tips of (for)Grey Hair
We have many readers/customers from the UK, Australia & Canada - therefore in this post I have included both spellings of the word grey/gray - FYI
I've had quite a few of you ask for the 10 tips I have to help grey hair lately.
 Let me address that here so everyone can benefit from it.

There is nothing one can do to eliminate grey hair, so I do not want anyone to think that. If anyone promises that...quickly change the channel/page ! What grey hair is : hair that has no pigment 'within the individual strands of hair'  ......if you were to look at the hair through a microscope you would see it actually is colorless hair and it simply "appears gray" due to the color the other hairs that do have pigment. Grey hair takes years to switch all the way to solid Silver. ( we were taught to only call grey "silver" - a Sassoon trick).

Now I have had many people come to me over the years and ask for hair color that lasted 4-6 weeks on hair that is 80- 199% gray. They had never found anyone that could do that. That knowledge comes from knowing the proper way to color hair, that we teach on the Blog. If the proper 2-4 colors are used no matter who you are it will stick the whole time and then if you follow these 10 Rules, you should be able to make it to 5- 6 weeks . Which means that you only need to re-touch your color 7-8 times a year. That is not that often if you have grey - is it?

Lets start before you touch up your base every 6 weeks.

1. Before you color your hair you want to be sure to use one of the Malibu2000 packs, I would suggest a packet of Color Prep. Cleaning the gunk off before you color helps the color 'stick'. Use this the day before or the day 'of' your re-touch. Using the Crystal Gel packet is probably the best one for this particular reason. We provide a plastic cap with every packet from us.
2. But on the opposite end once you have your hair 'newly' touched-up, you then want to go for the opposite type and become "gentle" on the color. Using a for Color-only Shampoo - Sulfate-Free Shampoo - exclusively.
3. Going out in the sun, you must use a sun-screen, there are spray sunscreens for the hair exclusively...the sun wrecks havoc on hair color and keeping the hair color on your hair, is the way to keep it covered.
4. Gray hair, lacking pigment, lacks both the depth and the obnoxious DURP of pigmented hair. Think about that ....what needs to be done? You MUST replace what is missing from it, in order for it to look like the rest of your hair. Gray hair lacks depth and warmth . We make this silver color tinted shampoo that works KILLER ...its called BOOST and we're the only one that has SILVER colored shampoo which adds tone and shine to the hair. When you are in effect replacing the missing DURP {dominant-remaining-underlying-pigment}.  
5.  Depending on the color of your hair, the biggest category of growth in the hair Biz is colored-tinted Shampoo's. We carry one that I personally mix its called BURST in SILVER BULLET !  The advantage to getting a ''Brown Burst" is, it will deposit little bits of color on your hair, every time you shampoo. So using this at 3-4 weeks after the Re-Touch, will help cover those pesky roots without having to deal with all those other silly gadgets out there!.  We have a great selection of colors. Shampoo the hair, leave the shampoo on the hair...for 3-4-5 - even up to 10 minutes while you do other things. Then rinse. These really work I learned to make them in Academy - 20 years ago ! So the concept has been around. We made them for actors in the first 18 years now people have figured out that actors have beautifully toned hair and they want it too!  
6. I feel gray hair needs to have a fresh hair cut - at least > every 2 months. Having raggedy ends really makes the hair look frazzled and old. Always make the extra effort to keep those ends and the shape of your haircut fresh. 
7. Redheads and Grey? Red Tint on over-porous hair looks browner, BUT- - red tint on grey hair looks brighter and needs to be fixed or even better - prevented. How? Red formulas for grey hair benefit from adding a Gold or a Neutral. I most often add Neutral which means any color from the "N" Series.
8. Some of you look smashing with silver hair - like the lady above.  But that is not the norm, most of us age with the signs of grey. It always dulls the appearance and when it creeps into all of our body's hair we begin getting furious. Just as make-up improves almost anyone's appearance - so does covering the grey, think of it as the make-up for hair ! Don't you wish your make-up lasted as long as hair color? I sure do !
9. Be careful of going too dark when choosing the color you begin coloring your grey hair with if you are a brunette.  A good rule of thumb is... to begin to go lighter and lighter and lighter the goal should be to get as close to the tonal factor of grey.
10. What is the closest color to gray hair?? BLONDE ! ! So the closest you can get to Blonde the better (I'm talking as we age in the 50-60-70's)- you won't have to Re-touch as often ...  when the grey hair grows in after a couple weeks...you will have lots more time to goof around in without having to worry about having to Retouch the old haircolor ! 

