How to understand colors and shades? How to choose? After all, the picture on the box does not always correspond to the result.
Most often the color that doesn’t match on the paint boxes (normal - not professional) is due to the fact that the model is usually lightened and then color is applied. That is, the paint is applied to bleached hair. If you are not blonde, and brown-haired or brunette, then the color, respectively, will not work the same as on the box. Although now there are paints that simultaneously lighten up with (4 - 6 tones) and paint in color.
Now I will tell you a little about the numbers of colors and how you can understand them even without seeing the model on the box. Usually the paint number is indicated as “0.00”. Instead of zeros, any number can stand. And usually one tsyfra before point and two after, although there are two to the point and one after.
The first digit BEFORE the point indicates how bright or dark the color will be:
1 - brunet
2 - very dark brown
3 - dark brown
4 - brown hair
5 - light brown
6 - dark blond
7 - blond
8 - light blond
9 - very fair blond
10 - very very blond blond
11 - super light blond
12 - the nardichesky blond (lightest)
P.S. Most often the scale goes from 1 to 10, but in some palettes it is found from 1 to 12.
The first digit AFTER a dot means tone. There are only 7 of them.
1 - ashen
2 - mother of pearl
3 - golden
4 - red
5 - mahogany (red and violet)
6 - red
7 - bronze
The second digit AFTER a dot indicates shade (It is softer in contrast to tone. It is less noticeable, but it is also present). If there is no second number after the point, then there is no shade. There are also 7 of them, which are also designated as tone.
1 - ashen
2 - mother of pearl
3 - golden
4 - red
5 - mahogany (red and violet)
6 - red
7 - bronze
What follows from this?
Let’s take a couple of examples and decipher them for you:
3.34 - dark brown with a golden tone and a red tint
5.21 - light brown with pearl tone and ash tint
10.3 - very very light blond with a golden tone
I think the principle is clear ..
Exceptions and features.
It happens that after a point there are two identical numbers, for example:
7.66 - blond with a strong red tone.
That is, the red tone is complemented by the same red tint, which makes it doubly bright.
It also happens that the first digit after the point is zero. This means the absence of tone and only a slight hue:
4.07 - brown with a bronze tint
It also happens that after a point there is just zero and nothing more. This means that there is no tones or shades in the paint, but only a natural color:
6.0 - natural dark blond.
About NOT classic palettes.
There are also non-standard palettes in which colors are indicated by letters after a dot.
N - natural
A - ashen
V - mother of pearl
G - golden
O - red
R - red
B - bronze
7.AV - blond with ash tone and mother-of-pearl shade
3.OB - dark brown-haired with a red tone and a bronze tint
5.GG - light brown with a hard golden tone
A couple of tips:
If you have a place to be gray, then buy 2 tubes of paint. One with the color that you want and the second purely natural of the same level of lightness.
For example:
Desired - 4.46 (shethen with red tone and red tint)
Then we take a tube 4.46 and a tube 4.0.
Mix the half tube of one tube and the second tube. Then gray hair will be painted much better. Paint can be mixed by different companies. It will not affect the result. And stored in closed form can be about a month. So the second halves of the tube can be used for re-staining.
Acquisition of paint.
I recommend to buy paint in prof. stores (Frizieru serviss - Dzirnavu iela 102), and not drogas and similar places. In prof. store colors will be more consistent with the palette and numbers. And for the price goes the same way. But do not forget to purchase to prof. paint a bottle of peroxide. Usually I choose 9% for tinting the roots, if you are more beautiful in tone than your natural color, or if the color is bright, or if there is a lot of gray hair (then you can even take 12%). I take 6% if we paint from light to darker, or if the paint is not very radically different from your real color. Dilute 1 tube of paint to 1 tube of peroxide.
PS For blondes a very good palette of the company is goldwell and schwarzkopf. If you yourself brown-haired woman, then this paint will lighten very well. Just a good selection of colors. Another cool company Igora.
So what do the numbers on the hair dye mean?
When choosing a paint, every woman follows her own rules. One customer focuses on the brand, its popularity, the other - on the price, and the third - on the packaging design. But choosing a shade, without exception, women look at the photo, which is located on the packaging and read the name of the color. At the same time, few customers look at the numbers that are printed next to the shade name. But it is they who decode the composition of the color.
