Patch Tests - how do you do yours?

[Dee5]

Just wondering what way you all do your patch tests?

I do mine by mixing up 1ml of target shade + 1ml of appropriate developer, then apply to the elbow crease and behind the ear.

Another girl I work woth squeezes straight from the tube onto the elbow crease? Are we both right or is one of us wrong??????

 

[Lozzie60]

I always use a base 3 as darker colours have more ppd behind the ear. Matrix doesn't require mixing and can be put straight on from the tube. They recommend doing skin tests with 3n

 

[siobrennan]

i do 1ml shade 3 with 1ml developer behind the ear. if the client wanted to go darker than a shade3 then i would use a 1 xox

 

[Jody2412]

Hi guys

All patch tests are different so read your instructions. With matrix you don't even have to mix with peroxide? You just put a small amount with a cotton bud behind the ear weird eh. If your unsure call the hotline of the manufacturer Xx

 

[sazza83]

does anyone use transfer skin tests.my college uses them. but does anyone else?

 

[Jody2412]

You can use them if your manufacturer says its ok, some of the patches have different ingredients to the tints in the tubes xx

 

[Booty]

We use colour start patch tests at our salon, mainly because we are a rural area and clients can't always travel out to us 48 hours prior to an appointment so we can send them through the post or give them at the previous appointment to keep in their purse till they need them.
We have used these for about 6 years and we also use them for our beauty clients having eyebrows tinted etc.
I spoke with one of the scientists at the company about the effectiveness on beauty clients as well as hair clients and they recommended that it was completally fine.

You say if your colour company allows you to use a patch then it's ok, but tricocare who manufacture our tests have an insurance that as long as the test has been carried out according to their guidelines, if anything was to go wrong they would cover you.

How ever you do a test it's better to do something rather than nothing to ensure clients safety, I am appealed by how many so called reputable salons don't skin test at all.......I'd rather pay 35p per test than thousands in compensation.

 

[sazza83]

We use colour start patch tests at our salon, mainly because we are a rural area and clients can't always travel out to us 48 hours prior to an appointment so we can send them through the post or give them at the previous appointment to keep in their purse till they need them.
We have used these for about 6 years and we also use them for our beauty clients having eyebrows tinted etc.
I spoke with one of the scientists at the company about the effectiveness on beauty clients as well as hair clients and they recommended that it was completally fine.

You say if your colour company allows you to use a patch then it's ok, but tricocare who manufacture our tests have an insurance that as long as the test has been carried out according to their guidelines, if anything was to go wrong they would cover you.

How ever you do a test it's better to do something rather than nothing to ensure clients safety, I am appealed by how many so called reputable salons don't skin test at all.......I'd rather pay 35p per test than thousands in compensation.

that is what my college uses and i would love to know where you get them from,i agree with this what is 35p compared to thousands. I use wella as this is what we use at college...i also use at home as i keep my own colour up and practice on family members
sazza

 

[persianista]

I test with black, which is what Redken aka L'oreal recommend for their products. I mix with peroxide first.
As a matter of course, we try and skin test all clients on their first visit, even for cbd, just in case they want a colour in future.

 

[Booty]

I get them from Trichocare direct, if you google them you'll find contact details. We skin test every colour every time, it's no good skin testing weeks before someone might have a colour as you can become sensitised at any point due to any number of reasons like having a henna tattoo etc, it has to be 48 hours before a colour application to be in accordance with insurance policies.
We have recently stopped colouring any under 16's too due to new laws, once again we are the only ones in town following the rules, getting mouth fulls from mothers who want their daughters hair coloured, but it's just not worth it, if everyone skin tested and followed guidelines it would become the norm and clients would have to accept it.

 

[sazza83]

thank you i will google them

 

[faerififi]

Ah thanks for saying you use black persianista. I was thinking that would be a good way of skin testing, but my tutors at college disagreed. Their reason was that someone might have a reaction to black but not to a level 6 or something, which left me thinking that surely if they had ANY reaction at all you wouldnt want to continue with a colour!