"The Great Pigment Myth" Standard

You know what’s funny about teaching?

Sometimes the lesson you think you’re teaching isn’t the lesson that shows up.

This morning, as I was recording a broadcast on a completely different topic, I had one of those moments that makes you stop mid-sentence and say,

“Wait a second… why have we never explained it like this?”

And that’s what I want to share with you today during this broadcast. 

Because here’s the thing.  

I consider myself pretty confident when it comes to hair color science. 

I’ve spent decades teaching it, breaking it down, correcting myths, and trying to translate chemistry into something stylists can actually use behind the chair.

And yet… while recording a segment about whether darker shades contain more pigment than lighter shades, I had a genuine epiphany regarding why hair colorist hold on to this belief that the blue molecule is larger.

Now I know why. 

It’s two people , a chemist and a hair colorist discussing the same thing while having completely different paradigms.

Not because the science was new  ,  but because the disconnect suddenly became crystal clear.

And once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

Here’s the key sentence:

“Stylists think blue is a bigger molecule because they’re seeing the effect of a finished chromophore system, not the individual precursors. Permanent hair color doesn’t deposit one dye. 

It builds a conjugated polymer inside the hair that absorbs more light.”

So press paly and many things will become more clear.

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