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Louise Galvin, a haircolour specialist and the woman behind Louise Galvin hair care products, is here to answer any questions you may have about haircare, haircolour and specifically how to treat coloured hair with her natural products.

Here’s what they say, “Louise specialises in achieving the most natural, gorgeous, shiny healthy hair. She uses as little colour as possible to protect the integrity of the hair and make maintenance simple. Her ‘less is more approach’ is renowned by women around the world who value her keen eye for the colour that best enhances complexion and eye tone. Her philosophy of ‘bottle before the knife’ to create youthful colour that instantly lifts away the years is what she is known for.

“Passionate about the environment and deeply knowledgeable about the latest innovations, Louise Galvin sought out the finest chemists to develop her own unique ‘clean’ formulas. She is committed to ‘guilt-free luscious locks’ and ensures her line is not tested on animals, contains only natural and naturally derived ingredients including essential oils, extracts and vegetable-based moisturisers in place of harmful, artificial preservatives, harsh detergents and has ‘No Chemical Nasties’.”

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UPDATE: answers now in here

Thanks and good luck,
MNHQ

hello!
can you tell me the difference between a home colourant and a salon one? is it just the expertise in colour matching and application or is a salon colour higher quality?

Hi Louise, I've had lots of wiry grey hairs appear along my parting since I had my daughter last year. Is there a way to cover them up without the commitment of a whole head tint? My hair is naturally light brown. Many thanks!

Hello, I have a highlights question. What's the best way of disguising roots without getting more highlights? I have been getting a t-section each time as I don't want to keep getting more blonde, I find if I get the full head each time I might as well have had my whole hair dyed. Is there a better way? Many thanks

Hi Louise
I'd be interested to hear your views on the whole dye/go grey/blond highlights debate, that, judging by the previous questions asked, is a subject of great interest.
As one whose natural brunette started going grey at school , endless years of dyeing the skunk stripe, and now grey with ash highlights, should I take the plunge and go au naturel?

Hi, what's the best way of keeping my ash blond highlights from going yellow? My hairdresser applies a toner after the highlights, but this fades after a few weeks.

Hi I used to have my hair highlighted but I have a patch of grey (bit like a Mallen streak) that was v resistant to the dye. Despite always bringing it up at the start of the appt the hairdresser never adequately tackled it. I gave up and now just home dye it myself. Is there something that could be done in the salon to cover the grey that isn't an all over head colour?

Thank you

Hi Louise, at the moment I have my grey hair salon coloured.

I'll be retiring in a few years and won't be able to afford 4-weekly appointments so have decided to stop the salon treatments then.

What is the best (and least noticeable) way to do this?

To go grey I mean - sorry, senior moment obviously!

I have a question from my daughter...

She is 16 years old and we cannot afford salon hair colour (after having it done with a trusted stylist for years. To clarify, she hasn't hbeen having it coloured for years, just been with him for years...oh, am tying myself in knots, I'm sure you know what I mean!)

Anyway, she has very long, past bra-strap length, very dark brown hair, naturally slightly wavy and in great nick.

Recently she wanted a drastic change to (her words) "bright orange" (surprising as I'm a redhead!) so we used feria paprika home hair colour last week.

My questions:

A) the colour on the ends of her hair is amazing- exactly the colour on the box, bright orange and "perfect." How should we treat her hair to keep the colour?

B) the top section of her hair (not the roots, they have taken) is still dark, is there anything I can do to get this section the same colour as the rest?

C) was feria the best option? Being a redhead I have never bought home hair colour and felt like a childin a sweet shop standing in Boots last Tuesday!

Tia! Bob x

I'm getting increasingly disillusioned by my colourist. I seem to have similar problems to many posters ... Grey hair at the front, salt and pepper towards the back. Highlighted blond x 2 colours, often goes brassy...

Do you have a salon where we could flock come to?
And how much do you charge?

Hello Louise. I have very fine , fragile White (grey)blonde hair. I have coloured it every shade under the sun when younger, but now think that one's natural colour tends to be what suits you best. However, the flaw in my plan is that my hair in its natural state is very one dimensional, flat and washes me out. How can I make it more lively and three dimensional, without too much work and time investment?

