Schwarzkopf Hair Colour: A Hairdresser’s Guide

Schwarzkopf offers a range of colour products that promise stunning results for every client. From the rich, lasting hues of Igora Royal to the quick touch-up magic of Igora Color 10, there’s something for everyone. Let’s explore the various lines, techniques, and tips to make the most of these exceptional products.

Schwarzkopf Igora Royal Permanent Hair Colour

Schwarzkopf Igora Royal is a premium permanent hair colour that delivers true-to-tone colour results, exceptional coverage, and long-lasting vibrancy. Designed for professional stylists, it ensures your clients leave the salon with beautiful, radiant hair that lasts.

Key Features

• High-Definition Technology: Ensures maximum colour intensity
• 100% Grey Coverage: Reliable coverage for all grey levels
• Creamy Consistency: Easy and precise application

Technology

Igora Royal’s High Definition Technology provides even colour distribution and true-to-tone results. The Colour Crystal Complex locks in colour pigments for long-lasting vibrancy and shine, ensuring up to 50% longer colour retention.

How to Use

1. Mixing Ratio: 1:1 with developer
2. Development Time: 30-45 minutes
3. Application: Apply on dry hair
4. Developer Choices:
• 3%: For coloring darker
• 6%: For tone-on-tone or 1-tone lighter
• 9%: For 1-2 tones lighter
• 12%: For 2-3 tones lighter
5. Post-Colour Care: Rinse, shampoo, and neutralise with Colour Save products

Services

True-to-Tone Colour Results
Unlimited Creativity with Intermixable Shades
Long-Lasting Vibrancy and Shine

Schwarzkopf Igora Royal Colour Chart

• Naturals: This category includes a range of natural shades from deep blacks to light blondes, providing classic and timeless options for everyday looks
• Cendrés & Cools: Featuring cool tones with ash undertones, these shades are ideal for those looking to neutralise warmth in their hair colour, offering a sophisticated and muted finish
• Beiges & Golds: Incorporating warm golden hues and soft beige tones, this palette adds warmth and richness to hair colour, creating a radiant and luxurious appearance
• Chocolates: Inspired by rich chocolate tones, this category offers deep browns and velvety chocolates, providing depth and dimension to brunette shades
• Reds: From vibrant reds to deep burgundies, this range includes shades that enhance red undertones, delivering intense and striking results
• Absolutes: Designed for maximum coverage of grey or white hair, these shades ensure uniform and complete coverage while maintaining natural-looking results
• Highlights & Pastels: This section features shades specifically formulated for creating highlights, adding dimension, and achieving pastel tones, allowing for creativity and customisation in hair colouring
• Specialities: This category includes unique shades and products such as:
• Silver Whites: Offering silver and white tones, ideal for achieving trendy silver or platinum blonde looks
• Boosters: Intensifiers or correctors used to adjust tones or boost colour intensity
• Fashion Lights: Bright and bold shades for creating fashion-forward looks, including vibrant blues, purples, and pinks

Schwarzkopf Igora Vibrance Demi Permanent Hair Colour

Igora Vibrance Is a state-of-the-art demi-permanent hair colour with a unique liquid formula that can transform into a gel or cream, providing versatile service options.

Key Features of Igora Vibrance 

• Moisture Protection: Keeps hair hydrated during colouring
• Flexible Usage: Suitable for quick services and detailed applications
• Innovative Activators: Gel and lotion activators for different application methods

Technology

Igora Vibrance’s Moisture Protecting Complex with AQUAXYL™ Technology controls the hair’s inner moisture level to stabilise the internal structure of each hair fibre, protecting against hair breakage and creating a clean canvas for an even colour result.

How to Use Igora Vibrance

1. Mixing Ratio: Mix colour and activator in a 1:1 ratio
2. Development Time: Up to 20 minutes
• Full-Head and Root Touch-ups: 10-20 minutes
• Gloss Service: 5-20 minutes
3. Durability: Up to 25 washes for Natural, Natural Extra, and Fashion shades. Pastel shades and boosters last up to 12 washes, Level 10 Toner up to 6 shampoos, and Clear 0-00 shade up to 4 washes.
4. White Hair Blending: Up to 50% for Naturals and Fashion shades, and up to 70% for Naturals Extra.

