Patent ID: 8577750

Claim:
A method for custom hair coloring formula supplemental identification comprising: accepting a user login, at a server, the user login associated with previously input user characteristics including natural hair color, current hair coloring, hair treatments, hair coloring characteristics and hair treatment characteristics; presenting, via the server, a user with an opportunity to order a previously-identified hair colorant associated with the user characteristics; accepting user input of a new user characteristic into data stored on the server; identifying unavailable hair colors and available hair colors, the unavailable colors and the available hair colors identified based upon the user characteristics; providing indicia of the available hair colors to the user; accepting user input of desired hair coloring at a server, the desired hair coloring selected from among the available hair colors; identifying a new hair colorant, including a formulation different than that of the previously-identified hair colorant, suitable to create the desired hair coloring in view of the new user characteristic; and generating an order, using the server, for the new hair colorant.