The yellow-red-blue layering makes so much sense! I'm South Asian so a lot of people of my race have very dark hair, and when they bleach it it often turns a dark orange colour, which I now understand is because only the blue layer has been removed
I swear a friend of mine in high school in Mexico had the blackest haircolor I've ever seen and it'd shine blue, even for Mexico it was waaay too dark and blue! Lol and I knew it was natural because even the girls that used to dye their hair black would get dark reddish or brownish roots, her hair was also very extremely straight, never ever curly, very native american
Can confirm. I tried to dye my naturally ashy brown hair bluish black...never turned out like on the packaging. What does (kinda sorta) works, is using straight up indigo (or possibly one of these new 'fashion hairtints') on hair, that's already dyed a hard/neutral black. That at least creates bluish reflexes in the right lighting. But what they show on the packages of hair dye is definitely, eh 'digitally enhanced'.
You are a true EDUCATOR! I feel like I just took a course in hair color theory from a brilliant professor at a stellar university! I love your videos! Thank you Professor 👩🏼🏫👩🏼🎓
I felt like I was listening to a math teacher explain something I can finally understand, in a easily recognizable way. Your channel is gold, you never fail to bring amazing content!
Yes please! I am light olive. When I put my arm up to my cool toned husband's arm, I look GREEN like an actual alien! I have found that any pastels look terrible on me. I go for vivid colors, warm colors especially. True blues look good as well.
My high school self would have loved this. I put mine and my bestie’s hair THRU IT when I was pretending to be a hairdresser. Very good information. Loved the paint can metaphors.
@@junlucas69 oh! I’m jealous! Go wild! “It grows back” was our motto. When I was a teen, it was the late nineties and I have my friend a blonde pixie cut. (Imitating Drew Barrymore) and it turned out so well. But most chicks won’t rock super short cuts. Go for it now. All the damage you do to your hair will be undone with time. ❤️✌🏼
My hair was golden blonde as a child and slowly turned ashy into my teens, then brown. Now my natural undyed roots are sooo dark gray, almost black, it's weird and washes me out too. I dye it with copper to get some color back :)
Yeah, same. I cut my hair really short, two years ago and tried to grow out my dark hair dye. I was hoping, to get away with just using a light tint on it or maybe get highlights/lowlights or something in the future. I was absolutely shocked, by how dark my formerly wheat blond and then ashy light brown hair had become over the years. A dark, greyish brown with lots of white hairs dispersed throughout. I stuck with it for 6 months, then I caved and went back to dying. Happens to a lot of people around here, though. We're far enough nord in Europe, to have lots of blonde kids but very few people carry it over into adulthood. We even have a designated name for this 'formerly blonde' haircolor: 'Straßenköterblond' - 'street mutt blonde' Lol.
Basically same for me though my hair is probably now the darkest blonde can possibly be lol no grays yet (I'm 31)! My eye color has changed throughout my life too. As a baby had blue eyes until a little after a year old, then they went brown red, now they're hazel.
One of my friends was a level 9-10 blonde as a child and is now a level 2 brunette as an adult! Eyebrows and lashes stayed more or less the same though. It’s impressive how much some people’s hair change colour as they age
Wow!- super informative! I had no idea about the 3 colors, but now it makes sense when I hear my girl talking about different numbers/colors when mixing my toners! Always learn something from you... love your videos 😊
You have explained more in 1 video than what some "hair colorist schools" teach in my city, I'm not a hairdresser but I'm on a facebook group for professionals and they often ask questions about how to "fix" their mistakes or other colourists mistakes, and a lot of people pays good money for some nightmarish results! I wish every hair colourist was able to have you as teacher. You are amazing, thank you
0:08 "We're not going to go too deep into the science ..." [... procedes to go deep into the science] We appreciate your depth and careful research, Ali! Trying to explain something complex in terms that are **too** simple just ends up making it harder to understand. You do an amazing job of presenting the material at a helpful level of complexity.
My guess is she's only teaching us color theory, not the chemistry behind these reactions. For example, if heat is added to the color changing process, it will speed up. That's why roots near a warm scalp are bleached last. There's a lot more that isn't covered here, but this is a great foundation for us that have zero background. She's an excellent teacher.
@@tdexter4959 It's not. Hair only contains eumelanin and pheomelanin. Brown-ish and red-ish melanins. There is no blue in hair. You don't ever remove blue with bleach, since there is none to remove. The hair "anatomy" she showed in the video is accurate in depicting how you would coat hair in aritficial dye to obtain certain colors and how those artificial dyes would refract light. It isn't the real "anatomy" of a hair.
@@k.v.7681 This is a peculiar argument. Half of what you're saying verifies my statement. The other half pertains to something I didn't say myself. This string of comments is just odd. Some of them (not yours particularly) come from people who seem disturbed to read a compliment given to someone else. As to your specific contribution, I am truly glad to see someone writing about the content of the video and not just carping.
Question: Why is red hair never on the hair level chart? It always shows black hair to brown hair to the lightest blonde... Yet natural red hair can be warm (very vivid and almost fiery) or cool (muted red that is almost brownish) or neutral (like your standard red head. So is red hair just off the charts (or classified as warm because of the hue)? Whats the deal with that?