Services

Dual System Application/Refresh
Tone On Tone
White Hair Blending
Pastel Toning
Neutralisation
Colouring Darker
Clear Glossing

Schwarzkopf Igora Vibrance Colour Chart

• Naturals: This category includes a wide spectrum of natural hair colours ranging from deep blacks to light blondes. These shades are essential for creating classic and timeless looks that blend seamlessly with the client's natural hair colour.
• Golds: Gold tones add warmth and dimension to hair, ranging from subtle honey hues to vibrant golden blondes. These shades are perfect for clients looking to enhance their hair with a sunny, luminous glow.
• Chocolates: Rich and decadent, chocolate shades offer a range of browns that mimic the delicious tones found in dark and milk chocolates. These colours are ideal for clients seeking rich, glossy brunette hues.
• Reds: The Reds category features a variety of vibrant red tones. These shades can create bold statements or add striking highlights, catering to clients who want to make a dramatic impact.
• Pastels: Pastel colours are soft, muted shades that are perfect for creating trendy and whimsical looks. Igora Vibrance Pastels include delicate pinks, lavenders, and blues, allowing for creative and artistic colour applications.
• Boosters: Boosters are special shades designed to intensify or modify other colours in the Igora Vibrance range. They can be used to customise tones, create unique blends, or correct unwanted undertones, providing hairdressers with greater flexibility and control over the colouring process.

Schwarzkopf Igora Absolutes Permanent Hair Colour

Schwarzkopf Igora Royal Absolutes is perfect for clients seeking intense fashion shades with complete white hair coverage and lift. It caters to mature hair, ensuring true-to-tuft colour results.

Key Features

• Pro-Age Complex: Enhances hair structure for a sleek, even finish
• Low-Odour Formula: Provides a more pleasant colouring experience
• 100% White Hair Coverage: Reliable coverage and lift

Technology

The Pro-Age Complex with Siliamine and Collagen creates a sleek, even surface on the hair cuticle, enhancing tone and shine. The oil-structure cream base delays ammonia evaporation, significantly reducing odour.

How to Use

1. Mixing Ratio: 1:1 with Igora Royal Oil Developer 9% (30 Vol)
2. Development Time: 30-45 minutes
3. Application: Apply to dry hair
4. Post-Color Care: Emulsify, rinse, shampoo, and condition 

Services

Intense Fashion Shades
Complete White Hair Coverage
True-to-Tuft Colour Results

Schwarzkopf Igora Absolutes Colour Chart

• 30 shades
• Cool Beige Tones: These shades within the range provide a sophisticated, cooler-toned palette that includes soft, creamy beiges. Ideal for clients looking to achieve a refined and elegant look without veering into overly warm tones, cool beige shades offer a modern twist on traditional neutrals.
• Chocolate and Copper Variations: For those seeking richer, deeper tones, the chart features shades in chocolate and copper families. These hues add warmth and depth to the hair, creating a vibrant and lustrous finish. Chocolate tones offer deep, luxurious browns with hints of warmth, while copper shades provide fiery, reddish-gold reflections that can bring out natural highlights in lighter hair.
• Suitability for Levels 7 to 9: The Igora Absolutes range is specifically formulated to complement hair that falls within the lighter spectrum of levels 7 to 9. This ensures that the colours achieve optimal results, providing vibrant and lasting coverage while maintaining the natural shine and health of the hair.

Schwarzkopf Professional Igora Color 10 Permanent Hair Colour

Igora Color 10 is ideal for root touch-ups and quick services, achieving the same results as standard permanent colour in just 10 minutes.

Key Features

• Amino Acid Carrier Technology: Delivers colour and care
• Perfect Coverage: Reliable results even in a short time
• Long-Lasting Shine: Ensures vibrant colour retention

Technology

The Amino Acid Carrier technology in Igora Color 10 ensures beautiful colour results, perfect coverage, and outstanding care, all in just 10 minutes.

