How to find out your hair colour
Determining the colour of your hair requires the use of some scientific equipment. If you are interested in discovering your precise hair colour and lustre, then HairKnowHow can help you. HairKnowHow’s Compete Hair Analysis package includes colour and lustre measurements to help create your hair analysis and recommendation report.
There are two main ways of analysing your hair colour. Both involve using a spectrophotometer. The first method evaluates your hair’s reflected light (at the incidence angle) as a pure spectrum. The second method is similar to the first but includes attributes that the human eye naturally incorporates in the real world, for example, surface reflection artefacts, namely defuse reflection things like that. These optical phenomena arise from light interacting with your hair’s surface texture or internal structures.
Hair possessing a disruped cuticle and increased hair porosity appears duller in colour, to the scatter of light away from the incident angle, reducing apparent gloss and lustre to the human eye.
Hair colour perception is also affected by the type of light (natural or artificial) and the time of day. This is because the intensity and wavelengths (colours) of light that travels through the atmosphere from the sun change subtlely throughout the day.
HairKnowHow can accurately determine your hair colour by simulating natural light at different times of the day and mimicking artificial light sources. Mimicking different light sources is useful if colour-matching your hair to a particular setting.
Six factors that influence the colour of your hair
The amount of total melanin within your hair.
The relative abundance of pheomelanin and eumelanin (your hair’s natural colour molecules).
The surface texture of your hair’s hair fibres.
The texture and volume of all your hair together.
The porosity of the interior of your hair.
The nature (wavelengths and brightness) of the light in the immediate environment.
Get Expert Hair Analysis and Help
If you are interested in learning about your precise hair colour hair type or getting your hair expertly assessed, check out one of our HairKnowHow analyses.
Contact the HairKnowHow Team if you have any questions.
Knowing your hair type is the key to unlocking your hair's beauty and health.
Getting healthy, beautiful hair requires using the right products and haircare practices. Using the right products will save money and significantly improve your hair's texture, bounce, and colour, reducing frizz and split ends.
Also, if you are looking for specially formulated haircare products, including shampoos and conditioners, then knowing your hair type and fibre diameter is vitally important.
Measuring your hair type is very tricky are requires a lot of guesswork.
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Knowing your hair porosity is one of the keys to unlocking your hair's beauty and health - so your hair can look its best.
Healthy, beautiful hair requires using the right products and haircare practices for your hair porosity. Using the right products will save money and significantly improve your hair's texture, bounce, and colour, reducing frizz and split ends.
HairKnowHow's Porosity Test brings porosity measurement directly to your home and is simple to use.
Discover your hair porosity and receive expert advice to help you get the beautiful hair you deserve.
Healthy hair is beautiful hair.
With our Hair Porosity Plus we also include amazing electron microscopy microscopy images of your hair! See your hair in a new way!
We ship worldwide, including the US and UK. You should receive your kit within 3-5 working days, depending on your location.
Getting The Complete Hair Analysis is the simple way to discover how healthy your hair really is and, importantly, to get the right products and advice for your hair. Only then can you unleash your hair’s full beauty and health potential.
Our tests uncover and quantify hidden heat damage, increasing porosity, cuticle damage, hair abnormalities, and much more. This hidden damage can lead to hair shortening, frizz, and breakage, including dull, hard-to-manage hair.
So before rushing out to buy those products you think you need for your hair, get The Complete Hair Analysis first!
Reveal your hair’s secrets and unleash its full potential. Get the hair you always wanted with the right products and haircare advice from Dr Palmer.
Healthy hair is beautiful hair.
We ship worldwide, including the US and UK. You should receive your kit within 3-5 working days, depending on your location.