Blond: choice of shade, painting technique and subsequent care

Blondes have always been popular with the opposite sex. There is something in blond hair that attracts increased attention to their owners. The article will discuss how to choose a shade of blond, what coloring techniques are popular today, and also what should be the subsequent hair care.

If previously it was only possible to bleach hair with hydrogen peroxide, actually burning them, then today's generation of brighteners provides endless possibilities for coloring.

Blond fashion trends change every season. A few years ago, a strawberry shade appeared, instantly gaining crazy popularity. Wine blond, vanilla and smokey blond are gaining momentum.

Staining techniques have also stepped far forward. Now you don’t need to torment your hair with clarifiers of the previous generation, but for those who want to try on blond, but do not agree to total bleaching, there are a lot of ways to partially dye them - shatush, ombre, sombre, armoring and much more.

And if by nature you didn’t get strands of the color of wheat, but you want to have them, it is better to treat them, to nourish with useful substances, and only then go to the colorist. Before staining, it is necessary to consult with the master about the most suitable staining technique for you, perhaps he will advise you to dwell on partial staining.

After clarification, the hair can be tinted in various colors.

therefore should be prepared for the long process of hair restoration after discoloration and thorough care for it throughout the "blonde" period.

Lightening hair has many advantages. That is why so many women choose the “blond” range for their hair.

• Blond hair is young. Due to the play of the sun and a huge number of shades, the blonde distracts attention from facial imperfections.
• The second plus follows from the first: the number of blond tones exceeds 5 dozen, which makes it possible for any woman to choose her own, perfect light shade.
• There is a lot of dyeing techniques in blond - both complete, where all hair is lightened, and partial, where only part of it is discolored. For those who are not ready for the decisive step of complete “wrapping up,” there are many opportunities to change the image by playing with light strands, hair tips, color extensions and many other things.
• Partial lightening techniques give visual volume to hair.

But there are a few drawbacks.

• Lightening makes the hair porous and empty - this is due to the fact that oxidizing agents act very aggressively, removing natural color pigment. But this minus can be leveled, carefully caring for the strands after staining. Partial staining techniques reduce risks by treating only part of the hair with oxidizing agents.
• The need to carefully care for bleached hair from washing with specialized shampoos and ending with the need to avoid direct sunlight.
• Lightening can only be done on healthy hair. If your hair is damaged, dry, brittle, lightening will emphasize and exacerbate all these shortcomings. Therefore, before exposing the strands to lightening, it is necessary to cure them.

The right shade of the blonde can decorate any woman. For example, tones such as beige, caramel, wheat, mocha or honey will suit girls with warm peach or olive skin and bright eyes.

There are in a blonde range and such tones that go to all women, without exception. First of all it golden blond. Taken in a slightly darker or lighter range, it is truly universal.

A huge number of tones that can lighten hair can significantly complicate the final choice. Just look at the stand on which hair dyes are located in any cosmetic store to understand that all the tones are different, there are a lot of them, but you still want to figure it out.

So, the lightest shade of blond is white. There are a lot of tones of white - this is platinum, and gray-haired, and pearls, and Arctic, and ashes. The lighter the shade, the more demanding it is on the face - the skin should be flawless. This applies primarily to the cold gamma of blond. Warm tones, in contrast, hide skin imperfections.

Caramel is an excellent choice for those who are not ready for radical lightening, but want to "try on" the image of a blonde. Dark caramel will give a shade of "chocolate blond", which is present in the lines of many manufacturers of hair colors.

Wheat - a shade ideal for representatives of autumn and spring color types, it looks very natural. The same girls will go so relevant over the past seasons strawberry blond. At the same time warm, comfortable and original, he makes his owner a truly bright and noticeable figure.

Sand is another universal shade of blond, as it consists of cold and warm colors. The darker the girl’s eyes, the darker and “cooler” the tone of “sand” can be. Owners of bright blue or green eyes can add a little more “gold” to the sand.

Beige is a very capricious tone, he strives to give his owner yellow in strands. Therefore, those who still want to wear this rare and beautiful shade of a blonde will have to constantly use means against the appearance of yellow spots.

A dirty blond doesn't mean anything bad. This is a combination of lightened strands with light brown, chestnut, gray and other darker tones.

Mocha is a shade of cold gamut, in it a combination of only coffee and milk blond is permissible. There should be no amber glare in the hair. The hue is quite universal, you just need to choose the right degree of intensity. This tone is sometimes called Belgian chocolate, but chocolate is still darker.

Peach tones, taken in the right proportion, will decorate both a spring woman with a warm appearance and a cold summer color type. Peach is perfect for slightly tanned skin, additionally highlighting it.

The golden blond is truly luxurious. He makes his possessor royally beautiful.

Silver shades are no less beautiful. With light patches of blue, purple, pink, they fill the strands with volume and movement. The owner of such hair will not go unnoticed!

