In recent years, modern and safe techniques for dyeing hair in a light, but at the same time maximally natural, shade are considered especially demanded. One of them is blonding, with which you can fundamentally change your image. Next, we will tell you what this technique is, to whom it suits and what features it has, as well as get acquainted with useful recommendations from future care specialists for bleached curls.
What it is?
Today, each salon offers a hair-blonding service. This is a special technique of dyeing hair with the most gentle means that allow you to get the purest light shade of blond.
Previously, the word "blonding" was not used, as a rule, such a technique was called simply lightening, but because it is on everyone’s ears. But what then, and even now, lightening involves removing hair from a darker shade to light. With all this, there is a complete discoloration of its own pigment.
Often, such a procedure for staining the ladies is carried out independently at home, using ordinary store paints.
To do this, of course, is extremely undesirable, since such coloring compounds have a very negative effect on the health of the hair. Yes, and get the desired shade with home staining is almost impossible. Usually, after such “procedures”, girls have to overpay in order to correct the result.
Features
Many stylists and hairdressers are confident that at least once in their life, every member of the fair sex dreamed of becoming a passionate blonde. Everyone knows that white hair color makes ladies more feminine, delicate, cute and gracefulbut at what cost does it cost those who were not born fair-haired?
Blondes who regularly dye dark hair have to look after them a lot, because such clarified curls are very thin, they are prone to loss, dullness, brittleness, this list of "troubles" can be continued indefinitely. In addition to expensive salon blondes, ladies also have to purchase expensive care. And therefore, before painting in the noble color of a blonde, a dark-haired girl is recommended to weigh the pros and cons.
It is best to carry out the blonding procedure on blond and light brown hair. On such curls, the easiest way to get the right shade of blond, be it from a warm or cold color scheme.
But for ladies with dark hair, including a brown-haired woman and brunettes, it is almost impossible to get the right tone from the first time staining. In some cases, it may take up to 3 visits to a specialist to obtain the desired shade.
It should be noted that Blonding on dark hair is always a difficult, long-term and expensive procedure., which requires great professionalism of the master. Usually, at the first stage, the natural pigment is not completely washed out and the hair color is “dirty”, but this picture is eliminated at subsequent stages and dyeing sessions.
Blonding red-haired ladies is even more difficult than brunettes, despite modern technology.
Usually, additional means have to be used to maintain the color, otherwise the color is light red or giving out yellowness.
Despite the mass of features, blonding is not contraindicated in dark hair. The main thing is to remember that in the future they need exclusively professional care, which should be carried out regularly not only at home but also in salons. It should be understood that you will have to use not only professional shampoos and conditioners, but also additional tinting agents to maintain a beautiful and radiant shade, as well as to avoid the appearance of yellowness.
Varieties
Today, experts share several basic types of blonding.
Classic blonding can be found in the "menu" of any fashion salon. It involves lightening the hair in just a few tones, without causing much damage to the hair. Discoloration in this case can be done in several ways.
- Using a special coloring powder and hydrogen peroxide in the desired concentration based on the type of hair and its condition (not the most sparing method, but very effective and always relevant);
- Using the finished paint. Fairly safe dyeing, after which the hair probably will not turn into a washcloth. However, such coloring is suitable only for fair-haired girls and brown-haired women. For very dark hair, as well as red hair, this method is not used.
There is also a radical blonding. As the name implies, it involves the complete discoloration of the hair pigment to obtain a pure light shade.
Radical blonding is really a very complex and not the most useful staining procedure, especially when it comes to dark hair, because after it you need to restore curls for a very long time.
Next, consider other types of blonding.
Scandinavian
With this dyeing technique, the top of the hair is dyed in a cold shade, and the ends of the hair are dyed dark. This creates a smooth transition between the two shades. As a rule, such an effect is created exclusively due to high-quality tinting agents.
Zigzag
The Ziz-Zag technique allows you to get the original shimmer of shades of blond on the hair. Very similar to shatushim and ombre.
Platformis
This variety with the original name involves staining curls in a clean and shiny platinum shade.
"Laces"
Usually masters use this technique when they need to dye individual strands of hair.
This technique is considered quite safe, moreover, with its help you can get delicate color borders with overflows.
To achieve the result, the master carefully winds the so-called laces, applying a coloring composition to them.
"Strainer"
Most often used to produce playful hair overflows. Usually, several paints or oxidizing agents are used at the same time. A stronger pigment is applied to the roots, and as gentle as possible on the tips.
Staining process
The dyeing process and the necessary equipment are usually selected by the master based on the condition of the hair, their needs and the desired result. The process of dyeing dark hair can take from 1 to 5-6 hours in the salon (depending on the length), and if we talk about several sessions to get out of the dark color, then most likely you will have to come to the master more than once.
Hair is often bleached at home, which is undesirable for a number of reasons that have already been mentioned.
However, if you have the skills to dye your hair and want to experiment at home, We recommend that you consider the following points.
- It is best to choose a coloring agent (coloring composition, oxidizing agent and other components) in a salon or in a professional hairdresser shop. Immediately should take and care for hair after dyeing.
- When buying a finished coloring composition, it is very important to read the instructions in detail before using it, and it is also necessary to conduct a test in advance for an allergic reaction.
- Depending on the initial shade of the hair, you need to correctly calculate the time for clarification. If you buy ordinary paint, then the time is always indicated in the instructions.
- Before the dyeing process, it is very important to prepare everything you need: protective gloves and an unnecessary shoulder towel. Coloring compounds can cause burns on the skin, and it is also very difficult to wash them off. That is why it is highly undesirable to neglect personal safety.
Not very dark shade of hair can be easily lightened at home the first time, but the dark-haired ladies are still recommended to get expert advice, if only in order to choose the right color composition and oxidizing agent for home dyeing.
Care Tips
Blonding is not just dyeing the hair in a new shade, it is their full lightening, and therefore such curls after the procedure require very serious care.
After staining, the pigment will not be washed out, as is the case with dark dyes, since it will be clarified, but this does not at all preclude the appearance of yellowness on fair hair.
Following the procedure, the following is recommended.
- Trim the tips regularly and stain overgrown roots.
- To restore curls, you should use a special shampoo for colored hair, balm (or conditioner), as well as a mask for damaged and colored hair. It is possible that the use of special oils that restore the damaged hair structure. Shampoos are recommended sulfate-free and with keratin.
- The use of tinted shampoos is shown in agreement with the master.
- Hair dryers, curling irons and irons should be used as rarely as possible. And if there is a constant need for them, then it is very important to use thermal protection beforehand.
- According to the recommendations of specialists, you can drink vitamins and other bioactive food additives. You should not appoint them yourself, because they do not always restore curls and accelerate their growth.
- Various wraps and nourishing masks from professional rulers are perfect for care.It is also recommended that you do some other care programs that allow you to restore the beauty of even bleached hair as soon as possible.
Blonding today is a completely affordable method of dyeing hair, but do not chase low prices in salons. If you value your hair, it is best to entrust them to a professional in their field.
How is blonding done on dark hair at home, see below.