Those charts are often made for commercial purposes (guide-charts to choose hair dyes or shampoo for instance). As such, they take the widest route they can. Redheads are 1% of the human population and are the only ones to have a higher degree of pheomelanin (red-ish) than eumelanin (brown-ish) pigments (to be brief. There is no blue, contrary to what's said in the video. Humans do not produce blue. We produce two kinds of eumelanin, one being black/brown and the other light brown. Light brown alone gives blonde. Black/brown gives darker colors. Red heads have a small amount of light brown eumelanin, varying, greater amounts of pheomelanin, and no black eumelanin.). Those charts try to describe where you might be on the scale relating to your amount of eumelanins mix (widest common denominator). Adding another chart would mean modifying the packaging and lose space for potential branding, for very minimal economical gain (and maybe even a loss, given that it's now less clear to the average fast buyer).
I think is because it's always classified as warm. Cool reds are still, you know, red, so it's not neutral. I consider the chart more a guide for *values* so if your red it's clear, you'll work as a clear brunette/blonde, and viceversa.
Those colours are there to help the hairdresser work out what level a person is. If I took a photo of your hair and that chart and put it in black and white the red would sit at a certain level on the chart. The hairdresser just needs to know if what they are applying, is darker, lighter or the same level as the clients hair.
This was such a well paced video for my ADHD ass, i could understand everything you were saying with so little distraction, please be my teacher for ever 😭❤️
You take complicated science and philosophy (lol) and break it down and explain it so well, you are a great teacher. This was so informative and I now understand how hair color works. It’s really clear and logical once you know it, makes me wonder why anyone else doesn’t explain it like this? I feel like you’re lifting us out of the dark ages! lol! Thank you Aly 🌹
The reason why other people don’t explain it like this is because it’s partially incorrect lmao. What she’s saying is true only for artificial coloring and wigs. Natural hair doesn’t have any blue pigment in it, because the human body does not create blue pigment at all. Even blue eyes don’t have blue pigment, but a lack of pigment, which reflects the atmosphere to appear blue. Natural hair only has two pigments, one being a more black-brown, the other reading a gold-red. Of course this is no personal attack against her, we all get things wrong sometimes and she was probably just misled herself to believe that the pigmentation of unnatural hair is the same as natural.
I learned there is Eumelanin (black-brown) and Pheomelanin (red-gold) in natural hair colors. Eumelanin being bigger, so when you bleach hair you partially don't destroy all of it but make it smaller, resembeling Pheomelanin, and that is where the orange in bleaching comes from. With artificial colors it's different of course. Other than that this color-theory education is well presented. Still from my knowledge - and I may just not know - this seems like a lot of misinformation on how natural haircolor works and what happens when you bleach it. There is no naturally occuring blue pigment in the human body. In the example pictures it also seems like the base level of the different-toned versions is also different, eg the neutral one being a 6, the "blue" a 7, the red a 6 again and the yellow a 7 to even 8-9 in the lengths. That is not how toning works.
Rock star !!! Your ability to explain is🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼. I remember when corrective color the saved your hair from falling off was new-for reasons. The stylist who fixed me gave me an hour long lecture and dragged out textbooks--“not again-do not do this AGAIN! ILevel 6.5 w over here. I have to be careful because my hair pulls YELLOW. My current hairstylist is a miracle worker.
Yep. This is how I have been coloring my own hair for the last 20 years. Wella Koleston Perfect salon colors have special mix tones to aid with this. I am a natural dark/medium blonde, but like to keep my hair lighter. Thank you Aly for this video, more people should know about this, no shade but also some hairdressers 👀
I've been watching you for years. You're balayage video helped me do my hair twice. You've given excellent fashion/beauty advice over the years. I am truly grateful you share your beautiful personality with us.
This combination of blonde hair, the caramel-brown of the eyeglass, the tone of that pink lipstick, and the deep blue of your shirt.......WOW so pleasing to see combined all together! You looks perfect!
We do not have blue or yellow pigments… our hair has 2 pigments in it, Eumelanin and Pheomelanin… Eumelanin makes the hair dark brown or black. Pheomelanin makes red. It is the combination and amounts of the two that control our hair color.
@@sdee4918 pheomelanin isn’t as easy to damage and strip as eumleanin, so as you strip the darker eumelanin , you’re left with a higher pheomelanin level than eumelanin.
2:47 Well, I shaved my head @ start of Covid and it has grown out to a true cool-tone black with absolutely no yellow/orange/red. It shines silvery-blue in almost any light, I am one of those ppl who really have natural blue-black hair.
And you messed with it -I had straight is dull brown&ironed my sister's honey brown natural curls b4school- U will know what I mean when-I got a nostalgic giggle from your post😏
I've been doing hair for 30 years and this is the best explanation I have ever seen. Where were you when I was 14? I had to figure out this stuff by myself.
There’s a serious inaccuracy here: The human body does not make blue pigment. The color brown and red in the light spectrum contain blue light, but natural human hair does not contain blue pigment like dyes. Natural human pigments are Eumelanin and Pheomelanin. which are shades of orange and brown. The theory in this video is accurate only for artificial hair color not for a natural human hair pigment. If you use the microscope or molecular analysis on virgin human hair you will never, ever, find red yellow and blue pigments like those depicted; only shades of orange/red and varying densities of brown.
@Ionela Dan What is missing is an understanding of the difference between color (visible light) and pigments. Pigments are physical substances that reflect or absorb particular wavelengths of light(color), pigments can be combined and recombined to produce different, composite, colors. Key: The pigments in natural human hair (melanins) do not contain RGB pigments as depicted. The amber and brown light that melanins (natural pigments) reflect can be scientifically broken down (via spectroscopy) into other color wavelengths; which is why you can manipulate the visible hair color by adding dye (synthetic pigments). So to be clear, there are no red blue or yellow pigments inside natural human hair. That said the other comment is also technically incorrect: Natural “Red” hair (mostly phoemelanin) can in-fact be bleached - and it does not contain a true “red pigment” like depicted in the video. It’s a little funny because the creator says they are not going to “get into the science“ but then they use a weird mix color theory and hair anatomy. The images are actually not incorrect for synthetic color, just not natural hair. Hope this helps someone!