This is what the numbers on the hair dye package mean:
- The first indicates the depth of the primary color and is usually in the range from 1 to 10.
- The second one is the main tone, it is located immediately after the fraction or point.
- The third means what additional shade is part of the paint, but it may not be.
If the characters on the package look like two or one digit, this indicates purity of tone. In this paint there are no additional shades. Please note that depending on the brand value of colors may vary. Thus, Estelle shades may differ from Garnier hair dye. What the numbers mean in this case, tell a special palette.
The table will help you figure out what the numbers mean in hair dyes.
1st digit value
2nd digit value
3rd digit value
A range of natural shades
Very dark chestnut
The green component comes in matte shades.
yellow-orange pigment, golden hues
red color
red-purple pigment, mahogany shades
blue-violet component, lilac outflow
red-brown pigment, natural shades
Close to blond blonde blonde
Blond, sometimes it can be 11, 12 platinum blond
Other color designations
Some manufacturers of paints indicate the color is not numbers, but letters. The decryption values for them are as follows:
- C - ashen,
- PL - platinum
- And - clarification
- N - natural shade
- E - beige,
- M - matte,
- W - brown,
- R - red,
- G - gold,
- K - copper,
- I - intense
- F, V - purple.
How to choose a hair dye on the numbers - the designation of its resistance
The duration of the effect is also indicated on the package in the form of numbers, but they are in a different place:
- 0 - means unstable paint. These include tinted shampoos, mousses and other means.
- 1 - is a sign that ammonia and hydrogen peroxide are absent in the product. This paint is used to refresh hair color and make it shine.
- 2 - speaks of a semi-resistant product. The composition of such paint is hydrogen peroxide. Depending on the manufacturer, it may not contain ammonia. This product lasts about 3 months.
- 3 - means that the paint is resistant, and with its help you can completely change the hair color.
More about the numbers on the package
In addition to the listed figures, they can also report the following:
- 0 (1.01) before the value - indicates the presence of natural or warm pigment.
- 00 (1.001) - a large number of zeros means a more natural shade.
- 0 after the value (1.20) indicates a rich, bright color.
- Two identical numbers after the point (1.22) indicate the saturation of the coloring component, an increased amount of additional hue.
- The more zeros after the point, the more effectively this paint paints over gray hair.
It is also necessary to take into account the peculiarities of the hair, as well as the previous procedures - bleaching or highlighting, which can reduce the durability of dyeing.
How to choose the right color
Many women when choosing paint use a special palette of shades. But, basically, the result does not meet expectations. This situation occurs because synthetic fibers are stained for the samples. And their structure is different from natural hair. Therefore, you need to know what the numbers mean on the hair dye.
Before staining you need to make a diagnosis. You should first find your hair color using a scale of shades. If the curls were previously painted, then this is also taken into account when choosing a tone. If you have doubts about the selected color, you can use the paint without ammonia. She quickly washed off, and you can try a new color.
During the dyeing of long blond hair should be applied paint evenly along the entire length, and then on the roots. If the curls are short, then you can apply the mixture completely.
What color to choose when there is gray hair
The condition of the hair is one of the main points that affects the choice of color. It is necessary to take into account the desired result and the presence of gray hair. If its amount is up to half of the hair, you can use ammonia paint level of 7 or more units. Oxidizer should be 6%. Well suited in this embodiment highlighting.
If the gray is 80%, then the paint is chosen level 9. In this case, do not use warm shades. It is better to dye your hair in bright shades up to level 8. Do not use bright or dark colors. Gray hair can be poorly painted in such tones.
What affects color fastness?
When choosing a shade you need to take into account the state of the curls. The easiest way to change the color, if the hair is thin, soft and light colors. Dark natural color will be much harder to reverse.
Paint pigments affect the durability and intensity of the shade. It is hardest to get cold tones. And red - on the contrary, and at the same time they will last longer. If the selected color is lighter than the original color, then it should be lightened before painting. Since in this case the effect will not be visible or will appear as a shade.
You should also be sure to read the instructions. This is of great importance, especially when first painting with new paint. It is better to read it still in the store and check the contents of the package and its contents. Requirements for different colors may vary, so you should first examine them. Also do not forget about the test for allergies.
In order to get a uniform color, you need to remember that one package is designed for 20 centimeters of medium density hair. Do not save, but rather buy another package. If after staining remained diluted excess, they can not be stored until the next time.
