Balayage for light brown hair of medium length

To create their own unique image, modern women quite often resort to such a procedure as hair dyeing. The beauty industry does not stand still - in parallel with the development of new shades of dyes, new technologies for their application for dyeing are coming to the fashion world. One of these methods is balayage, which involves the creation of a certain intensity of contrast of color shades on the hair by lightening some strands. The monochromatic color of the curls already attracts few people - I want to create bright highlights, a play of colors, but it should look appropriate and natural. It is the balayazh staining method that will help you complete this task.

One of the features of the staining procedure is that only the lower parts of the hair strands are lightened, without affecting the entire length of the curls and the root area. Such a gentle approach not only provides a gentle attitude to the hair, but also creates an additional effect of volume in the hairstyle. In addition, lightened strands look as realistic as possible, giving the impression that your hair was simply sunburned naturally.

Let's take a closer look at how to choose the color shades of dyeing using the balayage method for medium light brown hair.

A fairly large number of women with light brown hair color believe that this color looks dull, inexpressive and even boring. For this reason, ladies often seek to improve light brown hair in one way or another.Balayage dyeing does an excellent job with the tasks assigned to it. The fact is that with this coloring technique, 2-3 shades are used, combined with the main tone of the hair. In this case, the dyeing itself can affect all strands or focus on the areas of hair at the temples and on the back of the head.

In order to achieve the most natural visual image, the stylist should consider not only the base tone of your hair, but also pay attention to the skin tones and the color of your eyes. So, performing balayage on light brown hair of medium length for the owner of dark skin and dark eyes, the stylist can suggest using a palette of amber or caramel shades. And if you have gray eyes and white skin, you will be offered ash or platinum tones. Thus, your natural color type will play the main and decisive role in the selection of shades of color for balayage:

• if your color type is focused on the so-called cold shades - for coloring you need to choose silver, ash, platinum, violet, blue and other shades of the "cold" spectrum;
• if the color type of your appearance tends to "warm tones" - sunny, amber, nutty, chestnut, wheat and other tones of the "warm" spectrum will suit you.

On medium-length hair, balayage-style coloring looks equally good on straight and curly strands, and curly hair after such coloring looks the most attractive. It's no secret that curly hair has a more porous structure than straight strands. Therefore, when dyeing, they more actively and in a larger volume absorb the dye composition, and after dyeing, they preserve dyeing pigments in the hair structure for a longer time.

However, it must be remembered that wavy strands are more traumatic - they are easy to dry out with paint, so you only need to choose high-quality proven compositions for coloring and observe their exposure time on the hair with extreme precision. After the dyeing procedure, curly hair needs special care - it needs to be provided with good nutrition and moisture.

When coloring light hair, more contrasting options for coloring balayage are obtained on dark blond curls. However, light blond hair can also be colored using this technique, achieving good and interesting results. A well-executed coloring implies the use of shades that are consonant with each other and lighten the main hair color. The more such shades of the same color will be used, the more expressive the finished result will look.

Usually, the following color schemes are used for light brown and blonde hair:

• the use of the entire range of blond shades;
• shades of platinum, copper or bronze, and not only the lightest, but also the deepest;
• all shades of caramel color;
• a full palette of wheat shades from light to dark;
• any light golden tones;
• almost the entire line is ash-colored;
• any depth tone of silvery colors;
• the lightest tones are chestnut and hazel;
• light tones of a chocolate shade.

There is one more little trick. - to create a high contrast from the root zone and the middle part of the strands, they are darkened with chocolate or dark nut tones, against which the lightened strands of various shades look especially bright and expressive. However, this method will subsequently require regular adjustment of the regrown hair in the root area.

When choosing shades of color for coloring in the style of balayage, remember that light colors will visually rejuvenate your look, while dark shades, on the contrary, can add age to you. Trying on one or another shade, you must also consider the following:

• chocolate and coffee shades are best used for those who have naturally dark blond hair color;
• shades of copper are considered universal, as they are suitable for any light brown curls;
• gray and ash tones are suitable only for those with gray or blue eyes, otherwise these tones will add age to you;
• shades of the unnatural spectrum - blue, pink, purple - can only be used to create an extravagant image, and such shocking will not be appropriate for any age.

When choosing coloring using the balayage technique, you need to remember that on long curls, color transitions will look smooth, since the length of the hair allows you to stretch the color and make it as realistic as possible. But on medium-length hair, balayage will make the hairstyle very catchy and stand out, here all the transitions will be, albeit smooth, but more concentrated.

It has long been noticed that as soon as a certain type of service appears in hairdressing salons, after a short period of time, women try to repeat this service on their own at home. Fortunately, the balayage dyeing technique is one that, with certain skills, you can reproduce yourself.

In order for the result to be truly interesting and impressive, this coloring is best done on bob, bob or cascade haircuts - the hair can be straight or curly. The easiest way is to dye the balayage yourself on light blond hair, since in this case there is no danger that you will make too sharp color transitions due to the fact that you choose too intense lightening or overexpose the dye.

After you have refreshed your haircut, and also decided on the color shades that you will use, you need to prepare the tools for staining:

• glass or plastic container - dishes for preparing / mixing oxidizer and paint;
• plastic comb and paint brush;
• strips of foil (the size of the strip depends on the length of your dyed strand);
• porous sponge;
• hair clips.

On clean and well-dried hair, you need to choose thin strands that you will dye, and pin the rest of the hair with clips so that they do not interfere with you. Comb your hair well before this procedure. Remember that the thinner the strand you choose, the neater the result will look. At the very beginning, the dye composition is applied to the occipital region, and then they move on to the temporal regions and the rest of the hair.

Prepare several shades of coloring compositions according to the instructions. Put on rubber gloves to protect your hands and start painting. You need to apply paint to the ends of the strands, while not rising higher than to their middle. For the convenience and protection of the remaining strands that are not involved in the lightening process, a strip of foil should be placed under the working strand.The coloring composition can be applied with a brush or with a sponge, and this should be done with "sweeping" movements, stretching the paint from below towards the top of the strand.

The largest volume of dye should be at the end of the strand, and during stretching, the amount of dye decreases. Alternate the shades on the strands as often as possible.

Each colored strand must be wrapped in a strip of foil. The dye holding time should not exceed 15 minutes. Now you need to remove the foil and comb the hair, as if sweeping the paint from the middle of the strand to its end, that is, down. After combing each section, after 3-5 minutes the hair should be thoroughly rinsed and dried.

When finished, support your hair with a nourishing balm or mask. This completes the entire staining procedure. You can style your curls into your hair.

Now let's look at beautiful examples of how balayage dyeing can look like on light brown hair of various shades with medium hair length.

• Chocolate tinted crown and cold ash strands.

• The dark blond original hair tone is perfectly combined with bright and expressive caramel highlights.

• For comparison, there are two options for using shades: on the left, the shades of the "warm spectrum" are applied, and on the right, the "cold spectrum".

• See how honey shades look harmonious on dark blond hair.

• If you decide to use bright shades of copper, they look most contrasting on dark blond hair or with a tinted crown.

• And this is what a shade called "strawberry blond" looks like. Its execution requires special skill to achieve pastel and pure shades of pink.

• The most natural and catchy balayage looks for light brown hair using light natural wheat shades.

The technology for dyeing hair using the balayage technique for light brown hair with toning is shown in the video below.