Metallic hair color: shades and coloring tips

Metallic on the hair is always new, unexpected, a bit cool and royal aristocratic. Cold steel color and its various shades are universal for any age. But here you will need to adhere to the requirements for skin and eye color necessary to create an organic image.

A feature of metallic hair color is its shine diluted with tints of shades, depending on the chosen tone and degree of lighting. It’s simply impossible to call the radiance of precious metals boring, “mouse”, this is the secret of the popularity of this series. The palette is not limited to silver, gold and, for example, copper color.

Almost all cold tones belong to the metallic gray range, among which:

• metallic silver;
• dark smoky ash;
• silver lavender;
• ash blond;
• pearl;
• melting gray-blue;
• metallic lilac;
• opal with gray;
• platinum;
• ash pink light.

Among the warm tones can be distinguished:

• gold (golden);
• bronze;
• copper;
• pink gold;
• copper pink.

A new fashion trend is the shade of a ghostly blond, which can be created on the hair only by visiting a professional master. The technique provides for tinting and coloring of strands with halftones of cold silver, notes of rainbow quartz and white oyster.

An additional advantage of metal-colored hair is their use as a basis for highlighting individual bright strands in the style of balayazh, during highlighting and in other modern dyeing techniques. So, polyhedral opal glare over a gray or silver background is now considered extremely fashionable.

The eternal task, each time facing a woman, is the choice of the right shade.

Silver, steel and other cold shades of the ash palette are commonly associated with the winter type, which has features such as snow-white, alabaster skin, icy blue, gray or blue eyes. But in fact, the cool metallic color of young girls goes well with golden skin and tan, amber, honey, and even dark brown eyes, making their appearance unusual. At the same time, you can supplement the strands with opal, purple and pinkish highlights, which will make the appearance more vivid.

Nonetheless, such colors are not suitable for brunettes with reddish-brown and dark-skinned skin, as well as for ladies, red-haired by nature, with many freckles. In addition, staining for them will be of a certain complexity.

However, for young ladies with chestnut strands and copper-haired girls there is an opportunity to take advantage of the warm tones of metal. Gold color is perfectly combined with olive and bronze skin, green, brown and blue eyes. A copper-gold tone is also suitable for them. For brown-haired women with chocolate strands, blondes and fair-haired women, a shade of pink gold, especially on dark hair, may be ideal. It is advised to apply after highlighting.

If you want to dye your hair in a gray, steel tone, you need to consider that the natural color should not be too different from what is desired.

Burning brunettes and red-haired women, experts in this area are advised to undergo a professional procedure for bleaching and subsequent staining, so as not to encounter unnecessary yellowness and red in the hair.

Natural brown-haired women and blondes make it easier, but you still have to lighten your hair.

Let's consider some recommendations that will help to achieve a pure silver shade of metal.

• Before dyeing, in 1-2 months, it is necessary to take care of strengthening the hair and carry out procedures for their healing: cold and warm shiny colors are beautiful, but they are unlikely to look beautiful on depleted strands.
• When bleaching and bleaching, it is better to choose paints, in which the concentration of hydrogen peroxide is not more than 10-12%, but it does not make sense to take paints with 6% peroxide - they will not give the desired result.
• Washing of the original color should be carried out on unwashed, dry curls. After clarification, at least several days should pass, and then the necessary tone of the metal can be applied.
• At the end of the procedure, it is important to use a quality balm that neutralizes the harmful composition.

After staining, it is necessary to maintain an ashen, silver color, which is quickly washed off, revealing a yellow tint after itself. Therefore, it will be appropriate to apply special tonics and tint shampoos that preserve color and shine.

For high-quality staining, you can use a series of metal and ash tones from manufacturers such as Palette Perfect Care Color, Londa Professional, Garnier, Schwarzkopf Igora Royal.

It is not necessary to use persistent paints, in some cases, a tinting composition, such as a spray, may be suitable for changing the image Got2b. A similar method is relevant for owners of light and blond hair.

Those who want to achieve a fancy color, it is better to contact the salon, where using modern techniques you can get a stunning metallic hair tone, enriched with unusual highlights and indescribable radiance.

In the next video, you will get acquainted with the technique of dyeing hair in metallic color.