Air Touch (Airtouch): what is it, who is it and how to do it?

Hairdressing does not stand still and every season pleases modern women of fashion with different hair dyeing techniques. Today there are a lot of them, while each has its own characteristics and nuances. In this article we will talk about such a type of painting as "Air Touch", we outline the features of the technique, its pros and cons, and also dwell on its implementation.

The name "air touch" in translation from English means "touch of air." In fact, this is a complex hair dye using several shades to give soft tones. The objective of the methodology is giving volume to curls due to the painting itself. In this case, the rate in the work is placed on the depth of the tones used.

Today, this technique is gaining popularity. due to its naturalness and lightness of the effect, which differs from the usual highlighting with its noticeable highlighted strands.

AER TACH differs from other techniques in that no more than 50% of the total hair volume is involved in painting. In this case, staining is performed not randomly, but according to special schemes. The smooth transition effect is achieved by blowing short and thin hairs.The strand that remains after being treated with a hairdryer is painted with the selected shade. The purpose of the hair dryer is to blow excess hairs with cold air.

This is not coloring and highlighting in their classical sense. At the initial stage, the strands are lightened, then they are tinted at will. There is no bright color, and the technique itself is more painstaking than traditional highlighting. This is a trend that allows a woman to look natural and at the same time natural. The technique with particular scrupulousness refers to the selection of a suitable shade for a particular woman.

Airtouch is considered one of the best techniques through which you can give your hair a healthy and beautiful appearance. She has many advantages.

• The effect of such staining lasts from six months to a year. At the same time, due to the blurry edges, the hairstyle looks natural and beautiful.
• Any hairstyle with such a coloring is distinguished by the effect of radiance. It seems that the hair is shimmering in the sun, this highlight is so blurry.
• The technique is subject to different age groups of the fair sex, including adolescence and old age.
• "Air Touch" gives the face freshness. This staining can rejuvenate a woman, due to which it is very popular among mature women.
• The technique relates to procedures with a sparing effect. When it is performed, the roots are not lightened, and therefore the hair follicles are not destroyed.
• This staining method is ideal for those who are forced to mask gray hair. Transitions are not visible, but because the painting looks natural.
• Due to the durability of the effect, such coloring significantly saves the budget, allowing you to spend money on something else.
• The contract of the dye with the skin is minimal, due to which even allergy sufferers can use the paint.
• To maintain the intensity of the painting does not need to spend fabulous means: it is resistant and does not need frequent correction.
• The color palette "AER TOUCH" has many shades, while they can be both cold and warm. This allows you to choose the option for women with different color types.

However, in addition to the advantages, the methodology has its drawbacks. For example, despite its gentle effect, it somehow destroys the hair, revealing the scales. In addition, the procedure is of sufficient duration. The longer the hair, the longer the client will have to spend time in the salon.

Only a highly qualified salon stylist can do such coloring beautifully on a professional level. Home copying of the technique can give a result far from desired. There is little hair dryer for copying: the skills of the master are needed here, which ordinary women do not have. The disadvantage is the search for a good specialist.

This is due to the fact that today a large part of self-taught specialists, after watching videos about the principle of staining, consider themselves pros. As a result, they spoil not only the appearance of the hairstyle, but also worsen the condition of the hair during painting. It’s not enough just to blow the hair in strands: you need to know how parting is correctly distributed, at what angle to hold the hair dryer, and also to imagine how the hair will fall apart in order to achieve the multifaceted effect of radiance.

The Airtouch hair dyeing technique is good for hair of different lengths. However, highly qualified stylists do not recommend performing it on short strands. It is not suitable for ultra-short haircuts, since their length is insufficient to create soft overflows of the used shades. As for the best length, the most advantageous such dyeing looks on long hair and curls of medium length.

Such staining of strands is appropriate in different sets. It is suitable for a business woman, a strict classic image, able to decorate the image of a romantic nature, relevant in the look of a sporty style. At the same time, painting makes the image winning, fresh and incredibly feminine. It is compatible with any style of clothing, and therefore you will not have to select a separate wardrobe for it.

