Hair color change allows you to change the image in a matter of hours. Today, color has stepped far forward. Thanks to professional tools, dyeing 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 canvas and something new: ombre, shatush, degrade. In order to get a high-quality result, you should familiarize yourself with the basic rules of colorization.
Initial condition of hair
In order for the result of the staining procedure to please, it is important to assess the condition of the hair:
- If the tips are withered and split, you need to cut them. The pigment still does not absorb into the destroyed cuticle, so you should leave your damaged hair without regret. If you regularly use high-quality ammonia-free dyes, the tips will not deteriorate, it will become possible to grow long and beautiful hair.
- If previously permanent means were used to achieve a blue-black or dark chestnut color, then it will be very difficult to achieve blond or light brown. You will have to perform the decapitation procedure (washing out the old pigment from the cuticle with the help of a clarifying powder) or acid washing off (washing the pigment with the help of acids and a 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 the hair in a decent condition - then the result of dyeing will please.
Varieties of Hair Dye
All dyes can be conditionally divided into three groups:
- The mass market is the means that we see on store shelves selling household chemicals. These are “Garnier”, “Pallet”, “Siesz”, “Loreal”, “Irida”, “Gamma”, “Farah”. The main disadvantage of these funds is a rather high ammonia content. The kit includes an oxidizing agent, the concentration of which has already been pre-selected by the manufacturer. Most often it is 6% or 9%. A mixture with a high ammonia content and even with a highly concentrated oxidant is certain death. Most often, girls who dye their hair once a month with dyes from the mass market have hair in a terrible state: dry, sparse, brittle and split.
- Professional dyes can be purchased in specialized shops for hairdressers. There you can familiarize yourself with the palette and consult with a consultant about the choice of the concentration of the oxidizing agent with which you will have to mix cream paint. How to dye your hair at home with paint that was bought in a specialized store? This is not at all difficult: even a beginner can carry out the procedure.
- Dyes based on plant materials: basma, henna, usma. They give the most unpredictable result, since only immediately after use can we conclude how the hair of a particular girl will react to the effects of plant components.
We dye your hair at home
Photos of hairstyles and luxurious hair from magazines attract the opportunity to look the same as on them. Hair is the calling card of any girl. Even with the most ideal features, but with rare and ugly hair, the girl will not be considered a recognized beauty.
If we dye our hair at home, we must be aware of what result we want to get. What depth of tone level is the shade expected for, will it be warm or cold? 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, means for subsequent care and proceed with actions.
Dyes mass market: how to choose the best for yourself
To date, the chemical industry allows you to purchase a fairly high-quality dye for 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 resistance will be about a month, but the hair will remain in decent condition and will look very well-groomed.
Among the means for coloring the mass market category, the Tonic shampoo is very popular. People call it simply "tonic." It allows you to achieve bright colors that are washed out of your hair a month later. How to dye hair with tonic at home? It is very simple: we put on protective gloves (the tonic eats heavily into the skin and it will not be easy to wash it), moisten the hair with water, then apply the “Tonic” like an ordinary shampoo, foam and leave for half an hour.
If we dye our hair at home, we must try not to splatter the walls of the bathroom with Tonic drops. Washing them will be very difficult, and in some cases completely impossible. After half an hour, thoroughly rinse your hair and enjoy a new temporary shade.
How to choose a professional dye
If tinting is required, then definitely you need to choose an ammonia-free tool. For example, "Matrix Color Sink" gives a bright desired shade, while in the composition there are laminating components. As a result, after dyeing, the hair looks healthy, shiny and well-groomed.
Good is also the dye "De Luxe" from the domestic company Estelle. It also does not contain ammonia and allows you to admire the rich color and brilliance after the staining procedure.
Also good is the ammonia-free dye from Capus with protein in Magic Keratin.
If you need a persistent permanent dye, then it is worth taking a closer look at the means of "Igor", "Estelle Essex", "Kapus 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: it is necessary to use an ammonia permanent dye with an oxidizing agent of 3% or 6%.
How to dye short hair at home? To do this is much simpler than in the case of long and thick hair. It is enough to mix the dye and oxidant in the desired proportion and apply to the hair, then rinse after 30-40 minutes.
How to choose an oxidizing agent so as not to burn hair
If we dye our hair at home, then buying cream cream alone will not be enough. In order for a chemical reaction to begin, an oxidizing agent is also needed. It happens in various concentrations: 3, 6, 9, 12%. The smaller it is, the more careful the procedure will be with respect to the hair structure.
