Caramel hair color with highlighting looks stylish and unusual. The image is natural, but at the same time modern. Since caramel hair color is in fashion now, dye can be found without difficulty. The article gives tips to achieve a noble shade. If you can’t go to the salon, then try highlighting with caramel hair color at home. In the article you will find an affordable algorithm for performing this staining technique.
Is highlighting in fashion today?
Standard highlighting, which implies full clarification of symmetrically selected strands with their subsequent tinting in ashen blond, has long been out of fashion. Moreover, such highlighting is already "bad form." Evenly and symmetrically whitened stripes on the hair cause a condescending smirk among colorists. At the peak of fashion, now the so-called California highlighting, the technique of which involves random selection of strands and tinting them in two shades at the 7-8th level of tone depth.
Also at the peak of fashion is caramel hair color. Highlighting can be performed on top of it, and if the shade of your own hair is light brown or brown, then you can tint the clarified strands in a fashionable shade. The technique is quite simple and feasible even at home, if you know the simple rules of color.
Advantages and disadvantages of the staining technique
The advantages of this staining technique:
- the roots are not noticeably growing, since the palette is as close as possible to the native hair color;
- honey and caramel strands visually rejuvenate the face;
- The technique assumes maximum preservation of the health of the hair, because only about 40% of the mass of the hair is exposed to lightening and toning.
Cons highlighting caramel color:
- on dark hair, disharmony of shades is created;
- not all color types face warm shades (which include, among others, caramel, honey, and golden tones);
- if the strands need to be lightened before tinting, the hair can be significantly damaged, they will become brittle and dry without professional care.
Who comes to face caramel hair color?
In colorism, there are four color types of appearance. Depending on it, hairdressers conclude that it is advisable to dye in one or another shade:
- Girls of the autumn color type naturally have a slight "redhead" in appearance. Skin tone is olive; freckles are usually present. A tan always sticks easily. Eyes are brown or green, dark gray, but always warm. Girls of this color type are ideally suited for copper, golden and caramel hair colors. In this case, the paint is selected based on the thickness and quality of the curls - both permanent and ammonia-free dyes can be used.
- Girls of the winter color type have a contrasting appearance in cold tones. Black iris contrasts with protein, dark hair with white, porcelain skin. A tan sticks poorly, and ultraviolet burns are frequent. Accordingly, the shade of curls for such girls should be selected cold, without a hint of redhead. Alas, copper, golden, honey-caramel hair color will not only not emphasize the dignity of the appearance of people of this color type, but will also make the appearance painful, disharmonious.
- Girls of the spring color type resemble autumn, but in a more muffled version. Freckles on the skin are very few, but the skin tone is warm. Eyes are light blue, light green. Caramel hair color with highlighting or ombre will perfectly complement the appearance of the girls of the spring color type. They need to avoid dark and cool shades of hair.
- Girls of the summer color type can also afford experiments with a caramel shade. Optimal for them is the technique of staining in the style of California highlighting, in which strands of caramel color alternate with ash or sandra. Such coloring will ideally fit into the image: white skin, gray or blue eyes, light eyebrows and hair, as if burned out in the sun.
Take a simple test, passing through which you can understand if your appearance is cold or warm. Go to the large mirror, wearing snow-white clothes. If the skin tone is yellowish, then the color type is warm, and you can safely experiment with caramel, copper and golden shades of hair. If there is no yellowness and the skin seems perfectly white, then your color type is cold.
Caramel hair color with highlighting
This technique for short curls with non-standard shades is done by confident young girls who like to be in the spotlight. True, it is worth considering that on short hair, growing roots are noticeable even if the base is as close as possible to the shades of the strands. So once a month you will have to visit the salon, so that the image always looks stylish and neat.
The optimal length of curls for this staining technique is just below the shoulders or even the length to the shoulder blades. Highlighting with honey-caramel hair color on long strands laid in large curls looks very stylish and feminine. You can safely experiment with tones and perform highlighting not with one tone, but with several. For example, part of the strands will be caramel, another part will be golden or copper. If you yourself doubt the selected color palette, then consult with a hairdresser or colorist before carrying out the procedure.
Why do I need to lighten my hair?
Highlighting in any technique involves pre-clarification. If the hair was previously dyed with a persistent dye in dark color, then a washing procedure will be required. This is a rather complicated procedure, which requires experience and skill; it will not work at home.
If the natural shade of the hair is light brown or light brown, then you can not carry out lightening. Simply select an oxidizing agent with a higher concentration for the dye, and then it will become possible to achieve the desired soft caramel color. Hair dye should be chosen based on the quality of the hair and the cost of the product.
It doesn’t matter whether you are highlighting or ombre - in most cases, clarification is still necessary.
Which paint to choose - professional or mass market?
All the abundance of dyes in the modern market can be divided into two groups - professional and mass market. Each of these groups, in turn, is divided into permanent (ammonia resistant) and ammonia-free dyes:
- Professional dyes can be purchased in stores that sell products for hairdressers. In order to select the desired shade, you must first examine the large map - the palette. There, a curl is attached to each dye number with the color that will be obtained by coloring or tinting (provided that a tone-on-tone base is prepared). To a professional dye, you should separately buy an oxidizing agent, with which the coloring composition is mixed.