So, choosing the paint, you should focus on the state of the hair, its original shade and the presence of gray hair. The numbers on the hair dye will help to navigate when choosing the desired result. After all, the picture on the packaging and the palette are not 100% reliable. If you know what the numbers on the hair dye mean, then the effect after dyeing will always bring joy, not disappointment.
How to deal with additional subtones?
After a dot or oblique stroke, 1 or 2 numbers can stand, which indicate the presence of additional neutral, cold and warm pigments.
What do the second numbers on the package with hair dye:
- 0 - the color is as close to natural as possible,
- 1 - ash series with blue or lavender tint,
- 2 - matt structure, green shade present,
- 3 - golden ebb with an orange or yellow color scheme,
- 4 - red scale with a copper overflow,
- 5 - mahogany number with pigments from a red, violet palette,
- 6 - included in the violet palette, contains a rich blue pigment,
- 7 - as close as possible to natural shades, contains red and brown tones.
Paints with markings 1,2 refer to cold, all the rest allow to give strands warm colors. All professional products are labeled according to the international system, but even the same numbers may differ for different brands.
What does the third digit mean?
If there are 2 numbers on a paint box after a dot or a stroke, they mean the presence of a nondominanting subtone, which is approximately 30–50% of the basic color scheme.
How to decipher the third digit:
- 1 - ashy shades
- 2 - purple palette,
- 3 - golden scale,
- 4 - copper subtones,
- 5 - mahogany tones,
- 6 - red outflow,
- 7 - coffee subton.
For example, code 23 means that after dyeing the strands will acquire a purple color with a slight golden glow. And if code 32 is indicated on the package, then gold prevails, curls will be obtained with a beige tint.
Some nuances of paint selection
When selecting lightening agents, choose a tone that differs from the natural color of the curls by no more than 2 shades. There is no limit to the dark palette. The package also indicates the degree of pigment resistance from 0 to 3: the higher the value, the longer the composition will last and the more ammonia compounds and peroxide in its formula.
What else you need to pay attention to:
- if before the second digit in the code is 0, this means the presence of warm, natural pigments, the more zeros, the more natural the result looks,
- if zero is third in the code, then the strands will acquire a bright and saturated color after dyeing,
- after a dot or a stroke the same numbers stand - an additional pigment enhances the brightness of the main tone.
To paint over gray, choose products with a large number of zeros on the package. Compositions with a golden undertone cope with gray hair by 75%, red, the other bright options hide only half.
Coloring at home should not be carried out if there is a desire to move from a cold palette to a warm gamut, if the gray is more than 50% of all the strands.
Examples of decoding colors Garnier, L'Oreal, Estel
To deal with the code on the package, you need to study a few examples of decryption.
Deciphering the numbers on the packaging of some popular tools:
- The paint Loreal 813: 8 means a light brown range, 1 - has an ashy undertone, 3 - there are ebbs of gold. After dyeing you get a warm blonde without any impurities.
- L'Oreal 10.02: refers to the range of light blond, 0 shows the presence of pigments of a natural shade in the composition, 2 - the tone has a matte structure. After dyeing, the strands will become cold, very light-colored without any impurities.
- Estelle 8.66 paint: the first number is that the product belongs to the light-brown scale, the numbers after the dot show a high content of violet pigment. The result of staining will be fashionable cold lavender color scheme.
- Estel 1/0: classic black without additional podton, 0 indicates full naturalness. This is a deep shade of the raven's wing, the paint paints over gray hair well.
- Garnier 6.3: dark blond, close to light brown, 3 means the presence of golden notes. Curls will look like liquid gold, the color is warm and saturated.
When choosing you need to focus on the state of your own hair. The final shade may differ if they have already been previously painted, especially with natural dyes, there are clarified strands. Correctly mix the color to create the perfect color scheme only professional.
In order not to be mistaken with the tone, you should carefully examine the packaging, the numbers will help determine the primary and secondary colors, and understand whether they belong to the cold or warm palette.Also pay attention to the expiration date - expired funds can not be used, the result of such staining can be unpredictable, and this product is harmful to the health of the strands.
Letters and numbers in the palette of professional paints
Historically, all the variety of shades of hair is customized to fit several basic definitions: brunettes, brown-haired, blond, blond, red and gray. All these groups have no clear boundaries, and within each color there are many different shades.
