Coloring

Located in the buzzing suburb of Cronulla, Nicole Hudson provides a range of styling options for a red carpet ready look. Nicole Hudson offers a full suite of services that are affordable, seamless and able to be tailored to meet your individual requirements.

Nicole Hudson specialises in hair colouring, colour correction, balayage and style cutting, using a range of high-quality, organic hair products from specialist colour brands  and treatments including Olaplex to ensure that you get the perfect colour and style every time.

Our one on one consultancy assures advice and guidance when it comes to finding an individual style that is unique to you.  If you are contemplating a change, colourist Nicole Hudson is passionate about providing new ideas and working with you to help you create a new and innovative style that is both on trend and easy to manage. Olaplex is the perfect natural product  to pair with the ethos of our business and the colour specialist services we offer. Being an Olaplex specialist enables us to offer a superior quality of colourist services that strengthens hair, improves its overall health, and provides a superior colour result.

Experience the new yoghurt based organic colour range that is ammonia and PPD free and stocked exclusively by Nicole Hudson Cronulla.

A hair color defines your look – so we should think carefully about which trend suits us. Which hair and skin type you are, as well as the structure of the hair, plays a role in the hair color selection. It is best before making your decision to seek a professional consultation with Nicole Hudson or another professional hair colorist.

Hair coloring or tinting? 

Let’s start with the question: What is the difference between coloring and tones? Which method we ultimately choose depends on the desired target hair color. Mostly a distinction is made between tinting, intensive tinting, and permanent coloring. If you want to be blonde as a brunette, you need a bleaching or permanent hair color, as the hair can not be lightened with a tint.

Tint

A tint (durability level 1) is recommended to refresh the hair color and give more shine. The color does not penetrate the hair structure but lies outside on the hair. Therefore, tinting as coloring is the gentlest hair-dyeing technique. However, the hair can not change or brighten great – gray hair also does not cover a tint. Advantage: There is no annoying approach because the tint washes out after about 8-10 washes.

Intensive Tint 

In contrast to normal tinting, an intensive tint (shelf life level 2) contains chemical ingredients and the cuticle layer opens slightly during use. This makes them more durable and holds about 28 washes. As with the normal tint, no approach arises, as the color gradually washes out. In intensive tinting, the hair is artificially pigmented, so the hair can even be brightened by a shade. Caution: It is important to tell the barber before the new tinting or coloration, how long the last tint is because the deposited color pigments can lead to nasty surprises.

Coloration 

The permanent hair color – also called coloration (durability level 3) – is suitable for extreme color changes or to cover white or gray hair. The color penetrates deep into the hair, can not be washed out as with tints, but remains permanent. Disadvantage: The permanent color creates an approach. The color pigments are mixed with an oxidizing agent. The stronger the remedy, the more the hair is damaged. It is therefore important to use hair care products for dyed hair.

Anyone who already has dyed hair can not be dyed brighter by adding another color. This is only possible using bleaching, in which the hair – in contrast to the coloring – color pigments are removed. Although the bleaching may cause the hair to bleach up to eight shades, the chemical process is very damaging to the hair.

Important: Think carefully if you want to dye your hair because colored hair is difficult to over-color with another color.

In advance: Whoever feels insecure or inexperienced, should leave the coloring to an experienced hairdresser like Nicole Hudson. She specializes in dyeing the right hair color and guarantees a consistent result.  You will rarely achieve the perfect results like those from Nicole Hudson’s salon with self dying but if you would like to give it a go here are some –

tips and tricks for self hair coloring. 

Before starting, make sure to choose the source and destination hair color. On the packaging of the hair colors always different nuances are displayed, it should be based on. Nicole recommends not coloring more than two shades lighter or darker than the original color. With a total type change, the walk to the barber can not be avoided. Well-groomed and healthy hair is mandatory before coloring! With splissigem/brittle hair it is necessary to trim the hair first to ensure no split ends are there.

