Coloring for dark hair: features, types, shade selection

Hair coloring has long been a popular method of quickly changing your image. Every now and then you can find hairstyles of the most fashionable colors and shades on the covers of fashion magazines. In this article, we will help you understand the intricacies of coloring on dark hair, analyze the features of this technique, its main types, and also help you decide on the choice of shade for your hair.

Hair dyeing is one of the oldest techniques for changing the image, as early as 2 thousand years BC, hair dyeing gave a person power and significance, dyed hair could be worn by a strictly defined caste of people. Today, hair coloring is a privilege available to everyone, capable of completely changing the appearance in a matter of minutes. Due to the large number of varieties and incarnations of hair coloring, many girls often confuse classic coloring with streaked curls. Below we will consider the key differences between these techniques, and at the same time we will try to form a portrait of the classic coloring technique.

• The first and foremost difference is in a variety of color palette... Hair highlighting involves the use of only two shades - natural and light, coloring can use up to 20 different shades.
• The key to harmonious highlighting - in gradual gradation of 2-3 colors in the hair. Coloring is not picky about smoothness in tones, and therefore can look both bright, but also sharp, aggressive.
• Highlighting, as a rule, is carried out in several sessions, because the yellowness characteristic of dark hair after the first session will not disappear anywhere. In coloring a few more layers of paint are applied over the bleached hair, which means that repeated sessions of clarification may not be needed.
• The purpose of highlighting is to achieve the effect of "sun-bleached hair", which at the same time gives the hairstyle more volume, and the curls themselves - a natural natural shine. The purpose of coloring is make curls as rich as possible, additional tasks here relate to highlighting the general image of a beauty, winning facial features or elements of clothing.
• Despite the relatively blurred age range in hair coloring, coloring is more suitable for young, bright and extraordinary personalities with a perky character... In the image of respectable ladies, too much color can be considered tasteless. The same cannot be said about highlighting, which looks great for women of all ages.

As you can see, it is quite easy to understand the difference between these two hair treatment techniques.

Any type of staining has its own advantages and disadvantages. The advantages are as follows.

• Any, even the lightest coloring renews your look and entire hairstyle... Hair looks fresher, brighter, more expressive. Even if coloring is done with a minimal color gradation from the natural hair color, it in any case makes your hairstyle more expressive and the hair color clearer.
• Coloring with a successful hairstyle and bangs can significantly correct your facial features... Highlight successful ones, focus on positive and beautiful features and distract from gross and imperfect facial defects.
• Types of non-continuous coloring (zonal, pixel, longitudinal) do not spoil hair so much... Unlike highlighting techniques, hair looks healthy and strong.
• Shatush, balayazh, classic highlighting - all these are techniques that involve the use of no more than two colors in painting. Coloring offers unlimited number of shades for coloring.
• Moderate coloration is equally successful suits both very young girls and older women who have not lost their taste for fashion.
• Due to the significant color gradation and the absence of clear boundaries in the drawing, colored strands not so quickly require correction and revision.
• Over the thousands of years of its existence, hair coloring has managed to be segmented into many varieties... At the moment, there are more than 10 popular coloring methods, of which even the most sophisticated girl can choose something to her liking.

Taking into account the fact that any hair coloring involves the impact on curls of third-party and often unnatural substances, coloring has its drawbacks.

• Lightening - peculiarities are a scourge when dyeing hair, and if owners of light curls can do without it, then for dark ones it can become a significant problem. Any lightening is stress for the hair, which, without the necessary attention and additional strengthening masks and creams, can begin to fall out, become rare or weaken.
• Any kind of coloring, even the lightest and most selective, costs a lot of money... Coloring at home is also possible, but only beauties with significant experience in coloring can achieve a high-quality and beautiful result.
• The more shades of hair, the more likely it is you will move to the original natural color for a very long time... That is why hairdressers and makeup artists do not recommend cardinal coloring with 5 or more tones.
• The highlighting technique will look impressive and stylish even without daily care of the hairstyle and styling. What does not apply to coloring, where any breeze without the necessary fixation can completely change the pattern or a special painting style.
• Any staining needs regular maintenance of the brightness and saturation of the hair color... Without this, all the showiness from any hairstyle can completely disappear.

There are a large number of types of coloring, they differ in both the number of shades, the length of the hair and bangs, and the desired texture of the hair. We'll take a look at the most popular dark hair color schemes this season.

This option is one of the most common in the modern world of fashion. In this case hair on the head is divided into uniform vertical curlswhich are then colored in turn. For long to medium hair with foil. The number of shades is not limited here, just keep an eye on the uniformity of color gradation in order to avoid the "traffic light" effect.

The point here is to dye the finest individual strands of your hair. Often, only 1-2 main light shades are chosen, which creates an alluring sun glare effect... Using this technique, you can highlight the shape of the face, visually reduce it, or focus on certain winning features.

