Hair coloring: types, shades and fashion trends

Hairstyle for a woman is a very important point. No wonder the change in appearance begins with the hairstyle. It is difficult to meet a girl or woman who would not dye her hair. Some so successfully paint over gray hair, others simply change their color, while others create a whole work of art on the head with the help of a master, using novelties. Modern hair coloring is an interesting process that gives excellent results. Moreover, today there are a wide variety of types, shades and fashion trends.

At all times and in any country, women strove to be beautiful and experimented on their appearance with the help of available means. And staining was no exception. For the first time, a woman resorted to the help of dyes about 3 thousand years ago. To achieve the desired result, for example, leeks and Chinese cinnamon were used.

It has long been believed that people with the highest status could afford such a whim. In ancient Egypt, black and dark brown were especially relevant colors for the nobility. In order to achieve a saturated black color, soot was used, mixing it with other plant components.

In ancient Greece, sought to give the hair a golden or ashy shade. And in ancient Rome, blond hair was considered especially fashionable. Achieved this in many ways. From finding ingredients with herbs and fruits to spending time under the burning sun. At the same time, the faces were covered, and the hair was exposed under the sun's rays, so that they gradually faded.

In the 60s of the XIX century in France, bleaching of hair with the help of hydrogen peroxide came into fashion, this was demonstrated for the first time by an English chemist and a French hairdresser. To this day, women use this method to achieve perfect lightening of hair.

Before doing staining, you need to decide for what purpose this is done. There are different reasons: to hide the gray hair, color the overgrown roots, change the color or renew, completely change the style.

Any color has its pros and cons.

1. To pluses refers to the fact that staining hides the gray hair, allows you to achieve the desired shade, significantly improve the appearance and even raise the mood with the desired result. Properly dyed high-quality hair dye looks healthy and well-groomed.
2. But there are also disadvantages. Many are sure that lightening is harmful to hair, regardless of what paint is used for these purposes. Indeed, hydrogen peroxide, which is found in most paints, harms hair. They become dry, brittle, dull. And these are undoubted disadvantages. But all this can be avoided if you follow the rules of staining, and better, entrust this procedure to professionals. Any hair needs care, and dyed - even more so. There are many folk and professional means for this. There are special shampoos, balms, conditioners, masks for colored hair. All of these remedies will help keep your hair in order.

There are contraindications when staining is not recommended.

If the scalp is damaged, staining should also not be done. On critical days, women are also not recommended to dye their hair, hormonal changes can negatively affect the results, and they will not live up to expectations. In addition, you can not dye your hair at the same time as perm. Be sure to take a break between the procedures for at least a month.

Paints are divided into several types. Persistent are those that are used in salons. They are also sold in large numbers at cosmetic stores. Many of them are a set, which directly includes the paint, the fixing substance, as well as the balm. Persistent paints do a great job with gray hair, they can last up to three months.

Semi-resistant wash off faster, they last no more than a month and with each subsequent washing of the head will gradually wash off. They are suitable if you want to temporarily change the color. These paints are sometimes called gentle. However, to obtain a bright saturated color with the help of such funds will not work, as well as paint over a large number of gray hair.

Tinting paints do not contain hydrogen peroxide. They are suitable if you want to give a certain shade to light hair (ashen, golden) or, conversely, make the dark color more saturated.

But then such a coloring can be done at home, just apply the product, rub it well into the hair, distribute along the entire length, and rinse off after a while. There are many varieties of tint colors. It can be shampoo, balm, mousse, foam, mask.

Interestingly, with all the variety of colors, some choose completely natural products. For example, they prefer to dye their hair with tea.

With the help of tea, you can reduce hair fat, soothe itching, get rid of dandruff. Hair after such a procedure becomes smooth and shiny.To prepare a saturated solution for coloring, it is enough to add a couple of tablespoons of dried tea leaves per liter of boiling water. Apply a decoction to dry hair. Then wrap and stand for about half an hour. The shade from such natural dye will be noticeable on fair hair.

Based on what result is needed, different types of staining are used.

Temporary can give any shade to the hair, but will last only until the first shampoo. Deep such compounds do not penetrate, but are only on the surface of the hair. Such formulations are available in the form of sprays, mousses, foams, hair sprays. Most often, such staining is used for one evening, for example, a holiday or an important meeting.

Direct dyeing is understood to mean that it will last longer depending on how often you wash your hair. If, for example, once a week, then it can be about a month, and if every other day, then no more than two weeks. When applying such a paint, the entire hair is dyed from roots to ends, provided that it is applied correctly. But at the same time, the paint does not penetrate deep into the structure of the hair.