How to Use

1. Mixing Ratio: 1:1 with Igora Royal Oil Developer
2. Developer Choices:
• 3%: To darken or revive existing colour
• 6%: For tone-on-tone colour or up to 1 level of lift
• 9%: For up to 2 levels of lift
3. Processing Time:
• Normal to Thick Hair: Up to 10 minutes
• Grey-Hair Coverage and Resistant Hair: Up to 15 minutes
4. Application: Apply to dry hair, emulsify, and rinse thoroughly

Services

Root Touch-Ups
Quick Services
Global Application for Short to Medium-Length Hair

Schwarzkopf Professional Igora Color 10 Colour Chart

• 29 shades

These shades are formulated to provide complete coverage for clients with up to 100% white or grey hair. They offer natural-looking results that blend seamlessly with existing hair colour or provide a new, solid base colour.

Natural shades typically include a spectrum of tones from lighter to deeper browns, blondes, and blacks. These colours ensure reliable and uniform coverage, making them suitable for clients looking for a classic and timeless appearance.

Fashion shades are ideal for clients who desire more vibrant and trendy hair colours while still providing coverage for up to 50% white hair. These shades often include intense reds, vivid blondes, and bold fashion tones like purples, blues, and greens.

They allow stylists to create bold, expressive looks while also catering to clients who want to experiment with new, modern hair colours. Fashion shades can be used for full-head applications or creative highlighting and balayage techniques.

Schwarzkopf BLONDME Colour And Toning Range

The BLONDME Colour and Toning Range is designed specifically for blonde hair, offering high-performance colour and toning solutions for flawless results.

Key Features

• Advanced Bonding Technology: Minimises hair breakage
• Comprehensive Blonde Solutions: Includes permanent and semi-permanent options
• Balanced Toning: Neutralises brassiness and enhances blonde tones

Technology

BLONDME’s Advanced Bonding Technology strengthens hair’s structural bonds during colouring, minimising breakage. The Anti-Metal Bond Protection Technology captures and neutralises metal ions, optimising colour results.

How to Use

1. Application: Apply to damp hair
2. Mixing Ratio: 1:1 with BLONDME Premium Developer 2% (7 Vol)
3. Development Time: Up to 20 minutes
4. Post-Colour Care: Use BLONDME Mask to end the oxidation process before applying toners

Services

Blonde Coloring
Toning
Bond Protection

Schwarzkopf BLONDME Colour And Toning Colour Chart

• 25 shades
• Pastel Toning:

Neutralisation: Helps to neutralise unwanted tones such as yellow or brassy undertones often found in blonde hair

Fashion Tones: Includes trendy shades like pastel pinks, lavenders, and blues, allowing for creative and fashionable toning options

• BLONDME Deep Toning:

Neutralisation: Provides strong neutralisation of unwanted warm tones

Fashion Tones: Offers a broader range of fashionable tones, allowing for creative colour mixing and unique results

• BLONDME Bleach and Tone: Combines the lightening power of bleach with the toning capabilities of BLONDME, providing a streamlined process for achieving beautifully lifted and toned blonde hair
• BLONDME Bond Enforcing Blonde Lifting: Incorporates bonding technology to minimise hair breakage during the lightening process, ensuring hair remains strong and healthy while achieving lighter blonde shades
• BLONDME Bond Enforcing White Blending: Specifically designed for blending white or grey hair with existing blonde hair, offering natural-looking results with enhanced hair strength and condition
• BLONDME Bond Enforcing Blonde Hi-Lighting: Focuses on creating natural-looking highlights within blonde hair, utilising bonding technology to maintain hair integrity and strength throughout the highlighting process

Application Tips

choosing the right tools can significantly enhance your results. Here’s how you can master the art with precision brushes and tint brushes:

Precision Brush

When it comes to precise application, the precision brush is your go-to tool. Its dense bristles allow for meticulous colouring, ensuring that the colour is deposited exactly where you intend. To achieve the best results:

• Maintain consistent pressure throughout the application to ensure an even distribution
• Consider using a balayage board for flawless application
• For a subtle, speckled effect, utilise the dome shape to create delicate dots on the hair surface

Tint Brush

The tint brush is perfect for covering larger areas and saturating hair strands thoroughly. Its non-absorbing bristles provide excellent control over product deposition. Here’s how to make the most of it:

• Use the very ends of the bristles to precisely mark the sections you intend to colour
• After each stroke, comb through the hair to ensure even product distribution
• To gauge product penetration, use your palm to feel the application and prevent over-saturation