The subtleties of coloring dark hair

Women, by nature, always strive for novelty, like to try new things and experiment with their appearance. Especially when it comes to hair color, because today it is as easy as changing it. There are so many dyes, hair care products and other hairdressing products that every girl can choose something to her taste and under her hair. It remains only to find out what subtleties need to be considered when choosing how to dye hair. Specifically, in this article we will tell you what is more suitable for owners of dark hair.

Brunettes and brown-haired women themselves are attractive and interesting, for good reason, many men prefer burning women to all other women. However, dark-haired women themselves often want to diversify their appearance, because they consider it somewhat boring. At the same time get the desired color is not so easy. Coloring curls of dark shades has many nuances that are worth knowing.

Today, there is a huge selection of different coloring techniques: highlighting, brondirovanie, balayazh, shatush, ombre. In this case, every now and then there are new fashionable chips that you want to try on your hair. Some are more suitable for long curls or medium length, others for short ones. We will find out which of them can be successfully beaten on dark hair and how to achieve the best results.

Despite the fact that the main criterion in this issue are taste preferences, every woman wants to know how her wishes will be easy to implement. We learn which colors are easier to recreate on dark hair, and which ones should be treated with caution.

First of all, consider natural dyes. Today, they do not enjoy the same popularity, but they give the hair not only a new shade, but also a healthy shine, since they do not require bleaching. These include:

• ground coffee;
• Basma;
• strong tea;
• Walnut;
• sage.

Consider painting dark hair in a gentle way - tinted. To do this, use a very small percentage of oxidant, which minimally affects the hair. However, the color applied in this way lasts from 2 to 4 weeks. Usually dark hair is tinted with the same shade or slightly darker. This is a good way to return to the hair a rich color if they are burned out in the sun or have faded as a result of adverse environmental effects, stress, lack of vitamins, etc.

For persistent staining, colors that are not too far in the color spectrum are most often recommended. These are chestnut, chocolate, dark cherry, burgundy, etc. They look noble, refreshing and adding a new touch to the woman's appearance, but at the same time maintaining her usual image.

However, in most cases, such changes are few, because the temptation at least once to try yourself in the role of a glamorous blonde or red beast is so great.Especially often dark-haired girls dream of getting a cold shade of blond like platinum.

Painting the curls in a light color for the first time, they need to be clarified with the help of an oxidizing agent. After this procedure, the dye of the selected shade is applied to the hair. If you do everything right, you can count on a decent result, that is, to get those same white curls.

There is a method of gradual coloring, which requires a lot of patience, because in this case, the clarification occurs in stages. In this case, you need to dye your hair several times, each time using a shade a little lighter than the previous one. Taking a step in three shades, you can gradually get closer to what you want to get. As a result, the hair will remain healthy and will not lose its natural shine, as can happen in the case of a normal color in one step.

Today, the usual staining in one color is no longer in the same popularity. They were replaced by trendy chips and every year the number of new trends in hairdressing is steadily increasing. Let us examine the most trendy, as well as the long-time favorite coloring techniques for dark hair.

Technique "airtach" allows you to organically "connect" their and dyed hair. Master creates on the dark hair glare of a different color. They do not just make the hair brighter and more unusual, due to the special method of applying paint over time, the color strands naturally blend with the main hair, so even after regrowth, the hair style has a well-groomed look. This technique is suitable for hair of any length, except very short. Consider it step by step:

• hair from the crown is pre-divided into strands;
• then one of them is taken and lifted at a right angle;
• it is blown with a stream of air to make it a little bit loose;
• "Thinned" strand is painted on the foil and wrapped, in the same way the wizard works with all the hairs of the crown.

All the familiar coloring has many subspecies, but in the conventional sense, this word refers to the hair dyeing in several colors. Here you should not limit yourself at all, since the choice of color is completely free. You can give preference to even the brightest tones, but for this, of course, you have to lighten the curls with an oxidizing agent. In this case, owners of multi-layered haircuts can limit themselves to coloring only the lower layer, and single-layer ones can choose California technique.

Only fashionable gray color is better for them to exclude, in order not to overdo it with pallor. But the “warm” skin tone will be closer to honey, red, nutty, cognac, vanilla, golden hues. Here is one of the methods of this staining.

