Does Coloring Your Hair Really Make It Thicker?
Coloring your hair, according to most stylists and several news articles, may help your hair look a little thicker. In fact, if you apply permanent color when you are coloring your hair, it will temporarily make each hair strand become as much as a third thicker in volume. But you have to understand what coloring your hair, which means applying color, rather than stripping color from the hair, means.
In most cases, if you’re going many shades lighter, you will have to bleach your hair. This actually strips the hair of some of its density. Sometimes people first bleach and then apply color, which may restore the hair’s look to original density. You still may look like you have about the same thickness of hair if you use this dual process for coloring your hair. When you actually color your hair by adding color deposits onto each hair, you are increasing the weight of each hair strand. This means you’re not bleaching first in most cases, but instead merely applying color in a shade similar to your own, and not significantly lighter than your hair color.