• Ash does not cover gray fully, and it may create off tones. Please Avoid.
• Colors containing some warmth cover gray best such as  (LANZA) lanza is a great line for gray hair just join the group for a month I will help you with the formula the first time and then you can quit if you want. 
• If you don't want total coverage, thats great too, use Demi /Translucent /or 10Volume Developer - with the above formula gives more of a "blended" look rather than a completely Covered one..
• Maximum timing = maximum coverage. In this Blog I preach the advantages of processing the color in the more appropriate time - which is 1 hour - - not 20 minutes. They preach that for busy Colorists who have to sandwich in 25 people daily, but not letting the hair color process for the full amount of time.
• Watch for up coming new products for you to solve Covering Gray for those who do not want to learn how to cover gray, but just want a kit I have prepackaged for you. 

Hair Conditioner Designed To Sleep In . . .

Killerstrands has this amazing conditioner that truly works miracles.

The reason it does? Think about this:

You know how you apply your Super-Repairing-Delux moisturizing cream to your face at night and sleep with it on your skin? So that it can use those 6-8 hours to work ???

Same theory.

A great wonderful-Deep conditioner needs to be on the hair for 6-8 hours.

I would honestly say that {approx.} 95% of the people who try Thrive.n (pronounced thrive...nnn) fall in love. If you have curly - damaged - frizzy - color damaged hair (as well as hair thinning) one night of this will knock your sox off. I wanted to announce and display Thrive.n's new look, the exterior of the product was due for a new label but I have never been able to come up with a better concoction than I have whats in there...so there just will never be a 'new' version . Not when this one is so damn successful.

Men, Women, Tweens, it is a tremendous hair conditioner that has produced thousands of successful hair make-overs for people.

 I'm not really great at blowing my own horn...I always thought that was an unattractive quality in a person. But for an Internet store - -  5 years after I began, if you don't blow your own horn and blow it LOUD and FAST, everyone else will blow right past you. Which is what is happening. So I am going to try some new methods of getting the word out there. I would be so pleased if I could get my message to more women and men - I fear for them - I truly honestly do.

 There is this new Super- campaign for a new product line, they tagged Heidi Klum to promote....called "CLEAR" Shampoo supposedly for the scalp. The shampoo has Sodium Lauryl Sulfate as the 2nd entry in its ingredient list. Sulfates are the main reason that scalp problems went from a very small 1 in 30 to now it is as high as 8 in 10 who have scalp issues. Do you know why? Sodium Lauryl Sulfate. Sulfates gave them their scalp problems.

 Do you know that the # 1 shampoo we sell is Malibu 2000 Scalp Wellness? Of all the glorious shampoo entries we have the scalp wellness Shampoo and our Scalp Kits that truly work about as well as anything a Dermatologist kit can give you- sell like there is no tomorrow . . The trick to many peoples scalp problems? Use the Sulfate-free Shampoo and nothing is better than the Malibu 2000 Scalp Wellness Shampoo.

This is what is in what we call the SSSS : Simple Silly Scalp Solution ! HA HA I must have been slap-happy when I came up with that one !

Here are the contents of the SSSS Kit:

• Shampoo brush 
• Scalp wellness Shampoo
• Scalp Wellness Treatment Packet  & the very best addition:
• PURIFY-Kaaral's Scalp Scrub. Which sells faster than the shampoo !

the SSSS Kit, here's your link. . .

http://killerstrands.myshopify.com/products/malibu-2000-hit-n-miss-scalp-solution

  these sell like crazy but we don't have a lot of chatter about scalp issues in the group I wish we did ! Talk it up I studied scalp issues for many months in Cosmetic Chemistry. I think people are shy about it but maybe if you knew the numbers you wouldn't be.

Try the kit it has thousands of successful heads floating around the country (and world) if scalp issues are yours. 

Also when you are finished apply Gleam while you sleep...that will solve a scalp issue almost immediately...

KC

Killer Chemist

Top 10 Habits That Destroy Your Hair + the 10,000HEADS Protocol !

Just a reminder, as there are always people looking for a quick fix to beautiful hair. If you notice in life that "QUICK-FIXES" do not really ever work. If you want something serious . . . you must commit.  If you want beautiful shiny hair. . .. you CAN have it. There are things that many of you will have to change though.  This list above is a good place to start. I have had this same list for 20 years.  It used to hang right next to my station in the Salon. So with that history you can imagine all the results I have seen.

The health of the hair is the first indication that something could be wrong with you. Health-wise that is. For many reasons cleaning up your act will not only clean up your hair . . .your body and mind will Thank You as well. 

I challenge every. single. one of you to begin a new day, with new goals .....                       your hair is worth it

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Here is the STEPS of the 10,000HEADS Healthy Hair List !   

Strive for All These Steps

I cannot stress the importance of 2 of our products.) Gleam & Thriven   http://killerstrands.myshopify.com/products/gleam-hair-oil . . they make more difference in a person's hair that is dry/damaged/ or thinning than ANYTHING you will ever try.   These 2 were finished when I was in Radiation Therapy . . .You just cannot believe the results, not only myself - buy many thousands of Killerstranders whom have tried as well...being diligent with daily application...is the main requirement. Please just give a few steps a try at a time. .

 

KC