Translation guide
How to talk about hair dye, dyeing hair, and related products in Japanese.
Referring to the substance used to color hair.
Common loanword for hair dye product, often used in salons and stores.
このヘアカラーは刺激が少ないです。
This hair dye is gentle on the scalp.
Specifically for gray hair coverage; very common in drugstores.
母は白髪染めを使っています。
My mother uses hair dye for gray hair.
Less common than ヘアカラー, but understood.
ヘアダイを買いに行きます。
I'm going to buy hair dye.
Technical/medical term for hair dye.
染毛剤によるアレルギーに注意してください。
Be careful of allergies caused by hair dye.
The action of coloring hair.
General verb for dyeing hair.
髪を茶色に染めたいです。
I want to dye my hair brown.
Common phrase, especially for salon dyeing.
美容院でヘアカラーをしてもらった。
I had my hair dyed at the salon.
Specifically dyeing gray hair.
最近、白髪を染め始めました。
I recently started dyeing my gray hair.
Describing the result or the color itself.
Literally 'dyed hair', used as a noun phrase.
染めた髪が痛んでいます。
My dyed hair is damaged.
Can also refer to the resulting hair color.
新しいヘアカラー、似合ってるね。
Your new hair color suits you.
In casual conversation, 髪染めた？ (Did you dye your hair?) is common. The object 髪を is often dropped.