How to choose the right hair color?

Fashion for natural hair color did not start yesterday - for more than 5 years, women of different ages have come to the colorist with one request: I want to return my color. At the same time, few choose a short haircut and growing; most clients of beauty salons want everything at once, keep the length and return their color.

At the same time, another part of colorist clients is looking for the shade that will be ideal for them. They try not to miscalculate with color and find, the end, a tone of paint that will make them if not beautiful, then well-groomed ladies. The most common mistake when dyeing hair is to follow your desires without considering the possibilities. Simply put, not all women seriously think about how to choose the right hair color. And there are really a lot of rules in this matter.

Workers in the beauty industry have an axiom: every woman should know her color type. The statement is categorical, but not without reasonable thought. The color type is a reference point in solving issues of appearance. It represents a combination of the natural shade of curls, the color of the iris and the shade of the skin. You can determine your own color type by listing the characteristics of each of the 4 options.

The main association is light shades. The color type implies a narrower division. For example, a bright spring can be recognized by the turquoise, green or tea colors of the iris. They have light chestnut curls with a golden tint or dark, almost black, but with a chestnut or even a reddish tint. The skin is light, ivory or porcelain, with warm undertones.

Spring color ladies should take a closer look at warm or golden hair colors. If you allow a reddish halftone, then the lightest. Sand and soft blond curls also impress with the spring color type. Ideal options for him are copper blond, as well as golden blond, blond with a redhead, and sunny amber. If your option is bright spring, then your choice is: hazelnut, cognac, golden chestnut, light brown.

Despite the name, summer is primarily cooling shades. The color type assumes a white with blueness skin color, soft blond shades of hair and frosty undertones of the eyes.

Variations in color type may be different.

• Bright summer. Eyes - green or light blue, curls - light brown or light with an ashy shade, skin tone - transparent pale pink or light beige.
• Cold summer. This type is easily recognizable by blue or gray eyes, cool light or dark chestnut curls. Light skin with icy beige tones.
• Mild summer. Strands - blond with gold, light brown with gold. The iris is green, blue or tea shade. The skin is pale, with a yellowish or pale peach tone.

This color type corresponds to the warm palette of the image with red-golden accents. On the face of women of this color type are often freckles.

Consider the variations of autumn.

• Dark autumn. It implies deep shades. Eyes - dark emerald or the color of fresh tea leaves, curls - thick brown or dark chestnut, skin - with a golden undertone.
• Warm autumn. Iris with a predominance of green and brown shades, light strands in tonality honey caramel or dark blond with gold. Leather - with warm goldenness, beige or bronze.
• Mild autumn. You can understand it by the presence of blue, gray-green, as well as light hazel eyes or iris light nut. The hair of this subtype is blond with a redhead, wheat blond. The skin is very fair.

This is the coldest color type. And it is the most difficult regarding the selection of paint. It is difficult for such women to get away from their external nuances, because their main difference is the game of contrasts.

There are several winter variations.

• Bright winter. These are blue-eyed ladies with an emerald green iris. Their hair is brown or black, their skin is pale, even white.
• Cold winter. The eyes of the representatives of this group are blue or saturated gray, brown hair or graphite, the skin is pale.
• Dark winter. Black or bright brown eyes, deep hair color (black diamond or dark chestnut), pale skin with an olive tone.

A significant and often decisive step is to accurately determine the initial base of natural color. It is necessary to take into account the gray hair, it will affect the choice of color and color fastness. Girls with natural fair-haired are often repainted in black, since their native color seems to them “mouse”, dull. And to rare fair-haired ladies, really, burning black suits. In appearance, an imbalance is noted. In order for the dark shades to be similar in appearance, you need to change the color of the eyebrows, make-up and even the wardrobe.

