When working with braiding hair color, it’s essential to use best practices to minimize damage and keep clients’ styles looking their best. Always wash and detangle braided hair before coloring it with chemically dyed products; be mindful that such products won’t harm or stain chemically dyed locks.
Colors
Selecting the ideal tone and level is vital to creating your desired look when choosing your hair color. But what exactly do these hues signify?
Color charts guide understanding how to mix primary and secondary colors into tints, tones, and shades. Furthermore, it shows how to create tertiary hues by mixing equal portions of two primary hues – then adding black, white, or gray hues for even further variation in shades.
Color charts serve many functions, from quality control professionals verifying red shoes are accurate shades to homeowners checking that their couch doesn’t clash with wall paint colors. Photographers find them especially helpful in setting precise white balance and evaluating results – most modern color charts also come equipped with software that lets them create customized camera profiles to optimize every shot they take.
Tone
Try this deep blue hue if you want a dynamic look in cornrows or box braids. It looks especially striking against darker skin tones, pairing beautifully with purple or pink accessories.
Most hair color lines use a standard number and letter system, where levels range from one to ten (with level one being black and level 10 being the lightest blonde), with letters representing the tone/base pigment of each shade; for instance, 5RV indicates a level five red-violet shadow with violet undertones.
We’ve designed our braiding hair color chart to make understanding this number and letter system easy, featuring popular hues as swatches of braiding hair colors. Each swatch links back to our product pages displaying all Kanekalon jumbo braid products available in that shade, or use our filtering options at the top for browsing by color alone.
Level
The braiding hair color chart includes levels 1 (darkest black) to 10 (lightest blonde). Most dyes lie somewhere in between; you can find your story by examining your natural hair color or an image similar to it.
Once you know your level, it should be easy to determine what tone and base pigment will work best with your shade. Most hair color lines offer this system; however, some don’t. When picking out shades from this brand’s chart, they must match your personal needs as much as possible.
When it comes to box dyeing colors with double tones, such as 5RV or 10G, its first tone stands out more prominently than its second. For instance, 5RV indicates more red than violet tones, adding an extra dimension or depth. This feature can help create more natural or multidimensional looks from box dye.
Letters
Braiding hair and wigs come in an assortment of solid colors and blended hues, making it difficult for manufacturers to distinguish among all the options. To aid manufacturers in differentiating between shades available, manufacturers have adopted a number-letter system. Numbers refer to levels of color from 1 (blackest brown) to 10 (lightest blonde). Letters indicate tone/base pigment. For instance, 7V would mean pale violet with brown base pigment, while D, C, or S letters also show percentages for mixes; P is often preferred; D, C, or S ratios may also be used.
