Features of the procedure highlighting gray hair

With age, the appearance of gray hair becomes an irreversible process, but not all are silver strands, so women try to hide them. One of the most popular ways is highlighting. This painting and looks modern, and allows a woman to look a few years younger.

Most women remain quite calm at the sight of the first gray hairs, while others try to hide them, changing shade, using a bright highlights. When compared to full dark staining, this is more attractive option, because when the roots grow, they are not so noticeable on the general background.

This procedure has its own peculiarities, since gray hair does not have a coloring pigment, and it is not so easy to paint them. The density of this hair is larger, it completely changes the structure, it becomes rigid, coloring composition penetrates harder, therefore, paints are used special.

Moreover, gray hair can only be clipped on the condition that their total number in relation to the rest is not more than 40%, since only in this variant it is possible to harmoniously hide gray hair. Despite the fact that a woman needs to carry out regular correction, her frequency will be much less. With the usual melirovanie already after a month, it is necessary to adjust the regrown roots, and in this case, you can re-register your appointment with the hairdresser after three or even four monthsIt all depends on the intensity of hair growth.

The advantage of highlighting is that hair exposed to minimal chemical attack. It is possible to use the technique both for mature ladies and for young girls, who, due to their individual characteristics, have gray hair that appears much earlier. The procedure is available for curls of any length. If interesting tints appear, the hair will additionally acquire visual volume and look well-groomed.

For most women, when mentioning highlighting, there are no questions about what to do, because the technique is simply associated with the clarification of individual strands. In fact, there are several options for how hair can be dyed according to this method.

• "Salt and pepper". This color implies a very smooth transition from light gray to black. This technique is ideal for women who have more than 40% gray hair. Actually, it is the only one, if we talk about highlighting. Between the stylish strands of natural gray becomes completely invisible, this method can also be used by girls who have locks colored ashy blond.

• Classic. This technique helps to mask gray hair well, but it should be a bit. The hair is evenly dyed over the entire head, while the masters are experimenting with the width and frequency of the strands. If gray hair is evenly distributed, then it is worth using frequent highlighting in small curls.

• With edging. This technique is rarely found, its main feature is the selection of the hair zone around the face. Edging is stained with the desired shade, the rest of the hair is highlighted.

When choosing a shade for highlighting gray hair, it is very important to take into account the color type of a woman, that is, a combination of skin, eye and hair color. The easiest way to do staining on short haircutIt takes less time and costs are not as significant. However, the procedure is also available for ladies with long hair.

Well paint over gray curls fashion shades of golden palette, but for ladies whose hair is thin, you need to remember that in their case the pigment penetrates more strongly, so the color can be brighter than expected. Dim and faded platinum and pearl from cold shades will look, and all because the painting pigment is absent. In appearance, such hair is very similar to gray.

Girls who have brown hair and pale milky skin should opt for highlighting ash chestnut or ash brown. When natural hair is even darker, for example, black, and eyes are brown, then the shade of blue with a blue tint would be an ideal option for highlighting, but in no case should you choose a color with a red tint.

Quality painting can be done at home alone, if you show patience and buy everything you need. Such highlighting looks no worse, just follow the technology and follow the recommendations of experts. Before the procedure hair can not be washedthey must be dirty in order for natural fat to become a natural defense against chemical attack. Often lightening hair requires preliminary leaching, especially if the transition is from natural dark hair.

Highlighting can be done in several ways.

• With a hat. One of the most successful methods of how to quickly and simply make hair dyeing strands at home. Some for some reason consider it obsolete, however, it is ideal for short hair. From the girl you will need to remove the strands all over the head through the holes, and it is them that will be necessary to highlight. Pull curls with a simple crochet hook.

• Foil. One of the most popular ways to make highlights on gray hair. When using this technique does not interfere with the review, you can evenly apply paint, and you can see how long to paint. The composition does not spread and does not fall on the scalp.

