Saturday School: Guide To Silver/Grey & White Wig Color Codes

It'S got brown in it, i didn't want it to have: it's got yellow in it, i didn't want it to have yellow it, doesn't have enough yellow, etc. Welcome to silver linings, your resource for silver, gray, white wig reviews and more you've watched a whole bunch of wig review videos. You'Re all excited you open up your brand new wig box and the color is still a disappointment to you. I'M hoping to help you with that today and add to your knowledge base about color straight ahead, right here, right now on silver linings. Okay, so i want to start out with just showing you this color ring, i'm going to use genre knows color ring as an example, you saw that in my thumbnail in the gray color family you've also got colors from the platinum family, and some of those colors Can present as goldish or maybe a tint of yellow? So if you're the kind of person that wants a true silver gray white, then you want you're going to want to stay away from this end of the color spectrum. If you're, a sandy gray, then naturally you're going to want to have uh some colors that are like this on the color spectrum. Now, oh, and you might also want to have some colors that are down on the other end of the spectrum. But if you want that silvery white gray, then you're going to be right around in here now uh keep in mind that every brand has their own color and every brand can have their own formulas. So one of the thing - that's one of the things that i absolutely did not know when i first started to to wear wigs or even look at wigs, was that they can make up and blend their own colors to their hearts content. And that's what gives us so many beautiful colors that keep coming onto the marketplace? Okay, so just again remember in the gray family you have grays and you have platinums and i'm going to show you a document that i made that i will make available for you. If you want it for free um, just send me an email, the link will be below okay, so gray and platinum. Now, of course, there's other colors, but i'm not going to get into those today because they're, not they don't really apply to the silver gray family, but there's a whole nother ring coloring for blondes there's a whole other color ring for shaded and syrupy colors. You know these these fashion colors, that that were that we're seeing here there and everywhere so and then there's blacks, the browns. But again we are going to focus on gray and platinum. Now. I also ordered way way back in the beginning of my wig journey. Paulie young - i can't remember if i paid for this or not but paula young, you can get this. I think it's free on her website when you buy a wig, but don't quote me on that, but this is really great because it shows you the one. Second, i've got a timer going off. This is really great because it shows you, you see the gradation in the colors from light to dark from dark to light, browns platinums the whole thing, there's not a ton of them, but it just gives you. I think a really great visual on it. It just gives you a really great visual on what's available in the silver gray white color palette, but for the most part, grays and platinums are making up the gray hair are making up the gray, wig color family, okay. So i found this wonderful site, corner of hope and maine.com, and you can see it right there, i'm highlighting the url for you. If you look at my cursor in the upper left, it's moving here and uh, so i had asked myself what colors make up silver gray, white, wigs or just what colors make up a gray wig, and here it is right here, gray, 34 to 60., and i'm Thinking well, that's not so hard stay tuned and i'm going to show you more about that in a moment. Okay, so that is where i started now, i'm going to show you where i ended up okay, so let me share my screen with you once again now. So we have all the grays and the platinums which make up the gray, wig color family right, but wait as we scroll down it says: 34 to 60 right, so here's all the colors, 34, 36, 38, 39, 44, 48, 51, etc, etc, etc. Now the blondes we're going to leave them alone for now, but we definitely are seeing the platinums okay and there's the color family of the platinums 101. 102. 104. 613. Now here's where it gets very, very interesting numbers and letters. The combination of a number and a letter help decode the true color, so we we have more to be concerned about than the the number we also have to be concerned about what letter goes with that number. Is it shaded? Is it rooted? Is it a fashion? Color, those are all the things that i'm talking about, so here's the grays broken down and they tell you what they are dark brown with gray they, how pers, how much of a percentage of that color did they mix in? Are you starting to get it? Okay? So then we have the letter codes here. They all are again i'll, send this this pdf to you. If you want it - and this will help you decode things and then here's the industry standard, wig, color codes, industry, standard, wig, color codes. I used to think that that meant that all the brands used all the same colors, let's say, but that's not true. They can make up all their own. They could take those colors and mix them any way they they want, with certain percentages, less percentages adding other colors into them, and that's why it's so hard for you to get when you're. Looking at that, wig you're like what what i can't even it's got brown in it. I didn't want it to have: it's got yellow in it, i didn't want it to have, yellow it doesn't have enough yellow, etc. I can't even grays here's all the grays 34 to 60 and they're all broken down even further. So you see here, gray, 34, dark brown with 5 pure white. I wish that all of the brands would tell us how much of a percentage is of white. How much of a percentage of gray how much a percentage of black? How much a percentage of brown how much a percentage of yellow etcetera, so that part is, is not really standardized per se um and by the way i've got this information here from joshua24.com that that is uh joshua24.com they sell wigs. So this was very interesting to me here to see this combination of letters and numbers and percentages, and so again here's the platinum shades and it breaks down what colors are used and then, of course, we go right down and and we're not really concerned for this Tutorial with the black and the browns and the reds so, but i just put them there just to show you in case you were interested now. Jean renau has a very interesting chart, and this really helped me to understand um, that and if you look at these one, two three there's five different ways that they break down these colors. The first thing is, when you see a color that says that has an h in it. Well, that's a combination of two colors. The h means a highlight kind of like when you, when you'd go to the hairdresser and they'd give you highlights and they'd mix two colors