There are various types and techniques of hair dyeing. Often they depend on the color of the hair, their condition. For example, heavy, damaged hair cannot be lightened to the ideal even with the most expensive oxide. And on bleached hair, very rarely dark paint falls well. But this is all individual. This article will discuss how to dye brown hair, as well as how to change this color if you want something new or simply do not like the existing shade. In such cases, you can go to the hairdresser, or you can experiment at home.
What are the shades of brown hair?
There are not only light blond and dark blond hair, because this color also includes shades such as chestnut in various variations (dark chestnut, light chestnut), as well as ash blond, golden blond, red blond, cold light brown and even copper. You can find out exactly your shade from the hairdresser.
Why do people dye their blond hair?
In fact, it is most often resorting to the coloring of brown hair, since this color is often considered dull, not bright enough. In addition, there are shades that generally seem closer to gray than to light brown. Therefore, many people, especially girls, resort to a color change in order to look brighter, attract more attention and just like themselves more. In a few paragraphs, we will talk about how dyeing brown hair using various techniques.
When you can not dye your hair?
There are some situations where it is better to postpone the coloring of brown hair. For example, you should not change color during an illness with a high fever, especially if medications are taken. Also, you can not go for staining or do it yourself if there are abrasions or other wounds on the head. And the color that was obtained during menstruation is also not very beautiful. Better to wait until it ends.
What colors do brown hair dye?
This hair color is good in that it can be easily replaced with another. That is, it is really possible to dye brown hair, both in black, and in dark brown, or even blond. Also often choose red or simply other shades of light brown, brighter, for example. It is equally popular to dye blond hair in light colors, because blondes are traditionally considered attractive women. But no less rarely, girls choose darker tones. Moreover, brown hair is painted in green, pink, blue or purple. Everything is done absolutely calmly at home, the main thing is to choose high-quality paint, possibly expensive and professional.
Now you can talk in more detail about how the change in hair color at home is carried out. For example, if you want to stain brown hair in ashen color. The easiest way to do this is for those who are naturally light brown in color. An ash tint is selected using a special catalog that can be found on the window or ask the seller. There are already painted strands. At home, everything needs to be done according to the instructions on the packaging, but they usually don’t write there that ashy paint can give a greenish tint. To prevent this from happening, before applying it is necessary to add a little red or purple paint to it.
How to choose a suitable shade or color for coloring brown hair?
So, nature most often gives a hair color that is combined with a skin tone, eye color. But you can also dye your hair so that this harmony does not disappear. There are some secrets to this. For example, you can sign up for a hairdresser at a hairdresser and ask for a catalog with strands that match the palette. There you need to find your color and compare with others that you liked.
If we are talking about the shade, then it should be close to natural, so that the complexion does not visually change or the eyes do not look more dull, for example. That is, the owners of light brown hair should still choose light shades, and vice versa. However, when you want to change color, there is more scope for creativity. You can apply the same strands from the catalog to your face, and you can usually just print your photo and apply different hairstyles with your favorite colors to figure out whether this or that image will look beneficial.
What are the types of dyeing of this hair color?
Types of dyeing brown hair are diverse, as this color really gives room for creativity. As already noted, you can completely dye your hair, but there are other interesting options. For example, it is known to dye the ends of brown hair. This is called ombre. With its help, it seems that the hair below is burnt out. This can be done at home on your own.
So, to make an ombre at home, you need to take a paint (preferably a light shade), a comb with rare cloves, foil, elastic bands for hair, a special brush for coloring hair. At first, the hair is moistened with ordinary water, then they make a straight part and four ponytails (two on the left and two on the right). Erasers are placed at the level of the lower part of the face. Then you need to apply the prepared paint to the tails and wrap them with foil for half an hour. After this, the foil is removed, the hair is washed with ordinary water, and then again dyed with the same paint, but four centimeters higher than the rubber bands. Ten minutes later, everything is washed off again. Finally, the same paint is applied to the very ends, wait ten minutes and wash your hair completely with shampoo. You can apply a mask or balm.
Another interesting hair dyeing technique is dipeye. This is a rather unusual coloring of brown hair. This technique is easy to implement on your own. To do this, take a comb and special crayons for hair or just dry pastels. Dry hair is divided into several strands, then each of them is folded into a bundle and carefully dyed with the selected colored chalk. You can safely experiment.
