Purple shampoo neutralises brassiness but enhances blonde pigmentation. To maintain a silver shade, your shampoo requires a stronger colour neutralisation. Silver shampoo is formulated with deeper purple pigments to target yellow tones in a much stronger way.
First things first, we want to let you in on a secret — there is no difference between silver shampoo and purple shampoo. Just like purple shampoo, the term silver shampoo refers to a pigmented shampoo that's purple in color and helps neutralize brassy, yellow tones in blonde and silver hair.
Purple shampoo is for already bleached hair, so if you're hoping to lighten brown hair with purple shampoo, you'll be disappointed. This is all down to the fact that purple shampoo isn't lightening. Instead, it brightens blondes by canceling out yellow tones, which just happen to be opposite purple on the color wheel.
Purple shampoo isn't the only option for your blonde locks. If your hair is an icy, whiter blonde, then the Shimmering Silver Shampoo may be a better choice. This silver shampoo fights against the brassy yellow tones and bluer tones that appear in your blonde locks to leave you with radiant shiny hair.
Both silver and purple shampoo are designed to neutralise yellow and brassy tones in blonde, silver and grey hair. If you've used either one, you'll have noticed that bright purple hue when you pop the lid and squeeze. Silver shampoo and purple shampoo use purple pigment to lighten and brighten.
Purple shampoo neutralises brassiness but enhances blonde pigmentation. To maintain a silver shade, your shampoo requires a stronger colour neutralisation. Silver shampoo is formulated with deeper purple pigments to target yellow tones in a much stronger way.
Silver shampoo is a special shampoo that has specific purple to dark blue-violet pigments. It's used to neutralize yellow, brassy tones. It looks a little scary when you first see it. But this shampoo doesn't turn your hair purple.
Purple shampoo doesn't remove the yellow color but is designed to tone down the yellow in gray and white hair. It tones the color in your hair from warm tones (yellow) to cool (silver). Purple shampoo is only a temporary solution for yellows in your gray hair.
Silver Shampoo, which can also be called purple shampoo, is a shampoo with violet pigments. The violet pigments neutralize the yellow tones in your hair. By using a silver shampoo, you will get rid of brassy, yellow, and golden tones.
It's important to note that the pigment in purple shampoo isn't a lightener or hair dye but a gentle toner that works overtime. So it can't darken your hair or make it any lighter. For this reason, if your hair tone is too dark, it won't make it any brighter.
This is were the over using it can cause problems. "You want to stop using it two weeks before any lightening service. The purple shampoo can cause build up making the hair look dull and darker if overused." This makes the lightening process more difficult to create a seamless blend.
There's two reasons why your hair is still brassy after toning or colouring. Either the undertone of the toner/colour is wrong, or the product is too light for you.
Purple shampoo has been used for decades by hairdressers, mostly to help tone and neutralize blonde and gray hair, getting rid of brassy or yellow tones for an overall more cool-toned look.
Silver shampoo is also perfect for natural grey hair which can develop a yellow tinge from exposure to elements such as wind, rain and pollution. The shampoo can help correct this brassy colour, as well as strengthen hair fibres.
Silver shampoo, known by some as purple shampoo, works to neutralize brassy and yellow tones from blonde and gray hair. Using silver shampoo 1-2 times a week helps your hair look healthier and more color-balanced.
What does purple shampoo do? Yellow is the opposite of purple on the color wheel. So when your gray or lightened hair has unwanted yellow tones, purple shampoo acts as a toner and can cancel out brassy hues. Purple shampoo works to help fix brassy tones with a pretty simple approach.
Gray or white hair, which contains little or no pigment, sometimes gets yellow because it picks up pigments from the environment; for example, if you use a yellowish shampoo or conditioner, rather than a clear one, a trace of the color might be deposited on your hair.
The Benefits of Platinum Shampoo
There are many reasons why platinum shampoo is a far better alternative to purple shampoo. First of all, platinum shampoo can make your hair look incredibly shiny. It's also less likely than purple shampoo to cause your hair to become dry and brittle.
Golden strands of hair are typically caused by sun-exposure, and can show up in any hair color. Sunlight is composed of a variety of different wavelengths, some of which can cause the reflection or absorption of light off individual strands within the hair shaft.
“Purple shampoo does not cancel out orange so if the hair has any orange or yellow orange tones in it, the purple shampoo would actually make them warmer depositing red into the hair.”
The toning process is what will kill those yellow hues and killing those hues is a must for this silver/grey look. You can use toner, dye, or both depending on your taste. Let's talk about toner first. You'll want to go with a purple or violet based toner, like the Wella T18 Lightest Ash Blonde toner.
If you have platinum, gray, or silver hair, you can leave the purple shampoo on for up to 30 minutes, depending on how brassy or discolored your hair is.
WILL MY HAIR TURN PURPLE? The PRO:VOKE Touch Of Silver Brightening Shampoo is a toning treatment shampoo, so if you leave it on for too long, or use it too frequently, you can develop a purple tinge to your hair. This tinge won't last.
If you have a full mane of dark hair, using purple shampoo on dark brown hair won't be particularly effective. However, if you have dark hair with highlights or lightened strands, using purple shampoo on light brown hair will tone and color correct your strands.