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Clairol's Creative Director, Sean Tetlow gives his advice on how your hair colour can work with the season's fashions and make you look younger:
The most obvious sign of advancing years is when the hair begins to lose its pigmentation and the greys start to appear. As this happens, the hair loses its softness and shine and can become coarse and dull.
This can take its toll on the complexion as the face no longer benefits from the reflective glow of the hair's vibrancy and gloss.
The onset of greying hair is all the more upsetting when it happens prematurely. But there are lots of ways of making the most of your hair and ensuring that, whether you choose to go grey gracefully, or banish the greys as soon as they appear, your hair can still be one of your best assets and light up your features and complexion.
Colouring products
The double benefit of subtly colouring your hair as you get older is that hair colouring products on the market are so technologically advanced that they intensively condition the hair as they add very natural colour, banishing greys and imparting real softness and shine.
Clairol's nice 'n easy's permanent hair colour with Colour-blend Technology uses a perfect blend of 3 subtle tones to create amazingly natural-looking colour results within a choice of 42 shades.
And in every box of nice 'n easy there are six weekly treatments of the exclusive ColourSeal Gloss Conditioner, with a colour specific formulation for blondes, brunettes and redheads, which seals in the colour and adds an intensive shine.
Shiny-looking hair
If colouring is not for you and you prefer to make the most of your grey hair as it is, you must keep your hair in optimum condition for maximum shine and softness.
If colouring is not for you and you prefer to make the most of your grey hair as it is, you must keep your hair in optimum condition for maximum shine and softness.
Choose a shampoo specifically formulated for grey hair to add a pretty pastel shine and eliminate yellow tones.
Conditioners and styling products which promote smoothness and shine are also well worth the investment.
If your hair texture is coarse or slightly unruly, on towel-dried hair, use a smoothing crème or balm mixed with a drop of shine serum to give you control when styling and a smooth glossy finish.
If your hair is fine, use a volumising mousse to add body and give hold to your style.
Certainly, whatever your budget, lifestyle and priorities, there are lots of positive steps you can take to make your hair your age-defying crowning glory.
Sean Tetlow is the salon owner and Creative Director of The Colour Room. Winner of best Independent Newcomer in the 2004 British Hairdressing Business awards, Sean's photographic collections feature regularly in leading industry and consumer magazines and he has undertaken several readers' makeovers for national and regional consumer magazines.
The Colour Room, 21-23 Great Underbank, Stockport SK1 1LF
Tel: 0161 476 1881
