There are two things fans love about American Idol’s 16-year-old Allison Iraheta: her gravely, rock and roll voice, and her hair. The Los Angeles native brought her bright red style to Hollywood week on her own, but she has since had her look refreshed and refined by Idol hair stylists.
What Colour is Allison Iraheta’s Hair?
Allison likes the vibrancy of what hairstylists call ‘fashion red.’ Fashion colours are dyes that are not naturally occurring hair colours like blue, violet, pink, and bright reds.
Celebrities like singer Pink and Maddox Jolie-Pitt (son of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt) have both been spotted with this special type of colour in their hair.
It’s fun and playful, and fans of this hair colour process love to express their personalities through bright hair colour.
How to Get Allison’s Hair Colour at Home
Teenage fans of Allison’s ask this question regularly and try to achieve this look at home with drug-store brand hair dyes, but usually fail miserably. The results are either the wrong shade, dull colour, or overprocessed and damaged hair—or all of the above.
The reason is that it is impossible to cover natural hair colour with this vibrant hue without first lifting natural hair colour pigment right out of the hair. Drug-store brand home colouring kits are made for the mass public and will only lift so much natural pigment, which is not nearly enough for this type of hair style.
Unless the natural hair colour is very light blonde to begin with, it is unlikely a store-bought hair dye will do the trick.
Professional Fashion Red Hair Colours Like Allison Iraheta’s
Professional hair care companies like Schwarzkopf and Wella offer beautiful fashion colours that when applied professionally, can vividly transform any hair type and hair colour.
Wella’s Magma Ultra Lifting Powder Colour is a professional salon service that lifts all the natural pigment out of a client’s hair and deposits the fashion colour of choice densely and permanently. The result is pure colour distributed evenly so there are no splotchy areas.
Iraheta’s colour ranges between Magma/56 which is a cherry red, to Magma/57 which is a red with a little violet mixed in.
Keep in mind, the only way to get Magma out is to colour a darker colour over top, or to cut it out.
Other Ways to Get Allison’s Idol Hair
If a fashion colour is too drastic on a permanent basis, opt for strategic placements of hair extensions that have been coloured. If the extension is made from natural hair, it can be cut, washed, and heat-styled as part of any hair style. Synthetic extensions cannot so try a clip-in extension that can be added as an adornment to a finished style.
A less dramatic version of Allison’s red is easily achieved with Wella’s Koleston Perfect, a permanent hair colour, with shades that are more wearable for most people. Wella’s reds include variations that have hues of gold, vibrant ‘red reds,’ and violet undertones.
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