Thank you! I knew something about this wasn’t quite right. As an artist I know the difference between additive and subtractive color pallets, using subtractive color theory for hair color didn’t seem accurate.
@Miranda Sevven I enjoy Aly's teaching style. She did a particularly fantastic job explaining this topic and I appreciate her detail and thoroughness. Color theory is taught but as a young colorist I would have liked to see a video such as this. 💫
I think this is the best video about hair color/color correction I've ever seen (and I have watched quite a lot). I love that you showed us a picture for every single example, that made it even easier to really understand how it works. Thank you very much! 😊
I am a novice, just am interested in color theory when it concerns hair- you are a master and I have enjoyed several of your videos explaining color. Not having any background concerning coloring hair - you present a complex theory in an understandable way. Thank you for sharing your expert knowledge. I certainly will recommend you to anyone i know who would enjoy learning color theory. Thank you
What a fantastic video! And I was JUST coloring my hair when the notification came 😊 truly interesting, I would love to see more videos on this subject, and on light olive skintone!
Same here! And ALL colours (clothes and hair) that aren’t in large contrast to my skin (medium blonde even if cool, all orange/beige/camel colours clothes and also pastels) look terrible on me and make me look orange, green or mustard. I really only look good in very dark or very light, and green/blue/golden green or bright pink/red like fuschia or burgundy colours. Nude lipstick? Can not 😁 still confused though cause my skin obviously has a golden tone so I would choose yellow toned = warm foundations, the cool ones are pink/grey and that is an obvious mismatch. So are we warm or cool (skin) ?? When I’m not tanned I am very obviously olive but when tanned my skin looks 100% warm
Interesting !🤩 Appreciate you put the efforts to insert "pails of color paint" in your video to ease our understanding & of course I like that you always put sample pictures of what you are saying! I'm in a groggy state now in the wee hours but the pails of paints make things easy for a dull brain. 😄
this is so interesting and so very well explained! :) I have an Aveda hair dresser and the way how she gets the smallest nuances of colour is incredible.
My god you illustrate in soo depth about hair colour ❤🥲 u r trustworthy women and also a life saver. Your youtube channel deserves for million subscribers and million views👏❤ .
Aly's videos are always mind-blowing and super educational. Thank you, Aly! 🙏🏻 Now I know my friend was right when she said I had a greenish shine to my Brown hair... I love when the Brown color is not too red, so I thought I had no other alternative than to stick with the color that gave my hair a slightly greenish shine. Now I figure out that I need to use a red color corrector. Thank you! 🤗
May I say that i really like your hair now. I remember your journey from bleached damaged hair, then smooth brown, and now it's so pretty. Thank you for your work!
This explains why my bangs turned very muted purple when my mother let me take some of her brown toner when I was a very light blonde child. It must have been mostly red and blue, made for those with already brown hair, thank you Aly, now we know!
Wowww, this was such an incredibly fascinating video! So very helpful referencing the cans of paint! And, impeccable timing, as I'm getting ready to do some things with my hair; with toners specifically!!!
I was trying to find words to compliment you but it just doesn't seem enough. I watched a lot of your videos and then I found a channel where you sing. Omg. You are so unbelievably talented, knowledgable, smart and sooo artsy. The way you explain stuff, the way you give details...I mean, come onnn. Amazing.
I love that I learn something in each video you post. Thank you for all the hard work you put in. I wish you'd post more than once a week but it's fun to look forward to Sunday.
Wonderful education!! I learned this way, to use yellow red & blue - many years ago...but you took it to the next level! Thanks SO MUCH 👍🏻🥰🇺🇸🕊💃🎉 Reds are always tricky for me & you are the best teacher I hope more professionals watch your videos.
This is very helpful. I have red hair and want to dye the tips pinks. Been struggling to figure out what pink shade to use so it actually shows up. Clearly need a cool toned pink
@@AlyArt Hi Alyona , first of all... your lighting setup is *IMPECCABLE* , I noticed here in UA-cam most creators don’t really pay attention to lighting-setup ! I yours is perfect for Beauty/Cosmetic purposes *BRAVO* or in Arabic Mashallah .💋☺️🧿 From Kuwait 🇰🇼 with love 🇷🇺
This is crazy timely for me, my red head daughter wants to have a purple streak in her hair (I refuse to bleach her hair, she's too young) I'm pretty colour proficient but I had no clue red hair (all hair!) consisted of all three colours!
Тhis is the most understandable, useful and practical explanation of the hair color theory I have ever heard. And I've heard a lot! Respect! И большое вам спасибо!
I'm no hair stylist and maybe what I say now is nonsense, so please don't yell at me (and also don't yell at me if my English is clumsy). 😊 As far as I know there is no "gray" hair in the sense that the single hair is really gray - there's only white hair and when it mixes with the rest of the hair it looks gray. So I guess white hair is empty, no pigments at all in it (like with the super blonde hair in the video) and if you want to dye it you must put ALL the pigments back in it - so you do it the in the same way like you do it with super blonde hair (like she explained it in the video).
