Types of ashy highlights and subtlety staining

The peak of popularity of solid dye gradually fades away, but it is replaced by such techniques of changing hair color as shatush, ombre, balayazh and, of course, highlighting.

Cold tones are now gradually taking up positions, and one of the most fashionable colors is ashes and all sorts of its shades from crystal white to heavy gray with bluish and dark shades.

Ashy highlighting is suitable for girls who want to create a bright image, but do not seek to use flashy colors. This is a choice of elegant women who respect the classics, albeit somewhat modernized.

Ash highlighting is a rather unusual variant of staining. This method involves staining some of the individual strands in a cold silver color, which, if improperly stained, may take the form of early gray hair.

But very harmoniously strands of ashen color will look on girls of the cold type. This is the owner of blond hair, eyes and skin. But we remember that girls of a particular color type in their pure form are very rare. Most often, we meet carriers of a mixed type, so the recommendations for wearing ash highlights will be based on some separate features of the exterior.

Ashy highlights look good on light brown hair, but only if you have very good skin, as any redness, acne and imperfections will only become more noticeable. The same will happen with smoky highlights on black hair.

Gray shades fall on blonde hair very well, but you should turn to a professional for advice if you are very dark-skinned or tan easily. It will also be strange to look bleached smoky blond, if you have dark or bright green eyes.

And in any case, do not try to highlight graphite hue on red hair! They simply do not fit together, and in the end it may turn out to be a rather dirty tone.

Ladies of middle age or slightly older should be careful to choose this type of staining, as the ash color can make you look a few years older than it actually is. But ashen color is well suited to those who look much younger than their age and want to appear more mature and serious. As well as smoky shades mask the early gray hair well, but a lot depends on the colorist and the chosen shade, so it is recommended to consult the master before painting. For example, the shade of “ash blond” will not only emphasize early gray hair, but also create the impression of not the most well-groomed blond.

The main types of highlighting are frequent (it is also frequency - this is the coloring of many small strands) and classical (strands of medium width are colored). The other techniques of highlighting, one way or another, are based on these two, the difference lies only in the number of colors used. Frequent highlighting is suitable for fine hair, because with its help you can give your hair such necessary pomp and volume, as well as visually lift it up from the roots.It looks most natural, since it eliminates abrupt transitions, and creates a natural, smooth gradient.

Ombre - uses two colors that are very close to each other. Often, when ash-colored with an ombre, they stain the tips of the hair.

Zonal (it is partial) - suggests, as the name implies, the selection of some areas on the hair. Often this is a framing of the face, bangs or tips. It is used to give the image of freshness and vitality.

Balayazh. This technique requires the use of several shades at once to create gradual transitions of color from natural hair to melirovannyh.

Cold silver strands will look good on light brown hair, but only with light eyes. And also it would be appropriate to use ash shades on light brown hair and in the presence of very fair skin, without redness, moles and freckles. With this option, you should choose a deep smoky or ashy shades - give up the shining white tones. In the dark gray color, you can add a little pink pigment in order to revive the face and avoid doll coldness. The color of silver goes well with very light skin, pinkish and porcelain, in other cases it is necessary to observe the absence of tan.

Ashy highlighting of black hair will add elegance, and with thin hair that cannot boast of opulence, it will significantly add to the visible volume. To perform such highlighting on black hair should be fair-skinned beauties with bright eyes. This is a portrait of a girl of cold, winter type. Strands of sparkling silver will harmoniously look, which will complement the overall cool look, will give elegance and mystery. Hue "metallic" will add severity and seriousness, will create the image of a resolute and strong-willed lady.

On blond hair, ash highlights look the most advantageous, however, a lot depends on the shade of the blond. Use light silver and ash light shades. In general, the color of strands of any smoky shade - from snow white to wet asphalt - will fall well on blonde hair. For a harmonious image, you only need to take into account your color type, hair length and such features of appearance as freckles or age spots.

For blondes well suited and highlighting option "salt and pepper." A bonus to this will go the fact that if you are dyed blonde, then the ashen color will almost completely kill the yellowness that appears over time on all bleached hair with a golden blond.

Some types of highlighting are calculated on the fact that they will be applied on long hair, respectively, to show a full transition and a play of colors, it may be possible only at a suitable length. Others, on the contrary, are not suitable for stretching the paint pattern for long transitions, and look most advantageously on short hair, which is given volume and lightness.

Ash highlights on a short haircut will give the wearer a style and expressiveness, will add volume to the hair, and in the presence of bright eyes emphasize their color and fill it with saturation. Plus, short hair is the lack of need for constant styling, and with ashen blond light carelessness will only add charm. It is necessary to tint only the growing ends, but they can also be originally beaten in gray tones, which will look very natural.

Both types of highlighting are suitable for a short haircut - both frequency and classical.Wide strands (up to two centimeters) make the hair longer visually, and also help to better reveal the shade of gray.

Medium length provides much more scope for colorist actions. On such curls, you can perform clean highlighting (when only one color is used over the entire surface of the head, without transitions and other shades) and other types.

With clean highlighting, a more strict image is obtained, which emphasizes facial features, gives them expressiveness and clarity of lines.

Another way is highlighting in graphite tones. It uses all shades of graphite from the brightest with a silver shade to dark - the color of a pencil rod.

Well on the locks of medium length looks zonal highlighting. Here a lot depends on the area that you want to paint. For example, when lightening the area near the forehead or cheekbones, the face is more open and refreshed, and the eyes become deeper. Since this method uses several shades to create gradual transitions from a natural to a smoky color, there is an opportunity for a soft selection of bangs (if available).

The highlighting of a bang usually occurs last, when the result of dyeing is already visible, and the master understands how to properly color the bang so that it harmonizes with the rest of the hair. Here one more thing is important - with the wrong selection of highlighting, the bangs can take on a scruffy, sleek look. It is important to choose the size of the strands and the number of shades so that the bangs also look voluminous and thick. Best of all highlighting looks on long bangs or bangs of medium length with a diagonal cut. Dyeing asymmetric bangs is not allowed.

Long hair makes it quite unusual to reveal any type of highlighting. In this case, only those species that do not require the presence of short colored “feathers” are not suitable, since on long hair this will look just spotty and a little ridiculous. All other methods that allow you to stretch the color along the entire length (or for the most part) of the strands will fit well on both medium and long hair.

It will look good alternation of light gray, light ashen and white shades. This will help to fill the image of the bearer with grace and nobility. This alternation will look especially impressive on dark blond and black curls.

A way suitable for long hair is highlighting. Very complex, but interesting in its performance: the whole mass of hair is painted in the chosen shade of ashen, after which the colorist paints the individual strands with natural shades - light brown, chocolate, black coffee and others.

Another original variation of highlighting for long curls - highlighting "salt and pepper." In order for this option to turn out not too complicated for execution, it is necessary to have natural hair of any shade of brown - light brown, dark blonde, chestnut or chocolate.Individual thin strands are painted in a selected shade of a smoky scale, and the remaining strands, which should also turn out to be thin, remain of a natural color.

If you want to make so that only the lower part of the head of hair becomes more prominent, then this is quite allowed, but at the same time, the hair growth zone (root) and the upper part of the head should remain in a natural color, unchanged. Starting from the zone in the back of the head, the highlighting is lowered, gradually becoming more and more light to the tips.

Ashen highlights have a lot of positives, for example, overlapping gray hair and the ability to use a huge number of colors and tint colors, if you suddenly get tired of a gray tint. Even when highlighting in the graphic range, the new color will easily fall on the smoky part, giving you a new image.

See how the highlights are ashy in the video below.