That is why professionals in the definition of color scheme use a specially developed system that includes two basic concepts: depth and direction.
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The color depth is determined on a digital scale, usually from 1 to 10, from the darkest to the lightest. For example, L'Oreal Majirel hair dye uses the following definitions:
- denotes classic black (black),
- notes intense dark brown (brunet),
- meaning dark brown (dark brown-haired),
- means medium brown (brown) tone,
- defined as a light brown color scheme (light brown),
- Notes dark blond curls (dark blond)
- denotes a medium-blond shade (blond),
- meaning light blond color (light blond),
- notes, as a very light blond (very light blond),
- defined as a super blond blond.
The color direction can be determined both in numbers and letters, depending on the encodings adopted by a particular manufacturer. This concept refers to the hue of the fundamental tone, which can vary from blue-red to yellow-green tones. The color range of any brand, for example, l'oreal majirel hair dye, includes gold and copper, pearl and ashen, red and plum, beige and brown tones.
Despite some differences, depending on the preferences of the manufacturer, any palette, including majirel hair dye, is coded in accordance with the general rules.
Color palette of hair dye L'Oreal Majirel
- In the numbering of the hue, the first sign is the depth of color, and the second is its direction.
- Absolutely pure shades, without admixture of additional color nuance, are usually designated N (natural) or 0.
- In the number after the first digit denoting the depth, a separator is put: a period, a dash, a fraction or a comma. When designating the direction of the color letter letter such signs are not used. Hair dye Mazhirel, for example, denotes various options as follows: 10.21 or 6.25, 7.11 or 4.26.
Dark types of paints with numbers
Tip! Note that in the case of a letter, a shade is indicated by the first letter in its name, which is usually written in English or another official language of the country of origin.
Decoding numbers on the hair dye
Each package contains numeric or letter designations. They inform the consumer about the shade that will be obtained after keeping the dye on the hair. Most often it is marked with three numbers separated by a slash or a dot.
The first will indicate the depth of the fundamental tone to which the dye belongs. The basic international classification includes 10 shades that smoothly change from very dark to very light:
- 1 - black,
- 2 - rich chestnut,
- 3 - intense brown,
- 4 - chestnut,
- 5 - muffled brown,
- 6 - dark blonde,
- 7 - muffled blonde,
- 8 - light blond,
- 9 - blond,
- 10 - light blond.
Figures 11 and 12 indicate that additional shades are used in the composition. Most often it is a very light tone with an ash tint - platinum and very light blond.
The first digit of the number is followed by the second one — the main shade corresponds to it:
- 0 - a series of natural tones,
- 1 - blue pigment with splashes of purple (ash row),
- 2 - green shade (matte row),
- 3 - yellow-orange shade
- 4 - copper color scheme
- 5 - red-violet,
- 6 - purple pigment with blue tint,
- 7 - red-brown shade.
Reference!
Colors marked with two numbers are considered pure, without any additional shades. The more zeros, the more natural they are.
If there is a third digit on the paint (additional shade), it can be decoded as follows:
- 1 - ashen,
- 2 - purple,
- 3 - golden,
- 4 - copper,
- 5 - mahogany,
- 6 - red,
- 7 - coffee.
Selection tips: level, tone
When choosing a paint one should make a start not only from marking values, but also from the level of resistance. Modern dyeing agents are available in three levels:
- 1st - ammonia free. Do not contain harmful components and do not affect the structure of the strands. They act on the hair shaft superficially and do not enter into a chemical reaction with natural pigment. Hair color after application means very natural and harmonious. Usually they are used to update the natural shade of the hair, giving it saturation and expressiveness. They are washed off for 8-10 sessions of washing the head.
- 2nd - more resistant, but less safe dyes, which are held on strands up to two months. The rate of flushing depends on the original color and condition of the hair. Often used for painting gray hair.
- 3rd — very resistant “chemical” dyes that can radically change the original hair color, neutralizing the natural pigment. They keep very long, as much as possible masking the previous tone and painting up to 100% gray hair.
Attention!
Paints with a level of "0" are considered tint dyes and are available in different forms - mousses, gels, shampoos, and balms.
