Strawberry blond: who is he going to and how to get a berry color?

Fashion for pink shades will never pass. A variety of dyes, tinting mixtures allows you to achieve a strawberry color on any type of hair. In this article, we will consider who the pink blond is suitable for, how to choose the right dye, what you should pay attention to. A step-by-step coloring instruction and subsequent care for an incredible attractive color will also be presented.

Strawberry blond refers to cold shades, so it is preferable to wear it for girls with a cold skin color. Owners of a yellowish and olive shade should beware of pinkish hair color, as it is able to visually make the face gray, the skin will appear tired, “inanimate”. Strawberry-colored hair draws attention to the person’s face. If you have rosacea, pimples or have other inflammations and redness on your face, then dyeing your hair in a pinkish tone should be postponed until later.

Berry color can be of various saturations - from flashy, close to fuchsia, to a soft pastel color. The choice of hue saturation also depends on the color type of the girl. “Winter” darlings can safely choose a bright, clean palette; for “summer” girls, watercolor colors of low saturation are more suitable.

The choice of paint is individual. You can use the ready-made kits presented in the mass market segment - these are well-known boxes with paint L'Oreal, Garnier Color, Faberlic - or purchase a professional dye Matrix, Kapous, Wella and others. The second option allows you to independently create a coloring mixture of any shade.

How to choose a color? Whatever paint you purchase, any product is numbered, for example, 9.52 or 10/1. The first digit indicates the level of the depth of tone, where 1 is black and 10 is a very light blond. The second figure is a color nuance, the third is an additional nuance. For example, 1 is ash, 2 is golden, 5 is copper. It turns out that 9.52 is a light blond copper-gold.

Some manufacturers produce products with a letter designation, for example, 7BG, where B is beige (beige), G is gold (golden).

Consider the firm in more detail.

• L'Oreal - France. Ready-made sets for dyeing from L'Oreal have a thick consistency, cope with painting gray hair. The palette is wide, there are many natural shades. In addition to dye, the set contains a caring balm, which has in its composition natural ingredients that help to give the hair softness and additional shine. Strawberry shades are represented by numbers 8.23, 9.23, 822, 8RB, in the form of L'Oreal Paris Colorista Washout balm, a shade of Flamingo.

• Garnier Color - France. The composition of the paint includes caring substances, olive oil, shea butter, avocado. The finished Garnier Color does not have an ammonia flavor. There are no strawberry shades on sale, so the manufacturer advises to lighten or bleach hair with the Garnier Color brightening series, and then use a tinting product.

• Faberlic - Russia, France. The dye is persistent, holds color well, the shade does not fade, it is evenly washed out of the hair. It contains arginine, amla oil. The pinkish color is represented by the number 8.8.

• Londa - Germany. A wide range of professional dyes, there are funds with and without ammonia. All shades cope with shading or graying. The dye is persistent, the color nuance is saturated, the consistency of the products is dense. Tinting dyes are presented in a series of 10.65, 9.65, Londa color 9/96.

• Kapous - Russia. The dye evenly lays down, natural components, such as cocoa butter, have a moisturizing, nourishing effect on the hair structure, reducing the negative impact of the chemical components of the paint. The color is saturated. The palette consists of more than 100 shades. To obtain a pinkish blond, you can use the dye 9.34, 10.2.

• Matrix - France. The company manufactures products for professional use. There are all kinds of dyes. The consistency of the product is thick, the smell is pleasant, light. The palette is represented by a wide selection of shades with a warm direction. Pink colors are exhibited under the name Color Sync Watercolors "Rose Quartz", "Pearl Berry."

• Wella - Germany. The brand represents products for beauty salons. All dyes are thick, with a pronounced floral aroma. The palette is rich, it allows you to create a variety of color nuances. Wella Instamatic Pink Dream paints numbered 10, 20, and Color Fresh Create products in Vintage Blush, Nu-dist Pink colors are suitable for creating a strawberry color.

To achieve a uniform pinkish tint on the hair, remember that any bright, light or saturated color is superimposed only on a light base, that is, it happens dyeing bleached hair level 9-11. You can look at the depth levels of the hair in any palette of professional colors. Such high values ​​are achieved by bleaching or lightening the hair. It is advisable to give this work to professional hairdressers.

If the base is ready and there is a desire to become a strawberry blonde, then you should purchase special tinted paints, balms or shampoos. What is the difference?

A pinkish color is obtained by mixing two colors - red and purple. Special diluents are often added to this mixture to lower the color saturation level. Or mixton is used - a pigment in its purest form. Mixtons are available in all colors: from yellow to purple.

When dyeing hair, even at home, it is worth remembering that porous hair needs a large amount of coloring mass and a short exposure time (depends on the saturation of the selected shade and the degree of damage to the hair). On average, a manufacturer of professional paints spends 20 minutes on hair tinting. But, It is always worthwhile to carry out a visual inspection of staining.

For short hair and medium length (caret) it takes from 20 to 40 grams of paint, for long hair - from 60 to 100 grams. Any professional product is mixed with a low percentage oxidizing agent. For some firms this is 1.5%, for others - 2.4%. Ammonia (semi-permanent dye) is absent in tinting dyes, which has a beneficial effect on the structure of the hair without causing damage to it. The oxidizing agents themselves have the function of delivering the coloring pigment deep into the hair by opening the cuticle and generating heat, since they include hydrogen peroxide.