Not a particularly radical coloration option that offers hair dyeing with horizontal stripes through the use of 3-4 (no more) consecutive shades. The entire length of the curls is conventionally divided into 3-4 parts (tip zone, root zone, transverse zones). Between the upper and lower zones, the most noticeable contrast is achieved, gradually decreasing towards the transverse part of the hair. Thus, either the upper or lower part of the hair remains dyed, while in the other, as a rule, curls of natural shades remain.

Almost the same as patterned coloring, but using geometrically correct lines and shapes in the basis of the picture... The option is also more for short hair, looks great with bright and even flashy shades.

The easiest type of coloring in coloring - in this case, only strictly defined part (or parts) of hair... The peculiarity of this type is that dyed hair should simultaneously stand out harmoniously and vividly against the background of natural ones, otherwise there will be no benefit from the effect. For dark hair, the widest range of colors will come in handy: from light golden to bright berry.

Looks great on both straight and curly hair, there are also no restrictions on the length of the hair. In the same type, you can color only the bangs or some individual curl on the temporal lobes.

A concept that refers to all types of coloring using 5 or more shades in coloring. The advantage of this type is that absolutely any shade can be used to achieve the desired result. And here, in a sense, it will even be a plus some color inconsistency... Hairstyles with such coloring are loved by young ladies with a fickle character and mood.

This hairstyle will only complement the overall image of unpredictability and eccentricity... However, you should not overdo it with the number of shades, everything should be in moderation.A good option would be multicolor coloring of bangswhere the rest of the hair remains intact.

Without a doubt, one of the most radical color options, which you rarely find in its pure form. Usually it can be seen on the pages of fashion magazines as an idea of ​​some designer or stylist for a certain bow. For coloring hair with this type of coloring, special stencils, which an ordinary woman of fashion may not have. That is why staining in this case is recommended to be carried out by an experienced master.

The most common patterns and patterns: leopard and tiger patterns, oblique lines with an emphasis on bangs and eyes. Often, only bangs are given under the patterned part of the hair, which, in a successful performance, only gives greater clarity to the facial features.

Coloring does not differ in strict preferences for a particular type of hair, here hairs with dyed curly curls, straight and obedient hair can look equally advantageous, even for naughty curls there are many ways and shades for dyeing. As for the length of your hair, it can play a decisive role in shaping the overall image, and therefore is one of the key points to consider when choosing a color shade. Hair of medium length or long type can take a lot of experiments, the most successful will be:

• longitudinal coloring options using no more than 2-3 tones, slightly darker or lighter than the natural color;

• long hair with the effect of light burnt ends (golden, ash, caramel, copper tones);

• micro-coloring of the thinnest strands using 1-2 shades with a minimum difference in the color palette from natural hair;

• horizontal coloring of voluminous heavy curls with significant color gradation (shades can be very different: from chestnut to red and bright neon);

• selective or zonal coloring of individual hair strands - bangs, temporal parts using bright and saturated colors: blue, purple, red, green;

• subtle full hair coloring with minimal difference from the original hair color will give them more saturation.

Hair of a short type is also not devoid of successful color solutions in dyeing. The following are considered the most popular coloring options here.

• Zone staining, with staining of strictly defined curls in the hair - bangs, temples, the back of the head. Colors used for dark curls: bright red, blue, purple, delicate pastel shades of gold and caramel.

• Patterned coloring using a stencil for applying paint. On short hair, it is much easier to maintain the desired pattern and there will be no big problems with further correction.

• Partial contrast staining using aggressive and often even incongruous shades (red with yellow, blue with orange, etc.). This type of coloring is more suitable for extraordinary personalities or is used to create a certain image in model shooting.

• Colored or "multicolor" coloring implies the use of more than 5 tones. Often this option is used to create pleasing overflows in curls.In other cases, these are strictly contrasting and unusual hairstyles, which are preferred only by the most daring fashionistas.

• Cross or horizontal staining, in which the border between the tones is kept intentionally, to give the image even more aggressiveness and originality. Bright and contrasting colors are used: neon, purple, azure and sunny.

The type of haircut is not the only option when choosing a color shade, as some girls mistakenly believe. To a greater extent, the success of a particular shade in coloring depends precisely on the color type of the face, the color of natural hair and their length. There are known cases of a successful combination of bob and cascade haircuts both with golden, delicate pastel shades, and with extraordinary bright and saturated colors. The same goes for medium / long hair.

Face type and eye shade - the most important factors in choosing a shade of coloring, it depends on them how well the whole hairstyle will look. There are 5 main types of faces: round, oval, rectangular, triangular and square, as well as three basic eye colors: brown, blue and green with all the ensuing shades.

To determine a more successful shade of hair for a certain appearance, makeup artists are initially determined with its color type. There are 4 different color types according to the names of the seasons: winter, spring, summer and autumn.

