Occasionally a color may be a little too dark when it finishes processing.
Here’s a quick fix to get it up to one level lighter without using peroxide.
This only works the day you do the service and before the hair is dried.
- Mix XL-Powder with warm water. At the sink quickly apply it to all of the hair.
- Keep an eye on it.
- Depending upon the depth of the color, it will take as little as 3 minutes or as long as 20 minutes to lighten the hair one level.
This is a good technique to use when you have highlights in the hair and you only do a touch-up on the new growth. Sometimes the color bleeds onto the highlights when shampooing. This technique will bring the highlights “back to life”.
The first photo shows a virgin strand of salt and pepper light brown hair that has been tinted to medium brown.
The second photo shows the lightening effect of XL-Powder and water for 10, 20 and 30 minutes.Let me know if you have questions I can answer by demonstrating on swatches.
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