Hair is an important “accessory” for both women and men. Their color, structure, length, shape and grooming can say a lot about the owner. Since ancient times, special attention has been paid to hair.
A bit about coloring
For many modern people, the hair care system is limited to washing and combing, someone adds nourishing and moisturizing procedures and, of course, dyeing, others cherish their natural color and look at the tubes with chemistry warily.
To experiment with hair color, modern girls begin at the age of 13-14. First, colored crayons are used, tinting shampoos, and then full-fledged permanent paint.
You might think that it’s difficult to dye your hair with a finished substance? There are women in Russian villages who solved this problem very easily: they mixed the components in a bowl, put a bowl on their heads, and then combed their hair. Done!
Someone approaches the dyeing process too responsibly: having prepared the space and the necessary containers, he starts painting, carefully enveloping each hair. A lot of time is spent on such scrupulous actions, and instead of saturated color, they get a crossed dull look.
Hair coloring is a delicate matter
How to dye hair at home, every girl knows who had to bail out a friend or make a "marafet" on her head. But in many nuances, we often make mistakes.
Do not get dirty all around!
Do not forget to protect clothes and space from possible contamination. It is better to use a cloak or to put on old clothes.
We use ceramics, plastic or wood
Do not mix paint in a metal container or metal object. All tools at hand should be either from natural materials such as wood or ceramics, or from cheaper plastic analogues.
Do not forget about cream and gloves
The skin along the perimeter of hair growth, as well as the ears and neck, is best lubricated with a greasy cream.
The gloves that usually come with paint are very uncomfortable and complicate the process itself. It is better to pre-purchase rubber or latex medical gloves at the pharmacy.
Remember the warm and cold zones
When staining gray hair, first of all, I want to apply paint to whitish areas. This is usually whiskey, forehead, the area behind the ears. Qualitatively and evenly smearing them with paint, women proceed to the rest of the hair. It is not right. First you need to paint over the crown, and then the hair that grows around the perimeter.
Toothbrush - the last century!
For these procedures, it is better to purchase a special brush, as dyeing the hair with an old toothbrush is not only solid, but also more traumatic for the bulbs. The best option would be a brush with natural bristles.
Letting your hair breathe
Do not cover your head with a plastic bag. Oxygen is needed for the staining process, but a warm room temperature is recommended.
Stick to the rules
You need to keep the substance on the hair exactly as much as is written in the instructions. Chemical dyes have a strict plan of penetration into the hair, therefore, interrupting it, you simply will not allow the scales to close, after which the hair may look unkempt and shaggy, and not more groomed.
After you washed off the dye from your hair, you can not use shampoo.
Moon phases and hair coloring
You can deny or accept this information, but, regardless of our attitude to it, the Moon continues to influence our planet and the human body in particular.
It is noticed that if you cut the hair on the growing moon, they grow back quickly, if on the falling - slower. Some women claim that after a haircut for the old month, they constantly have a headache. Obviously, this concerns more meteo-dependent people, whom, oddly enough, 75%.
Cutting hair is a cardinal method, but what about dyeing? Both dye and cut hair is recommended on the growing moon. So their health and color fastness will be at the highest level.
In everything you need to know the measure. If the hair requires painting before an important event, which is about to take place, it is better not to look at the lunar calendar, but to do it, contrary to all the written rules. Self-hypnosis, as well as self-punishment for non-compliance with canons, is much more harmful to the body than the phase of the moon.
If our grandmothers flipped through calendars or looked directly into the night sky in order to find out the phase of the month, then modern girls ask search engines: when to dye their hair in February, March and April? And you just need to know: if the moon is in the sky, and it is not full, and does not look like the letter C, then you can safely proceed to the painting procedure.
Hair coloring and the female cycle
Many girls wonder: is it possible to dye your hair during these days? Experts say the following: of course you can, because hair is dead matter and the body can no longer affect the ends of the hair, the maximum that it has power is the root zone up to 5 centimeters.
Indeed, during this period, the production of sebum (sebum) increases, and its excess on the roots of the hair may not allow the paint to penetrate properly.
Experts say that such an opinion is nothing more than a rumor. If you trust the hands of an experienced master, he will surely do everything right, but dyeing your hair yourself is not worth it, since these days are characterized by total dissatisfaction and pass at the peak of psychological stress. Perhaps this is the very reason.
Staining during pregnancy
Despite the fact that every few months there are revolutions in the field of hair coloring, and the components of coloring agents become less harmful, many girls still ask themselves: should I dye my hair during pregnancy?