• Color type "winter" represents girls with snow-white skin and a dark shade of eyes (these can be brown, caramel and black colors, as well as some shades of cold blue). In this case, curls of especially dark, even black colors and shades (rich chestnut colors, black, dark chocolate colors) will be effectively combined with the appearance.

• "Spring" - girls with a caramel and warm skin tone and light, expressive eyes. Most dark shades will not work here, however, chestnut curls, dark copper tones and shades of oak bark will still look good.

• "Summer" - characterized by light eyes and fair skin. In this case, only light shades of hair are recommended, however, if you are the owner of luxurious dark curls, you should turn to longitudinal or transverse coloring with the addition of bleached curls.

• "Autumn" - the color type of girls with dark eyes and dark skin with a natural copper tan (classic color type for brunette girls). Almost all shades of dark hair will look good here, since there will be no conflicts with eye color.

To paint at home, you will need some tools.

1. First of all, it is, of course, hair clarifier... Depending on the length of your curls, you can take from 1 to 3 sachets.
2. Dye - the second most necessary material. For a classic and light coloring, it is better to take no more than 3-4 tones, for a more radical or coloring for a certain image, you should get 5 or more similar shades in the color palette. Try to choose paints and brighteners from the same line and from the same manufacturer.
3. Any coloring is a danger to harm not only your hair, but also your beautiful skin. Therefore, we recommend using special plastic or rubber gloves.

The scalp is also worth the work. After dyeing hair with many colors, the skin in places that are difficult to wash off can be a real rainbow.That is why, before lightening and coloring, the skin on the head should be thoroughly wiped with fatty creams.

1. Materials for applying clarifier and paint - brush, sponge, all kinds of brushes. Anything convenient for you to apply the paint substance.
2. It will be useful to prepare in advance several plastic bowls for mixing and preparation of clarifier and paints.
3. Depending on the complexity of the future hairstyle, you should choose several combs for styling and separating hair. Here, in any case, brushing, a comb with fine and rare teeth and a metal separator will not be superfluous.
4. Nice waffle towel useful at the stage of hair drying, and with the help of a small sheet at the time of applying paint and remover, you can protect your eyes and clothes from getting paint there.
5. All kinds of hairpins, clips and crabs help you fix individual hair strands and separate them from each other.
6. Foil or cling film for wrapping hair. It is advisable to cut into small strips in advance, depending on their length.

Now let's take a step-by-step understanding of the staining technology itself. Do not forget that for some moments in coloring, you will absolutely need outside help, especially for long hair.

1. Hair before coloring wash and dry, comb.
2. Put on your gloves, it is advisable to put a towel on your shoulders so that the paint does not drip onto your clothes.
3. Apply to hair a special oily cream, so that at the time of washing off the paint, the hair and skin are washed off faster.
4. Part your hair conditionally into several parts: occipital, temporal, crown. Fix your hair with crabs or invisible hairpins.
5. Select carefully the first thin strands for coloring, placing a pre-prepared foil or film under them.
6. Try to move in a circle - either from the back of the head to the bangs, or in the opposite direction.
7. Already painted curls wrap in foil and place so that they do not interfere with dyeing other hair.
8. If you chose several shades, try to apply them with as little interval as possible so that the shades do not differ. An extra pair of hands will come in very handy at this stage.
9. After staining wait for all hairs for the time indicated on the paint package, then rinse off boldly with the help of special shampoos.
10. Dry, adjust, stack.

After any coloring with lightening, the hair undergoes tremendous stress, therefore, dyed hair without proper care can lose all color saturation and integrity in one week. It is recommended to follow these tips immediately after coloring.

1. If you used to be used to washing your hair daily, which is normal for long curls, then for the first half a month after coloring try to limit yourself 2-3 times a week, no more. In this case, it is advisable to first boil tap water in order to avoid too much hardness. Rinse your hair with warm water.
2. Immediately after coloring, it is worth giving up the usual shampoos and resorting to help professional products for freshly colored hair... This also applies to the conditioner, designed to preserve the brightness of the color and give it a natural gloss.
3. Heat treatment freshly bleached and colored hair is undesirable, this is an even greater blow to the fragile hair structure. It is best to resort to natural drying outdoors. The same applies to exposure to direct sunlight - from them, colored curls can simply fade.
4. For quick hair restoration, it will be useful to periodically resort to help. nourishing and moisturizing natural masks... If you try, you can safely make such a mask with your own hands - using low-fat kefir, eggs and herbal decoctions.Masks are best done at least once a week before washing your hair. To restore dry and weakened hair, masks based on vegetable oil are ideal.
5. Immediately after coloring forget about old and rough metal combs, use only soft instruments with fine, fine teeth. The main thing is not to damage or pull out your hair.

Pixel coloring for dark hair.

Patterned coloring.

Multi-color coloring.

Longitudinal staining.

Zone coloring.

For information on how to colorize dark hair, see the next video.