1. Unit GH17 Colour hair using a variety of techniques © Pearson Education 2009 Printing and photocopying permitted Colour 005 The colour star

2. Unit GH17 Colour hair using a variety of techniques © Pearson Education 2009 Printing and photocopying permitted The primary colours The primary colours are: RED YELLOW BLUE

3. Unit GH17 Colour hair using a variety of techniques © Pearson Education 2009 Printing and photocopying permitted The secondary colours: Orange The secondary colours are achieved by combining TWO of the primary colours. When you take the primary colour RED… …and add the primary colour YELLOW… …you get the secondary colour ORANGE.

4. Unit GH17 Colour hair using a variety of techniques © Pearson Education 2009 Printing and photocopying permitted The secondary colours: Green The secondary colours are achieved by combining TWO of the primary colours. When you take the primary colour BLUE… …and add the primary colour YELLOW… …you get the secondary colour GREEN.

5. Unit GH17 Colour hair using a variety of techniques © Pearson Education 2009 Printing and photocopying permitted The secondary colours: Violet The secondary colours are achieved by combining TWO of the primary colours. When you take the primary colour RED… …and add the primary colour BLUE… …you get the secondary colour VIOLET.

6. Unit GH17 Colour hair using a variety of techniques © Pearson Education 2009 Printing and photocopying permitted The colour star The colour star is used to show the range of primary and secondary colours. Warm colours range from RED through ORANGE (Copper) to YELLOW (Gold) Cool colours range from GREEN through BLUE to VIOLET

7. Unit GH17 Colour hair using a variety of techniques © Pearson Education 2009 Printing and photocopying permitted Colour correction You must know the principles of the colour star when carrying out a colour correction service. Use complementary (opposite) colours to neutralise unwanted tones. For example, violet will neutralise unwanted yellow (gold). There are shampoos available to neutralise unwanted colour tone. However, you must remember to consider the intensity of the colour.