After staining, the clarified base must be treated with shampoo for colored hair of the same brand as the selected dye. This is not a whim of the manufacturer, but a technological process. The composition of the shampoo includes substances that help stop and complete the process of dyeing hair, closing the cuticle. All this allows you to extend the durability of the resulting color. Caring ingredients help repair hair damage.

How to create a coloring formula? The formula or recipe is calculated as follows.

Tinting dyes are mixed with an oxidizing agent in a ratio of 1: 2 or 1: 1. For example, we take two shades of 9.9 and 9.3, where 9 is purple and 3 is red.

Recipe: 9.9 + 9.3 + OX in a ratio of 1: 1: 2, in grams you get 20 + 20 + 80 or 20 + 20 + 40 (1: 1: 1).

For the finished color, the recipe will be the following 9.34 + OX in the proportion described above.

Before any staining hair must be prepared for the procedure. A few weeks before the date of hair coloring, it is moisturized with various masks, thick balms. Bleaching / bleaching itself is necessary on dirty hair. The natural layer of sebum helps protect the delicate scalp from the effects of heat and chemical components of products, which helps to avoid skin burns.

Any type of staining is accompanied by an allergy test. A small amount of the coloring product is applied to the inside of the elbow bend for 30 minutes. At the first signs of redness, itching, irritation, rash, the paint is washed off immediately, antihistamines are taken. Hair coloring for people prone to allergies is prohibited. If there are no changes and reactions on the skin, then the paint can be applied to the hair.

Before dyeing hair in a strawberry blond, you need to determine the level of depth of tone of the natural base. If the hair is dark - from 1 to 5 levels - then you will need the help of a supra, she is also a powder for bleaching hair. If the level of depth of tone is within 6–8, then brightening dyes are used here. As we remember hair must be raised to 10 levels of tone.

For girls with levels 6–8, it will be enough to apply a ready-made dye with a chosen pinkish nuance.For dark-haired young ladies, hair coloring ends with tinting the finished base in the selected color.

Do not worry that the pink tint will poorly block the yellowness. As we said before the color of the dye consists of two colors - violet and red. Violet pigment perfectly neutralizes yellowness, so that in the end you will not get a reddish shade of hair.

Before dyeing your hair with a finished product, be sure to read the instructions, since not all firms dye able to lighten hair 6-7 levels of the tone depth to the desired level.

The resulting light base needs to be saturated with pigment, since the hair is empty after the bleaching / bleaching procedure. There should be a lot of tinting mixture, product exposure time according to the instructions, but with visual control. The first time the color is likely to be very saturated, do not be alarmed. With each shampoo, part of the pigment will be washed out of the hair, which will lead to a dull shade and a decrease in its saturation.

Concerning It is recommended to perform toning every week or two, depending on the degree of damage to the hair. It is not recommended to store the finished tinting mixture, since the effect of the paint after mixing with the oxidizing agent lasts only 20 minutes, after which the dye “does not work”.

The most difficult procedure, since red hair differs in the structure and amount of the pigment pheomelanin, which, in turn, is difficult to correct with artificial pigments. Red hair is treated with powder, followed by toning with a mixture containing blue pigment. This work should be entrusted. professional hairdresser. On a natural red base, it is impossible to achieve a pastel strawberry hue.

Step-by-step instructions for dyeing hair using an example of a natural base with a brightening paint.

• First, select the desired dye, for example, 9.23 from L'Oreal. The work will be done on natural hair of 7 levels of tone.
• All hair is collected at the crown, the body is covered with a drape or an old towel so that the dye does not get on clothes.
• Hair coloring will occur from the back of the head. For convenience, four sections can be distinguished: parting from ear to ear and from forehead to nape.
• Ready dye is diluted as indicated in the instructions.
• The dye is applied over the entire length of the hair of the occipital zone, departing from the roots 1–2 cm. All subsequent sections are processed in the same way.
• Further, it is necessary to distribute the dye along the hair roots, also starting from the occipital zone. The dye is distributed so as to achieve a uniform color. The back of the head and the length of the hair are “cold”, they need more time and heat to penetrate the artificial pigment into the hair structure. The “hot” zone is the roots; in this area, chemical reactions proceed most quickly.
• After the staining of the last area, the time specified by the manufacturer is recorded - from 30 to 45 minutes.
• When the aging time ends, the hair must be washed with shampoo for colored hair until the water becomes clear, then use a balm, a mask.

Subsequent care is reduced to maintaining the shade and strengthening the hair. To update the strawberry blond is applied the same tinting mixture that was used for the first time, tint balms, tonics, mousses or special shampoos for cold shades. It is allowed to add to caring masks, balms, shampoos a small amount of pink mixton - less than 1 gram per full capacity of the product. Thus, you can create your own tinted product.

Once a month, secondary staining is performed, that is, staining of the root zone of the hair. It is advisable to carry out this procedure on the same day so that the color on the regrown base is uniform, without stripes.

If you often use a hairdryer, we recommend purchasing a heat-protective cream or spray for straightening / curling hair. Dyed hair is particularly sensitive to high temperatures, they need additional protection.

It is not recommended to rinse dyed hair with chamomile and other infusions on natural components, as well as apply water with vinegar. All of these tools can distort color and lead to subsequent difficulties in tinting the finished base.

Changing the color of natural hair into creative and fashionable shades is a fascinating thing. Strawberry blond is able to give girls a "cold" color type freshness, mystery. Try yourself in experiments - if there is a fear that the color scheme may not work or that you can’t cope with coloring, then you will always be helped out by a hairdresser.

About how to dye your hair in a strawberry blond, see the video below.