Despite the fact that today almost every woman who is familiar with the staining procedure knows what the basic set should be, we will indicate what is needed for the job. In order not to look for the necessary accessories at the most inopportune moment, it is worthwhile to prepare in advance:

• apron;
• hairbrush;
• clarifier (emulsion or powder);
• oxidizing agent;
• container for connecting components;
• paint brush;
• hair dryer;
• gloves
• tinting (optional);
• foil;
• clips (hair clips fit);
• mirror.

To master the aero touch hair dyeing technique at home is not easy. It is important to take into account a number of points before proceeding to the sequential execution of step-by-step instructions. For example, it is most difficult to guess what the original color should be, whether it is suitable for its color type, whether it can correct the shape of the face and make the image more interesting. It is also difficult to understand how to make soft, barely noticeable transitions and highlights.

Sometimes, in order to get a cold tone, you have to add a blue or purple color to the paint. Without knowing this, you can lighten hair with a hint of yellowness. You can tint strands with pigments of different shades. For example, three colors are fashionable today: pink, purple and mint. With the help of any of them you can make your hairstyle special and unique.

The strands to be worked on should not be large. Their maximum thickness should not exceed more than 1 cm in diameter. Lightening is performed not entirely, but superficially. The stylist applies dye with vertical lines at the top of the hair, stepping back from the roots. If you need to get a soft or blurry edge of the highlight, you will need to darken the root zone first.

It is necessary to apply the dye so that the transition from the basal zone to the light tips turns out to be as smooth as possible. The foil in the technique is used to enhance the staining effect. The more strands there are in each section, the more interesting and smooth the transition of shades will turn out. When applying the composition, make sure that the distribution is uniform. Color boundaries need to be blurred.

Considering that the salon takes several hours to complete the procedure, you will have to do a special staining for much longer, because it requires experience. At first, the hair is thoroughly combed so that they are obedient and untangled. The hair dividing scheme for dyeing will be a division of them into parts with each fastening a special clip before starting work. At the initial stage of work, the number of parts will be no more than five.

You will have to work separately with each section, coloring each of its locks, separating it and covering it with a coloring compound. Mirrors in the work will be needed in order to see how to color the hair from the back. The scheme of dividing hair into sections can be a division of the head into two perpendicularly extending partings. If you want more sections, you can use highlighting schemes.

For example, in addition to dividing into a straight and transverse parting, you can create a rhombus of four sections on the top of the head. In another case, after dividing the head into a parting, each part is divided again in half, but this time it is already perpendicular to the floor. In addition, after the standard division of the head into 4 sections, you can vary the further division of the sections. It is the variability of the schemes that explains the different effect of the final result.

They make an "air touch" step by step according to the following scheme:

• using a comb, separate a thin strand;
• she is blown off by a hairdryer from the root, holding the device at a right angle;
• under the remaining hair strands put a foil (or roller);
• on this strand, departing from the root 3-5 cm, apply paint, using a dry brush and performing with it a kind of shading;
• it is better to stain the tips so that they eventually turn out to be lighter;
• then the colored strand is wrapped in foil, the previously blown hairs are left between the strands in the foil;
• according to this scheme, locks of each section are processed;
• after the exposure time specified in the instructions expires, foil is removed from each strand;
• hair is washed under warm running water, without fail using balm to fix the shade;
• hair is dried and styled as desired.

We examined the basic method of staining. However, often girls, in addition to bleaching, use tinting agents after washing the clarifier. This allows you to achieve a unique overflow of shades in any color. For example, you can tint curls after an “air touch” with a pink, lilac or even a turquoise hue. However, only one color can be used for tinting.

As for the time of the procedure, usually the duration of the dye exposure to the hair is about 40 minutes. However, everything is individual, because, for example, thin hair may need less time.