@@Sandra_HereToSeeTheDuctTape thanks for your thoughts. I have heard that it takes dye differently and doesn't last and tends to turn yellow, and I wanted to hear about anything that makes gray hair different. White hair I mean. Lol.
If you’re trying to color grey hair, You need a natural hair color. Sometimes adding an inch of red additive or a color with red pigment will help with coverage, for example you want to be a level 6 brown, 6N, you’d then add a red additive depending on the color line or you add a 6copper, 6C, or 6 red, 6R. If you do 1oz of 6N then do 1 inch or red additive or half an oz of 6C or 6R. Deeper browns you don’t really need red or the additives because they have enough red in the base. Always use 20 volume because with grey you deposit and slightly lift the hair to open up the cuticles of the hair so the color can deposit inside. Also if you have a lot of grey you should use permanent hair color so it will last longer and won’t fade quickly like semi or Demi permanents. Semi and demi only last 10-20 washes and it all depends on the products you’re using. Expect your color to fade faster if you’re not using salon quality shampoo and conditioner.
Love this, and yes its true, dark hair contain all the 3 primary colors, and blue being the one that makes hair dark to begin with, red and yellow being the pheomelanin. I can watch this all day all night. Im a hairstylist and I love my job.
wish I knew this before coloring my hair - gold valuable information, and you explained it in such a teacher-y way, I find it very logical and easy to grasp. you blessed us once again.
WOW!!! This was such an amazing video! Thank you for the incredible detail, I would watch a whole series on this if you did one. I’m currently in the process of doing my own bleaching and gave a bit of orange/yellow trying to get to greige that I used to be. Giving my hair a break over the last week and will bleach again soon. I appreciate this information so very much, you have no idea! Thank you!!!
Ally I never comment under any video. But I hope you'll read it and know how helpfull you are. In my opinion you are the best beauty channel there is! Love ya ❤️❤️
I feel like I knew most of this, but after listening to you talk about it for a half an hour I feel like I actually UNDERSTAND. I friggin love anything to do with color theory so this was really fun for me. Thank you!
Thank you for this video. You were clear enough for my old mind. You made me realize that my stylist knows what she is doing as she colored my hair from a salt and pepper color to the photo.
This is one of the best explanations of hair color and hair types that I've ever seen. Thank you for putting this together and sharing your skill and knowledge with us.
This helps so much! Everyone knows the colour wheel but you broke it down perfectly for hair and what to add and how much etc. Thank you for making this video!
This channel is so underrated!
Indian spotted!!! Yep her channel is terribly underrated
Totally!
yeah. she is too blunt and straight forward for the sensitive triggered population today. shes always been one of my faves.
Ikr!
Almost 1 M followers, what are you talking about
The yellow-red-blue layering makes so much sense! I'm South Asian so a lot of people of my race have very dark hair, and when they bleach it it often turns a dark orange colour, which I now understand is because only the blue layer has been removed
I swear a friend of mine in high school in Mexico had the blackest haircolor I've ever seen and it'd shine blue, even for Mexico it was waaay too dark and blue! Lol and I knew it was natural because even the girls that used to dye their hair black would get dark reddish or brownish roots, her hair was also very extremely straight, never ever curly, very native american
Can confirm. I tried to dye
my naturally ashy brown hair bluish black...never turned out like on the packaging.
What does (kinda sorta) works, is using straight up indigo (or possibly one of these new 'fashion hairtints') on hair, that's already dyed a hard/neutral black. That at least creates bluish reflexes in the right lighting.
But what they show on the packages of hair dye is definitely, eh 'digitally enhanced'.
The blue shine probably comes from reflections of the sky.
Seems only those of Asiatic descent can achieve those beautiful blue black hair tones !
@@youtubeistrash953 and native american/indigenous people too; mayan people also have beautiful hair
@@dearisabella they're related to Asiatics so it makes sense 😊
You are a true EDUCATOR! I feel like I just took a course in hair color theory from a brilliant professor at a stellar university! I love your videos! Thank you Professor 👩🏼🏫👩🏼🎓
She has a great way of explaining
But she said it´s theory...
Exactly my thoughts. I second this.
@@rainnoize she still did a brilliant job explaining
@@rainnoize What?
I felt like I was listening to a math teacher explain something I can finally understand, in a easily recognizable way. Your channel is gold, you never fail to bring amazing content!
Please do a video on olive skin tones!!! I have olive skin tone and I have no idea what to do with it interms of styling, color, etc!
Yes, especially light olive skin. And what colors we can wear besides white and black, if we don't want to look sickly
This, and maybe light with yellow undertones, please, lol! I can never pull off any blondes, but want to do something fun for the summer.
Yes please! I am light olive. When I put my arm up to my cool toned husband's arm, I look GREEN like an actual alien! I have found that any pastels look terrible on me. I go for vivid colors, warm colors especially. True blues look good as well.
Apparently olive skin tones are more cool than warm
Sameee I’d like this too
My high school self would have loved this. I put mine and my bestie’s hair THRU IT when I was pretending to be a hairdresser. Very good information. Loved the paint can metaphors.
Couldn't relate more, gurlie I'm in that phase right now.
@@junlucas69 oh! I’m jealous! Go wild! “It grows back” was our motto. When I was a teen, it was the late nineties and I have my friend a blonde pixie cut. (Imitating Drew Barrymore) and it turned out so well. But most chicks won’t rock super short cuts. Go for it now. All the damage you do to your hair will be undone with time. ❤️✌🏼
My hair was golden blonde as a child and slowly turned ashy into my teens, then brown. Now my natural undyed roots are sooo dark gray, almost black, it's weird and washes me out too. I dye it with copper to get some color back :)
Omg, same!!! I thought i was the only one.
