Any woman wants to add personality to her image and look amazing every day. Even the most ordinary short hairstyle can be transformed using unusual shades. Today, complex dyeing for short hair is becoming more popular day by day. The modern beauty industry provides many techniques and ways to give the hair a minimum length of a bright and saturated shade.
Advantages and disadvantages
Sophisticated dyeing techniques are selective painting of individual strands along the entire length or only their tips. Most commonly used from 2 to 4 shades. With a similar procedure, even very short haircuts look amazing. Fashionable coloring allows you to stand out from the crowd and form a unique image. The advantages of complex staining include the following nuances:
- minimal hair damage;
- giving the hairstyle the desired volume;
- excellent masking of gray hairs;
- suitable for any age;
- harmonious color transition;
- It looks expensive and elegant;
- does not require frequent adjustments.
This technique is especially suitable for ladies who plan a sharp image change, for example, from a blonde to a brunette (or vice versa).
Nevertheless, this method also has disadvantages. For example, the high cost of the procedure (especially on long and thick hair). As a rule, craftsmen use professional paints, which are expensive. In addition, in most cases, complete clarification of individual curls is required, which negatively affects the structure of the hair, and not all techniques are suitable for short hair.
Please note that when staining the tips, they will soon begin to split. Also, complex staining will not work on curly and wavy hair.
Options
Short hair means quick dyeing and easy styling. To the hair of the minimum length, you can notice several popular techniques of complex staining. These include the following.
- Ombre. A popular method, the essence of which is a combination of light and dark shades. It implies a smooth transition from the tone of the roots to the tips and vice versa. Colors can be close in tone (vary by 2-3) or contrasting. When creating ombre on short hair, today they also use super-fashionable shades (blue, pink and green). This type of coloring is able to diversify any haircut.
- Balayazh. It implies a smooth transition (vertical) from dark to lighter. Great for red and blond hair. Balayazh belong to retrostyle, and it is in many ways similar to highlighting. However, this method does not imply a random order of staining, but a strict sequence. One colored curl alternates with natural. As a result, the haircut acquires additional volume and looks great. Sophisticated balayazh staining will add a piquant “zest” to the female image.
- Shatush. It is created by analogy with ombre, but the master in his work uses more natural shades with the effect of strands burnt out under the southern sun. Thanks to a similar staining method, overgrown roots remain invisible for a long time. The strands for painting are chosen spontaneously and look very natural. Shatusha on short hair looks especially impressive.
Partial techniques include partial dyeing, which is relevant for very short hair. For example, an elongated fringe turns purple or bright pink, which is bold and fashionable.
Features of painting gray hair
Do not think that gray hair is a problem only for mature ladies. Many women begin to notice her appearance after thirty years. It has long been known that gray hairs are very finicky and difficult to stain. If we talk about monophonic staining of short hair, it is best to make the hair 2-3 tones lighter than natural. To dye gray hair in dark tones is not recommended. Black, red and copper colors are especially unsuitable for fighting gray hair. They literally set off gray hairs.
Frequent highlighting technique and ombre method perfectly mask gray hair. Thus, the highlighted strands are not washed off and do not “bare” gray hair. In addition, these types of staining do not require frequent adjustments, they can be easily done at home.
Hair care
Any hair that has been exposed to paint (even the most expensive) requires careful care. Sophisticated dyeing techniques on short hair, of course, do some harm to the hair structure. In order for the strands to look healthy and well-groomed, it is necessary:
- one week after dyeing, apply nourishing masks to the hair;
- Do not abuse styling products and limit the use of a hair dryer, curling iron or ironing;
- apply tinting balms and shampoos;
- Do not neglect headgear in hot or, conversely, frosty weather;
- do not comb wet locks to avoid their fragility.
See how to dye short hair using balayazh technique in the video below.