Another universal shade of blond hair can be called delicate and refined creamy. It contains both the coldness of milk and the warmth of the oil, so it is suitable for representatives of all color types.

One of the most popular shades in a couple of recent seasons is vanilla. He is really amazingly handsome, but damn whimsical. Having chosen “total” vanilla staining, you will have to systematically visit your colorist master - at least once a month.

Is rapidly gaining popularity wine blond - a combination of chestnut, pink and pearl shades. Of course, they are not applied to each other, but to different strands, creating a visual volume and a beautiful overall tone of the hair.

The main rule, which is desirable to guide when lightening hair: the final color should not be lighter than your original color by more than 4 tones. So it will look more natural, less damage will be done to the hair, and the growing roots will not look as sharply as with radical lightening.

As for the choice of cold or warm colors, there is a kind test called "silver or gold". Its essence is to try on a set of jewelry from each material one by one and find out which one suits you best.

Regarding the length of the hair, there are no restrictions. You can lighten even the shortest, medium, and infinitely long strands. The same applies to haircuts: pixies, squares, cascades, pages - any of them will look great in blonde.

For the cold gamut, tones without yellowness are characteristic. These are white, and gray, and platinum, and pearl, and pearl, and light blond shades. Today, blondes in cold colors are very popular, but you need to understand that not every woman will beautified. As for the Scandinavian, ice blonde, he will go to a very limited category of girls - with very fair even skin, fair eyes and originally fair hair.

White shades - platinum, pearls, mother of pearl - are suitable for women with a contrasting appearanceAs a rule, these are representatives of the winter color type. All the rest will be lost against the background of bleached strands. In addition, you need to remember that it is cold blond who is most demanding on the quality of your skin: he will emphasize all the defects on the face, all the irregularities of the tone, pimples, wrinkles and spots.

Ashes and all its subtones will decorate the representatives of the summer color type with their seemingly slightly powdered, dusted appearance. Summer women will not be struck by the brightness of contrasts, their eyes are dim, the skin has a gray tint, and even the freckles on their nose are not golden, as is typical for women of the spring color type or autumn young ladies, but grayish-brown, without a redhead.

As for the warm palette of shades of light - vanilla, caramel, strawberry, wheat and many others - they will decorate representatives of such color types as spring and autumn, both in the form of full coloring, and in the form of partial - Ombre, Sombre, Californian blond or balayazha.

The world of bleached strands is huge, and the technique of staining with a blonde is a great many. Let's start with all the known, holding a leading position for a long time.

Ombre - a smooth transition from dark roots to lightened ends. Color should not change dramatically, otherwise it will be an unprofessionally executed ombre. The blonde with dark roots, so popular for many seasons, “collected” the first wave of fame using the ombre technique. Other names for this technique are gradient lightening or degrade.

Sombre - as the name implies, it is a type of ombre, soft-ombre. In sombre, the color changes almost imperceptibly. The effect is achieved due to the fact that most of the hair is not dyed, and the highlighting of arbitrarily taken wide strands occurs by a maximum of one tone.

Balayazh - a technique that spares strands as much as possible when staining. Hair is dyed not along, but across the direction of their growth. The border of the color transition can be clearly marked, and can be perfectly shaded. Looks best on hair below the shoulders and longer.

For bronding, not one or two, but three shades of paint, similar in tone, are chosen. This is how the effect of naturalness, visual volume and color overflows is achieved. For bronzing, a chestnut base and shades of light are used. No other tones are provided, otherwise it will no longer be bronds.

Shatush is a stretch of color that has clearly defined transition lines. No spontaneous smears are used in the crank; each strand is colored the same. This technique looks very impressive, and the longer the hair, the more beautiful it looks.

Nude technique assumes the maximum naturalness of coloring and at the same time invisibility of hair. Hair, as it were, forms a whole with the image, without drawing attention to itself.If the previous grombre technique makes its owner very noticeable precisely thanks to a provocative and bold appearance, then the nude is as neutral and natural as possible. The hair perfectly “falls into” the color type of its owner, making her a truly chic and well-groomed woman.

Flotation it was decided to name the technique in which the hair acquires the necessary "degree" of brightness, but remains at the same time natural. Flamboyage can be made both in blond and in red shades. An undoubted plus of technology - the hair looks thick and healthy.

For strobing technique, it is imperative that the hair “reflects” the light. Performing clarification in this technique requires remarkable skill of a colorist, while there are no clear instructions: each client is considered individually, the choice of blonde tones and the location of the “highlight” is chosen by the master, taking into account the characteristics of the client. With proper accounting of all components, when the sun falls on the colored strands, the effect is simply stunning.

Airtouch - The painting technique that is most in demand today. She has many advantages:

• It can be worn for at least 3 months, and a maximum of one year;
• she has the most smooth transition of shades;
• Looks great on hair of any length and shape;
• performed on any color of hair.