Yeah, same. I cut my hair really short, two years ago and tried to grow out my dark hair dye. I was hoping, to get away with just using a light tint on it or maybe get highlights/lowlights or something in the future.
I was absolutely shocked, by how dark my formerly wheat blond and then ashy light brown hair had become over the years.
A dark, greyish brown with lots of white hairs dispersed throughout.
I stuck with it for 6 months, then I caved and went back to dying.
Happens to a lot of people around here, though. We're far enough nord in Europe, to have lots of blonde kids but very few people carry it over into adulthood. We even have a designated name for this 'formerly blonde' haircolor: 'Straßenköterblond' - 'street mutt blonde' Lol.
Same. My eyes also were a lighter blue and became greener as I got older.
Basically same for me though my hair is probably now the darkest blonde can possibly be lol no grays yet (I'm 31)! My eye color has changed throughout my life too. As a baby had blue eyes until a little after a year old, then they went brown red, now they're hazel.
One of my friends was a level 9-10 blonde as a child and is now a level 2 brunette as an adult! Eyebrows and lashes stayed more or less the same though. It’s impressive how much some people’s hair change colour as they age
This visualization technique is genius!
Wow!- super informative! I had no idea about the 3 colors, but now it makes sense when I hear my girl talking about different numbers/colors when mixing my toners! Always learn something from you... love your videos 😊
You have explained more in 1 video than what some "hair colorist schools" teach in my city, I'm not a hairdresser but I'm on a facebook group for professionals and they often ask questions about how to "fix" their mistakes or other colourists mistakes, and a lot of people pays good money for some nightmarish results! I wish every hair colourist was able to have you as teacher. You are amazing, thank you
0:08 "We're not going to go too deep into the science ..."
[... procedes to go deep into the science]
We appreciate your depth and careful research, Ali! Trying to explain something complex in terms that are **too** simple just ends up making it harder to understand. You do an amazing job of presenting the material at a helpful level of complexity.
If this is science, I am an austronaut
@@tanchella It's biochemistry. Hair has melanin, as does skin. If you have additional information or a proposed correction to offer, please proceed.
My guess is she's only teaching us color theory, not the chemistry behind these reactions. For example, if heat is added to the color changing process, it will speed up. That's why roots near a warm scalp are bleached last. There's a lot more that isn't covered here, but this is a great foundation for us that have zero background. She's an excellent teacher.
@@tdexter4959 It's not. Hair only contains eumelanin and pheomelanin. Brown-ish and red-ish melanins. There is no blue in hair. You don't ever remove blue with bleach, since there is none to remove. The hair "anatomy" she showed in the video is accurate in depicting how you would coat hair in aritficial dye to obtain certain colors and how those artificial dyes would refract light. It isn't the real "anatomy" of a hair.
@@k.v.7681 This is a peculiar argument. Half of what you're saying verifies my statement. The other half pertains to something I didn't say myself. This string of comments is just odd. Some of them (not yours particularly) come from people who seem disturbed to read a compliment given to someone else. As to your specific contribution, I am truly glad to see someone writing about the content of the video and not just carping.
Question: Why is red hair never on the hair level chart? It always shows black hair to brown hair to the lightest blonde...
Yet natural red hair can be warm (very vivid and almost fiery) or cool (muted red that is almost brownish) or neutral (like your standard red head.
So is red hair just off the charts (or classified as warm because of the hue)? Whats the deal with that?
I assume it’s because natural redheads are rare and not common worldwide.
Those charts are often made for commercial purposes (guide-charts to choose hair dyes or shampoo for instance). As such, they take the widest route they can. Redheads are 1% of the human population and are the only ones to have a higher degree of pheomelanin (red-ish) than eumelanin (brown-ish) pigments (to be brief. There is no blue, contrary to what's said in the video. Humans do not produce blue. We produce two kinds of eumelanin, one being black/brown and the other light brown. Light brown alone gives blonde. Black/brown gives darker colors. Red heads have a small amount of light brown eumelanin, varying, greater amounts of pheomelanin, and no black eumelanin.). Those charts try to describe where you might be on the scale relating to your amount of eumelanins mix (widest common denominator). Adding another chart would mean modifying the packaging and lose space for potential branding, for very minimal economical gain (and maybe even a loss, given that it's now less clear to the average fast buyer).
@@시린-d4i We are rare but we exist ;)
I think is because it's always classified as warm. Cool reds are still, you know, red, so it's not neutral. I consider the chart more a guide for *values* so if your red it's clear, you'll work as a clear brunette/blonde, and viceversa.
Those colours are there to help the hairdresser work out what level a person is. If I took a photo of your hair and that chart and put it in black and white the red would sit at a certain level on the chart. The hairdresser just needs to know if what they are applying, is darker, lighter or the same level as the clients hair.
You are a very good teacher. Can you do a lesson on natural gray hair and white hair?
Thank you! Sure will do ))
Looking forward to this-- great idea RV Lee!
I would love a video on changing to a grey or silver color.
