In the summer you want to look brighter than usual, try something new and creative, and not only in terms of wardrobe. Someone is limited to buying a new dress or lipstick, while someone goes further and radically changes their hair color. Well, if successful. To avoid unnecessary tears, you can try to experiment on your hair wisely and instead of a sharp color change, choose temporary coloring of the strands. Not even paint, but special colored crayons. If you don’t like the end result, you won’t have to walk with an unloved color for a long time - after washing your hair, the coloring pigment will disappear. Hair, despite the numerous horror stories on the Internet, will remain.
What are hair crayons?
It's worth saying right away that these are not the kind of crayons that are sold in the stationery department or art stores. There are craftsmen who dye their hair with them, and then they are indignant that for some reason their hair looks like a washcloth. Indeed, why would it? You don’t dye your hair with felt-tip pens or gouache, so you shouldn’t use art pastels either. Although cheaper, and it seems to be the same. Not at all.
Hair crayons –a special tool designed for coloring strands. They are more evenly applied to the curls, do not crumble, have a softer structure. High-quality products of well-known brands contain vitamin complexes aimed at combating dryness and brittleness.
Pros and cons
Compared to paint, crayons are still less traumatic if they are not used every day. Colored strands can be worn for up to 8 hours, and then the beauty should be washed off with shampoo. To avoid overdrying, immediately after washing your hair, apply a conditioner or a moisturizing mask. Then the effect of bast can be avoided. But here, too, there are some nuances: if the hair is initially dry, you need to think about the possible consequences. Nevertheless, no matter what the manufacturers add to the composition and no matter how they assure him of his humanity, the crayons are very dry. This is an absolute minus.
You should be prepared for the fact that the colored strands in the hair, obtained with the help of crayons, get dirty. Not much, but still.
A definite plus is that you can safely experiment with color: the palettes are large and it is easy to choose the right shade. It is also easy to apply it yourself to the hair and make colored strands of the width, length and intensity that you need.
Types of crayons
Today, there are only two types of crayons on the market: in the form of a pencil and in the form of shadows.
The first ones have a denser structure, are more difficult to apply, but they have a wider palette of shades.
Crayons-shadows have a creamystructure, are easy to apply, but are consumed faster, and the palette of shades, as a rule, is not rich. More expensive than crayons.
If you are interested in which is less harmful to hair, then both options are equivalent.
How to use
Dye your hair with crayons, even the most incompetent will be able to, because this does not require any special skills. All that is required for the procedure, in addition to the crayons themselves, is a towel and latex gloves so as not to stain clothes and hands.
To start, comb your hair and twist the strands selected for coloring into small flagella. This will help to apply the color evenly and avoid weird blotching.
Dye the curls strictly in one direction - from top to bottom.
To fix the color, spray the colored strands with varnish or treat each curling iron or iron set to gentle mode. In order not to overdry your hair, use varnish.
Little coloring tricks
If you want to get a more intense shade, then before applying the crayon to the hair, the curls can be moistened with water. In addition, the intensity of the color depends on how many times you swipe the fine strands, the more - the brighter the result.
On hair suffering from dryness, any shade will turn out brighter due to their porous structure, this should be taken into account. However, if you are not satisfied with the result, then you can comb out the excess chalk with a comb.
In order not to spoil the hair, it is betteruse this coloring no more than 1-2 times a week and choose crayons from well-known manufacturers (Hot Huez, Hair Chalk, for example).
How to flush?
With proper application and fixation, colored strands retain their original appearance from 6 to 10 hours. It is undesirable to wear them longer, as well as to sleep with hair dyed in this way. You can get rid of coloring by simply washing your hair with your regular shampoo. If your hair is blond or has been heavily dyed, it will take several passes for the color to fade completely.
After washing your hair, be sure to use a moisturizing conditioner or mask.
Alternative
What to do if you want to experiment, but your hair is very dry or it's scary to try? You can use an alternative method - colored strands on hairpins. There are a lot of them in online stores, in different lengths and colors. This, of course, is not an option for every day, but it is suitable for a photo shoot or a party. In addition, if you like the result, you can find a good specialist and make colored strand extensions.