• Take strands half a centimeter wide and smear with diluted oxidant in the desired proportion, then wrap with foil. Keep the need for about half an hour.
• After the preparation is washed off and the hair is dried, various dyes can be applied. In order not to get lost in colors, it is recommended to sign cups.
• Highlight bleached areas and pin curls with locks. Choose from them one by one, paint it with the desired color and wrap in foil.
• Withstand the dye as long as required in the annotation. Do not forget which strands are dyed before others, so as not to overdo them.

Marble coloring involves the use of two close to each other shades on all hair. Chestnut, chocolate, coffee are great for the basis of this color, and the second tone can be from the red scale and it will be mixed with an oxidizer. The main thing is to avoid too bright colors like violet, since “marble” excludes this. Paint application can be done in different ways: zigzag, darning, veil, etc.

Compared with other painting methods, this is quite sparing. The word itself combines two words - brown and blond, which can be understood as a compromise between two opposite shades. To obtain spectacular results, this technique requires high professionalism of the master. Best of all this painting is suitable for brown-haired and dark-blond - then you do not need to darken your color. Darker hair has to be slightly brightened.

• Two paints are prepared, one of which is a lighter tone and the other is darker than the base.
• Several strands are drawn out (unlike highlighting, you do not need to take them symmetrically).
• After three centimeters from the root, they turn a dark color. In this case, the tips of 5 cm covered with light paint. On bangs and temples are more light accents.
• After the strands are dyed, the master carefully paints the remaining hair with a careful brushstroke. This is the most difficult moment in creating brondirovanie, but it allows you to achieve a natural result.

Reminds the previous technique of booking. It is a mixture of noble and "delicious" colors: chocolate and caramel. Here is how it is performed.

• Choose thin strands of hair in random order.
• Lighten them by indenting a distance of 2 to 4 cm from the roots. The composition is left for about 20 minutes.
• The oxidizer is washed off, after which the bleached hair is chosen with a thin brush and applied to them in a chaotic manner. Wait 30 minutes and wash off.

Ombre became popular earlier than the dancer or shatush, so every girl had heard about it. It assumes that the dye is distributed throughout the hair, rather than in individual strands. Light tone usually falls on the tips to a height of 10 cm or to the cheekbones. The colors of the ends can be different - from blond to cherry.

At its performance the hairdresser applies paint with light cautious strokes. At the same time, colored strands have different degrees of coloring, since the touch of the brush along the length of the hair has different pressure. Thus, the hairstyle looks natural and it seems as if the curls themselves slightly changed color in the sun. Usually, this technique does not take foil, the paint is held just like that or under the film.

The order of execution:

• hair is divided into separate strands, immediately tightening each rubber band;
• all ends of the hair are lightened; to do this, paint is applied on them and a foil is applied on top;
• after about 20 minutes, the master slightly brushes the strands in the direction from the tips upwards, not reaching the top of the head;
• after another same time, these strokes are absorbed, and you can wash your hair.

It is a coloring strands, usually in natural colors. Looks beautiful on the hair, and at the same time does not create an overly contrasting image. Usually, the shade is taken a couple of tones lighter than the base one, and this can be cognac, caramel, coffee with milk, etc.

• The hair is divided into parts and fastened. Of them draw thin strands and comb.
• Vertical strokes are made on them. At the same time, due to combing, the paint touches the curls not only along the entire length, but only slightly.
• After 40 minutes, the paint is washed off.

This is a very extraordinary coloring suitable only for the most creative personages, trying to stand out from the crowd and supporting fashion trends. It is suitable only for owners of smooth straight hair, on which the lines will look clear and expressive. Ideas of drawings can be any, among popular options - geometrical figures, vegetable patterns, leopard spots, feathers, various symbols.

The use of relatively new neon technology will help to make a dark hairstyle truly bright. It lasts not for long, will come down after seven washes, but the spectacular result is worth the money spent. The process of creating such a masterpiece of hairdressing is quite understandable. At first, the necessary strands are clarified with an oxidizing agent, and then a special gel is applied to them, which makes it possible to obtain not just colored, but literally light-emitting curls.

All of the above techniques and types of color have their own versions, which are constantly changing. In order to recreate one of them on your hair, it is better to contact qualified colorists. But if you come to a hairdresser without special skills, then even with all his desire he may not meet your expectations.

