Now everything natural is very fashionable, including natural shades of hair. Someone does not like the golden pigment that shows through the main tone. Therefore, ash correctors and tint shampoos are in demand, which muffle bright colors. Many grow out previously dyed hair and strive to smooth out a noticeable border. In all these cases, Ash Blonde hair dye will be the salvation.
Natural hair of this shade is extremely rare. Usually there is always a yellowish or orange tint, which is clearly visible in the sun. What's more, color-treated hair loses its vibrancy with each wash, while at the same time showing more and more of an unwanted reddish tint.
However, ash-blond color is loved by many women. It goes well with skin tone, looks noble. Almost always light in childhood, hair in puberty darkens under the influence of hormones and turns into this color. If you stay in the sun for a long time, such hair burns out. It turns out a natural ombre. No wonder this color has so manyfans.
Three shades of the same color
Household dyes usually have a picture that shows three color options depending on the original hair color. If you take shades that are close in gamut, you can see that a similar tone can be achieved not only with the selected paint, but also with two more - one tone lighter and one tone darker. There is no such picture in professional paints, but the principle remains. It should be considered.
A photo of ash-blond hair color clearly demonstrates three main varieties of tone intensity. It is dark, medium and light. All these options can be obtained from three models who dyed their hair with the same paint. The final result will be affected by the original hair color. If it's blonde, like Marilyn Monroe (she's known to have dyed her hair platinum), then you'll get a light version. The brown-haired woman will get a dark blond ashy hair color.
Paints labeled 6.1, 7.1 and 8.1 are the three trendy color options. They can be made by different companies, but professional numbering determines this color very accurately. The discrepancy can only be in the nuances.
What does the marking on professional paint mean
A carton of professional paint is never printed with photos of ash-blond hair or anything else. The international marking will tell the hairdresser-colorist about the characteristics of the paint. Increasingly, it began to be used for household paints, which women tint at home. It is worth analyzing it in more detail.
There are two basic concepts in hair coloring - the level of depth of tone and the number of colors. The first is the tone depth level. To make it clearer, you can imagine a black and white photo and remember how the colors will appear on it. Black will remain black, white will remain white. The rest will take their places in between.
Eumelanin is present in the hair, consisting of red, yellow and blue pigments. It is brown in color, and the depth of tone depends on how much it is in the hair:
- Black.
- Very dark brown, almost black.
- Dark brown.
- Dark chestnut.
- Chestnut.
- Dark blond.
- Medium blond.
- Light blond.
- Blond.
- Light blonde.
If there is one of ten digits on the tube, and the second digit through the dot is 0, then we have a natural series. It matches the natural hair found in nature. The second digit means the main tone, the depth of which is shown by the first digit. The third digit is a subtone, or a complementary shade (it does not always happen):
- Blue-violet.
- Green.
- Gold.
- Copper.
- Red-violet.
- Purple.
- Red-brown.
Video explains how to determine paint color index.
How to make ash-blond out of dark dyed hair: photo
Because the paint is notlightens the paint, you will have to do discoloration (remove artificial and lighten natural pigments). By this procedure, the depth of tone becomes lighter. For example, black hair has a tone depth of 1. You will need to increase it to 6 to get dark ash blonde hair.
During the bleaching process, it may be necessary to repeat the procedure if the result is not immediately obtained. This is done after a few days to save the hair. In this case, intermediate tones are obtained, which are composed of natural destroyed pigments (these are various variants of red and yellow). They are called lightening background.
Backlight lightening
To determine the hair color that will result from a single bleaching with a powder or gel, the following table has been compiled:
| Level depth of tone of the original hair | Background lightening resulting from decapitation |
| 1 | Dark brown |
| 2 | Dark red-brown |
| 3 | Dark red-brown |
| 4 | Red-brown |
| 5 | Red |
| 6 | Red-orange |
| 7 | Orange |
| 8 | Golden |
| 9 | Light yellow |
| 10 | Lemon |
Red pigments are neutralized with a green corrector, and yellow- blue-violet. In this case, it is important not to shift the blue, because it may turn out to be green.
How to get a beautiful pure color
The ash shade is obtained by adding a blue pigment, in the case of correctors it is number 0.11. As can be seen from its color code, this is a basic blue tone enhanced with an additional blue undertone. When coloring, it neutralizes the yellow tint of light brown hair. Therefore, if the natural color of the hair is light brown, it is enough to use a corrector to give it an ashy tint.
If both yellow and red pigment are present in the hair, then the corrector should be used anti-orange, its number is 0.22 (in the "Constant" brand).
Some people use Estel's corrector 0/G (graphite) for this purpose. It is added when staining, make a color bath. Its color is gray, the corrector guarantees a strong shine of the hair. According to reviews, Ash-blond 7.1 paint, when 3 cm of this corrector is added to it, does a great job of neutralizing an undesirable golden hue. If the paint number is different - 6.1, then add 4 cm of corrector.
If the hair was previously dyed, then when washing, there may be areas with a more pronounced yellow tint, and at the ends with orange. In this case, different correctors are used: anti-yellow and anti-orange. If only one of them is used, the hair may appear greenish.
Why it's sometimes better to see a professional
It often happens that the natural color of the hair was blond, then they were dyedseveral times, resulting in a black color. The roots grow light brown, and you need to return to the natural color. If you do a wash, then at the ends you will have to apply it several times.