This was such a well paced video for my ADHD ass, i could understand everything you were saying with so little distraction, please be my teacher for ever 😭❤️
You take complicated science and philosophy (lol) and break it down and explain it so well, you are a great teacher. This was so informative and I now understand how hair color works. It’s really clear and logical once you know it, makes me wonder why anyone else doesn’t explain it like this? I feel like you’re lifting us out of the dark ages! lol! Thank you Aly 🌹
The reason why other people don’t explain it like this is because it’s partially incorrect lmao. What she’s saying is true only for artificial coloring and wigs. Natural hair doesn’t have any blue pigment in it, because the human body does not create blue pigment at all. Even blue eyes don’t have blue pigment, but a lack of pigment, which reflects the atmosphere to appear blue. Natural hair only has two pigments, one being a more black-brown, the other reading a gold-red. Of course this is no personal attack against her, we all get things wrong sometimes and she was probably just misled herself to believe that the pigmentation of unnatural hair is the same as natural.
I learned there is Eumelanin (black-brown) and Pheomelanin (red-gold) in natural hair colors. Eumelanin being bigger, so when you bleach hair you partially don't destroy all of it but make it smaller, resembeling Pheomelanin, and that is where the orange in bleaching comes from.
With artificial colors it's different of course.
Other than that this color-theory education is well presented. Still from my knowledge - and I may just not know - this seems like a lot of misinformation on how natural haircolor works and what happens when you bleach it. There is no naturally occuring blue pigment in the human body.
In the example pictures it also seems like the base level of the different-toned versions is also different, eg the neutral one being a 6, the "blue" a 7, the red a 6 again and the yellow a 7 to even 8-9 in the lengths. That is not how toning works.
I am color expert and all what she explained is right. Hair color is pure mathematic. Excellent video!
@@E.Beutler So there is a blue color in the hair?
I just tripped on this video, with almost no interest in the subject but I am interested now she really hooks you at the beginning.
Rock star !!! Your ability to explain is🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼. I remember when corrective color the saved your hair from falling off was new-for reasons.
The stylist who fixed me gave me an hour long lecture and dragged out textbooks--“not again-do not do this AGAIN!
ILevel 6.5 w over here. I have to be careful because my hair pulls YELLOW. My current hairstylist is a miracle worker.
Yep. This is how I have been coloring my own hair for the last 20 years. Wella Koleston Perfect salon colors have special mix tones to aid with this. I am a natural dark/medium blonde, but like to keep my hair lighter. Thank you Aly for this video, more people should know about this, no shade but also some hairdressers 👀
I've been watching you for years. You're balayage video helped me do my hair twice. You've given excellent fashion/beauty advice over the years. I am truly grateful you share your beautiful personality with us.
This combination of blonde hair, the caramel-brown of the eyeglass, the tone of that pink lipstick, and the deep blue of your shirt.......WOW so pleasing to see combined all together! You looks perfect!
This are full webinars for free. Amazing, thank you!
The paint can theory helped me to really fully grasp this
We do not have blue or yellow pigments… our hair has 2 pigments in it, Eumelanin and Pheomelanin… Eumelanin makes the hair dark brown or black. Pheomelanin makes red. It is the combination and amounts of the two that control our hair color.
Ok so why does black or brown hair turn shades of orange when bleached
@@sdee4918 bleaching destroys some of the eumelanin in dark hair I’m guessing lol
@@sdee4918 pheomelanin isn’t as easy to damage and strip as eumleanin, so as you strip the darker eumelanin , you’re left with a higher pheomelanin level than eumelanin.
ahhh i can't stress enough how much I like your approach to beauty, aly! thank you 🥰
Wow, this takes me back to the days of working as a hair stylist, being in the backroom figuring out a clients color correction.
2:47 Well, I shaved my head @ start of Covid and it has grown out to a true cool-tone black with absolutely no yellow/orange/red. It shines silvery-blue in almost any light, I am one of those ppl who really have natural blue-black hair.
Lol, i did the same. Only difference s that my natural color consists of a medium brown with lots of grey 😬😂
And you messed with it -I had straight is dull brown&ironed my sister's honey brown natural curls b4school- U will know what I mean when-I got a nostalgic giggle from your post😏
You are really unique and intelligent as a youtuber, I love your videos🥰
Could you talk more about Olive Skins and hair colors? I mean more than black! Pls 💜
I've been doing hair for 30 years and this is the best explanation I have ever seen. Where were you when I was 14? I had to figure out this stuff by myself.
I would feel like I won a grand prize to have this woman do my hair and makeup. She is awesome!
There’s a serious inaccuracy here: The human body does not make blue pigment. The color brown and red in the light spectrum contain blue light, but natural human hair does not contain blue pigment like dyes. Natural human pigments are Eumelanin and Pheomelanin. which are shades of orange and brown. The theory in this video is accurate only for artificial hair color not for a natural human hair pigment. If you use the microscope or molecular analysis on virgin human hair you will never, ever, find red yellow and blue pigments like those depicted; only shades of orange/red and varying densities of brown.
Yes, exactly. I have naturally red hair, and it's impossible to get rid of the red pigment. It's in the core.
@Ionela Dan What is missing is an understanding of the difference between color (visible light) and pigments. Pigments are physical substances that reflect or absorb particular wavelengths of light(color), pigments can be combined and recombined to produce different, composite, colors.
Key: The pigments in natural human hair (melanins) do not contain RGB pigments as depicted. The amber and brown light that melanins (natural pigments) reflect can be scientifically broken down (via spectroscopy) into other color wavelengths; which is why you can manipulate the visible hair color by adding dye (synthetic pigments). So to be clear, there are no red blue or yellow pigments inside natural human hair. That said the other comment is also technically incorrect: Natural “Red” hair (mostly phoemelanin) can in-fact be bleached - and it does not contain a true “red pigment” like depicted in the video. It’s a little funny because the creator says they are not going to “get into the science“ but then they use a weird mix color theory and hair anatomy. The images are actually not incorrect for synthetic color, just not natural hair. Hope this helps someone!
