Salon experts know it takes a perfect blend of tones to create amazingly natural color results. Nice 'n Easy creates beautifully blended natural-looking shades for you, just like the experts, in one easy step! Q. How do I know if Nice 'n Easy is right for me? A. Nice 'n Easy gives you ultimate natural-looking color with highlights and shine in just one easy step. Browns are brilliant, blondes are illuminating, and reds are radiant. Q. How does it work? A. Only Nice 'n Easy has our exclusive Color-blend formula. In one step, each shade gives you an expert blend of 3 tones that work together to create natural-looking color with shining dimension. Q. Will it cover my grays? A. Yes! Nice 'n Easy promises 100% gray coverage even on resistant grays. Q. How long will it last? A. Nice 'n Easy lasts for up to 6 weeks. And for your illuminating blonde shade, you'll find 6 weekly treatments of our exclusive ColorSeal Conditioning Gloss to seal in healthy-looking color and add intense shine.
PURPOSE: Hair Color
This light blonde shade with cool undertones is best described as a “smoky blonde” with purple and blue undertones. At a level 10, most of the warm pigment in hair has been removed and the rest is toned out with cool tones. If your hair is dark-medium golden blonde this shade would be perfect to use to go lighter for a natural light blonde result.
Roma Blonde (10NVA) is great for blending grays, and perfect for cool, pale skin tones and light eyes. Silver jewelry and pink blush work well with this hair color. For radiant results use on hair color levels 8-10.
This might sound a little embarrassing, but if you asked me what my natural hair color is—or if I came across the question on a hair color quiz, for instance—I wouldn’t know where to begin. I’ve been coloring my hair for so many years, and I don’t know if “real hair color” refers to the hair color I had when I was a child, or if it means the color my hair would be if I stopped dyeing it tomorrow. Help! I’m also not 100% clear on what a “level” is...and for that matter, what my level is. And once I know the answer to that, how do I figure out what level I want it to be? So many questions.
We love this question because it’s so relatable. If you’ve been coloring your hair for as long as some of us have, who knows what your “real” hair color is now? And if you started coloring your hair in your teens or twenties, could your natural color have changed? We’ve got a trick for figuring out what your current natural hair color is...but first, let’s talk hair color levels.
Hair color levels
The level system of hair color is a universal system used by colorists, cosmetologists, and hair color manufacturers to standardize hair color charts. Your level simply refers to how light or dark your hair color is—the lower the number, the darker the hair. Our permanent hair colors range from level 2–10, with 2 being our darkest black and 10 being our lightest “natural” blonde. (We also carry three level 11 high lift shades, which are not “natural” levels and are not recommended for gray coverage.)
When we’re talking about hair color, speaking in terms of levels can help clarify things, because levels are a kind of universal language everyone refers to, regardless of what hair color shades are called or how they are described. “Medium brown hair” means different things to different people, but a level is the same (or similar enough) across the board. This is why it’s so important to know what hair color level you have now, and what hair color level you want after coloring, so you can find the shade of hair color that checks all the boxes for you.
What level is my hair?
Knowing your current natural hair color level is the best way to help determine the best shade of hair color to use to get the results you want. Here’s how you can figure out what level of hair color you currently have:
1.Choose a section of your hair and hold it up, extended outwards away from the rest of your hair. (Hair always looks darker when it's layered on top of the rest of your hair and no light can come through the section.) For best results, make sure you are standing in natural light.
2.The section you’ve chosen should be from the farthest part of the crown you can closely examine. Your hair is always lightest around the front of your hairline, where it is finer and gets the most sun exposure. If you use the roots right along your hairline as your guide, you’ll probably come away thinking your hair is lighter than it actually is (which could result in your hair color coming out darker than you expect or want).
3.Take a very good look at the shade of hair growing out from your roots, close to your head. If what you're seeing is mostly gray, look for the color in between the grays. Tons of people think “natural hair color” refers to what color they were born with, or what color their hair was in early childhood, but our hair tends to change color as we age. Often, our hair gets darker when we get older. So, while you might remember having had lighter hair as a kid, you want to know what color your hair is right now, so you can choose the shade that will give you the results you’re looking for.
4.Now take a look at the hair color chart on this page. Which shade best matches your current natural hair color? That’s the one you want!
5.If you’re looking to go lighter or darker, that’s another story. Our hair color lifts 1–2 levels lighter—for example, if you’re a natural level 4, the lightest you will be able to take your hair is a level 2.
6.Going darker? Though it’s always easier to take your color darker, we recommend doing so in steps and only going one shade darker at a time (for the health of your hair). If your color isn’t dark enough, you can always go a shade darker next time!
7.Important to note: permanent hair color cannot lighten hair that has already been color-treated. So, if you most recently colored your hair with a level 5 shade, applying a level 6 shade on top of it will not lighten your color at all.
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