Caramel hair color with highlights looks stylish and unusual. The image is natural, but at the same time modern. Since caramel hair color is now in fashion, dye can be found without difficulty. The article gives tips for achieving a noble shade. If you can't go to the salon, then try highlighting with caramel hair color at home. In the article you will find an accessible algorithm for performing this staining technique.
Is highlighting in fashion today?
Standard highlighting has long been out of fashion, which involves the complete clarification of symmetrically selected strands, followed by tinting them into an ashy blond. Moreover, such highlighting is already "bad form". Evenly and symmetrically bleached stripes on the hair cause a condescending smirk from colorists. At the height of fashion right nowcalled California highlighting, the technique of which involves a chaotic selection of strands and tinting them in two shades at the 7-8th level of tone depth.
Also at the peak of fashion now caramel hair color. Highlighting can be done on top of it, and if the shade of your own hair is light brown or brown, then you can tint the lightened strands into a fashionable shade. The execution technique is quite simple and feasible even at home, if you know the simple rules of color.
Advantages and disadvantages of staining technique
Advantages of this staining technique:
- not noticeable growing roots, as the palette is as close as possible to the native hair color;
- honey and caramel strands visually rejuvenate the face;
- technique involves maximum preservation of hair he alth, because only about 40% of the hair mass is exposed to lightening and toning.
Cons of highlighting with caramel color:
- disharmony of shades is created on dark hair;
- not all color types suit warm shades (which include caramel, honey, and golden tones);
- If the strands need lightening before toning, then the hair can be significantly damaged, it will become brittle and dry without professional care.
Who suits caramel hair color?
In coloring, there are four color types of appearance. Depending on it, hairdressers conclude aboutexpediency of staining in a particular shade:
- Girls of the autumn color type by nature have a slight "redhead" in appearance. Skin tone is olive, freckles are usually present. Sunburn always easily "sticks". The eyes are brown or green, dark gray, but always a warm shade. Copper, golden and caramel hair colors are ideal for girls of this color type. In this case, the paint is selected based on the density and quality of the curls - you can use both permanent and ammonia-free dyes.
- Girls of the winter color type have a contrasting appearance in cold colors. The black color of the iris contrasts with the protein, dark hair with white, porcelain skin. Sunburn "sticks" badly, ultraviolet burns are frequent. Accordingly, the shade of curls for such girls should be chosen cold, without a hint of a redhead. Alas, the copper, golden, honey-caramel hair color will not only not emphasize the dignity of the appearance of people of this color type, but will also make the appearance painful, disharmonious.
- Girls of the spring color type are reminiscent of autumn, but in a more subdued version. There are very few freckles on the skin, but the skin tone is warm. The eyes are light blue, light green. Caramel hair color with highlights or ombre will perfectly complement the appearance of girls of the spring color type. They should avoid dark and cool hair colors.
- Girls of the summer color type can also afford to experiment with a caramel shade. The Californian highlighting technique is optimal for them, in which strands of caramel shade alternate with ashy or sandre. This coloring will fit perfectly into the image: white skin, gray or blue eyes, light eyebrows and hair, as if burnt out in the sun.
Take a simple test, after which you can understand whether your color type is cold or warm. Approach the large mirror wearing snow-white clothes. If the skin tone is yellowish, then the color type is warm, and you can safely experiment with caramel, copper and golden shades of hair. If there is no yellowness and the skin seems perfectly white, then your color type is cold.
Caramel hair color with highlights
This technique for short curls with non-standard shades is done by self-confident young girls who love to be in the spotlight. True, it is worth considering that growing roots are noticeable on short hair, even if the base is as close as possible in shade to the strands. So once a month you will have to visit the salon so that the image always looks stylish and neat.
The optimal length of curls for this coloring technique is just below the shoulders or even the length to the shoulder blades. Highlighting with honey-caramel hair color on long strands laid in large curls looks very stylish and feminine. You can safely experiment with tones and perform highlighting not with one tone, but with several. For example, part of the strands will be caramel, the other part will be golden or copper. If you yourself doubt the chosen color palette, then consult a hairdresser orcolorist before the procedure.
Why should you lighten your hair?
Highlighting in any technique implies preliminary clarification. If the hair was previously dyed with a permanent dye in a dark color, then a washing procedure will be required. This is a rather complicated procedure that requires experience and skill, it will not work at home.
If the natural shade of the hair is light brown or light brown, then you can not lighten it. It is enough just to choose an oxidizing agent with a higher concentration for the dye, and then it will be possible to achieve the desired soft caramel shade. Hair dye should be chosen based on the quality of the hair and the cost of the product.
It doesn't matter if you do highlights or ombre - in most cases, lightening is still necessary.
Which paint to choose - professional or mass market?
All the abundance of dyes on the modern market can be divided into two groups - professional and mass market. Each of these groups, in turn, is divided into permanent (ammonia resistant) and ammonia-free dyes:
- Professional dyes can be purchased at hairdressing stores. In order to choose the desired shade, you must first study the large map - the palette. There, a curl with a color is attached to each dye number, which will be obtained by dyeing or toning (provided that the tone-on-tone base is prepared). Toa professional dye should separately purchase an oxidizing agent with which the coloring composition is mixed.