Hi Louise,
please help my fast growing barnet!
I have, just past my shoulders, dark brown hair. My parting is quite 'severe' and I find that my grey roots need doing every 2-3wks I can't keep dyeing the roots that often my scalp is really dry from it! Is it time to go lighter? What would you recommend? I have dark eyes, eyebrows. Thanks in advance

I want to know why hair dyed at home is never the same as it says it will be on the box. Not even remotely in some cases.

I have developed a phobia about getting my hair cut and it currently looks like the kids threw their paint box at me, colourwise .

Hello Louise
I had my second baby 18 months ago. I went back to my natural colour (after being blonde) mid brown. I wanted to use less chemicals and have less maintenance. I used to love my hair, but since this change it seems fine, is oily after one day and just seems to hang and chip away at my confidence. Friends say it is hormonal, but I don't know. What would you suggest to help perk it up a bit- after all a girls hair is her crowning glory

I'm getting grey hairs, and have random sticking up little greys at helpful points like the front centre of my scalp.

I currently dye my hair (at home) a slightly darker shade of brown than it usually is, so than when the colour fades I don't have a two tone head.

Is this the best strategy?

I love the idea of colours that enhance the complexion and eye tone by the way.

Hi Louise. I'd really really love to dye my hair a pastel shade. But is it possible to do this without really damaging it? Thanks.

Hello Louise
I've always had my mousey brown hair highlighted. To begin with the colour hid the grey hairs but as I've gone greyer the regrowth looks grim; blondish hair with white roots.
I'm loathe to have an all over colour with highlight over the top, is there another solution?
Thank you.

What's best foils or the see through sticky things (the name escapes me!!) For highlights?

Hi Louise

It's continuity that I'm interested in. When my hairdresser hits the nail on the head with highlight shades I am thrilled. She will note the combination used, but never seems to keep up the same effect for more than a few appointments. I find it frustrating to get a different look or something with warmer tones for example.

Any tips to help me help her? Should I show her a photo of me with successful hair at start of each appt?

Tks

I think my hair has lightened a couple of shades from near black to brown after having my 2 children. Would I be imagining this?
Or would it be related to ageing?
Should you go lighter as you get older anyway?
Thanks

Hi Louise, I coloured my own brown hair at home and did it for around 8 months ( every 4 weeks). The colour built up and my hair ended up black it was so dark. It was far too dark for me and drained me of colour in my face. I went to the hairdressers to see what they could do to lighten it back to brown without actually striping the colour (as I heard that procedure was too drying and colour may not lift anyway). They put lots of highlights in it and a toner over the top. They did my roots a brown colour too so it would all blend in.

There is now a lot more brown/gold highlights than black hair. I am really pleased with the colour but the highlights have been so drying and my hair is in bad condition now. What can I do to help it?

Instead of the shiney, swishy hair I wanted, I have got the colour correct but it's dull, dry and lifeless.

When I have my hair coloured at the hairdressers, it is also really well conditioned and shiny and doesn't need washing for a couple of days. I nearly always get complimented on it like I have had a new hairdo! But as soon I have washed it myself (even just once), it then seems to go back to being more greasy and need washing every day. And after a week or two it starts to become more flyaway and less conditioned. I use a salon colour saving shampoo and a conditioner, but whatever I do I can never seem to reproduce the results from the salon, even with my first wash. Is it because of the conditioning nature of the colour itself or should I be doing something differently?

Hi - I have gone grey/white on the crown. The rest is caramel/blonde/mouse except silver temples. I have short cropped hair. I want to look un-unkempt and get rid of the tonsure - I would be grateful for your advice please. Thank you.

Hello Louise

Is it ever a good idea to henna dye?

I have been having blonder highlights in my naturally dark blonde/mouse colour hair for ten years, so there is a lot of colour in my hair.

I love being blonde, but would like to go a bit closer to my natural shade overall and also have more of my own real hair colour. Several colourists have tried to do this but it just ends up really stripy, and nowhere near the natural but a little darker look I want. What is the answer? I have thought about dye in one colour all over, but am scared it would be too severe.