Metallic hair color: shades and tips for dyeing

Metallic hair is always new, unexpected, a little cool and royally aristocratic. The cold steel color and its various shades are universal for any age. But here you need to adhere to the requirements for skin and eye color necessary to create an organic look.

The peculiarity of metallic hair color is its shine, diluted with tints of shades, depending on the selected tone and the degree of lighting. It is simply impossible to call the shine of precious metals boring, "mousey", this is the secret of the popularity of this series. The palette is not limited to silver, gold and, for example, copper colors.

Almost all cold tones belong to the metallic gray range, including:

• silver metallic;
• dark smoky ash;
• silver lavender;
• ash blonde;
• pearl;
• melting blue-gray;
• metallic lilac;
• opal with gray;
• platinum;
• light ash pink.

Warm tones include:

• gold (golden);
• bronze;
• copper;
• pink gold;
• coppery pink.

A new fashion trend is a ghostly blond shade that can be created on hair only by visiting a professional master. The technique provides for toning and coloring the strands with half-tones of cold silver, notes of rainbow quartz and white oyster.

An additional advantage of metal-colored hair is its use as a basis for highlighting individual bright strands in the balayage style, during highlighting and in other modern dyeing techniques. So, multifaceted opal highlights on a gray or silver background are now considered extremely fashionable.

The eternal task that a woman faces every time is choosing the right shade.

Silver, steel and other cold shades of the ash scale are commonly associated with the winter type, which has such features as snow-white, alabaster skin, icy blue, gray or blue eyes. But in fact, the cool metallic color of young girls goes well with golden skin and tan, amber, honey, and even dark brown eyes, making their appearance unusual. In this case, you can complement the strands with opal, purple and pinkish highlights, which will make the appearance more vivid.

Nevertheless, these colors are not suitable for brunettes with reddish-brown and dark skin, as well as for ladies who are naturally red-haired with many freckles. In addition, coloring will be difficult for them.

However, for young ladies with chestnut strands and copper-haired girls, there is an opportunity to take advantage of the warm tones of metal. The golden color is perfectly combined with olive and bronze skin tones, green, brown and blue eyes. A copper-golden tone is also suitable for them. For brown-haired women with chocolate strands, blondes and fair-haired women, a shade of rose gold can be ideal, especially on dark hair. It is advised to apply it after highlighting.

If you want to dye your hair in a gray, steel tone, you need to take into account that the natural color should not be too different from what is desired.

Experts in this field advise burning brunettes and red-haired women to go through a professional bleaching procedure and subsequent staining, so as not to encounter unnecessary yellowness and reddishness in their hairstyle.

It is easier for natural brown-haired and blondes to do this, but you still have to lighten your hair.

Let's take a look at some guidelines to help you achieve a pure silver metallic tint.

• Before dyeing, 1-2 months in advance, it is necessary to take care of strengthening the hair and carry out procedures to improve it: cold and warm shiny colors are beautiful, but they are unlikely to look beautiful on depleted strands.
• When bleaching and lightening, it is better to choose paints in which the concentration of hydrogen peroxide is no more than 10-12%, but at the same time it makes no sense to take paints with 6% peroxide - they will not give the required result.
• Washing off the original color should be carried out on unwashed, dry curls. After clarification, at least a few days should pass, and then the required metal tone can be applied.
• At the end of the procedure, it is important to use a high-quality balm that neutralizes the harmful composition.

After staining, it is necessary to maintain an ashy, silver color, which is quickly washed off, revealing a yellow tint after itself. Therefore, it will be appropriate to use special tonics and tint shampoos that retain color and shine.

For high-quality staining, you can use a series of metallic and ash tones from manufacturers such as Palette Perfect Care Color, Londa Professional, Garnier, Schwarzkopf Igora Royal.

It is not necessary to use persistent paints; in some cases, a tinting composition, such as a spray, may be suitable for changing the image. Got2b... A similar method is relevant for owners of light and light brown hair.

For those who want to achieve a fancy color, it is better to contact the salon, where, using modern techniques, you can achieve a stunning metallic hair tone, enriched with unusual highlights and an indescribable shine.

In the following video, you will learn about the technique of dyeing hair in metallic color.