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Who doesn't love a brass band? And brass sculptures are captivating. Ditto for brass door handles or drawer pulls. But brassy hair? Not so much.
And it happens all too often after getting our tresses colored when those unflattering yellow, orange or red tones make you want to wear a hat 24/7. Talk about a bad hair day.
To the rescue: local stylist Faye Petti from Salon Monaco in Boca Raton, who created Tonal Balance, an at-home anti-brass treatment.
"We all know that pestering experience of brassy hair. As a stylist, I have seen this problem time and time again; it's a natural occurrence as color in hair oxidizes over time," she notes on the product's website.
The self-confessed "hair color nerd" created the product because there is, she says, a dearth of anti- brass products for dark brunettes and balayaged locks. The idea came to her while using a green toner to correct the brassy red undertones on a brunette client, then realizing there was no home-care product she could recommend.
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"Insert a creative vision, a ton of research, an amazing chemist and Tonal Balance was born," she says.
Tonal Balance addresses all hair colors with its two-part system: a shampoo and a shine treatment, meant to be used one to three times a week in place of your regular regimen. The blue duo combats orange tones in light brown and dark blonde hair; green eliminates red tones in black and dark- to medium-brown locks; and purple fights yellow tones in balayaged, highlighted, single- or double-processed light- to platinum-blonde hair.
Visit anti-brass.com.