Before choosing a tone, it is necessary to diagnose the original color of the hair. If the desired color is 3-4 tones lighter than the original, it is recommended to discolor the curls before staining. To avoid yellowness after clarification, you should choose colors with ash shades. For dyeing 1-2 tones lighter pre-bleaching is not required.
With coloring in more dark shades, than previous, difficulties usually do not arise. Dye with an additional ash tint (.1) is used to balance the warm dark tones.
Coloring tone to tone is recommended to be non-ammonia and toning paints in a natural range (zero in the second digit).
For an example of color decoding, you can take a shade of 8.13 light brown beige Loreal Excellence paint. The first digit (8) means that the depth of the primary color belongs to the light-blond palette. The unit after the point (.1) indicates that a tint of a blue-violet row (ashen) is present in the agent. The last figure is an additional shade of golden (3), giving the paint a warm sound.
Most manufacturers put a picture on the package with the original hair color and the result of dyeing. It allows you to assess how pronounced will be the effect of the application of the selected agent.
Color table with letters
Some manufacturers use a basic color for marking palettes. This label looks like this:
- C - ash tone:
- PL - platinum
- And - intensive clarification,
- N - natural,
- E - beige,
- M - matte
- W - brown,
- R - red,
- G is gold
- K - copper,
- I - intense
- F, V - purple.
The depth and color saturation of such products are marked with numbers. They will follow after the letters. A similar scheme is used, for example, by the trademark Pallet.
The choice of paint for painting gray hair
For painting over gray-free gray hairs are not suitable!
When choosing dyes for gray hair, it is necessary to take into account the percentage of gray strands to not yet grayed:
- Up to 50% of gray hair on dark hair - dyes with markings from level 7 of the primary color depth (muted brown) will do, concentration of the oxidizer is 6%.
- 50-80% gray hair - recommended from 9 to 7 levels with shades of cold colors. Ashen shade (.1), purple (.7) will do. Used oxidant concentration of 6-9%.
- 80-100% gray hair - it is better to refuse dark color in favor of very light colors up to level 7. Sedinu effectively mask the brightening agents with a high content of oxidizing agent.
When choosing paint it is necessary to take into account the state of curls and pre-coloring. Even persistent dyes are quickly washed off from bleached strands, and damaged ones can give an unexpected effect with a properly selected tone.
How to buy paint, focusing on the numbers?
Very often, when choosing products for coloring hair, women notice certain numbers, but rarely anyone is interested in what their essence is. Of great importance is everything that is part of hair dyes.
It turns out that this is a very important element when choosing a coloring composition. Sometimes these numbers can tell a lot more than the image on the package.
Most of all this statement is true for professional paints, in which there are many shades. Read about coloring hair colors.
In many stores, women are given a folding book with multi-colored strands for familiarization.
To make your choice exactly match the required shade and be satisfied with the result, you must pay attention to the number and sequence of numbers which are indicated in the room tint.
For each color has its own number.
The first digit can vary from 1 to 10. She says about the saturation of the main color.
Then comes the point, and after it there is the second number is the main tone.
The third digit is an auxiliary tone.which is from the core 50%. It happens that the package shows only 2 two digits. They mean that there is no auxiliary color, and the tone is clear.
As for the depth of tone of the coloring composition, the first number on the package can have the following information:
- 1 - black,
- 2 - brown with a predominance of dark pigment,
- 3 - medium brown
- 4 - brown with a predominance of light pigment,
- 5 - dark brown with a dark shade,
- 6 - medium blond,
- 7 - light blond,
- 8 - blond
- 9 - saturated blond,
- 10 - platinum blond.
From the second digit you can get the following color information:
- 1 - natural,
- 2 - ashen,
- 3 - platinum,
- 4 - copper,
- 5 - red,
- 6 - lilac,
- 7 - brown,
- 8 - matte, mother-of-pearl.
On the presented products, some manufacturers also indicate a letter, which may indicate the following shade:
- C - ashen,
- PL is platinum
- A - intense blond,
- N - natural,
- E - beige,
- M - matte
- W - brown,
- R - red,
- G - golden,
- K - copper,
- I - bright,
- F, V - lilac.
When buying paint, many women may find that the packaging in the area where the numbers are indicated, there are zeros.
If a zero took place before the numbers then we can say that hue contains natural pigment.
The more numeric color in the designation of paint is zero, the more natural tone is present in it.