Yes Queen
Thank you! I knew something about this wasn’t quite right. As an artist I know the difference between additive and subtractive color pallets, using subtractive color theory for hair color didn’t seem accurate.
enter the word “theory”
Brilliant Aly! ♥️ This lesson and how you explain should be taught in hair school! Love the way you teach. Thank you
I totally agree, she is fantastic!
It is taught in cosmetology school. Idk why so many graduates fail to retain it or are unable to implement it.
@Miranda Sevven I enjoy Aly's teaching style. She did a particularly fantastic job explaining this topic and I appreciate her detail and thoroughness.
Color theory is taught but as a young colorist I would have liked to see a video such as this. 💫
I think this is the best video about hair color/color correction I've ever seen (and I have watched quite a lot). I love that you showed us a picture for every single example, that made it even easier to really understand how it works. Thank you very much! 😊
Clearest, most beneficial hair colour video I've ever seen on UA-cam.
Thank You!!!
I am a novice, just am interested in color theory when it concerns hair- you are a master and I have enjoyed several of your videos explaining color. Not having any background concerning coloring hair - you present a complex theory in an understandable way. Thank you for sharing your expert knowledge. I certainly will recommend you to anyone i know who would enjoy learning color theory. Thank you
I was literally planning on dying my hair for the first time. Thank you!!!
What a fantastic video! And I was JUST coloring my hair when the notification came 😊 truly interesting, I would love to see more videos on this subject, and on light olive skintone!
I am light olive and my hair always needs to be as cool as possible, Otherwise I look sick (more green)
Same here! And ALL colours (clothes and hair) that aren’t in large contrast to my skin (medium blonde even if cool, all orange/beige/camel colours clothes and also pastels) look terrible on me and make me look orange, green or mustard. I really only look good in very dark or very light, and green/blue/golden green or bright pink/red like fuschia or burgundy colours. Nude lipstick? Can not 😁 still confused though cause my skin obviously has a golden tone so I would choose yellow toned = warm foundations, the cool ones are pink/grey and that is an obvious mismatch. So are we warm or cool (skin) ?? When I’m not tanned I am very obviously olive but when tanned my skin looks 100% warm
Interesting !🤩 Appreciate you put the efforts to insert "pails of color paint" in your video to ease our understanding & of course I like that you always put sample pictures of what you are saying! I'm in a groggy state now in the wee hours but the pails of paints make things easy for a dull brain. 😄
I was Blown away in the first minute! I didn't know about the 3 layers of Blue, red and yellow, wow! 🤯
this is so interesting and so very well explained! :)
I have an Aveda hair dresser and the way how she gets the smallest nuances of colour is incredible.
I have dark brown hair that I bleached yesterday haha feel like this video is exactly what I need
I'm actually looking forward into dying my hair, but I also don't want to damage it either.
This video really does help me!
Yayyy 😘 my favourite notification ❤️❤️
My god you illustrate in soo depth about hair colour ❤🥲 u r trustworthy women and also a life saver. Your youtube channel deserves for million subscribers and million views👏❤ .
Aly's videos are always mind-blowing and super educational. Thank you, Aly! 🙏🏻
Now I know my friend was right when she said I had a greenish shine to my Brown hair... I love when the Brown color is not too red, so I thought I had no other alternative than to stick with the color that gave my hair a slightly greenish shine. Now I figure out that I need to use a red color corrector. Thank you! 🤗
May I say that i really like your hair now. I remember your journey from bleached damaged hair, then smooth brown, and now it's so pretty. Thank you for your work!
Please make theatrical romantic vs. other body types
I loved this video
I've been waiting!
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Done! Check on Sunday ))
@@AlyArt thankyou so much Ally it means a lot to me 🥺😍😀
May you have a great day♥️
This explains why my bangs turned very muted purple when my mother let me take some of her brown toner when I was a very light blonde child. It must have been mostly red and blue, made for those with already brown hair, thank you Aly, now we know!
Not a hairstylist but I found this super interesting! Thank you!
Your channel is lovely, Aly! Also your music covers are awesome! 🎶🌸
Wowww, this was such an incredibly fascinating video! So very helpful referencing the cans of paint!
And, impeccable timing, as I'm getting ready to do some things with my hair; with toners specifically!!!
this explains why you first turn orange when you bleach your hair - lol
I was trying to find words to compliment you but it just doesn't seem enough. I watched a lot of your videos and then I found a channel where you sing. Omg. You are so unbelievably talented, knowledgable, smart and sooo artsy. The way you explain stuff, the way you give details...I mean, come onnn. Amazing.
It's always been a genius, easy to understand videos from my favorite color theory expert.
Great color theory, your explanation is spot on
I love that I learn something in each video you post. Thank you for all the hard work you put in. I wish you'd post more than once a week but it's fun to look forward to Sunday.
Thank you for taking the time. I really enjoyed it💝
A fantastic video!!! You never disappoint
Thank you ) Sure! Still researching on this. There’s one thing that is still a bit confusing to me but it will be resolved soon ))
This video is refreshing. Didn't know this much about hair, I thought dyeing was simple as choosing the color and throwing it in lol
Thank you for the hard work you put in! I understand it takes time so I'm so excited to see you again every time ❤️
Wonderful education!! I learned this way, to use yellow red & blue - many years ago...but you took it to the next level! Thanks SO MUCH 👍🏻🥰🇺🇸🕊💃🎉
Reds are always tricky for me & you are the best teacher I hope more professionals watch your videos.