Becoming a blonde is not a quick thing. One session can be dispensed with, but for how many hours it will stretch ... And even if a girl with dark hair decided to go into blonde shades of a blonde, she will have to adapt her whole look to new curls. You may have to lighten your eyebrows, change your usual make-up, abandon some things in the wardrobe. Any color transition involves the subsequent maintenance of the paint, and timely color correction. Less painful in this regard is the transition to color, a couple of tones different from the original.

The shape of the face is another fact that also correlates with the choice of the color of curls. Using a centimeter tape, try measuring the distance from the lower point of the chin to the beginning of hair growth at the forehead, and divide the result by 3. Next, measure the distance from the bottom of the chin to the tip of the nose.

Compare the results:

• if the numbers are equal, and your chin can be called round, therefore, the face is rectangular or oval;
• if the first number exceeds the second, then the person is considered elongated;
• if the second number exceeds the first, the face is square or round;
• if the second number is larger, while your chin is pointed, then your face is heart-shaped, and if your chin is wide - it is pear-shaped.

Colors with tints are suitable for an elongated oval face: for example, golden brown and honey blond. Chubby girls often choose a dark color. But still judging only by the shape of the face is incorrect. The color type, preferred makeup - that’s what matters most in choosing a shade. And the shape of the face rather affects the selection of a suitable haircut. Color is sometimes suitable for anyone, but the right haircut makes a round face cute, and unsuccessful - visually increases it. If you go to a professional, he will put everything on the shelves, harmonious with your type of appearance, and narrow down the choice of color to really suitable options.

This question has no strict rules. Consider the following examples: beauty Charlize Theron and no less spectacular Halle Berry For a long time, all other hairstyles preferred a short haircut. They knew that it suits them, even though such a haircut option is always a daring change of image. But it cannot be said that the blonde walked Charlize more than the dark chocolate - Halle. Women belong to different visual types, so the point is not in the haircut, but in the aggregate of external data.

You can only conditionally with a slight stretch of assert that:

• red shades are maximally revealed on long straight hair;
• a caret may require both a radical color (pure blond or pure blueberry), and transitions of shades with imitation of a natural tone;
• pixie used to require a specific bright color, now more and more women with this haircut are returning to natural hair colors (light brown, brown);
• the cascade looks better on blondes and redheads;
• the bean is concise and effective on caramel chocolate, soft graphite and dark blond.

A woman over 40 years old should look towards restrained shades. Bright, burning, fiery colors will only emphasize her age. As a rule, ladies are determined by the color to 35. At this age, they already understand what is right for them and what experiments they need to stay away from. They choose the shades of colors adjacent, close in tone: few decide to radically change the color of their hair, but you can always play with shades - and rightly so.

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Universal advice is not enough, because to say that the dark is aging is too general a statement. If Monica Bellucci and Demi Moore repainted in blond, age would visually increase, but not decrease. But these recognized beauties know that light shades will suit them only as part of an advertisement with good filters and photo editing. Because dye your hair light for a long time and do not try

What women should not do after 40-45 years:

• adhere to the numbers of colors that went to them in their youth (then there were their own ideals, and burgundy and mahogany were considered luxury);
• to maintain a “cheap” hair color - nothing makes a woman so young as beautiful, well-groomed ringlets of deep, saturated color;
• do the usual highlighting for many years, without resorting to current technologies;
• paint over gray hair with henna and basma;
• do not trust professionals - one trip to a colorist can change your appearance like never before.

With age, people become conservative, afraid of changes, believing that they will look ridiculous with youth haircuts. But “youth haircut” is a conditional concept. You can turn an ordinary short haircut into a pixie, grow it to a bean, and this will already be a change.

Classical standards and combinations are swept away by time: Chinese and Kazakh women, Asians and Oriental girls refuse natural dark tones and become platinum blondes, paint curls in ash-blond, creamy pink, copper ... It cannot be said that the appearance of this becomes less bright. It would be more correct to note that such changes do not remain long - over the years, women try to return to the options for the original hair color. But if we are talking about the Asian type of appearance, luxurious natural brunettes can take advantage of the coloristics and give the hair a nice, subtle shade (mocha, diamond blue, black coffee, spicy cherry and others).