If a zero is after the number, it means you get an intense and bright color. It happens that after a point there are two identical numbers. This indicates the concentration of the pigment.
But each manufacturer in its own way interprets the shade of paint. Therefore, before buying it, you need to carefully study the palette, and only then make the final choice. Read the 15 best ways to wash hair dye from the skin.
In addition, not the last meaning in this matter is the hair color that you have at the moment.
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What is inside the room
Now it is necessary to disassemble in detail what the numbers on the hair dye mean.
Only in this way each woman will be able to choose the perfect shade for her case. Temporary hair dye under these criteria is not suitable.
In order to understand in more detail what is the decoding of a hair dye, it is necessary to disassemble all its designations using an example.
Let's take as a basis a natural row: 1.0 black.
In this case, the package has only 2 digits. Consequently, there is no auxiliary shade in this production, and this indicates purity of tone.
When choosing a coloring composition, it is important to know your color type and take it into account. Thanks to this you will be able to pick up the necessary saturation of tone.
For example, if it is tone 8, then it does not matter which gamma you choose to choose, the first number in the tone number will always be 8.
If you do not adhere to this rule, then the result will have a color solution in which there is a large number of dark or light pigments.
Let's get acquainted with the color whose name "Mocha". You can find these numbers on the package. 5.75.
First number indicates that tone implies a brown color with a predominance of a light shade, the second - the shade consists of red and brown pigment.
Third number speaks of the auxiliary shade, which indicates the presence of a red-violet shade, which refers to the mahogany series.
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What do the numbers in the number of hair colors
In the choice of paint, each woman is guided by her own criteria. For one, brand awareness becomes the decisive factor; for the other, the price criterion; for the third, originality and attractiveness of the package or the presence of a balm in the kit.
But as for the choice of the shade itself - in this all are guided by the photo placed on the package. In extreme cases, the name. And rarely will anyone pay attention to the small numbers that are printed next to the beautiful (like “chocolate smoothie”) shade name. Although it is these numbers that give us a complete picture of the shade presented.
On the main part of the shades represented by different brands, tones are indicated by 2-3 figures. For example, "5.00 Dark Blonde."
- Under the 1st digit refers to the depth of the primary color (approx. - usually from 1 to 10).
- Under the 2nd digit is the basic color tone (approx. - the digit comes after a point or fraction).
- Under the 3rd digit - an additional shade (approx. - 30-50% of the main shade).
- When marking with only one or 2 digits, it is assumed that there are no shades in the composition, and the tone is exceptionally clear.
Decipher the depth of the main color:
- 1 - refers to the black color.
- 2 - to dark dark chestnut.
- 3 - to dark chestnut.
- 4 - to chestnut.
- 5 - to light chestnut.
- 6 - to dark blond.
- 7 - to the light brown.
- 8 - to light blond.
- 9 - to a very light brown.
- 10 - to light-light-blond (that is, light blond).
Individual manufacturers can also add the 11th or 12th tone - this is already super-brightening hair dyes.
Decipher the number of the main shade
- Under number 1: there is a blue-violet pigment (a comment - an ashy row).
- Under number 2: there is a green pigment (approx. - matte row).
- Under number 3: there is a yellow-orange pigment (a comment - a gold row).
- Under number 4: there is a copper pigment (a comment - a red row).
- Under number 5: there is a red-violet pigment (a comment - a mahogany row).
- Under number 6: there is a blue-violet pigment (a comment - a violet row).
- Under number 7: there is a red-brown pigment (a comment - a natural basis).
- It should be remembered that the 1st and 2nd shades refer to cold, others - to warm.
If you want to paint over gray hair
If there is a certain percentage of gray hair, choosing paint, you should also focus on the numbers, and not on the sample strand in the palette: all dyes belonging to natural shades completely paint over gray hair, this is a series from 1/0 to 10/0, dyes with golden with additional pigment, paint over gray hair by 75%; red, orange and purple pigments can paint only half of gray hair, in order to improve this indicator, natural color is added to the dye of these shades.
What do the numbers in the paint number
Most tones are indicated by one, two or three numbers. So, let's try to figure out what lies behind each of them.