To begin with, ammonia paints are not harmless even to non-pregnant women and often cause allergic reactions and burns of mucous membranes. Resorcinol and nonoxynol contained in the paints are also not very useful, especially for the fetus in the first three months of development, when the child absorbs all the substances like a sponge.
On the other hand, if the thought that the next nine months will have to look like a girl from the village of the 60s of the last century is horrifying, then you need to find a compromise in this situation. During pregnancy, all the beneficial substances from the woman’s body leak, therefore, first of all, hair, nails and teeth suffer. What definitely should not be done is to lighten the strands, especially the roots.
If you need to dye your hair during pregnancy, you can pay attention to the procedure of aqua dyeing, which uses only organic components. The only drawback is the price, since this pleasure is not cheap.
So, you can dye your hair for pregnant women, but you need to use the least aggressive formulations.
Errors in dyeing hair at home
- Test staining should be the rule. The indicated color on the package does not always correspond to reality, and the shade is a delicate matter. In addition, the manufacturer does not know what kind of hair color you originally had, how many stains there were. You need to take an inconspicuous strand on the back of the head and look at the result. If it does not suit you, then painting one strand is much easier than repainting the whole head.
- Do not be lazy to do an allergy test. Who will need your beautiful hair, if the face is swollen, reddened or covered with acne?
- In order not to wipe off the paint from the ears and forehead two days after painting, use a greasy cream (you can use a baby cream) or petroleum jelly. Lubricate the skin around hair growth, ears and neck, so as not to pass for the "colored motley burenka".
- Many have heard that before permanent dyeing, the hair is not washed. Someone takes it too literally, it suffers for several days, or even a whole week. As a result, the curls are covered with such a layer of sebum that the paint in front of it is simply powerless. It is enough to wash your hair a day before the procedure.
- With the last hair wash before dyeing, do not use balm and styling products.
- It is not recommended to keep the paint for longer or less. If there was such a sin, then do not repeat it in the future. The color will not become less or more intense, but the quality of the hair will deteriorate.
- When washing off hair dye, do not use shampoo.
- Dandruff remedies wash pigment most aggressively. Use shampoos marked "for colored hair."
- Paint should be applied to the hair immediately after thorough mixing. It’s not worth waiting for a while for the product to infuse.
- As mentioned above, do not touch the finished mixture with metal objects. Use plastic, ceramic or wood.
Step-by-step instruction
- At the last hair wash before painting, we do not use balm, we also refrain from styling products.
- Choosing the right shade is an important preparation moment. Choose the color that is most similar to your natural. Entrust cardinal change of image and color to professionals.
- Just before washing, choose clothes that are not sorry to stain.
- Lubricate your skin with oily cream or petroleum jelly so that the spots of paint are washed faster.
- Prepare clips, a comb, a ceramic or plastic container, a paint brush, and gloves.
- Squeeze the ingredients into a bowl and mix thoroughly.
- Start applying paint to the hair roots in the crown area, then move to the perimeter, paint over the frontal part well and behind the ears. It will be better if someone helps you.
- At the very end, apply dye to the length of the hair and comb well all the hair.
- Make a bump and fix with a plastic clamp or crab. If the hair is not long, the whole structure will hold on its own.
- Spot 30-40 minutes (as indicated in the instructions).
- Choose a warmer place and brew delicious tea in order to warm your body from the inside.
- After time, rinse the mixture without using shampoo. The kit should have a rinse conditioner, forget about it and do not confuse with shampoo.
- To keep the result lasting, but the color does not fade, use shampoo for colored hair.
How to choose hair dye?
For any person, the best shade of hair is its own natural color. But during the year this indicator can also change: after colds, the hair becomes dull, and in the summer it burns out, which affects the perception of their shade. When choosing a paint yourself, you need to select the color that is most similar to yours.
How to do this if the information on the packaging is not always reliable? Your photo can help you with this issue, where the hair color is revealed most fully, and the palette of hair colors of the brand that you plan to purchase.
If the palette is made of artificial colored loops, then you can attach the ends of your hair and choose a color to match your own (do not forget that the tips are lighter than the roots).
A good way is to give feedback online. Typically, on such sites, girls post photos before and after staining.
You can be advised to focus on your skin color, but the question is not which shade to choose, but how to find it yourself among the abundance of goods on a store shelf, if you have not had such an experience before.
So, if you are blonde and can not choose between two colors, then opt for a lighter shade, if the brown-haired woman is on the darker, if the red-haired woman is on the less bright.
For the first staining, we do not recommend taking a permanent product, it is better to semi-permanent, because after a month it will be washed off, and in case of a miss you will not be tormented for a long time.