The first technique for partial hair coloring is highlighting. Today it is in demand no less than other methods, however, in combination with other techniques, in particular, tinting strands. Highlighting in itself, especially performed with wide stripes on dark hair, has long gone out of fashion. However, taken in thin locks on naturally blond hair can qualitatively hide the first gray hair.

Babylights - one of the types of highlighting, the peculiarity of which is that not all hair is used for work, but about 1/3. Most of the "working" strands fall on framing the face. For clarification, a special scheme is used, as if the locks burned out in the sun. Lightening occurs no more than 2 tones, not being contrasted with respect to the bulk of the hair.

American blond - Another technique of complex dyeing, in which a set of strands occurs very finely throughout the head. Often the work is performed by two masters, working, as they say, in four hands, and still the procedure takes at least 4 hours, and on long hair it can last 10!

California blond - a very effective technique of blonding, it looks just gorgeous, but because of its complexity it is one of the most expensive.

For venetian highlighting brushing directly through the hair is characteristic. To create the effect of playing the sun in a dark mane, use a warm gamut of shades - from cognac to gold.

3D staining - its principle is the same as for bronding, however, the base tone can be chosen by anyone. The result will be beautiful color modulations and visual hair volume.

For marble staining (in fact, varieties of highlighting) is characterized by the alternation of thin light and dark locks. The name fully reflects the result of staining - the hair is similar to marble. This technique looks more modern on strands that are light from nature - light brown and lighter.

For technology "Tiger's Eye" the use of warm gamma tones is characteristic. This is caramel, and chestnut, and cognac, and copper, and gold. All these tones can be arranged for balayazh and ombre, the main thing is that the result resembles a yellow tiger eye.

Block staining is popular with teenagers. They often do it on their own, painting individual parts of the hair. A widespread combination of color blocks with an asymmetric haircut. Most often, a blond or an unnatural shade is chosen for the “block”: green, blue, pink, ash gray or another.

Technically dyed hair "Pixel"are immediately noticeable: a unique pattern of squares is applied to the strands using a specially lined tablet. There can be one picture, or there can be several, possibly hidden pixel coloring. It all depends on the wishes of the client.

Dimout, nirvana blond or smokey blond - the names of one technique, meaning darkened roots and clarified ends. In addition to the fact that the hair colored in this technique does not require constant correction (with the exception of blondes who do not need to lighten the ends and darken the roots), it also visually corrects the broad face, making it more oval.

Do not confuse this type of staining with the effect of overgrown roots with a simple regrowth of a natural color, for which tinting was not used.

Blyur - a technique in which 2 shades used for tinting hair smoothly transition one into another. Toning occurs on dyed blonde hair, that is, pre-bleached. For the bluer technique, the use of pastel shades, soft.

Lightened hair requires very careful care, because it becomes porous, empty. Without appropriate measures, they lose their luster and look groomed. To avoid this, you need to follow the rules.

• At least two weeks after staining in a cold blond, you must use a special line to care for it (with purple or blue pigment). This will prevent yellowing of the hair.

• After two to three weeks, you can switch to a shampoo for colored hair, but once a week you will have to use a special one.

• It is advisable to dwell on funds from one line. Shampoo is not enough, balm is needed to moisturize hair, mask and serum are needed for nutrition. From a lack of nutrition, the strands can shine unevenly, which, in turn, will create the impression of heterogeneously dyed hair. It is possible that the master who performed the coloring will advise you on the line.

• It is advisable to use a hair mask at least once a week, and preferably twice. Porous bleached hair just needs to receive nutrients in order to recover. It is best to choose a complex action mask that contains the entire spectrum of caring substances - from vegetable oils to proteins, from amino acids to keratin. Using a mask does not eliminate the need for additional nutrition of the ends of the hair with elixirs or serums.

• It is important to remember that the greater the difference between your natural hair tone and the blond obtained, the more fragile your hair becomes. Before taking on a hair dryer or ironer, apply thermal protection to the strands. And it is better to refrain from drying with a hairdryer for some time until the hair recovers after lightening.

• Discolored locks need protection from everything, including sunshine. In the period of strong sun activity, it is necessary to use products with SPF and UV filters. They are found both in shampoos and balms, and in indelible formulations.

• For the first time after lightening your hair, refrain from going to the pool, otherwise your beautiful blonde may turn green.In the future, it is necessary to generously apply oil to the strands, it will protect against the effects of chlorinated water.

• Rinse your head periodically after washing with chamomile infusion. This simple tool perfectly refreshes the color and gives shine.

Many of the listed staining techniques are widely used in domestic beauty salons, and each has its own fan.

According to reviews Smokey blond is the most popular technique today due to the fact that it does not require frequent updates, ombre, shuttle and balayazh - thanks to beautiful transitions of shades, as well as bronding - due to its volumetric effect and natural well-groomed appearance.

On how to choose the perfect shade of blond, see below.