Hair coloring kit and methods of use and doing business

Abstract

A hair color retouch kit, components of the kit, and methods of use and doing business. The kit can include one or more mixing containers. In one embodiment, a mixing container provides a colorant compartment for sealingly or separately containing a custom hair coloring formulation and peroxide compartment for sealingly or separately containing peroxide. The mixing container(s) can be used by a professional hair colorist to provide a hair coloring client with custom hair coloring formulation and peroxide that can be mixed and applied by or for the client to hair regrowth that occurs after a hair coloring session with the professional. The kit can provide other components as desired, such as a mixing spatula, an applicator brush, and instructions for example. The kit can be packaged in attractive and efficient packaging, include indicia identifying the source of the kit, and be customized to promote the colorist, salon, or other entity.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A hair coloring kit comprising in combination:
 a hair coloring kit package including:
 a hair colorant container section mountable to a peroxide container section, the hair colorant container section including a first interior sidewall intermediate a top end and opposed bottom end in the hair colorant container section; 
 a first removable and reusable colorant seal removably and reusably mountable to the first interior sidewall within the hair colorant container section spaced from a second removable colorant seal mounted to the hair colorant container section and providing a removable external sealing surface of the hair colorant container section; and 
 a mixing tool. 
   
     
     
         2 . The custom hair coloring kit of  claim 1  wherein the hair colorant container section and peroxide container section cooperatively provide a unitary hair colorant mixing container. 
     
     
         3 . The custom hair coloring kit of  claim 1  further comprising a removable and reusable peroxide seal removably and reusably mountable within the peroxide container section. 
     
     
         4 . The custom hair coloring kit of  claim 2  further comprising a removable and reusable peroxide seal removably and reusably mounted within the peroxide container section. 
     
     
         5 . The custom hair coloring kit of  claim 1  wherein the hair colorant container section is threadably mountable to the peroxide container section. 
     
     
         6 . The custom hair coloring kit of  claim 2  wherein the hair colorant container section is threadably mountable to the peroxide container section. 
     
     
         7 . The custom hair coloring kit of  claim 3  wherein the hair colorant container section is threadably mountable to the peroxide container section. 
     
     
         8 . The custom hair coloring kit of  claim 1  wherein the custom hair coloring kit package has a triangular cross-section. 
     
     
         9 . The custom hair coloring kit of  claim 7  wherein the custom hair coloring kit package has a triangular cross-section. 
     
     
         10 . The custom hair coloring kit of  claim 9  wherein (i) the triangular cross-section has a widened section terminating in widened opposite a narrower section terminating in a narrowed end and (ii) the custom hair coloring kit package has a kit mounting bar passage penetrating transversely the narrower section of the customer coloring kit package. 
     
     
         11 . The hair coloring kit of  claim 4  wherein the hair colorant container section is threadably mountable to the peroxide container section. 
     
     
         12 . The hair coloring kit of  claim 8  wherein the hair colorant container section is threadably mountable to the peroxide container section. 
     
     
         13 . The hair coloring kit of  claim 1  wherein the hair coloring kit package comprises:
 two opposed, parallel, planar triangular sides, each triangular side having a widened end and a narrow, pointed end opposite the widened end; 
 two opposed planar rectangular sides, each rectangular side extending from the widened end of the opposed triangular sides to the pointed end of the triangular sides; 
 the triangular sides and rectangular sides forming a triangular interior; 
 a kit component mounting platform mounted within the interior, the mounting platform extending from the widened end to the narrow end, the mounting platform having a first opening surrounding the hair colorant container section and a second opening surrounding the peroxide container section, the first opening or second opening being closer to the widened end than the narrowed end. 
 
     
     
         14 . The hair coloring kit of  claim 13 , further comprising an applicator brush adjacent an interior side of one of the triangular sides and a mixing spatula adjacent an interior of the opposing triangular side. 
     
     
         15 . The hair coloring kit of  claim 13 , wherein the hair colorant container section is threadably mountable to the peroxide container section. 
     
     
         16 . The hair coloring kit of  claim 14 , wherein the hair colorant container section is threadably mountable to the peroxide container section. 
     
     
         17 . The hair coloring kit of  claim 13 , further including a kit mounting bar passage transversely penetrating the narrower section of the customer hair coloring kit package. 
     
     
         18 . The hair coloring kit of  claim 16 , further including a kit mounting bar passage transversely penetrating the narrower section of the customer hair coloring kit package. 
     
     
         19 . The hair coloring kit of  claim 13  wherein the peroxide container section has a tubular outer periphery with a central axis and a bottom end at an acute angle to central axis. 
     
     
         20 . The hair coloring kit of  claim 18  wherein the peroxide container section has a tubular outer periphery with a central axis and a bottom end at an acute angle to central axis.