To ensure that the level of discoloration achieved does not distort the subsequent staining with a red-yellow pigment, the amount of a corrector that neutralizes it is calculated. The master will successfully cope with this.
A master class for such coloring is presented on the video.
How to find the right shade
Popular ash-blond tone produced by many brands. However, it is worth deciding on the terminology, since this is a complex color, and each person may have his own idea of \u200b\u200bit. The nuances are as follows: a little lighter or darker, warmer or colder, more gray or brown, with a pearlescent or platinum sheen.
Besides, everyone's natural hair color is different. The same paint will color differently, so do not rely on an advertising picture. To get exactly the same color as on the palette, you will have to completely discolor the hair (in the palette, synthetic strands are initially white), and only then dye.
Of course, no one will be subjected to such a test. A competent colorist will take into account the pigment in the hair and build a formula for the most suitable color. An expert coach talks about this in the video below.
How to avoid unwanted tint after applying paint
There are natural pigments in the hair, whichgive it a personal touch. These are blue, yellow and red pigments. When stained under the influence of oxide, blue is the first to be destroyed, it is the most unstable. It is followed by red, and lastly by yellow. That is why when stained in ash-blond dark hair, red appears, chestnut - red-orange, blondes - a yellow tint. To remove unwanted tone, you should use proofreaders or paint that contains them.
Hair dye contains artificial pigments. Under the influence of oxide, they polymerize, increasing in volume, and occupy a place in the porous structure of the hair. The color becomes mixed: it consists of natural and synthetic pigments. How to find out which corrector is required in a particular case?
Color Wheel
In coloristics (the science of color) there is a concept of neutralization. This is a process in which, when two tones are mixed, a beige color is obtained. For example, when mixing red and green, you get dark beige, lemon and purple - light beige, orange and blue - medium beige. These laws are represented in every professional palette by Oswald's circle. In it, the color opposite the given one is its neutralizer.
If there is a chance that you will get green after staining, then add a red corrector - for "Estelle" it is 0/55. Or they take paint that includes the number 5 after the fraction. For example, 7/5. But it should be remembered that this is only necessary to neutralize the shade. Therefore, one centimeter is usedcorrector or no more than half the volume of paint.
Brands producing ash-blond tone
You can find many brands that have this color in their palette. Here are some of them:
Estel is a domestic brand that presents this color in four different lines:
- DE LUXE – 8/1, 7/71, 7/41, 7/1, 6/41, 6/1.
- SENSE DE LUXE – 8.1.
- DE LUXE SILVER – 8.31
- ESSEX - 8/1, 7/1, 6/71.
- "Oriflame" - 8.1.
- "Avon" - tone 8.1.
- Fara Classic - tone 528.
- L'Oréal Paris:
- Preférence – 7.1. Iceland.
- Excellence Crème – 8.1.
- Casting Crème
What tone 7.1 goes with, Evelina Khromtchenko will tell. The video shows the original hair color of the model and the one that turns out after applying the Ash Blonde dye.
How to keep brightness after coloring
Over time, even the brightest shades fade. This is due to the washing out of the pigment. To maintain the intensity of the tone, pigment saturation is made using a small percentage of oxygen - 1, 5% or 3%. This procedure is called a color bath. It is done when an unwanted shade begins to appear. For ash-blond paint, this may be yellowness.
Neutralizes yellow color corrector 0.11, which is mixed with shampoo and oxygen in a ratio of 1:1:1. For example, 30 ml in equal parts. This cocktail is applied to wet hair and aged for several minutes, but no more than twenty. Holding time is controlledvisually. Since the mixture is liquid, it is well distributed along the length with your hands. But there is also the other side of the coin - such a composition flows. In the hairdresser, this procedure is done in the sink. Home is more comfortable when showering.
Shampoo makes the mixture not as alkaline as with technological staining or toning. As a result, the pigment does not settle, and the composition is suitable for quick work: no brushes! Technologists came up with a motto for the color bath: “We paint quickly, we keep a little, we wear it for a long time.”
Maintain Color
When the desired color is achieved, further hair care should be considered. When washing, the pigment will be constantly washed out, so it is better to use shampoos that retain color for as long as possible. The use of dandruff shampoos like Nizoral will wash out the color more intensively, since its composition dissolves the pigment.
Do not get carried away with gray tinted shampoos, they will give dirty hair color over time. It is better to perform lamination, in which the hair scales stick together and hold the pigment longer. You can successfully do this procedure at home, taking a neutral corrector for the color bath. Extraordinary shine will be added.
In the sun, most pigments fade, this also applies to ash-blond. Reviews of girls walking in the summer without a hat or umbrella speak of a rapid loss of an ashy hue and a yellowness that has manifested. In addition, the sun dries out the hair very much. They become brittle and dull. There is a UV filterin the form of a spray that will keep the color you like.
Conclusion
In modern conditions, you can get any hair color. Synthetic pigments can penetrate deep into the hair structure. However, they can constantly replenish the amount of pigment that leaves when washing. When hair grows back, you might think about stretching the color, which is achieved with a zero corrector, to smooth out the transition.
The most important thing is constant care. There are many means for this, it's all about choosing the brand you like. Try this trendy ash blonde shade and you will love it.
