Change hair color allows you to change the image in a matter of hours. Today, coloring has stepped far ahead. Thanks to professional products, dyeing your hair at home is easy and fast. Palettes offer hundreds of shades for every taste. Modern techniques involve both classic dyeing of the entire hair web, and something new: ombre, shatush, degrade. In order to get a quality result, you should familiarize yourself with the basic rules of color.
Initial hair condition
In order for the result of the dyeing procedure to please, it is important to assess the condition of the hair:
- If the ends are dry and split, you need to cut them. The pigment will still not be absorbed into the destroyed cuticle, so you should part with damaged hair without regret. If you regularly use qualityammonia-free dyes - the tips will not deteriorate, it will be possible to grow long and beautiful hair.
- If previously permanent products were used to achieve a blue-black or dark chestnut color, then it will be very difficult to achieve a blond or light brown. You will have to perform a decapitation procedure (washing out the old pigment from the cuticle using a clarifying powder) or an acid wash (washing out the pigment with an acid and neutralizer).
- How to dye your hair at home with paint so that it remains bright and shiny? If before dyeing the condition of the hair left much to be desired: they were dry, hard and split, then even the most expensive and high-quality paint can lie in stripes. So, you need to bring your hair to a decent condition - then the result of dyeing will please you.
Varieties of hair dye
All dyes can be conditionally divided into three groups:
- Mass-market - these are the products that we see on the shelves of stores selling household chemicals. These are "Garnier", "Pallet", "Siess", "Loreal", "Irida", "Gamma", "Fara". The main disadvantage of these funds is the rather high content of ammonia. The kit comes with an oxidizing agent, the concentration of which has already been chosen by the manufacturer. Most often it is 6% or 9%. And a mixture with a high content of ammonia, and even with a highly concentrated oxidant, is certain death to hair. Most often in girls who once a monththey dye their hair with mass-market dyes, the hair is in a terrible state: dry, sparse, brittle and split ends.
- Professional dyes can be purchased at specialized shops for hairdressers. There you can get acquainted with the palette and consult with a consultant about choosing the concentration of the oxidizing agent with which you will have to mix the cream paint. How to dye your hair at home with paint that is bought in a specialized store? It is not difficult at all: even a beginner can carry out the procedure.
- Dyes based on vegetable raw materials: basma, henna, usma. They give the most unpredictable result, since only immediately after use can one conclude how the hair of a particular girl will react to the effects of herbal ingredients.
We dye our hair at home
Photos of hairstyles and luxurious hair from magazines beckon with the opportunity to look the same as on them. Hair is the hallmark of any girl. Even having the most ideal facial features, but at the same time sparse and ugly hair, the girl will not be considered a recognized beauty.
If we dye our hair at home, then we must be aware of what result we want to get. What depth of tone level is the shade expected to be, will it be a warm or cold undertone? Coloring will be classic - over the entire surface of the hair - or maybe just the tips. Based on this information, you should choose a dye, oxidizing agent, aftercare products and proceed to action.
Mass market dyes: how to choose the best one for yourself
Today, the chemical industry allows you to purchase a fairly high-quality dye at a relatively low cost. When choosing a mass-market dye, it is important to pay attention to the inscriptions on the box: if the dye is persistent, then it probably has a lot of ammonia. If it is ammonia-free, then the durability will be about a month, but the hair will remain in decent condition and will look very well-groomed.
Among the products for coloring the mass market category, the tint shampoo "Tonic" is very popular. In the people it is simply called "tonic". It allows you to achieve bright colors that are completely washed out of the hair after a month. How to dye your hair with tonic at home? It's very simple: put on protective gloves (the tonic strongly eats into the skin and it will not be easy to wash it off), moisten the hair with water, then apply the "Tonic" like a regular shampoo, lather and leave for half an hour.
If we dye our hair at home, then we must try not to splash the walls of the bathroom with drops of Tonic. It will be very difficult to wash them, and in some cases even impossible. After half an hour, rinse your hair thoroughly and enjoy your new temporary shade.
How to choose a professional dye
If tinting is required, then you definitely need to choose an ammonia-free product. For example, "Matrix Color Sink" gives a bright desired shade, while the composition contains laminating components. As a result, after dyeing the hairlook he althy, shiny and well-groomed.
The "De Luxe" dye from the domestic company "Estel" is also good. It also does not contain ammonia and allows you to admire the rich color and shine after the dyeing procedure.
Ammonia-free dye from "Capus" with protein in the composition of "Magic Keratin" is also good.
If you need a persistent permanent dye, then you should look at the means of "Igora", "Estelle Essex", "Capus Professional". How to dye gray hair at home? Most often, tinting and ammonia-free dyes do not eat into gray hair, as it is very hard. There is no choice here: you will have to use ammonia permanent dye with an oxidizing agent of 3% or 6%.
How to dye short hair at home? This is much easier to do than in the case of long and thick hair. It is enough to mix the dye and oxidant in the right proportion and apply to the hair, then rinse after 30-40 minutes.