Everyone knows that a brunette or even a brown-haired woman will not be able to noticeably change the hair color without lightening. This is done with the help of a special preparation-oxidant, which is kneaded in glass or ceramic dishes.

Ideally, the oxidizer should be of the same manufacturer as the paint itself. So to calculate the desired ratio will be easier and faster, and the result will be more predictable. If these two means belong to different firms, the chemical process can go in an unexpected way, causing the resulting color to be different, and the hair is injured. That's because the composition of drugs from different companies is also somewhat different.

When choosing an oxidizer, the base tone of the hair is taken into account. In the palette of natural shades, dark ones occupy the first six lines, where 1 is blue-black and 6 is dark-brown. So, the oxidizer of 1,5% is intended just for toning and it will not change a hair color. If you take a 3% oxidizer at 3-6 color, then the clarification will occur only one tone, and the first three colors are not recommended at all.

6% oxide is needed for stable coloring, for color highlighting. 9% oxide can not only prepare hair for bright dyeing, but also lighten dark hair. 12% of the oxidizer can light hair with 1 to 4 color, that is, even the darkest. Such a powerful concentrate discolours 5-7 tones and can severely damage the hair structure, so not all masters use it in their work. It is best to dye hair in light colors with a deviation from the base by 4 tones.

So, porous or already tired from the chemical effects of hair will require a lower concentration of oxidant. In general, a professional should prepare formulations for coloring. Each woman's hair is individual, which means that the result is unpredictable in one way or another and only an experienced eye can determine how to change the oxidizer formula.

This information relates to natural hair, but if you apply a brightener to the colored curls, the resulting color can be a very unpleasant surprise.

Recommendations for coloring dark curls are generally the same as for other hair. The main thing, as we wrote above, is to choose the right oxidizer.

1. Coloring starts from the occipital zone, because the reaction takes the longest time on it. Curls at the temples and bangs due to the peculiarities of the structure absorb color very quickly.
2. To obtain a brighter shade, the curls are wrapped in foil, and if your goal is a sun glare effect, which is now very often used in modern techniques, then you need to leave it outdoors.
3. Retreat a little from the roots, so as not to injure the hair follicles. Moreover, now many fashionable types of staining suggest the presence of dark roots.
4. Usually, the paint is kept on the head from half an hour to 45 minutes depending on the condition of the hair or the desired result.

As we have already written, most of the trend dye hair implies at least partial clarification, therefore, day-to-day care for them must be strengthened with restorative procedures.

1. My head immediately after the salon, use a specialized color retainer to neutralize the alkali.
2. Do not neglect the tint means that the master will recommend to you - they will keep the result for a long time.
3. Weekly nourish your hair with a mask with vitamins so that they do not fade and retain shine.
4. Limit thermal effects on curls. Iron and styling leave for special occasions, and if it is possible, then rarely use a hairdryer.
5. Habitual shampoo is really worth replacing shampoo for dyed hair.
6. Like any aggressive effect, staining can lead to more frequent appearance of split ends. Trim them regularly to make your hair look well-groomed.
7. On the beach, hide your hair from the sun under a hat, and in the sea - under a plastic cap - this will help to maintain the rich color for a long time.

It is believed that the technique of "tiger eye" - the choice of goal-oriented successful women who want to show everyone their strength. Barely noticeable cat shades in the hair very elegantly complement this image.

From this example, it can be seen that creative designs really look brighter than anything on black hair. The dark background provides contrast and image clarity, making the hair look like a canvas with a pattern.

Pixie hairstyle is best suited for fashionable creative girls who choose dynamic and conceptual images. Dark clothes and make-up set the overall style, and a bright hairstyle adds personality to it. Despite the original dark hair, the master managed to achieve high-quality and rich hair color at the crown and bangs.

Partial dyeing is a great way to get pearly white curls without spoiling the hair roots. In this photo, the color transition looks contrasting, but not too sharp. Such hairstyles look most impressive with a perm. For a solemn occasion, you can wind curls curling iron, and in everyday life wear straight hair, because black roots still remain in trend.

Thick and beautiful dark hair looks spectacular and shiny, so many barbers discourage their repainting. But if the craving for change turns out to be stronger, then with a competent approach by the master, very impressive results can be achieved.

See how to repaint dark hair in a bright and saturated color in the video below.