The combination of the type of appearance and color of curls has its own laws.

• Full girls often hear that light colors will not suit them. Dark, indeed, visually slim, but if the hair is of sufficient length, and the face retains a nice oval, you can stay in the blond.
• Many women with freckles try to escape from pigmentation, changing the golden natural shades of hair to chestnut or black. And as a rule, such a substitution looks completely unconvincing. Sometimes you need to strengthen and ennoble what you feel shy. If the strands with a redhead, you can dye them in a gentle, even coppery golden tone. Together with the right make-up and well-chosen clothes, you can get an appearance comparable in brightness to Cynthia Dicker.
• Slender, petite girls are more likely to decide on short haircuts a la garzon.So that the hair color is not alien against the background of such an appearance, do not go beyond the boundaries of natural shades. For coloring, select colors that are close to natural, but with a tendency to enhance.
• With age, many women cut their length and try short haircut options. But the same hairstyle can look different if the perfect styling option and good color are found. For example, a pixy with chocolate mocha will look beautiful on a woman 35-40 years old with a toned oval face and an attractive smile. The curls, although short, due to the color, will impress with their volume.

The key role goes to makeup. Any color, even initially suitable for a woman, can fade and seem alien if makeup does not combine with it at all. If you, for example, did a short haircut and dyed your hair light blond, you will have to refuse thick black eyebrows. Bright make-up eyes will leave the evening look. During the day, such girls should follow the even skin tone, a slight blush that does not go beyond the bounds of naturalness, and beautifully designed eyebrows to match the hair. Having picked up such a base, you can do without total makeup with eyeliner, mascara, and lipstick.

Color correction of hair when coloring the master is performed using a spectral circle (or Oswald circle). This circle makes it easier for experts to calculate when mixing shades of paint. The circle contains colors that form other tones when mixed - these are primary shades, they correct unwanted shades when added to the composition.

Mixing rules read:

• only pigments close in shades can be mixed;
• you can not combine paints from different manufacturers in one composition, since the palettes of the developers are different;
• should also take into account the degree of exposure of the coloring composition for hair of different types;
• the amount of the coloring composition on the length of the hair to the shoulders is 1 tube;
• to combine more than 3 paints of one palette, a matter for superprofessionals;
• red and green, violet and yellow, orange and blue tones are not mixed together.

Hair color depends on the proportions of blue, yellow and red shades. When natural pigment is removed from the hair with hydrogen peroxide, a lightening base appears. If you, for example, want to switch from blue-black to brown, a red pigment will appear, it will be masked by color correction.

Colorists have information in the ratio of the type of staining and the proportions of coloring agents. For example, to remove gray hair take 60 ml of paint and 60 ml of oxidizing agent.

The same Oswald circle is divided into 3 basic colors, and 3 secondary colors, it is used to enhance and neutralize the shade. To enhance the color on the circle, you need to take shades from the segment where it is located. To neutralize the tone, you need to diagonal to the side to the opposite segment, and to change the hue, combine colors from neighboring segments.

The rules of colorization are information that the masters know well, and with which the clients are very relatively familiar. But this does not prevent many women from conducting home experiments, trying to refute the axiom that paint does not paint over the paint. Hence the dirty colors, spots and stripes on the hair, the roots differ from the bulk of the hair and other negative results of home dyeing.

Technologists offer more and more advanced formulations, unique cream paints with which you can make good coloring even at home. But still the basic, first color change (if you decide to repaint) makes sense to entrust to a professional. He can give advice on how to maintain color in the future, how to stain the roots at home or saturate the color.

A new hair color, indeed, can change life, but only if it is chosen correctly, and if you are ready to slightly change the usual make-up and wardrobe to please updated curls.

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