What we should know to be able to successfully cover gray hair.

Why do gray hair appear?

When we talk about gray hair, an older person automatically comes to mind, and yes, age is the main factor in the appearance of gray hair since over time our hair loses melanin, another important factor is DNA, that is, that the appearance of gray hair even at an early age can be due to heredity, stress and bad habits can also be an important factor depending on where it appears, classified as follows:

Physiological caniness

appear on the temples and the back of the head until

complete all the hair. It is what we usually associate with age and

natural aging.

Premature caniness

We say premature when they appear before the age of 20 and are due to

various factors and rarely occurs in childhood.

Poliosis

These are normally localized strands, mainly in the eyebrows.

or on eyelashes, this grayness is associated with hereditary factors and many people call them moles.

Annular canicie

It is distributed discontinuously throughout the scalp, although it can also occur in groups or strands.

If you have already discovered some gray hair and want to start dyeing it, first you have to identify the type of gray hair you have in order to know which option is best for you. Believe it or not, there are three different types of gray hair:

TYPES OF CANA:

White Gray Hair: This type of gray hair does not contain melanin in the hair strand, which makes it more difficult to dye.

Gray Hair: This type of gray hair still contains some melanin granules and can be dyed.

Yellow Gray Hair: The easiest gray hair to dye because it is the one that retains enough melanin.

Now that you have identified what gray hair you have, here we leave you these tips so that you can dye it successfully:

White Gray Hair: Being a transparent gray hair that lacks melanin, it is the one that gives us the most work when it comes to dyeing, here the ideal would be to do a pigmentation or soften your gray hair with 30 vol peroxide. directly only in the area with gray hair, also apply the direct dye of the desired tone on the area with gray hair.

Gray Hair: This type of gray hair can be dyed but you must be very careful with the reflections. Here we leave you this table of formulas so that you can help yourself. For example, if you apply a 6.45 you run the risk that when you apply it directly it will be projected in a primary reflection. that turns orange, remember that in this case it does not apply to red tones depending on your percentage of gray hair. These are the formulas to work with:

Yellow Hair: If your type of hair is yellow, congratulations!! You can dye your gray hair without any problem, the ideal is to use Maximum Coverage dyes, just remember that from level 8-9 onwards you will only achieve one nuance or avoid unwanted reflections.

Remember that at Nekane Capilar we have 5 Maximum Coverage shades that will help you get what you are looking for.