Fashionable hair coloring techniques are available everywhere today. You can make a hairstyle like that of a star, or even a similar one, both in a beauty salon in any city in Russia, and on your own at home. One of these innovations is the technique of coloring shatush. What is it, and is it possible to do shatush on blond hair?
Short definition
The shatush technique is a special way of highlighting strands, which achieves the look of sun-bleached hair. To create the effect of the play of the sun in the hair, two or three close light shades are taken, which create barely noticeable overflows. In the shatush technique, the strands are dyed along the entire length, without affecting the roots, which allows you to maintain the effect of the hairstyle for a long time - growing hair is almost invisible.
This technique looks good on dark and long curls, but also works great on blond hair. Photos "before" and "after" on short hair allow you to make sure that here, too, beautifully executed highlighting is in place.
How is shatush different from ombre, balayage and bronding techniques
All these techniques are based on contrasting coloring of the roots and ends of the hair or individual strands, that is, all these are, in fact, highlighting options. However, if you do not know what to prefer, you should figure out how the described method differs from its own kind. Worth a look, and what a shatush looks like on blond hair, photos "before" and "after".
Reviews about this procedure say that this technique is more gentle, unlike, for example, ombre or balayage, in which a large surface of the hair is dyed (all tips are of a decent length). Shatush also looks more natural, as there is no clear transition from one hair color to another.
Also, unlike other techniques, shatush involves the use of ammonia-free gentle dyes. Lightening is not too dramatic, which is suitable for brittle weakened hair and for those who are afraid to spoil their hair with coloring.
Also shatush goes to the owners of blond hair. On them, it will look natural and delicate, without being conspicuous. At the same time, techniques such as ombre and balayazh look best on dark or at least blond hair, and bronding is generally applicable only to dark color.
So if you are a blonde who wants to add some summer sun, air, volume and lightness to your hairstyle, shatush is your choice.
Coloring technology
Before proceeding with the procedure,some preparation is required. Firstly, freshen up the haircut - the split ends will be painted over unevenly and will look bad, besides, it is easier for the master to place accents in the form of highlights on the finished hairstyle. Also carry out basic coloring or toning of the entire mass of hair, if required. To understand if you need pre-toning, look at how shatush looks on blond hair (photo). Short curls, by the way, do not lend themselves well to such coloring, since it is difficult to stretch the color on them. True, we are talking about ultra-short haircuts.
When everything is ready, highlighting can be done. Shatush is usually performed in two techniques:
- With combing strands.
- No fleece.
In fact, the result is the same, but the bouffant allows you to get a guaranteed result - the color will turn out to be stretched and natural. At the same time, the bouffant itself can hardly be considered a sparing procedure, so highly professional masters do without it - they shade the paint using an open highlighting technique, that is, with a hand and a brush on an open strand of hair. However, a predictable result can only be obtained by contacting a specialist who has done this more than once.
So, the coloring starts from the bottom, so the unnecessary mass of hair is pinned up and the remaining curls are divided into strands of 2 centimeters. A cap or foil is not used in this technique. Next, the master combs each strand (or skips this step if heowns the technique of shatush without fleece) and applies paint.
The brightening composition in the salon will be selected individually for you, taking into account the hair color, the desired effect, the shape of the hairstyle, the type and so on. Usually the master takes from two to four close shades to get the most natural result - ashy, golden, pearl, honey, beige tones.
The process of applying paint is also important - it should not be done evenly, but with light strokes, and only on the tips, without going to the hair roots. It is important to use light strokes to get a natural effect.
The dye on the hair should remain from 10 minutes to half an hour, depending on what intensity of lightening you need. After the specified time, the product is washed off and the hair is styled in the usual way.
The advantage of this technique is that coloring takes about 40 minutes, which is quite a bit compared to, for example, regular highlighting.
Shatush for blonde hair at home
Of course, the ideal coloring result is possible only in a good salon and in the hands of a professional master. However, if you are confident in your abilities, you should try to color the shatush at home. The advantage of the technique on blond hair is that the coloring is not cardinal, and mistakes are easy to fix.
For the experiment you will need:
- Several shades of lightening paint.
- Comb.
- Gloves.
- Coloring brush.
By the way, it should be borne in mind that modern paint is not only liquid, but also dry in the form of powder, this is what professional colorists use. You can buy it in specialized hairdressing stores. But you can choose a more affordable option, for example, use the paint brands "Loreal" or "Garnier" - they release a special line for ombre, which can also be used for the shatush technique.
How to choose shades
To choose shades, look at the main color of the hair and the color type of appearance. Based on this, choose the color of future strands for using the shatush technique on blond hair. The "before" and "after" photos presented in the article will also give an idea of the possible result.
Warm golden, honey, wheat shades are more suitable for a "spring" woman. It is better not to use cold tones, especially when coloring at home.
For a woman of the "autumn" color type, light brown shades are well suited, choose colder, inactive tones for strands.
"Winter" - this color type is quite far from blond, but if a lady still wants to be a blonde, she needs only cold tones, so for highlighting, you should choose ash and pearl blonds.
"Fly" is suitable for both warm and cold shades, so the whole palette is possible here. However, if the skin has a blush, then avoid pinkishshades of light. Pale covers are afraid of golden strands.
As a rule, one base color is chosen, that is, the main color, and a couple of close tones are added to it, a little darker and a little lighter. When distributing shades through the hair, usually the lighter ones are placed closer to the face, and the darker ones are left in depth for volume.
Effect on curls of different lengths
Shatush for blonde hair will perfectly complement a haircut of any length, however, each hairstyle may have its own nuances. So, on a short haircut, it is possible to lighten all the ends of the hair, and a fashionable bob with an elongated bang will play in a new way if you lighten mainly the strands on the bangs and around the face. A bob with a straight line will benefit from lightening the tips evenly at the same height.
However, this coloring looks most effective on long hair. An equally advantageous option is a shatush for medium-length blond hair. Photos of such hairstyles make it possible to make sure that the coloring effect is more clearly visible and its different options are possible - from highlighting several strands to staining all the tips. If the color transition is too noticeable (which is more relevant for light brown hair than for light blondes), then style the curls in waves - this will hide the color transition and make the hairstyle more elegant.
Who suits it and who doesn't
Shatush goes to blondes who do not want a radical change of image, but just want to refresh the image, give it lightness and gloss. He is capable of just that - it will give the impression thathair burned out naturally under the hot resort sun. In combination with slightly tanned skin, the effect of a rested fresh appearance is guaranteed.
You should not use shatush for owners of damaged hair with brittle and split ends - the highlighting technique will only aggravate the situation and the effect will be depressing. If you still want to paint, then the curls must first be treated with special masks and cut off the damaged ends.
On gray hair, shatush is done only with 20 or a maximum of 30 percent gray hair, otherwise the result will not live up to expectations.
Tips
Here are a few tips for those who plan to master the shatush technique for blonde hair at home:
- For uniform coloring of all ends, you can collect hair in a high tail, then the risk of touching the roots with paint is minimal.
- After the dye is washed off the curls, they need to be applied with conditioner and combed while they are wet, and only then washed with shampoo. This trick will allow you to more gently comb through hair that has been combed and dyed.
- Do a course of restorative masks before and after dyeing, especially if aggressive dyes with ammonia are used, this is important for owners of blond hair, as they are more porous than dark, which means they suffer more in an aggressive environment.
- If powder is used for coloring, subsequent hair tinting will be required to achieve the best result.