Read The Instructions: 

Wash hair to remove any residue from styling products. Read the instructions for use in the packaging of the coloring agent carefully. Prepare utensils and put an old towel on your shoulders to protect your clothes.So that there are no unsightly stains after dyeing, spread a very fatty cream or vaseline along the hairline and on the ears. Put on plastic gloves and mix and apply the hair color according to the instructions. In most cases, the color must act for 20 to 30 minutes. Be sure to follow the instructions of the manufacturer and best set an alarm clock. Rinse the hair with lukewarm water until it is no longer colored. Finally, use the hair conditioner or conditioner provided. As a result, the cuticle layer is closed again and it makes the freshly dyed hair shine beautifully.

Maintain colored hair 

The fact is many people who try to self color often damages the hair structure. Due to the aggressive chemicals used in most over the counter dyes – especially bleaches – break off the tips faster. To prevent this, the right hair care is particularly important. The most well-known immediate care systems are Olaplex used by Nicole Hudson and “Smartbond” by L’Oréal Professionnel. Both products are a 3-phase system, which cares for the hair already during the coloration and protects against damage. Smartbond and Olaplex were developed especially for hairdressers. The first two phases are called in the salon and the third phase home. The 3-phase systems are coordinated and achieve the best possible results only by using all three steps. So that the color lasts for a long time and shines brilliantly using special color protection care products and regularly applying an intensive treatment.

Nicole Hudson has also produced her own bespoke brand of coloring which is a  yoghurt based organic colour range that is ammonia and PPD free and stocked exclusively at her salon in Cronulla.  These products are available in Nicole Hudson online store.

Now and then it has to be a new look! But before it goes to dyeing, the big question is: Which hair color suits me and which type am I? Which hair color is available depends strongly on the color type. There are four different color types: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. The difference is mainly depending on whether the skin has a rather warm or cool undertone. If the face is slightly bluish, it has a cool tone (summer and winter). If the skin shimmers rather yellowish, it is a warm complexion (spring and autumn).

How to find out what type you are: Take turns holding a silver and a gold cloth on your face – it is important that you look at yourself in the mirror in daylight. If the silver cloth makes you look fresh and healthy, you should choose the color type of summer or winter. When the golden cloth makes you shine, you are either a spring or autumn type.

Spring Type 

For the light, golden complexion, it is best to choose a warm hair color, such as golden blond, copper, strawberry blond or a warm light to medium brown. Avoid ashes or dark hair colors as much as possible.

Summer Type 

The summer type has a bluish skin undertone and a delicate, rosy complexion. The hair colors ash blond or brown, but also platinum blonde or red hair colors with a bluish undertone match this type. Warm, golden colors are rather discouraged.

Autumn Type

Women with brown eyes and a bronze-colored complexion belong to the color type autumn. These match warm browns or blondes. For highlights rather put on golden blond or coppery highlights. Ashen tones are less of an advantage in the fall type.

Winter Type

The so-called Snow White type has very light skin with a bluish undertone and dark hair. Therefore, the winter type dark, ashy tones. Golden nuances or highlights would make the light complexion look dull.

Balayage: Still very popular! The barber paints the strands with a brush. He has more creative freedom, can dose intensity and course of the Coloration and set with high and low lights great effects. It protects the hair structure and looks supernatural.

Ombré Hair: The enthusiasm does not flatten. The hair trend is quite changeable and seems to be redefined again and again as the seasons change. In summer, caramel brown tips to brunette hair are the unbeatable favorite. Finally, the lighter tinted tips look as if the hair was just kissed by the summer sun. In autumn and winter, the tips are then a bit fierier: From classic red shades to pastel shades or neon tips.

Granny Hair: While older women do anything to hide their gray hair, young women put on pastel gray. Pastel undertones in rose, violet or apricot give the hair color a fresh and modern look.

Metallic Hair: Whether icy silver, warm bronze or powerful gold – the shimmering hair colors are absolute eye-catchers! So if you like it very much, you should bet on this trend.

Babylights: This hair trend is superfine highlights. Model is the natural highlights in children’s hair. The baby lights give the hair a 3D effect and make it seem voluminous, so perfect for fine hair. If you only want to freshen up your natural hair color, this color trend is exactly what you are looking for.

All this being said Nicole Hudson recommends that all coloring be done by hairdressing professionals to ensure that your does not get damaged, the right color is achieved giving you ‘the look’ that you wanted.  Color corrections can be difficult and expensive – better to do it right the first time than cause problems that may not be able to be fully fixed later.