The technique of staining "Air Touch", see the next video.

Wherever you make the technique of such coloring, whether in the salon or at home, the procedure will affect the condition of the hair. With any lightening, the hair is exposed to chemical attack, which leads to their thinning, loss of moisture and brittleness. They become exposed to sunlight. In rare cases, lightening is the cause of structural changes at the physical level.

It is important to note that immediately after processing and washing the hair can not be combed. If staining was performed on natural or unpainted curls, the transition will not be noticeable when growing. After some time, it will be possible to refresh the shade with a coloring shampoo or balm with a tinting effect. Paint with ammonia can not be used until the condition of the hair improves.

After the dyeing technique, do not lean on the frequent use of thermal styling products (for example, irons or flat). It is undesirable to use hairspray too often, as well as wash your hair with too hot water. It is harmful to hair, and even more so subject to lightening. You need to wash your hair with shampoo with a gentle effect, not forgetting to use special balms.

You can buy in a specialized store professional preparations for the care of colored curls. For example, Olaplex, Wellaplex from Wella Proffessional, Bond Ultim8 from Matrix, Niophlex have proven themselves well. If you need a product that, in addition to the caring effect, contains a yellowness neutralizer, you can buy Hair Company Inimitable lotion.

In addition to caring for curls, cosmetics, you can restore the health of each hair with creams for naughty curls.Enveloping each hairline, such preparations provide it with protection from negative environmental factors (for example, from temperature differences, dry weather). In addition, creams smooth out strands and fix them.

You can treat the tips with cosmetic oils. However, it is worth taking a note: frequent use of oil can lead to yellowness. Such care needs to be dosed, so that in the future it is not necessary to adjust the shade. Also, when using oils, you need to take into account that they are often used as washes, as they brighten colored strands well.

The trend for ash tones will continue in the new season, which is especially suitable for blondes and owners of a cold color type. At the same time, highlighting is almost individual, which depends on the structure of the hair, its thickness and length. It is stylish, spectacular, feminine. You can dye your hair in any shade of silver, be it ashen blue, ashen blue or ashen gray.

As for lovers of bright colors, this season the fashion invites them to turn to berry and fruit colors. Blue is also in fashion. Experts suggest that the fair-haired girls turn to the use of wheat or platinum shades. If the natural color of the curls is light brown and gives off a reddish tint, you can perform an “air touch” with the addition of honey or caramel pigments, creating beautiful highlights with these tones.

For dark brown hair, stylists today offer a different solution: such hair can be ennobled with a chestnut undertone. Those whose curls are given in gray should include shades of ash and silver in the painting design. Such glare will be exceptional, they can emphasize the beauty of the hair and give them bulk.

The fair sex with dark hair should carefully select additional half tones. Perhaps the right decision will be to seek the advice of a specialist who will select shades that can not make the image heavier, but make it more pleasant and more positive. This season it will be fashionable to weave reddish, caramel, and chocolate shades into the painting. The wine color remains popular, the blue contrast is slowly leaving the fashionable Olympus.

It is better for red-haired beauties to shade their natural color with paints of light chestnut colors. You can update your image with technology in different tones of flame.

Finally, we bring to your attention examples of successful staining using the “air touch” technique, which better than any words demonstrate the versatility and beauty of such a painting.

• An example with the inclusion of a barely noticeable blue tint in the technique.

• Smooth stretch of shades with highlighting of the tips on long hair.

• Toning colored strands with pink allows you to refresh the image.

• Coloring a haircut with an asymmetric length fills the female set with ease.

• "Air Touch" eliminates the severity of dark hair, gives the face freshness.

• An example of painting in ash tones with the effect of silver shine looks super-fashionable in a set.

• Representatives of youth subcultures will especially appreciate this image.

• This painting is able to fit into the school dress code due to the naturalness of its overflow.

• Coloring red hair with the creation of glare eliminates the image from boredom.

• Caramel shade is great for owners of a warm color type.