


“We all have a natural underlying pigment underneath our ‘visible’ hair color,” he explained, adding that these tones are red, copper/orange and gold/yellow. You May Also Like: The 6 Best Dry Shampoos for Brunettes

Kenyon explained that the color of the shampoo you should be using directly correlates with the underlying pigment of your hair, which your colorist already knows right when you sit in their chair-all you have to do is ask. When my phone buzzed with a new email from Chad Kenyon, colorist to celebrities like Abigail Spencer, Kirbie Johnson and Elizabeth Moss, he echoed everything my colorist said and I couldn’t believe it took emptying at least five bottles of purple shampoo before I started learning so much about how I should actually be treating the copper tones in my strands. As she was speaking, in true editor fashion, I made a note in my phone to email one of my go-to celebrity colorists to get an insider scoop on what the concept was all about (and ran to grab a bottle of blue shampoo for my shower, obviously).
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“That won’t do much for you,” she said, explaining that the tones violet shampoos really help are bright blondes or full heads of light shades. Somewhat confused, I told her I wasn’t, but that I was using a purple shampoo whenever I washed. As I was getting my balayage touched up this past weekend, my colorist asked me if I was using a blue shampoo to keep the copper tones I always ask her to avoid out of my dark brown hair.