If you just need tinting - just use an oxidizing agent with a concentration of 3%. If we are talking about clarification, then you have to use 9%. Again, depending on the condition of the hair, you can take 6% (if they were previously not colored and naturally thin, weak).
The use of vegetable-based dyes
How to dye basma hair at home? There is nothing complicated here: we purchase a box with dry chopped basma in a household chemical store or on the market. We steam it with boiling water, let it cool and insist. On pre-washed hair, apply as abundantly as possible - not a single section of 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 deep dark hair.
How to dye your hair with henna at home? The principle is the same as with basma: pour boiled water over chopped henna, allow to cool and insist. Apply a thick layer to the surface of the hair, insulate. After an hour and a half, rinse with shampoo. The result - the hair becomes a rich cognac shade.
Lightening hair at home
Every fifth girl dreams of being a blonde. But to achieve a beautiful blonde at home is very difficult.
To do this, the hair must first lighten. To do this, you can use a powder or cream clarifier. They must be mixed with a 3% oxidizing agent: it is better to carry out several clarification procedures, but at the same time not to damage the hair structure, than to achieve white straw on the head at a time by 9%.
How to dye hair roots at home? When the blond hair regrowth, the dark roots look sloppy. Therefore, blondes monthly bleach with powder or cream only the roots, 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 tinting after lightening
How to achieve a beautiful blonde? The secret is in competent toning. It is after him that the hair acquires a silver or pearl shade. You should choose an ammonia-free professional tinting agent.
For example, “Kapus Magic keratin” 10.1 or 9.1 (ashen blond), “Estelle De Lux” 10.1 also allows you to achieve silver color hair, without damaging their structure. Some blondes buy exclusively tinting agents from Majirelle - yes, they are more expensive (about a thousand rubles per tube of 60 ml), but the result after them is luxurious.
The tinting procedure is similar to conventional dyeing - we 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, it is necessary to use special care products. Here is a list of inexpensive and high quality:
- Estel Prima Blonde - mask, which contains purple pigments to maintain a silvery cold shade of blonde.
- Kapous Professional Blond Bar - mask with anti-yellow effect and healing oils in the composition.
- Indola Blond Addict is a professional mask for bleached hair that has become dry and thin.
How to perform ombre at home
How to dye the ends of the hair at home? For several years, ombre techniques have been in fashion. At home, this staining can be done as follows:
- Determine how many centimeters from the ends the girl wants to lighten. Apply powder diluted with oxidizing agent at this distance. Make sure that the application border is not clear, but slightly smeared: this is necessary for the smooth transition effect. In hairdressers, the masters even slightly comb the area of hair on which there will be a transition from dark to light.
- After half an hour, rinse the clarifier and apply a tinting agent on the ends. leave for 40-50 minutes.
- After time to rinse, use a nourishing mask with an anti-yellow effect. Ombre looks spectacular on wavy, curly hair - you will have to regularly make curls using a curling iron or hair straightener.
Shatosh painting at home
This is another fashionable painting technique today. The clarifier is applied not at the tips, but with strokes in a chaotic manner. As a result, the effect of hair burned out in the sun is achieved. At home, such staining can be done only if there is a certain experience - otherwise, an unsatisfactory result will be obtained.
Apply clarifier so that it does not create clear boundaries with the other mass of hair. Glare should flow seamlessly into one another. If ombre or highlighting is relatively simple to perform at home, then shatush requires skill.
Care for dyed hair
Even after using gentle dyes, the hair is in a damaged condition. To rehabilitate them requires quality care. 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 tools:
- Indola Professional mask for colored hair Color Care Innova (cost - about five hundred rubles per jar of 200 ml).
- Kapous restructuring mask with keratin Magic Keratin (cost - 470 rubles per jar with a volume of 500 ml, it contains proteins to restore the structure of the hair).
- Estel Curex Therapy - an intensive repair mask for colored hair, the cost of a can of 500 ml - 580 rubles.
- Brelil Numero Curl mask with olive oil for colored, dry, brittle hair, the cost of 1100 rubles per jar of 1000 ml.
- Matrix Biolage Hydrasource is a deeply moisturizing mask, ideal for caring for colored, dry and damaged hair, the cost is 600 rubles per 200 ml.
You should choose one or two suitable remedies for yourself and use them regularly. Do not forget about serums and hair serums in the form of a spray - they will help maintain the health of the ends of previously dyed hair.