Clairol Expert Hair Colour For Women by nice'n easy

History of hair colour

Over 90% of the world’s people have naturally dark hair. While black and dark hair dominate, the variety of tones and combinations of skin and eye colours vary according to different gene groups.

Kashmiri and Irish people with dark hair and blue eyes share similar features passed down from Neolithic Indo-Europeans, whilst the dark hair of Native Americans descends from Asian peoples who reached America via Alaska. Red hair seems to have started to appear some 35,000 years ago, the result, it is thought, of a mutated pigment gene.

Truly blonde hair is a more recent development, only appearing in the last few thousand years! In Ancient Rome.Of course thanks to technological advances, especially in the past fifty years or so, we can now change or enhance our hair colour almost any way we want. Click on our timeline to see how hair colour has influenced our lives in the past 150 years.

1907

The first permanent hair colour using PPD is created and marketed in Paris.
1930

Clairol launches the first ever home hair colourant in the US that penetrates the hair shaft, rather than just coating it. Jean Harlow stars in Platinum Blonde, prompting millions of women to copy her look.
1950

Clairol makes further advances in hair dye chemistry, eliminating the timeconsuming preliminary shampoo and pre-lightening steps. Wella launches Koleston Perfect – the first cream colourant that nourishes as well as colours.
1976

The Punk era sees hair turn green, pink, blue and bleached white, the beginning of avantgarde hair colouring.
1980

Chop and change; the demi permanent colour is introduced with lower levels of active ingredients and dye penetration than permanent colour.
2005

Clairol nice’n easy introduces a breakthrough in hair colour; the innovative ColourSeal Gloss using new CC05 technology was a new conditioner with up to three bi-weekly treatments. The conditioner is specifically designed to give non stop natural-looking colour with multi-tones and shine.
2006

An in-between salon appointment hero is born – Clairol root touch-up, which enables women to seamlessly blend colour to banish roots and greys in just 10 minutes.
2008

After nearly ten years in the making and 18 patents, P&G Beauty introduce AminoGlycine in Clairol Perfect 1O. The revolutionary formula gives high gloss colour, 100% grey coverage and infuses colour twice as fast, vs. conventional home colourants, achieving amazing colour and healthier looking hair overtime in just 10 minutes.
2010

In Dec 2010 nice'n easy launched their revolutionary Colour Blend foam. The foam is non-drop, mess free and gives great multi-tonal, dimensional colour with 100% grey coverage. The new foam from nice'n easy has transformed the home hair colouring experience by making it a much easier and enjoyable process.