A bad coloring job is a terribly embarrassing thing. It can be seen miles away as people point and state and laugh. No woman wants to be left with unnatural, uneven or irregular color. Everyone trying this especially at home needs some hair coloring advice on how their hair coloring works and what hair coloring techniques they can use.

First you must understand how your hair color works. Hair is graded into 10 shades with platinum blonde as a 10 and jet black as a 1. Then for each of these shades there is an underlying pigment, for instance a 3 which is medium brown will have a red pigment underneath so if you just lighten it you will show a much redder color than a lighter brown! Being aware of how to neutralize or enhance your underlying pigment is of massive importance when coloring.

Once you have decided on a color and understand how to apply your products to achieve this you must run a stand test too! don't apply straight to your whole head of hair without a trial run!

Ok now we are confident on how to to get the right color what techniques can we use when coloring? Here are a few you can consider.

One of the first innovations in hair coloring, highlights adds shine and brightens hair. This technique works best in warmer shades such as gold, amber and reds.

This is a way of toning down overly bright hair color by adding some darker tones into the mix for dramatic effect.

Similar to twilighting, lowlights add depth to hair and can soften the look of too bright hair. By adding a few different colors here and there a skilled stylist can add a new dimension to flat looking hair color subtly or dramatically!

Brightens and enhances old flat hair color by applying a semi-permanent glaze in a richer tone over a permanent shade.

This technique takes large, random sections of hair and infuses them with new color. Chunking is a hair coloring technique that gives dramatic impact to your hairstyle, often by adding bright, trendy colors to natural hair color.