Permanent staining has a longer lasting effect. Coloring pigments penetrate deeply into the structure of the hair. Such paints contain hydrogen peroxide, but give a lasting result and a saturated color.

Popular staining techniques over the years include plainin which all hair is dyed in one color. And this method is the simplest, it is quite possible to carry out at home.

Another commonly used method is tinting. With its help, bleached hair can be given any shade - pearl, golden, ashen, pinkish and any desired.

A frequently used method that has not lost its relevance over the years - highlighting. True, over time, the method improved. When highlighting, a foil is used, in which each painted strand is wrapped. Highlighting can be small and large. The finer the strands, the more natural and interesting the result. Apply and coloringwhen some strands lighten, while others are painted with a different shade. Due to what an interesting effect is obtained. You can choose not only 2, but also 3-4 shades.

Quite often used bleaching hair. Most often this is done to dye dark hair in a lighter tone. At blanching in most cases, you need to use tint balms to achieve the desired shade.

The salons offer professional coloring using a variety of techniques, modern paints and hair care products.

• Ombre It is used on both dark and fair hair. The technology of this coloring is to move from one color to another. Several shades can be used. A smooth transition from one color to another allows you to look good even with regrown roots. Especially if darker tones turn into lighter ones. Those with dark hair can use chocolate, chestnut, gold, and blond shades with this technique. For fair-haired, platinum, ashen, pearl.

• Balayazh also combines several shades, but the difference is that the coloring occurs vertically. As a result, one color flows into another, two or three shades are chosen. The shuttles are similar with the same technique. Both options, unlike ombre, do not provide gradient staining. The strands can be arranged in a chaotic manner; long hair looks especially good with this staining.

• If all three techniques suggest a more natural color, then grunge - This is the choice of those who are not afraid of experiments. There are bright splashes here. Strands of different colors can be used - purple, red, orange, and their order can be any, up to the fact that part of the head can be painted in one color, and part - in another. Short haircuts look most impressive.

• Embossed coloring also involves the selection of bright shades, the strands can be arranged in different ways. The wizard can create different schemes. And with the final result, peculiar reliefs appear on long hair, which looks very beautiful and unusual. To achieve this effect is best obtained with the help of bright colors.

• Marble staining unlike embossed, it involves the choice of only natural shades, the main one being darker and the auxiliary one being lighter. Due to this method, the hair looks healthy and shiny, as if playing in the light.

• Pixel Staining make any hairstyle bright. With the help of special technology in the final version, a clear geometric pattern is formed on the hair, for which, of course, brighter colors are suitable.

This year dictates its fashionable colors and techniques in coloring. And any girl - blonde, brunette or brown-haired - will find suitable options for herself. Winter is the best time to get acquainted with new trends and begin the transformation, as spring is just around the corner.

• Stylish haircut design, the right color and unusual coloring will make any girl noticeable and bright, which you definitely can’t pass by. Hairstyle is an important component of the look, almost the main one. When choosing a color, you need to remember this.

• In the coming year, half-forgotten black with blue as well as purple tint will again take its leading position. And brunettes can safely use it. And dark tones will also be relevant - chocolate, rich cherry. But they should not be pronounced, but noticeable under certain lighting and sunlight. Then the hair will look alive and natural.

• Among chestnut shades can be distinguished cinnamon and caramel. For redheads will be characteristic dark copper, ginger, saturated bronze.

• For blondes comes true expanse. Bright blond is in fashion, but without the presence of yellowness, and a variety of shades will help to avoid this. The effect of gray hair is also not in fashion. Blondes can choose almost any shade of their choice, but among the fashionable at the moment - pink, purple, pearl, light gray, cream soda. Any of these shades will make blonde hair beautiful, but such a coloring should be trusted only by a professional.

• Coloring using many well-known techniques will remain relevant this year. So, at the peak of popularity there will be a balayazh, which will allow girls with blond hair with the help of the professionalism of the master to add volume to the hair due to the emphasis on individual strands.

• In any highlighting, a very fashionable shade of cream soda will be used. In combination with other shades - dark and light, he will create a very beautiful picture on the head of hair. The only thing to keep in mind is that all of them should smoothly transition into each other and combine with each other. The purpose of this coloring is to achieve the most natural effect.

