Colouring Lesson

• Hairdressing
• Higher Education (non-degree)

Colouring Lesson 1

The principles of colour selection.

Aim - Know the basic principles of colour selection.

• State the basic colour wheel.
  
• Explain the differences between a primary, secondary 
• Analyse the colour wheel to give examples of complimentary colours.
  
• Describe the different depths and tones found in the hair and how we use the international colour chart.

Primary Colours

They are the source of all other colours. 

Primary colour cannot be made by mixing colour together.

Secondary Colours.

Secondary colours can be made by mixing primary colour together.

Secondary colours.

Recall how we can make secondary colours- give examples

Complimentary colours

These colours compliment 

each other or neutralise -they are opposite on the Colour Star 

  Colours are know as warm or cool Colours  - Red/Orange/Yellow are warm  - Green/Blue/Violet are cool colours    

Drag each primary colour ...

... to its correct
complementary colour!

Green

Purple

Orange

Red

Yellow

Blue

Drag and Drop Quiz

Recall prior knowledge of complementary colours (colours opposite each other on the colour wheel).

Neutralising unwanted colour tones

• The colour star is also used to help us neutralise unwanted colour tones. The colours opposite each other will cancel each other out.
  
• If a colour result has a green tone, you would need to add a red toner to neutralise it.
  
• The most common toners used have violet or blue in to neutralise yellow or orange tone on the hair when lightening.
  

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Depth and Tone

• Hair colour is defined in terms of depth and tone.
  

• Depth is the base colour (lightness or darkness) of the hair and ranges from 1 (black) to 10 (lightest blonde).
  

• Tone refers to the warmth or coolness of a colour. There are two types of tone: primary and secondary.
  

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International Colour chart

• The ICC is a numbering system that all manufactures follow.

• Everyone uses the same to describe the colour depth.

• The depth refers how light or dark the hair is.

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