How to choose an oxidizing agent so as not to burn your hair
If we dye our hair at home, then buying cream paint alone will not be enough. In order for a chemical reaction to start, an oxidizing agent is also needed. It comes in various concentrations: 3, 6, 9, 12%. The smaller it is, the more carefully the procedure will take place in relation to the hair structure.
If you just need toning - just use an oxidizing agent with a concentration of 3%. If we are talking about clarification, then you will have to use 9%. Again, depending on the condition of the hair, you can take 6% (if they were not previously dyed and naturally thin, weak).
Using plant-based dyes
How to dye your hair with basma at home? There is nothing complicated here: we buy a box with dry chopped basma in a household chemicals store or on the market. We steam it with boiling water, let it cool and infuse. On pre-washed hair, apply as abundantly as possible - not a single section of the hair should remain untreated. Then you need to wrap your head with a plastic bag and a warm scarf, leave for an hour and rinse with shampoo. The result is rich dark hair.
How to dye your hair with henna at home? The principle is the same as with basma: pour chopped henna with boiling water, let it cool and infuse. Apply a thick layer on the surface of the hair, insulate. After an hour and a half, wash off with shampoo. The result - the hair becomes a rich cognac shade.
Hair lightening at home
Every fifth girl dreams of being a blonde. But achieving a beautiful blonde at home is very difficult.
To do this, the hair must first be lightened. To do this, you can use a powder or cream-clarifier. They should be mixed with a 3% oxidizing agent: it is better to carry out several lightening procedures, but at the same time not damage the hair structure, than to achieve white straw on the head by 9% at a time.
How to dye hair roots at homeconditions? When blonde hair grows back, dark roots look messy. Therefore, blondes monthly lighten only the roots with powder or cream, without affecting the rest of the light part of the hair. After the procedure, the entire hair should be protonated to even out the shade.
Hair toning after lightening
How to achieve a beautiful blonde? The secret is in proper toning. It is after him that the hair acquires a silver or pearl hue. You should choose an ammonia-free professional tinting agent.
For example, "Capus Magic Keratin" 10.1 or 9.1 (ash blond), "Estelle De Luxe" 10.1 also allows you to achieve a silver hair color without damaging their structure. Some blondes buy exclusively tinting products from Mazhirel - yes, they are more expensive (about a thousand rubles for a 60 ml tube), but the result after them is luxurious.
The tinting procedure is similar to regular coloring - mix cream paint with an oxidizing agent and apply to the entire hair, dividing the hair into strands so that the dye gets on each hair.
How to avoid yellowness after blonding
In order for the shade to please the hostess for a long time and not turn yellow, you need to use special care products. Here is a list of inexpensive and high quality:
- Estel Prima Blonde - a mask that contains purple pigments to maintainsilvery cold shade of blonde.
- Kapous Professional Blond Bar - mask with anti-yellow effect and healing oils in the composition.
- Indola Blond Addict - A professional mask for bleached hair that has become dry and thin.
How to do an ombre at home
How to dye the ends of your hair at home? For several years now, the ombre technique has been in fashion. At home, this coloring can be done in this way:
- Determine how many centimeters from the tips the girl wants to lighten. Apply powder diluted with an oxidizing agent to this distance. Make sure that the application border is not clear, but slightly smeared: this is necessary for the effect of a smooth transition. In hairdressers, masters even lightly comb the section of hair where there will be a transition from dark to light.
- After half an hour, wash off the clarifier and apply a tinting agent to the tips. leave for 40-50 minutes.
- After the time, wash off, use a nourishing mask with an anti-yellow effect. Ombre looks spectacular on wavy, curly hair - you will have to regularly make curls with a curling iron or hair straightener.
Shatush-style coloring at home
This is another coloring technique that is fashionable today. The clarifier is not applied to the tips, but with strokes in a chaotic manner. The result is the effect of sun-bleached hair. At home, such staining can only be done if you have some experience - otherwise you will get an unsatisfactory result.
Apply the clarifier in such a way thatso that it does not create clear boundaries with the rest of the mass of hair. Glare should imperceptibly flow into one another. If ombre or highlighting is relatively simple and at home, then shatush requires skill.
Caring for color-treated hair
Even after using gentle coloring products, the hair is in a damaged state. To rehabilitate them, quality care is required. It is not enough to use just shampoo and balm - you need masks, concentrates, heat-protective serums and creams. Here is a list of effective and relatively inexpensive remedies:
- Indola Professional mask for colored hair Color Care Innova (cost - about five hundred rubles per 200 ml jar).
- Kapous restructuring mask with Magic Keratin keratin (cost - 470 rubles for a 500 ml jar, contains proteins to restore hair structure).
- Estel Curex Therapy - intensive regenerating mask for colored hair, the cost of a can of 500 ml is 580 rubles.
- Brelil Numero Curl mask with olive oil for colored, dry, brittle hair, cost 1100 rubles for a jar of 1000 ml.
- Matrix Biolage Hydrasource deeply moisturizing mask, ideal for color-treated, dry and damaged hair, cost - 600 rubles per 200 ml.
You should choose one or two suitable products for yourself and use them regularly. We must not forget about serums and hair serums in the form of a spray - they will help maintain the he alth of the tips previously dyedhair.
