Mixing own Koleston shade chart colours

[Jooles]

Morning everyone

Just to update, I'm currently half way through my advanced level 3 NVQ and we have just started on colour correction wich i'm loving.
The problem I'm finding at the moment is the theory time we are given is not long enough or indepth enough by the tutors, yet we are sucessfully running salons throughout the week were colour corrections are being carried out by myself and other students. I find I learn better by actually doing clients hair than having a tutor speak in class (especially when they are easily distracted and go off the subject a lot), that said I enjoy both theory and practical.
The question I have for you fellow hairdresers is this, last week in theory, we were handed the New Wella student book which shows all the range of colours with mixing ratios etc, it also introduced the colour circle which displayed tonal numbers in both the cool and warm areas.
During the class the tutor very briefly stated that all the koleston perfect shades can be made up by using just the base colours and adding relevent special mixes (a quick example was given but unfortunately went straight over my head) also it was said that we could achieve base colours (if we don't have them in stock) by taking a lighter base and a darker base and mixing the two i.e taking a base 6 and a base 8 to make a 7??

This has now somewhat thrown me a little, especially as we experience a few occasions were a client has requested a certain colour and we do not have it in stock etc, because at some point we will be expected to mix our own colours and I don't want this to hold me back as I feel like I'm finally getting the hang of colour cerrection etc.

Does anyone have any advice or links where I could research this further, I have found a few links on here where special mixes can be used as toners or for funky colours on pre lightened hair etc, and I understand this quite well, it's just the mixing to achieve the shade chart colours that I'm struggling with.
Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated.

Have a great morning

Jules.


Does anyone know of any websites or books that I could research this up on, I have tried googling but

 

[craigkeane]

It does come with.practice..

You want a certain base.colour but its not in stock.. Simply mix the number above it and the number below and there's your colour...
E.g... Need a 5n but not in stock... Mix 4n and 6n = 5n
Need 7 but haven't got it mix 8 and 6

Using tonal colours is also straight forward ...
Your client wants 6.66 you only got 7.66 you just need to take the base level down not the tone simply take your base number and take that a level darker. Simply add in some 6n. You don't want to cancel out the red tones . So only mix a 1/4 of base and 3/4 of the 7.66

Hope this helps !


Craig Keane
www.hculture.co.uk

 

[magentahair]

when mixing yourself always use more of the lighter shade as the darker shade will always dominate!:green:

 

[craigkeane]

when mixing yourself always use more of the lighter shade as the darker shade will always dominate!:green:

Green ? Depends of the brands under laying main colour ... I know goldwell is green !

Craig Keane
www.hculture.co.uk

 

[Janie]

Green ? Depends of the brands under laying main colour ... I know goldwell is green !

Craig Keane
www.hculture.co.uk

Am i right in thinking you've read that post on the geek app on your phone??? As Magentahair has just added the mr green smiley to the end of her post, which shows as : green : on the app so i think you've mis-read it as "the darker shade will dominate : green :" when actually its a smiley and no mention of green at all!!!! On the app smilies show up inbetween double colons, like :rollseyes: or : hug : It can make reading threads little confusing!!!

xXx

 

[craigkeane]

Ha exactly correct i am on my phone!! Its not the first time its confused me!! Lol


Craig Keane
www.hculture.co.uk

 

[Jooles]

Thanks so much for all the helpfull comments, it defo makes things a little easier to understand so I really appreciate it.
Also what I actually meant when I said using tonal colours, is that the tutor says that every shade on the koleston chart can be made up by using base colour only and adding certain amounts of special mixes, for example, if we had no 6.66, or 7.66 etc, then we could use a 6n or 7n and add the tones 66 by using special mix....and so on with any of the colours on the shade chart we may not have in.
This is the part I find most difficult, sorry about that, I should have explained myself properly.

any advice? xx