The desire to dye hair in an unusual, interesting and at the same time quite classic shade periodically arises in every girl or woman. If the blond is already tired, and the wheat or sand tones seem too warm, you can go for a bold experiment, and try on ash-gray locks. They look very impressive, emphasize the expressiveness of facial features, guarantee the attention of others. But how to understand: who will go shades of ashen hair? Is it possible to calculate in advance how fashionable and relevant the selected shade will be?
Ash hair color is the choice of those who value their attractiveness and are ready for everyone's attention. But it is worth remembering that locks painted in a similar tone need to be laid and well maintained. Otherwise, “gray hair” staining will simply look messy and add age to its owner. In the article, we consider what other points to consider when planning to purchase a fashionable hairstyle in the color of ashes.
Features
Ash hair color is an incredibly rare phenomenon, which is almost impossible to obtain from nature. But colorists easily solve this problem in their own way, offering a variety of solutions to fans of creative coloring. At the same time, the palette of gray shades is so diverse that it allows you to get both an almost pure blond with a slight silvering, and a dark color close to graphite.
In fact, the ashen tone is a kind of fair-haired, and with proper selection it will look natural on girls and women with different types of appearance.
A number of characteristic features of ashen hair color can be noted.
- Whimsical care.It will not work for a long time to preserve the silver shade of the strands without the help of a professional hairdresser.
- The need for frequent tinting of strands. If your shade is noticeably darker, you will also need lightening.
- The best combination with cold appearance color types. The exception is the owners of the skin in a warm peach tone. Ashen is also suitable for them.
- The need to complement make-up or tattooing. Steel color obliges you to wear a bright make-up, to provide the skin with impeccable purity, uniformity of tone. Any defects and inflammations on the face will be immediately noticeable.
- Universality. Suitable for men and women, allows you to advantageously shade chiseled facial features.
- The ability to make the first gray hair more noble, effectively beat it with the help of proper coloring.
- The need for increased sun protection. The pigment is unstable to UV exposure, quickly collapses.
- The difficulty of getting at home.
Who categorically should not try on all the shades of gray, it is primarily the owners of problem skin, with acne scars, scars, rosacea. If there is a vascular network close by, showing a blush, the combination with the ashy tone of the hair will not be too complimentary. Natural chestnut, wheat, golden hair color can also be considered a relative "contraindication" for changing hair color using ashy gamma products. The incoming yellowness cannot be completely eliminated by staining.
With caution, ash tones should be used for tanned or dark-skinned and brown-eyed women. Puppetry, unnaturalness add shades to their image.
But public persons often see this as an advantage - it is not surprising that it is the stars and VIPs who most often set trends in dyeing hair in gray tones.
Who are the light shades?
Let's consider what kind of girls suits ashen blond and other light shades of this fashionable tone. First of all, it is worth paying attention to the representatives of the summer color type. It is in them that it is found in its natural version and refers to a variety of light blond shade. Ash-mother-of-pearl hair color will suit the girl of the summer color type in the best way. It will emphasize facial features, make them more expressive, will harmoniously combine with the eyes of gray-green, gray-blue, amber colors.
For the summer, you should choose the lightest pearl, opal, pearl shades of ash. Too dark gray will make their appearance even more inexpressive.
The best combination would be with long hair or a soft fancy bob-car without strict geometry and sharp lines. The flowing mother-of-pearl curls that frame the face look good.
Another type of appearance, which goes light shades of ashen - spring. It is characterized by a peach, yellowish skin tone, natural light chestnut hair tone. The eyes of people of this color type have a shade of tea leaves, greens, olives, and in general, their appearance is more vibrant and vibrant.
Here, when choosing a palette of shades of ash, you need to focus on the gray-beige gamut, natural, but quite contrasting.
To this gamut of tones it is customary to include a platinum blonde, who came into fashion with the light hand of the legendary Hollywood actresses. In the case of an ashy shade, it will be slightly more saturated to dampen the yellowness of the clarified hair. This combination looks good on curls and curls. Another color option is natural light brown with a caramel tint. It allows you to adapt a fashionable color scheme to modern life, provides the opportunity to abandon complex styling, emphasize the naturalness of the image.
When choosing light shades of ash, it is worth considering a few more nuances.
- With a pink skin tone Use only shades of blond with a pearly shine.
- Violet color is very moody. Its ashy variety is suitable only for dyeing blond hair, goes to girls like summer.
- Ash pink color can only be obtained by salon staining. A lot of options - from almost purple to delicate smoky.
- Light ash in its pure form is recommended only to owners of skin with a golden matte shade.
- Pearl - universal light tone for all types of appearance. The combination of ash, powder and violet shades gives a lively, soft color without yellowness.
- Grey - light color, allowing you to brighten the appearance of fair-haired girls. It is almost impossible to get on dark or brown hair.
- White nordic with a light haze of ash is ideal for natural blonde with straight hair.
- Golden ash color - one of the few bright colors that go to spring-type girls.
- Ash rose - one of the most complex shades of gray, needs professional colorization.
Who suits dark tones?
Dark ash color will go to a woman adult and mature - many models in the 50+ category easily emphasize their attractiveness with the right combination of shades of gray. The range of colors here should be not only restrained, but also diverse - monochrome coloring will not give the desired volume to the hairstyle that has lost it due to hormonal changes. However, not only mature ladies are ready to try on images in gray tones.
Dark shades of ash, of course, are suitable for girls of the winter color type with their cold appearance, milky china or olive skin. The rich shade of graphite with blue eyes or cold brown goes well with no reddish or caramel.
Here, the ash palette is so large that you can choose options with almost any shimmer: purple, pink, pure gray, black.
Women of the autumn color type can also try on a bright ash tone, but with certain reservations. It definitely will not suit girls with abundant pigmentation on their face, it will look faded in combination with an inexpressive eyebrow line.
In the presence of pale, dull skin with a smooth tone, the experiment is quite possible. That's just predominantly brown-eyed women.
When choosing dark shades of gray-steel color, it is worth considering the recommendations of specialists.
- Saturated silver tint requires a mandatory addition in the form of warm skin, even tone, bright makeup.
- Blue and cyan shades gray suits girls of the winter color type, they require a rather bright drawing of the eyebrow line.
- Dark caramel contains a rich beige subtona, focused on the fall color type.
- Black metallic - The perfect tone for a winter girl with her china skin. Not recommended for use over the age of 30.
- Silver chocolate shade it is found in the palettes of mocha and milk chocolate, it is combined with freckles, a yellowish skin tone, it is especially good in balayazh and crank techniques.
How to choose the right one?
When choosing the optimal ash shade of hair, it is very important to focus not only on fashion trends. It is equally important to consider other factors that affect whether the tone will look harmonious on a particular person. So, it is difficult to adapt gray colors to short haircuts - here they add age, visually unbalance the image.
The minimum recommended length is a square to the chin, with bangs wearing only the lightest colors.
Another important point: the purpose of staining. If you want to play in contrast, you can try a similar coloristic experiment on the appearance of a classic brunette or a bright brown-haired woman. For those whose image does not initially differ in natural brightness, they can use graphical gray to sharpen their facial features. Light colors will soften too large or massive details of the appearance, help to achieve a slight anti-aging effect.
For hair with a yellow, red tint, only dark shades of ash are suitable. This should be taken into account, otherwise, instead of a beautiful cold tone, chaos like pepper and salt will reign on the hair when pinto strands are added.
Despite its complexity, gray tones are quite advantageously combined with all types of appearance. But it is better to entrust the coloring and shade selection to a professional colorist.
See how to get an ashen hair color in the next video.