Device and method for programmed hair coloring

Abstract

A cap or head cover disposed for positioning on the head and scalp of the user is equipped with a plurality of holes, said holes being identified by a specific color surrounding each hole. The arrangement of the holes and colors is keyed to a series of selected programs. Desired hair color effects or styles are attained by selectively pulling strands of hair through the colored holes in accordance with the selected program by means of crocheting needles and applying suitable coloring or bleaching compounds to the strands so pulled out.

I claim: 
     
       1. A process for the treatment of hair upon a person's head to produce several desired definite hair color styles in accordance with a predetermined program by applying upon the head of the person a cap having a plurality of holes therethrough; said holes being 420 in number and having an identifying specific color adjacent to each hole in predetermined arrangement;   said specific hole colors being six in number, 20 being black, 40 being blue, 60 being orange, 80 being purple, 100 being green and 120 being red;   said program comprising an illustration of each of said desired hair color styles, each style being associated with one of said identifying hole colors;   extracting strands of hair through all of the holes having the identifying color associated with said desired hair color style;   treating said strands so extracted with suitable coloring means;   removing said cap from said head of said person whereby six different hair color styles are produced.   
     
     
       2. The process of claim 1 in which said desired hair color styles are associated with combinations of two or more different identifying hole colors; extracting strands of hair through all of the holes having said identifying hole colors associated with said desired color style;   treating said strands so extracted with suitable coloring means;   removing said cap from said head of said person whereby 15 different hair color styles are produced. .Iadd.   
     
     
       3.  A process for treatment of hair upon a person's head to produce several desired definite hair color styles in accordance with a predetermined program by applying upon the head of the person a cap having a plurality of holes therethrough; said program comprising illustrations of each of said desired hair color styles;   each of said styles being identified with a set of holes positioned in predetermined locations on said cap;   each of said set of holes being identified by a different specific identifying color;   every hole in each of said sets having said identifying color positioned adjacent to it;   the number of holes in each set being identified with each of said hair color styles in accordance with said program;   the total number of holes in said cap being equal to the combined number of holes in all of said sets;   extracting strands of hair through the holes in said sets corresponding to said color style in accordance with said program;   treating said strands so extracted with a suitable coloring means;   removing said cap from the head of said person, whereby said desired hair color style is produced..Iaddend. .Iadd.4. The process of claim 3 in which said desired hair color styles are identified     
     
     
        with two or more sets of holes in said caps. .Iaddend. .Iadd.5.  The process of claim 3 in which said sets of holes are six in number comprising: a first set having twenty holes identified by a black color;   a second set having forty holes identified by a blue color;   a third set having sixty holes identified by an orange color;   a fourth set having eighty holes identified by a purple color;   a fifth set having one hundred holes identified by a green color;   a sixth set having one hundred and twenty holes identified by a red color;   the total number of holes being four hundred and twenty..Iaddend.