together. Well, that's what this is so that highlight color st generally, the under industry standard is that color is 20 percent. Okay, so they're adding 20 percent. Let'S say this white they're, adding 20 percent of maybe gray with the white, and that's going to give us a a different color. Okay. So then they take it a step further and they have this uh rh, which means that it's 33 percent not 20, so they're adding more they're, adding 13 percent more highlight so that wig is going to take on even more depth and more dimension. Then they have different things called this. One is fashion syrup, bold highlights and you can go down and you can read what they've done, but every time they do something with shading or rooting or everything is going to take on a whole different mix again just like. If you went to the hairdresser and they started adding in different highlights or different lowlights now number four here, but esthetica, for instance, um what they do just when you think you're understanding everything they reverse the formula. So esthetica reverses their color codes and lists the base. Color second, instead of first so that can make the wig look entirely different. And i just reviewed true in iced gray. And when you look at true in iced gray, compared to the wig review that i did yesterday, which was of salsa by raquel welch in silver. Mist, which is r5660 those two colors, even though their makeup isn't that different, the iced gray looked deeper in gray than the um looked deeper in gray than the salsa, and i will one had a deeper gray or more steely gray than the other. The salsa, the iced gray, had a more steely gray than the salsa. The salsa had more silver or white gray here, just as a comparison is estetica's. True - and i reviewed true - i believe it was last week so look. This is iced gray. So here are two beautiful grays. If you love that silver gray, if you haven't seen that video yet or the review of true, i will link this since i'm mentioning it with. Since i'm mentioning it to you i'll link it below okay and then you have number five you've got fashion syrup colors - and this is right here this graphic right here where my cursor is moving and their shades. They have shades at the root and so that's going to give it a different dimension. And i actually like those kinds of uh wigs because it gives you dimension and if i wanted to reach a little bit into the blonde family uh just for some more choices. Because of that dark root, i can sometimes get away with that with that wig or with that color and then finally, uh genre now has what they call the tipped family and that they just have tips a tip color at the end of the root. So you know it's blended with another color so as it says here once you start to get an idea of what these colors are as it shows here once you start to get an idea of. What'S going on that, just because it says gray and white, you have really no idea how much of gray, how much of white unless they tell you the percentages, and sometimes they tell you the percentages and sometimes they don't. So. I hope that this helps you even just a little bit or you're. You know when i used to sell real estate, i used to tell my clients the first time we would meet pretend that we have a basket. The basket is empty. The first time we go out to see a home you're, going to start the first home you're, going to put that in the basket. That'S your basket of knowledge. The second home is your second piece of knowledge. Your third is your fourth piece of piece of knowledge and on and on and on we'd go until that basket started to get filled up with knowledge, and then they could make an intelligent decision. Well, you know what wig buying is really i'm finding is very much the same in order for you to love your wig in order for you to kind of know, when the next time you order something i'm going to like that, wig all i have to be Concerned about is the style because you're going to have a foundation or a basket of experiences of color understanding, and i mean i remember you - know, gathering the information for this pdf here. It took me hours to gather all this together and i really want to thank the color of hope in maine and john renaud. I want to give credit where credit is due for all these resources that i have here and i will link them below um. I think mimi yeah mimi uh memo wig usa.com. She had a wonderful explanation for uh what the letters mean. I just kind of went here and there and gathered information for you actually for myself. First and as i always say, i share what i learn with you. So let me know in the comments below please: if this helped you even just a little bit, don't just listen to it once go back and listen to it. Two or three times read the pdf. Take your time pour yourself a glass of of wine, a cup of coffee, tea whatever and take your time and just start to slow down and learn about color and i'll, be adding to to my own basket experiences as i go, but i have so many wigs Here that are in the silver gray, white family, i'm look at them, i'm looking at them all up on my on my shelf and when i tell you one is so much different, even than the other, even within the same company but they'll. I would say that the last 10 wigs that i purchased, i didn't make any color. I didn't make any color mistakes. I liked all the colors, i might not have been in love with the style, but i liked all the colors and i think eventually as i go, and maybe as you go, if you're getting a collection, you kind of get to know what styles you, like. The best so and in case you're wondering what i'm wearing today i have the tony bratton headband fall and she is in the color light gray, which is a combination of 56, 60 r and she's got. It looks to me like she's, got half and half like half half um gray and half white, because 60 is white, so there's color number 56. right there and there's color number 60, which is the white. I hold them up and there's the combination and i'm actually going to be. You can see she's quite a bit longer than my own hair um, because i'm growing out my hair, so i i don't want to. I don't want to cut. I don't want to cut the fall um, but i'm going to be doing an experiment with this fall, i'm going to give her a wash she's. Rather new. I'Ve only worn her a handful of times, but she's she's doing something funny about how she's laying so i think she might have box hair. So i'm going to wash her and i'm going to do a tutorial on washing your wig. One is going to be using fabric softener and another one is going to be using a product by um godiva secret wigs. So i'm going to just see how much of a difference there is between using an expensive, shampoo and conditioner made for wigs or just using fabric softener, and that's coming up next saturday school in two weeks. So that's basically all i have for today. I hope that it helped you and, as always, everyone look for the silver lining. Bye, bye, you