Cold brown hair color: how to choose a shade and dye it correctly?

The range of dark tones is rich in many shades - warm and cold, so women with different looks can choose a suitable option for themselves. In addition, cold chestnut and chocolate tones are in perfect harmony with any wardrobe items. The most fashionable now is the cool brown hair color.

A definite advantage of brown is its ability to highlight the individuality of a woman's face and its characteristic features, making them brighter and more attractive. However, cold tones also accentuate skin imperfections, wrinkles become more noticeable, and a lady may look older than her age.

But cool brown doesn't have to be dark. Its light brown shades often have golden undertones, however, the most metered, which is why the color does not belong to the warm palette. Do not think that there are only 2-3 cold versions of this tone, they are quite enough to create any interesting image.

Take at least a series of light brown shades:

• brown with goldallowing the discreet chestnut undertone to play with golden highlights, ideal for highlighting bright, clear eyes;

• dark blond - it is a luxurious, natural color, perfectly combined with tan or dark skin, especially relevant for long straight and curly curls;

• hazelnut, into the darkened base of which golden threads are woven, creating magical overflows under the warm rays of the summer sun; the tone looks perfect in combination with dark blond, brown and black eyebrows.

The palette also provides for darker cold shades:

• Parisian chestnut;

• espresso;

• bitter chocolate;

• gray brown;

• dark chocolate with silver, ash or mother-of-pearl;

• chestnut frosty.

A special place in this collection is occupied by ash brown with silvery tints, by the way, it can be lightened, but this makes it no less saturated.

This color, characterized by pronounced coolness, will be relevant for women who have practically no imperfections in their skin, appearance and hairstyle. In all other cases, cold chestnut or chocolate with an ash haze will highlight the eyes, the natural color of the lips, and will emphasize the even tone and velvety of the skin.

Most of all, all discreet shades of brown are in harmony with the appearance, the characteristic features of which are:

• pure tone of light eyes (blue, gray) or an iris of deep, saturated light;
• delicate pale or snow-white skin.

If dark blond cold tones of chestnut are chosen by young girls with flawless skin, her tanned and swarthy color is allowed. Cold chestnut or frosty chocolate will also work well with pale, translucent skin. In other words, first of all, it is important to decide on the color type.

It is also necessary to choose the correct coloring agent. With the original color close to the intended one, for a temporary effect, you can use tint shampoos, special tonics that are applied after shampooing, and this can be done with the help of ammonia-free formulations. In the salon, this service is called toning. This staining suggests a fairly fast color washout, within about 1 monthso the tone will have to be maintained periodically.

There are a number of dyes that are not durable, but they do not damage the hair. These include products from brands such as Wella, Rokolor, Estelle, Kapous, Schwarzkopf. Staining with resistant compounds can be carried out using paints from manufacturers L`Oreal, Syoss, Garnier. In this case, the color will remain the same saturated for 1-2 months.

Fashionistas need to understand that it is possible to achieve a cold ashy shade on dark brown hair only after preliminary lightening by 2-3 tones, and if the hair is prone to yellowness, it is necessary to add gray, silver and graphite correctors, the very existence of which only professional masters know.

Therefore, it is better to entrust them with an important process. With previously colored hair you will need to carry out a wash that removes irrelevant pigments, and only then proceed to the main staining.

If a blonde or fair-haired girl decided to dye the strands in cold brown, this does not always mean that the result will be successful the first time. With an insufficient content of violet pigment in the paint, the hair can turn green, and then you will need to wash your hair with a toning shampoo 2 times a week to give a lilac hue to fix the problem.

Thus, in order to obtain a cool brown, both dark and light curls require preliminary lightening. However, you can apply not full shading, but selectively give the strands the desired color. But the difficulty is that not every woman will be able to carry out such a procedure at home.

It is in the salon that the master will be able to create the perfect image using cold tones of brown with their transition to the natural color of women's hair. In addition, this procedure does not imply tangible harm to the curls.But, thanks to the smooth transitions from dark to lighter shades, the strands will look more natural, organic and attractive.

A hairstyle with a stretch of color looks great on long and short hair, gives it a luxurious volume, the strands look naturally burnt, thick, even if they are thin, and splits are noticeable at the ends. Surprisingly enough cool dark shades after coloring using techniques such as shatush, sombre and flamboyant, help to divert attention from skin imperfections and some imperfections of the face, including its irregular or too heavy oval.

An additional advantage is no need for constant staining, since stretching the tone, most often, begins with observance of the indent from the roots... This distance is painted with a paint similar to the natural color.

It should also be remembered that a similar procedure involves lightening the ends of the strands, therefore, after coloring, it is necessary not only to use color-maintaining agents, but also to apply restorative, nourishing preparations and masks.

How to go from black to chocolate, see below.