Also now very popular balayazh. We will discuss it a little later, and it can also be done at home. The rest of the techniques are quite complex, so they are best done by a professional. For example, it is a shatush (alternating light and dark strands to create the effect of burnt hair) or bronding (alternating brown strands and blond strands to create the effect of shiny hair). In addition, the highlighting known to many does not give up its positions. This discoloration of the selected strands. It is also better to do it in the salon, as there is a chance that the hair will be corny spoiled.
How to care for brown hair after dyeing?
After the hair color is changed, you need to follow some recommendations. For example, it is often advised to be tinted to maintain the effect. In addition, periodically you will need to wash your hair with balm or shampoo for colored hair, so that the color is saturated. When your roots grow back, you again need to contact the hairdresser to even out the shade. It is recommended to do this procedure every 4-6 weeks.
What else change the colors and shades of brown hair, except for paint?
To slightly change the color, you can purchase a tint shampoo. It brightens the hair or, conversely, makes them darker in just one or two shades. This can be done independently at home, if you follow the instructions on the package with the product.
Natural staining of brown hair is also common. It is also easily carried out at home. For natural staining, dyes of the fourth group are taken. These are substances containing components of natural origin, for example, onion husks, tea, coffee, walnuts, chamomile (to brighten hair), basma and henna.
For example, dyeing brown hair with henna is very popular. This is an inexpensive material that does not have a specific smell and is easily washed off. So, henna allows staining brown hair in red. To do this, take about fifty grams of henna, rub well in hot water in a special glass bowl with a wooden spoon. The prepared mixture is applied to clean, damp hair. Then they are covered with a shower cap and wrapped in a towel. If you need light red, just hold henna for half an hour. If it is required darker and more saturated, then an hour and a half. Wash off with warm water without shampoo. Also, the undoubted advantage of henna is that it strengthens the hair and makes them healthier.
And to change the shade that henna gives, add basma to it. If the basma will be as much as henna, the hair will turn brown. If you add basma in half what henna will be, they will acquire a bronze hue. If this material is twice as much, then it is completely black.
In addition to henna, hair is often dyed with tea. For example, it can give a reddish-brown tint. To do this, you need to brew two or three tablespoons in a glass of clean water, then boil everything for fifteen minutes in a kettle on the stove, and then let the tincture go for twenty minutes. Then everything is applied to the hair for about five minutes and washed off with warm water. You can do it several times to make the color more saturated and last longer. In addition, tea allows you to slightly improve your hair.
What is a hut and why do it?
They also often make balayazh for brown hair, since this color is considered the most suitable for this technique. Balayazh is a type of hair coloring in which some strands are lightened. The bottom line is that hair in this way looks more contrast and unusual, their volume visually increases. The main thing is to do everything correctly with a trusted master, although you can try it yourself.
Is it possible to make a pit at home?
Let balayazh is a complex technique, it is really possible to implement it at home. In order to make yourself a balayazh, you need to take light paint, a special brush for dyeing hair, foil and a comb with rare cloves. Hair at the back is divided into two equal parts and bring them forward on both sides of the face. Cooked paint is applied to the ends and wrapped with foil. After about twenty to thirty minutes, the foil is removed, the hair is combed along the entire length and again wrapped in foil tips for about twenty minutes. Then the foil is thrown away, and the hair is washed with shampoo.
Tips for those who want to make a bungalow
Before you go to this procedure, you need to do a few things.
- For example, it is worth making a hairstyle before a balayazh, as the hair should not be cut while the balayazh is held.
- It is also necessary to make sure that the hair is healthy, there are no split ends.
- In addition, it is recommended to do balayazh on brown hair no more than two to three times a year.
- And by no means do they make balayazh on already dyed hair. You need a natural light brown color to choose an interesting shade to it that will combine.
What are the types of balayazha for light brown hair?
- If the shade is closer to copper, then strands can be made in amber shades.
- If the hair is light brown and curly, then the strands are beautifully painted with purple.
- If they are dark brown, you can add an ash tint to them, or even brighten the ends so that they are white.
- The use of three shades looks no less beautiful to get a smoother transition.
- There is also a universal option: to make the roots a few shades darker than the main hair, so that such a beautiful transition is obtained.
Thus, it is clear that dyeing brown hair is quite an interesting, but affordable and not always energy-intensive and difficult process. Various techniques are quietly implemented at home, but not always everything will turn out the first time. It is worth doing everything carefully and according to the instructions, as well as training more. And you can not be afraid of experiments: if you take a good dye without ammonia and do not try to lighten your hair with hydrogen peroxide, everything will be okay, because brown hair gives fertile soil.