Silvery hair is not just fashionable, it is trendy. Such a paradox: women try to hide natural gray hair, and the result obtained through coloring looks spectacular and original. Silver tints are a source of inspiration for stylists and hairdressers. Artificial gray hair is worn by both very young girls and ladies "in the years." Being both achromatic and bright, such a color creates an image of how elegant, so extraordinary. A woman with hair, painted in a shade of silver, always stands out from many others.
Such an unusual hair color requires special and thorough care, which will require a large amount of energy and resources from you. Strands tinted in cold silver very quickly lose their spectacular appearance if you do not follow the rules for caring for them.
Features of tinting
In nature, rich silver curls are not found. In order not to turn into a woman of advanced years after staining, it is necessary to carry out the procedure with a highly qualified master. Toning hair in silver is one of the most difficult, as the result can be unpredictable. The silver tone is insidious - it can turn into a dark or too light shade during the coloring process. Therefore, before deciding to stain, you should analyze whether this tone is suitable for your face, eye color, skin tone. Equally important is the combination with the style in which you dress, whether the silver in the hair fits harmoniously into your image.
Today, there are many applications and programs with which you can "try on" different haircuts, hairstyles and shades of hair. Tip: for the “fitting”, choose not the photo that has a lot of retouching and you look a little like yourself, but where you are as natural as possible. Then getting into the color and shape of the haircut will be the best, because you will have to coexist peacefully with your new hair, not only in photographs passed through the application filters, but 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.
What to paint?
Silver color will turn out only on previously clarified locks. First, the hair is lightened, and then tinted in the desired shade. To get a perfectly even tone, the hair should be absolutely healthy. If the hair is overdried, damaged, broken, subjected to repeated dyeing, it is better to treat them a little, and only then dye it. Ideally, everything damaged and cut should be cut, and the remaining length should be clarified and tinted.
Believe me, short hair of an even gray shade with a healthy shine will look much better than a long "washcloth", even if the desired silver tone.
Since tinting in silver should be done in perfect proportion, it is better not to do it yourself or with the help of a friend. A competent master in the salon, working with professional products for coloring and care, will do it for you as you need. After all, by mixing the paint in the wrong amount or proportions, you can get an undesirable green tint in your locks.
Hair that is planned to lighten and tint in silver should not be dyed. If paint is present on the strands, you will have to do a wash, and only then lighten. Otherwise, the nuances of the resulting shades can be very different - from yellowness to greenery, which are easier to cut than paint over. Of course, naturally blondes who want to achieve a silver tint in their hair are much easier - they do not need preliminary clarification, so their hair will suffer less than others. Brunettes, however, may require not only preliminary blonding, but also tinting with means that relieve the appearance of unpleasant yellowness in the hair.
Modern tools in the arsenal of the master colorist allow you to achieve a 3D effect in strands. To do this, you need to use not one, but three or more shades of the same color (gray in the situation under discussion). Then each movement of the head will give the hair additional volume due to the play of color in the colored strands. Brunettes who want to join the fashion trend of “silver” in their hair can try the no less relevant technology of partial dyeing. For example, highlighting in a shade of gray hair. It will require long strands, which will alternate in shades of "salt and pepper." This technique is best suited for women who have black hair by nature.
The shuttles technique imitates the burning out of individual curls. The application of tone occurs selectively, haphazardly. A pure silver tone is rarely used for a shatusha, more often a light brown or ashy tone is used. Thanks to this technique, the hair looks much more voluminous, lush. And because of the randomness of the application, updating the staining is quite rare - every 2-3 months.
Another technique for partial dyeing is ombre — this technique is sometimes referred to as “stretching” the color. When using ombre, the shade of the hair roots is very different from the shade at the ends. At the same time, the transition from dark to light is not sharp, but smooth. The most spectacular ombre on medium-long and long hair (while straight). Silver is beautifully combined with tones such as strawberries, lavender, turquoise, giving an original and fashionable result. If you adhere to the classics in hair coloring, silver tones are best combined with dark blond or mother of pearl.
Silver hair care
Dyeing the strands in silver is one step, and maintaining them in their original form is a more difficult task.You should not neglect the advice of a master colorist - if you have already entrusted your head to him and got the result, then he will best tell you how to save and fix it. Recommended products should be purchased with a ruler - shampoo, balm, mask, serum. It is in the complex that they work most effectively, moisturizing, protecting, and also tinting hair.
Do not use tools from improvised materials on tinted strands. - sour cream, mustard, burdock oil, onions, garlic and other products. The result that such a mask on silver hair can give is unpredictable. Therefore, care should be carried out only with the help of professional cosmetics for colored hair, otherwise yellowness may appear. If you use a hair dryer, tongs, or hair rollers, first apply hair protection products. In late spring and summer, when the sun is most active, additional protection is needed. For this, balms and masks with a UV filter are suitable - they will prevent the burnout of tinted strands.
When choosing a silver shade for hair coloring, it is important to understand that such a non-trivial decision will oblige you to much. For example, to the daily styling of your hair. Lack of hair will instantly turn you into an untidy woman of advanced age. The only category that can afford the combination of gray hair and careless bunches on the head is very young girls. The rest need styling.
Silver goes well with smooth haircuts such as square or page. On similarly colored strands, weaving looks great - the more complex, the more interesting. No less spectacular artificial gray hair looks in the hairstyle "Hollywood wave" or "Chicago."
See how to get silver hair color in the next video.