• The season trend for dark hair is light bursts, which gives a feeling of a beautiful overflow that resembles a tiger eye. For such splashes for brunettes, honey, caramel, chocolate are well suited.

• For courageous girls, original solutions will be suitable, which will be especially popular. These include, for example, screen staining. It looks especially advantageous on a straight square.It can be leopard spots, graphic lines, and even whole pictures. It all depends on the skill and imagination of the hairdresser.

• Pixel coloring also continues to be in fashion. A bright contrasting pattern on the hair will attract attention and will look original. In this type of staining, one should not be afraid of bright colors. On the contrary, you can safely experiment with any rainbow colors.

• Another new direction is contrast bangs. This option looks appropriate only if the bangs are pronounced, straight, with a flat or oblique cut. And also separate contrasting locks in hair are pertinent.

It is better to dye your hair in the salon, but you can carry out this procedure at home. Of course, this will not be staining using sophisticated techniques and current trends. But you can refresh the color, color the roots or individual strands yourself. In the best case scenario, it is desirable that there is an assistant, because it is very difficult to cover all the areas itself, and it may well happen that there will be unpainted places.

Henna is diluted with water, all recommendations and proportions are indicated on the package, and the mixture is evenly applied to the hair. It is always best to start from the root zone. If the roots have grown, first apply the mixture to them, and after ten minutes, distribute the composition along the entire length of the hair. The composition is kept on the head from half an hour to an hour, depending on what shade you need to get. Then wash off, apply balm on the hair.

As for the use of paints, everything is more complicated here. Before you make painting at home, you need to decide on the color. This is a very important point. It can be very different from the color that is present in the picture, it all depends on the original shade.

At hand, you always need to have protective gloves, a cape, a brush, a spatula for mixing the composition, a hairbrush, hair clips and any cream. If highlighting is planned, then a foil is required, which must be prepared in advance, dividing it into leaflets.

Before the procedure, the skin along the hairline must be treated with a cream so that the paint does not get on the skin.

Before starting the process itself, the hair needs to be combed well, divided into four parts (back of the head, crown, side parts), and all secured with hair clips. Then release one part, divide into thin strands, apply a coloring composition, moving from the roots to the tips. It is advisable to work quickly so that the shade is uniform. After the paint is applied, you need to leave the composition for the time indicated on the package.

After the set time has elapsed, the hair should be washed well, apply a color fixer, if it is in the kit. If not, you can add a couple of tablespoons of vinegar to the water and rinse your hair with this solution. Then apply the balm. Dyed hair requires special care to make it look vibrant and shiny. Regular use of balms and masks will help with this.

Sometimes after dyeing at home, situations arise when the hair does not appear at all the shade that was expected. This may be unwanted greens, and red, and yellowness. Do not panic. In most cases this can be fixed.

The red or yellowness can be removed in two ways. The first one is to repeat the staining after a few days.This will make the hair even a few tones lighter. If the effect is still not the same, tinted balms and shampoos will come to the rescue. Usually in the picture of such funds there is a gray or purple color. It should be applied to the hair, spread evenly with a comb along the entire length, hold from ten minutes to half an hour. It all depends on which shade you need to get.

With greenery, the situation is more complicated. And light shades of tinted shampoos may not help. If the greens could not be brought down, you will have to dye your hair in a darker shade, it will definitely help to remove it. Or go to the hairdresser, there they will help you choose the best option to get rid of the unwanted shade.

Consider several options for the original staining in our photo gallery.

• Here is an interesting combination gives pixel coloring. Looks on straight long hair very effectively, and you can choose any shade. In these cases, on dark hair, blue and original yellow look very beautiful. Moreover, this type of staining has no restrictions. You can choose the most daring solutions, or you can create a more relaxed everyday option, as in this case. It looks very interesting, stylish, but suitable for any situation.

• Grunge technique is suitable for the bold and decisive. Although the shades may be different. And you can look extravagant and defiant, or you can just be unusual. There are no strict canons in this technique. And you can choose the color of both individual strands and entire sections. Transitions can be sharp and smooth.

• It looks so natural and beautiful ombre. Particularly advantageous with the use of this technique is long hair, which can be both smooth and straight, and wavy. And the shades for the transition are also selected depending on your own desire.

• A real work of art on your hair can happen when screen staining. It can be absolutely any pattern or pattern with a choice of all kinds of shades, both rainbow and bright, as well as calm and natural. But the technique requires the hand of a master to make it look perfect and really beautiful.

Specialist advice on choosing a hair dye and dyeing at home, see the video.