- The dyes of the mass market are those that are in beautiful boxes on the shelves of supermarkets. The kit includes immediately a coloring composition, and an oxidizing agent for it, and even gloves and balm. The most popular are paint Garnier, Pallet, Loreal. Only minus is that it is impossible to choose the concentration of the oxidizing agent, since the manufacturer has already taken care of this in advance. For people unaware of color, this is a plus, but masters do not like such dyes.
Differences between permanent and ammonia-free dyes
Permanent permanent hair dyes contain ammonia and quite severely damage the hair structure. But the color is resistant. Permanent dyes can be purchased both among professional compounds and among mass-market products. As a rule, if there is no ammonia in the composition, the manufacturer separately emphasizes this fact, and the cost of such a product is higher.
Ammonia-free dyes not only do not spoil the hair, but also have caring components in their composition. The disadvantage of such dyes is that the color is washed out quite quickly, and a repeated staining procedure is required. In addition, because of the composition, ammonia-free hair dyes are more expensive than permanent.
List of dyes that help achieve caramel color
If you want to achieve beautiful caramel strands, then pay attention to the following means:
- Garnier - paint mass market, it can be purchased at any supermarket. True, the desired shade is not always available. This can be a problem. In the reviews of "Garnier 6.34" (caramel) it is reported that the shade is beautiful and persistent. It is really golden chocolate, cinnamon, does not give away copper or yellowness. Nor is it too dark.
- Dye from "Loreal Casting Cream Gloss" - dye without ammonia in the composition, sold in supermarkets. The composition has everything you need for staining - cream-paint, oxidizing agent, balm with royal jelly for subsequent care. Pay attention to the shade from "Loreal" 724 (caramel). It is a beautiful and noble color without yellow or red. It is popular.
- Estel Essex is a professional dye from a domestic company. It contains ammonia, but also the durability is quite high - up to 4 weeks of shine, as if you dyed your hair only yesterday. Estel Essex is pretty easy to use. In addition, its cost is low - about 150 rubles per tube. Even at home, with its help you can get caramel hair color. What is the paint number of this shade? It is not difficult to find him. Pay attention in the palette to the shade 7.8 (caramel), 7.34 (honey golden-copper), 8.3 (golden blonde).
- Kapous Keratin is an ammonia-free professional dye that gives the hair a natural shine and improves its condition. The composition includes keratin, which seals the hollow sections of the hair cuticle and makes the curls look completely healthy. The caramel shade is in the palette at number 7.8.
Algorithm for performing highlighting at home
If the hair has not previously been dyed and not too dark, then you can try highlighting at home:
- Prepare everything you need in advance: cream paint, an oxidizing agent, hand gloves, a comb with a thin sharp tip, pieces of foil measuring 10 by 20 cm. You will need an assistant who will separate the strands, since you cannot separate them on the back of your head.
- Separate locks of different sizes in a chaotic order with a thin tail of a comb. You need to start from the back of the head. Apply dye to the separated locks and fix them in foil so that the rest of the hair does not become colored.
- Rising from the back of the head to the temples, then to the forehead, go through the entire mass of hair. After all the selected strands have been dyed and wrapped in foil, leave your hair for half an hour.
- Check the degree of staining. If it is satisfactory, then remove the foil and wash your hair with massaging movements, washing off the rest of the dye.
- After completing the dyeing procedure, apply a restoring mask to the hair. If you used ammonia-free caring dye, you can skip this item.
The most common beginner mistakes
Errors by which the result of highlighting at home may be unsatisfactory:
- incorrect concentration of oxidizing agent;
- the exposure time of the dye is incorrectly maintained (it is washed off too soon or too late, in the second case, the hair structure will be overdried and injured);
- the hair was previously dyed - in this case, without dyeing or washing off, the dye simply will not be taken;
- proper hair is not properly treated (in this case, the strands will quickly lose their shine, become dry and lifeless, you will have to do a short haircut).
All this should be considered.
Subsequent care for highlighted hair
Great care should be taken to care for dyed hair. If this is not done, then the color will quickly wash out, the shine will go away, and the locks will become dry and lifeless. Over time, the ends will begin to delaminate and split off, and there will be only one way out - a short haircut.
- Pick a shampoo for colored hair. Such products have a special acid ph, due to which the color does not wash out for a long time. In no case should you use homemade shampoos made from soda or oils. The use of such funds will lead to a rapid, almost instantaneous washing out of the pigment from the hair cuticle.
- Be sure to use restoring masks after each shampoo. Especially good products, which include wheat proteins, collagen and keratin.
- To care for the tips that suffer most during highlighting, pick up a concentrate. It should be applied after each washing of the hair to the ends of the hair - this will protect them from exfoliation and excessive trauma during styling.
- Those who do styling with a hairdryer or tongs should purchase and constantly use thermal protection for their hair. high temperatures harm even natural hair, and even dyed and even more so. The use of thermal protection will protect the hair structure from the harmful effects of extremely high temperatures during styling, and will also extend the radiance of color.
Observing the described tips and recommendations, you will be able to achieve an excellent result.