Today, the beauty industry is gaining momentum, and this concerns not only skin care and make-up procedures, but also hairdressing. Each season, stylists offer their clients a variety of services, not only inventing new techniques, but also improving old ones. One of the interesting types of hair coloring is ombre. Especially lucky in this regard, girls and women with dark blond hair.
What it is?
Ombre is a hair coloring in order to give them the appearance of slightly burned out in the sun. This solution allows you to visually adjust the shape of the face and rejuvenate it. Translated from French, the word ombre means “shadow”, and this name is the best suited for this technique. Usually on the roots, the hair is darker, and below - a few tones lighter. This allows the locks beautifully shimmer and play highlights in the sun. A feature of the ombra is also a different technology of coloring - for example, the transition between the curls may be almost invisible to the eye, and may have a clear, clear border.
Coloring ombre has several advantages, we consider them in more detail.
- Ombre will suit both a young girl and a mature, and even an elderly woman. In this complexion, style of clothing or life does not matter.
- In the arsenal of stylists there will always be hundreds of shades, any of which the owner of blond hair can choose.
- With this technology, the hair does not suffer, especially if you paint only their ends.
- Ombre does not require frequent and immediate corrections, the hairdresser will have to appear only once a quarter.
- If the coloring did not give the desired result, the ends of the hair can simply be cut off, thus returning to the proven style.
- Ombre will allow effectively, but without cardinal actions, change the style and image. In addition, after such coloring dim brown hair gain brightness and shine.
With so many advantages, the ombre has its drawbacks.
- If you have too weak, thin curls, especially with split ends, the procedure should be delayed by engaging in hair treatment.
- On too short hair to make such a coloring, too, will not work, it just gets lost and will remain invisible to others.
- The price in a good cabin will be quite high. In addition, not every master will be able to make a decent coloring, because the procedure is complicated if you make an ombre along the entire length.
- If you choose ombre, you will have to carefully select the shades. The wrong shade can completely ruin the hairstyle.
Varieties
There are several types of ombra, which are well suited for ladies with dark blond hair.
Classic
Classic ombre is designed to provide burnout effect to curls. In this technology, as a rule, 1-2 colors are used, and the borders should be smooth, blurred. This ombre looks very natural, suitable for girls with any type of face and long hair. However, it looks especially beautiful on long strands.
Multitonal
This type of ombra is also very well suited for long hair, as well as locks of medium length. There are pronounced color transitions, but the master selects a shade similar to the girl's hair color. The finished result looks natural and beautiful.
Bitonal
A sharp or bitonal ombre is an option for girls who want to change their hairstyle “on a grand scale”. In this technique, there is a clear border, which creates the appearance of regrown hair.
Vintage
In some ways, this variety is similar to the classics, but in this case, more attention is paid not to the tips, but to the roots. They are artificially darkened, making a harmonious color transition. This technique is suitable for hair of any length, including short. Looks very nice on a four of a kind hairstyles.
Color
On dark blond hair, colored ombre looks most impressive. Here you can choose the tone, not only close to the color of hair, but also colors, they are not unusual: pink, blue, purple. The scope for experimentation is open, so stylists recommend combining several bright tones. This allows you to get an unexpected, but interesting result.
Separately, it should be said about the ombre on hair with bangs. In many cases, the wizard does not touch the bangs at all, especially when it comes to short hair. But if the hair is long or medium length, dyeing the bangs allows you to further improve the image. For example, you can paint several tips in warm colors, or take one bright shade and make “feathers”.
How to choose a shade?
Girls who have color type "winter", perfect shades that emphasize the "coldness" of the image. This may be silver, ash-gray colors. In addition, restrained colors visually lengthen the hair and refresh the skin of the face. Even the "winter" ladies can recommend a colored ombra in pink, purple, dark purple.
Girl spring" will be able to radically change their appearance, if you pay attention to the warm, cozy tone. It can be caramel, honey, light chocolate colors. But the cold colors should be avoided, because the pale and unhealthy skin tone will be provided.
Concerning "Summer" color type, here almost all shades will do. Both cold and warm tones will look extraordinary. The colors of baked milk, light red, pale pink will help to rejuvenate your face. For more extreme options, girls can prefer bright orange, red, blue.
"Autumn" girls all warm shades of autumn will be enjoyed. This is a rich orange, burgundy, light and dark brown, coral, honey.
Staining procedure
Of course, for such staining as ombra, it is best to turn to a good master. He will not only help you find the right shade, but he will do everything at the highest level, so that you will definitely be satisfied with the result. Nevertheless, there are situations when there is no time to go to the salon, all the seats are occupied, there is not enough money, or you just want to try your hand yourself. For this case, there is a step by step instruction that will help to implement the desired staining.
- Wash your head before dyeing, since ombre dyeing is better when the hair is a little dirty. However, the curls have a little wet.
- Make a middle parting in the middle, and divide the hair into two equal parts, tie it with rubber bands.
- Both parts nasheshite, so that the curls become fluffy. Then take a brush for painting and apply on each part a previously diluted paint.
- Once this stage is completed, wrap the strands with foil and hold for half an hour.
- After removing the foil, wash off the paint and evaluate the result. Then you will need to continue coloring, now we start not from the bottom, but 4 cm above the last painting. We act in the same way, again wrapped in foil and wait ten minutes.
- After the time, the foil must be removed, wash off the composition and again, like the first time, paint over the ends. We wait 10 minutes, wash off everything.
- The last stage is shampooing. Wash your hair well using shampoo and conditioner. Now it remains only to wait for them to dry.
Subtleties of care
Ombre staining on dark blond hair implies compulsory and careful care for curls. Let's get acquainted with the rules proposed by stylists.
- A few weeks after dyeing it is recommended to use tinted tonics. They will help you to keep the color and vibrant shine of the curls.
- From time to time, use a mask, and every time after washing use a balm. Useful components in these products will nourish the hair, provide them with vitamins and make them stronger.
- Put oil on the tips of the strands, it will help prevent the ends of the cross section and give them softness.
- In the summer, protect your hair from prolonged exposure to the sun. Try to wear bandages or caps.
- Limit the use of a hair dryer and curling, and if you still have to use them, be sure to apply thermal protection compounds.
Ombre on dark blond hair is shown in the video below.