• Comb. Paint over the curls using a comb with rare teeth, but in no case should it be metallic. The technique can be used for hair of any length. The composition is applied over the hair, on the parting, and so in several layers, if necessary.

• Hands This is a technique used for curly curls to emphasize volume.

The process of making and applying paint is also worth special attention. You need to act in the following sequence.

1. First, prepare a mixture of clarifier in a plastic bowl.. It is strictly forbidden to use metal utensils and other accessories for painting, as this material reacts with an oxidizing agent.The girl should strictly follow the manufacturer's instructions on the ratio of powder and oxidizer. If cream paint is used, then it is immediately ready for use.
2. To protect handsput on gloves.
3. Share hair into four or more pieces, depending on the thickness of the curls. If a lot of hair is divided into several sections, so that the mixture can be evenly applied over the entire surface.
4. Quickly painted over each strand up and toward the growth line. The composition is applied evenly. They start working from the back of the head, because in this area there is the most of all natural pigment, and it takes more time to lighten the curls.
5. Cover the head polyethylene and a towel to keep the heat needed for the reaction.
6. Withstand brightener you need from 30 minutes to an hour, it is better to check the strands, how well they dyed.
7. The paint is washed off, wash your hair with shampoo and apply balm.
8. When undesirable yellowness You can additionally protonate the hair. To do this, use special shampoos with a purple hue.

there is few mistakeswhich allow girls when self-highlighting:

• the appearance of an orange tint;
• using the wrong tone;
• the paint leaked and white spots appeared on the hair;
• wrong mixed proportions;
• too much time the paint was on the hair;
• strands were distributed incorrectly;
• uneven overlay on strands.

If the hair has become dull and badly damaged due to the wrong ratio of powder and oxidizer or the girl has overworked the paint, then correcting the condition of the curls will help lamination. The procedure is carried out in the cabin with special tools, it helps to remove breakage, smooths out sharp transitions, removes the split ends. If the staining was too frequent, and the result was not the effect that was expected, then it will help back highlighting. The specialist first finds a tone that is as close as possible to the girl's natural hair color, then makes a complete repainting.

Another, the most common problem of women with dark hair - appearance of orange curls after highlighting. This is because such natural strands contain a lot of pigment, and it is not so easy to whiten it.

The girl in this case should choose professional formulations, not use low-grade products, hoping to save. Best to buy nOroshkovy brightener with 9% oxidant and withstand the composition on the head for 45 minutes, after which to protonate the hair with a cold shade, it will help to neutralize the unpleasant color.

Can be used Apple vinegarto wash off the yellow hair. It is applied not in a concentrated form, but diluted with water, three spoons of coconut oil and a few drops of violet food coloring. The smell of hair, of course, will be strong. But after several procedures, the curls will get a lighter shade.

After any painting requires care, because the hair has experienced stress. Immediately, it is worth noting that after the first highlighting procedure, then only radical correction is done, the remaining curls are not touched, since repeated bleaching leads to brittleness, split ends.

Of the other methods of care It is necessary to highlight such nuances:

• Drying and styling takes place without a hairdryer, ironing and curling, as any thermal effect only harms the hair;
• it is not necessary to wash the curls so often, once every four days;
• it is necessary to apply nourishing and moisturizing masks using avocado oil and other plants;
• after each wash it is worth putting balm on the curls;
• if over time there is an undesirable yellowing, you need to regularly tone the curls.

On dark brown hair Perfect highlighting throughout the head. The first strands are taken along the hairline around the face. It is desirable that they are not thin and frequent, but wider and through a larger gap.

Can do staining parallel to the parting on the center of the head. This is a suitable option for women with a lot of white hair that you want to hide. Strands take thin, but with a uniform distribution, the result is simply stunning. Moreover, such a painting for a long time does not require correction, however, it is more suitable for women with light brown hair.

If with blond hair ashy blond looks good, then on chestnut shades should be close to wheat. With this combination, the transition is not very striking, it turns out very attractive, especially for medium hair, if you distribute the bleached curls in the direct parting.

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