Please do a video about light olive skin! 🥺 I love your videos, Aly! 😘❤
This is very helpful. I have red hair and want to dye the tips pinks. Been struggling to figure out what pink shade to use so it actually shows up. Clearly need a cool toned pink
the best and most in-depth explanation i've ever seen!
You have such a talent for explaining art and science with concision and precision!
you save my life with all this information omggg
This is exactly what I wanted to know. Can we get a part 2? I would love to know more. Please!
Sure coming soon!
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This is crazy timely for me, my red head daughter wants to have a purple streak in her hair (I refuse to bleach her hair, she's too young) I'm pretty colour proficient but I had no clue red hair (all hair!) consisted of all three colours!
Thanks, Aly! Could you also address dealing with naturally greying hair? (Partial or 100% grey) How does that fit into the above? Thanks!
Wow, now I know why lightened hair has this brassy orange colour because no blue pigment left. Thanks 😊
Wow.. It all makes so much sense now!!! I’m medium/dark brown and want to be dark/golden blonde, but I’m worried about too much damage 😢
I have been bleaching and dying my own hair for 15 years. This has totally changed my perspective!
Тhis is the most understandable, useful and practical explanation of the hair color theory I have ever heard. And I've heard a lot! Respect! И большое вам спасибо!
That was interesting but I was hoping you might discuss gray hair too.
I'm no hair stylist and maybe what I say now is nonsense, so please don't yell at me (and also don't yell at me if my English is clumsy). 😊
As far as I know there is no "gray" hair in the sense that the single hair is really gray - there's only white hair and when it mixes with the rest of the hair it looks gray.
So I guess white hair is empty, no pigments at all in it (like with the super blonde hair in the video) and if you want to dye it you must put ALL the pigments back in it - so you do it the in the same way like you do it with super blonde hair (like she explained it in the video).
@@Sandra_HereToSeeTheDuctTape thanks for your thoughts. I have heard that it takes dye differently and doesn't last and tends to turn yellow, and I wanted to hear about anything that makes gray hair different. White hair I mean. Lol.
If you’re trying to color grey hair, You need a natural hair color. Sometimes adding an inch of red additive or a color with red pigment will help with coverage, for example you want to be a level 6 brown, 6N, you’d then add a red additive depending on the color line or you add a 6copper, 6C, or 6 red, 6R. If you do 1oz of 6N then do 1 inch or red additive or half an oz of 6C or 6R. Deeper browns you don’t really need red or the additives because they have enough red in the base. Always use 20 volume because with grey you deposit and slightly lift the hair to open up the cuticles of the hair so the color can deposit inside. Also if you have a lot of grey you should use permanent hair color so it will last longer and won’t fade quickly like semi or Demi permanents. Semi and demi only last 10-20 washes and it all depends on the products you’re using. Expect your color to fade faster if you’re not using salon quality shampoo and conditioner.
Your explanation and demonstration is elite.
Love this, and yes its true, dark hair contain all the 3 primary colors, and blue being the one that makes hair dark to begin with, red and yellow being the pheomelanin. I can watch this all day all night. Im a hairstylist and I love my job.
Hello, this is by far the best video about hair coloring I've seen, everything explained step by step, even a child would know how to do it now.
wish I knew this before coloring my hair - gold valuable information, and you explained it in such a teacher-y way, I find it very logical and easy to grasp. you blessed us once again.
WOW!!! This was such an amazing video! Thank you for the incredible detail, I would watch a whole series on this if you did one. I’m currently in the process of doing my own bleaching and gave a bit of orange/yellow trying to get to greige that I used to be. Giving my hair a break over the last week and will bleach again soon. I appreciate this information so very much, you have no idea! Thank you!!!
You ELI5 the fundamentals of hair coloring. This is brilliant. Thank you for that.
Ally I never comment under any video. But I hope you'll read it and know how helpfull you are. In my opinion you are the best beauty channel there is! Love ya ❤️❤️
This is highly interesting! 👏
I had no clue the pigments in the hair are also just composed from red, yellow and blue pigments.
I feel like I knew most of this, but after listening to you talk about it for a half an hour I feel like I actually UNDERSTAND. I friggin love anything to do with color theory so this was really fun for me. Thank you!
Thank you for this video. You were clear enough for my old mind. You made me realize that my stylist knows what she is doing as she colored my hair from a salt and pepper color to the photo.
This is one of the best explanations of hair color and hair types that I've ever seen.
Thank you for putting this together and sharing your skill and knowledge with us.
This made it easier for me to understand how I’m going to lighten my henna hair and tone it!
i have no background in hair color and I get this! thanks for explaining this complex topic so well. you rock.
Aly, to me you are the definition of a scientificly-thinking mind!
amazing explanation, NEVER could get all of this info. before, you are superb!!!!
Best explanation of hair color theory on youtube
TRUE. Even with cosmetology background... NEVER KNEW. Makes a lot of sense but no one has said this 👈🏻
Aly coming in strong! Thanks for the education!
This is amazing! I am a painter so I knew how color work on the hair but never thought of it like this! Thank you🙏🏽🙏🏽
mind blowing
This helps soooo much! Thank you.
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This helps so much! Everyone knows the colour wheel but you broke it down perfectly for hair and what to add and how much etc. Thank you for making this video!
I don't know how I got here but damn I feel educated on a subject I didn't know anything about
Quarantine has aloud me to go grey! I am in love with the shiny silver in my hair❣️ I Subscribed 💕