- Mass-market dyes - those that are in beautiful boxes on the shelves of supermarkets. The kit comes with both a coloring composition and an oxidizing agent for it, and even gloves and a balm. The most popular are Garnier, Pallet, Loreal paint. Only here is the minus that it is impossible to choose the concentration of the oxidizing agent, since the manufacturer has already taken care of this in advance. For people who are ignorant of color, this is a plus, but masters do not like such dyes.
Differences between permanent and ammonia-free dyes
Permanent permanent hair dyes contain ammonia and injure the hair structure quite strongly. But the color is stable. Permanent dyes can be purchased both among professional formulations and among mass market products. As a rule, if there is no ammonia in the composition, the manufacturer emphasizes this fact separately, and the cost of such a product is higher.
Ammonia-free dyes not only do not spoil the hair, but also have caring components in their composition. The disadvantage of such dyes is that the color is washed out rather quickly, and a repeated staining procedure is required. In addition, due to the composition, ammonia-free hair dyes are more expensive than permanent ones.
List of dyes to help achieve caramel color
If you want to achieve beautiful caramel strands, then pay attention to the following tools:
- Garnier - mass market paint,it can be purchased at any supermarket. True, the desired shade is not always available. This could be a problem. In reviews of "Garnier 6.34" (caramel), it is reported that the shade is beautiful and persistent. It is really golden-chocolate, cinnamon, does not give off copper or yellowness. And yet not too dark.
- Dye from "Loreal Casting Cream Gloss" - dye without ammonia in the composition, sold in supermarkets. The composition has everything you need for coloring - cream paint, oxidizing agent, balm with royal jelly for subsequent care. Pay attention to the shade from "Loreal" 724 (caramel). It is a beautiful and noble color without yellowness or redness. Popular.
- Estel Essex - a professional dye from a domestic company. Contains ammonia, but the durability is quite high - up to 4 weeks of shine, as if you dyed your hair just yesterday. Estel Essex dye is quite easy to use. In addition, its cost is low - about 150 rubles per tube. Even at home, you can get caramel hair color with it. What is the paint number for this shade? It is not difficult to find him. Pay attention to the shade 7.8 (caramel), 7.34 (honey golden-copper), 8.3 (golden blond) in the palette.
- Kapous Keratin is an ammonia-free professional dye that adds natural shine to hair and improves its condition. The composition includes keratin, which seals the hollow sections of the hair cuticle and makes the curls look absolutely he althy. The caramel shade is in the palette under the number7.8.
Algorithm for highlighting at home
If the hair has not been previously dyed and not too dark, then you can try highlighting at home:
- Prepare everything you need in advance: cream paint, oxidizing agent, gloves for hands, a comb with a thin sharp tip, pieces of foil measuring 10 by 20 cm. you can't.
- With a thin tail of a comb, separate strands of different sizes in a chaotic manner. You need to start from the back of the head. Apply dye to the separated strands and fix them in foil so that the rest of the hair does not stain.
- Rising from the back of the head to the temples, then to the forehead, go through the entire mass of hair. After all the selected strands have been dyed and wrapped in foil, leave the hair for half an hour.
- Check the degree of staining. If it is satisfactory, then remove the foil and wash your hair with massaging movements, washing off the remnants of the dye.
- After finishing the coloring procedure, apply a restorative mask to the hair. If an ammonia-free caring dye was used, then you can skip this step.
The most common beginner mistakes
Mistakes due to which the result of highlighting at home may be unsatisfactory:
- Wrong concentration of oxidizing agent;
- The time of dye exposure was incorrectly maintained (it was washed off too early or too late, in the secondcase, the hair structure will be overdried and injured);
- hair was previously dyed - in this case, without lightening or washing, the dye simply will not be taken;
- highlighted hair is not properly cared for (in this case, the strands will quickly lose their shine, become dry and lifeless, you will have to cut it short).
This should all be considered.
Aftercare for Highlighted Hair
You should pay great attention to the care of dyed hair. If this is not done, then the color will quickly wash out, the shine will go away, and the strands will become dry and lifeless. Over time, the ends will begin to delaminate and split, and there will be only one way out - a short haircut.
Choose a shampoo for colored hair. Such products have a special acidic ph, so the color does not wash out for a long time. In no case should you use homemade shampoos made from soda or oils. The use of such products will lead to a rapid, almost instantaneous washing out of the pigment from the hair cuticle
- Be sure to use restorative masks after every hair wash. Products containing wheat proteins, collagen and keratin are especially good.
- To care for the tips that suffer the most during highlighting, choose a concentrate. It should be applied after each shampooing to the ends of the hair - this will protect them from delamination and unnecessary injury during styling.
- To those who do styling whenhair dryer or tongs, you should purchase and constantly use thermal protection for hair. high temperatures harm even natural hair, and even dyed and even more so. Using a heat protectant will protect the hair structure from the harmful effects of extremely high styling temperatures, and will also help prolong the radiance of the color.
Following the described tips and recommendations, you will be able to achieve excellent results.