The first digit indicates the natural color and is responsible for the level of its depth.. There is an international scale of natural tones: the number 1 corresponds to black, 2 to dark dark chestnut, 3 to dark chestnut, 4 to chestnut, 5 to light chestnut, 6 to dark blonde, 7 to dark blonde, 8 to light blonde , 9 - very light-blond, 10 - light-light-blond (or light blond).
Some companies add another 11 and 12 tones, denoting super-brightening paints. If the tone is called only one digit, it means that the color is natural, without other shades. But in the designation of most tones there are second and third digits that decode shades of color.
The second digit - the main shade:
- 0 - a series of natural tones
- 1 - presence of blue-violet pigment (ashen series)
- 2 - the presence of green pigment (matte row)
- 3 - the presence of yellow-orange pigment (gold row)
- 4 - presence of copper pigment (red row)
- 5 - the presence of red-purple pigment (mahogany number)
- 6 - presence of blue-violet pigment (violet row)
- 7 - presence of red-brown pigment, natural base (havana)
It should be borne in mind that the first and second shades are cold, the rest are warm. The third digit (if there is one) means an additional shade, which is two times less in color than the main one (in some colors, their ratio is 70% to 30%).
For some manufacturers (for example, Pallet paint) the color direction is indicated with a letter, and the depth of tone with a digit. The meanings of the letters are as follows:
- C - ashen color
- PL - platinum
- A - intensive clarification
- N - natural
- E - beige
- M - matte
- W - brown
- R - red
- G - golden
- K - copper
- I - intense
- F, V - purple
Decoding shades of colors (examples)
Consider the numerical designations of colors on specific examples.
Example 1 Hue 8.13 light brown beige paint L'oreal Excellence.
The first digit means that the paint belongs to the light-brown scale, but the presence of two more digits means that the color contains additional shades, namely, ashen, which is indicated by figure 1, and a little (twice less than that of ashes) golden (figure 3). ) which will add warmth to the color.
Example 2 Hue 10.02 light-light-blond tender from the L'Oreal Excellence palette 10.
The number 10 to the point indicates the level of the depth of tone of the blond blond. Zero contained in the name of the color indicates the presence of natural pigment in it. And finally, the number 2 is a matte (green) pigment. In the following digital combination, we can say that the color will be rather cold, without yellow or red hues.
A zero in front of another digit always means that there is a natural pigment in the color. The more zeros, the more natural. Zero, located after the number, says about the brightness and saturation of the hue (for example, 2.0 deep black L'oreal Excellence 10).
You should also be aware that the presence of two identical numbers indicates the concentration of this pigment. For example, two sixes in the name of the shade 10.66 polar from the Estel Love Nuance palette indicate the color saturation with the purple pigment.
Example 3 Hue WN3 golden coffee cream paint Palette.
In this case, the color direction is shown with letters. W is brown, N denotes its naturalness (similar to zero, located in front of another digit). The next number is 3, indicating the presence of a golden pigment. Thus, it will turn out quite natural, warm brown color.
In the choice of paint, each woman is guided by her own criteria. For one, brand awareness becomes the decisive factor; for the other, the price criterion; for the third, originality and attractiveness of the package or the presence of a balm in the kit.
But as for the choice of the shade itself - in this all are guided by the photo placed on the package. In extreme cases, the name.
And rarely will anyone pay attention to the small numbers that are printed next to the beautiful (like “chocolate smoothie”) shade name. Although it is these numbers that give us a complete picture of the shade presented.
The numbers on the boxes of hair dye
On the box manufacturers indicate the tone number. It is usually indicated by 2-3 digits. For example, “4.10 Light Blonde”.
If there are 1 or 2 digits in the paint marking, this indicates that the paint does not contain shades, and the color is clear.
These numbers indicate the depth of the primary color.
- 1 - black color.
- 2 - dark dark chestnut.
- 3 - dark chestnut.
- 4 - chestnut.
- 5 - light chestnut.
- 6 - dark blond.
- 7 - blond.
- 8 - light blond.
- 9 - very light brown.
- 10 - light-light-blond (that is, light blond).
Manufacturers can also add 11 and 12 tones that are super light.
Some manufacturers color letter
The letter C stands for ashen color.
- PL is platinum.
- A - super clarification.
- N is a natural color.
- E - beige.
- M - matte.
- W - brown color.
- R is red.
- G is gold.
- K is copper.
- I - intense color.
- F, V - purple.
