Silver hair color: popular shades and dyeing features
Silver hair isn't just trendy, it's trendy. Such a paradox: women try to hide the natural gray hair, and the one obtained through dyeing looks spectacular and original. Shimmering silver is a source of inspiration for stylists and hairdressers. Artificial gray hair is worn by both very young girls and ladies "in years". Achromatic and bright at the same time, this color creates an image that is both elegant and extraordinary. A woman with hair, painted in a shade of silver, always stands out from many others.
Such an unusual hair color requires special and careful care, which will require a lot of effort and money from you. Strands tinted in cold silver very quickly lose their spectacular appearance if you do not follow the rules for caring for them.
Features of toning
Deep silvery curls are not found in nature. In order not to turn into a woman of advanced years after staining, it is necessary to carry out the procedure by a highly qualified master. Silver hair tinting is one of the most difficult, as the result can be unpredictable. The silver tone is insidious - it can turn into a dark or too light shade during the dyeing process. Therefore, before deciding on coloring, you should analyze whether this tone suits your face, eye color, skin tone. Equally important is the combination with the style in which you dress, whether the silver in your hair will harmoniously fit into your image.
Today there are many applications and programs with which you can "try on" different haircuts, hairstyles and hair shades. Advice: for "fitting", choose not the photo in which there is a lot of retouching and you look a little like yourself, but the one where you are as natural as possible. Then getting into the color and shape of the haircut will be the best, because you will have to peacefully coexist with your new hair, not only in the photos passed through the application filters, but 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
How to paint?
Silver color will turn out only on pre-clarified strands. First, the hair is lightened, and then tinted in the desired shade. To obtain a perfectly even tone, the hair must be unconditionally healthy. If the hair is dry, damaged, broken, repeatedly dyed, it is better to treat it a little, and only then dye it. Ideally, everything damaged and cut should be cut off, and lightening and toning should be performed on the remaining length.
Believe me, short hair of an even gray shade with a healthy shine will look much better than a long "washcloth", even if it is the desired silver tone.
Since silver toning should be done in perfect proportion, it is best not to do it yourself or with the help of a friend. A competent master in the salon, working with professional means for coloring and care, will do it for you the way you need it. After all, mixing paint in the wrong amount or proportions can result in an unwanted green tint in your strands.
Hair that is planned to be lightened and tinted in silver should not be dyed. If there is paint on the strands, you will have to do a wash, and only then lighten. Otherwise, the nuances of the shades obtained can be very different - from yellowness to greenery, which are easier to cut off than paint over. Of course, it is much easier for blondes by nature who want to achieve a silver tint in their hair - they do not need preliminary lightening, so their hair will suffer less than others. Brunettes, on the other hand, may need not only preliminary blonding, but also toning with means that eliminate the appearance of unpleasant yellowness in the hair.
Modern tools in the arsenal of the master colorist allow you to achieve a 3D effect in the strands. To do this, you need to use not one, but three or more shades of the same color (in the situation under discussion - gray). Then each movement of the head will add additional volume to the hair due to the play of color in the colored strands. For brunettes who want to join the fashionable trend of "silver" in their hair, you can try the equally relevant technology of partial dyeing. For example, highlighting in a shade of gray. It will require long strands, which will alternate in shades of "salt and pepper". This technique is best suited for women who have naturally black hair.
The shatush technique imitates the burnout of individual curls. The tone is applied selectively, haphazardly. For shatusha, a pure silver tone is rarely used, more often light brown or ash is used. Thanks to this technique, the hair looks much more voluminous and lush. And due to the randomness of the application, it is necessary to renew the staining quite rarely - every 2-3 months.
Another partial coloring technique is ombre - this technique is sometimes called "stretching" the color. When using ombre, the shade of the hair roots is very different from the shade at the ends. In this case, the transition from dark to light is not sharp, but smooth. The ombre is most effective on hair of medium length and long (at the same time straight). Silver combines beautifully with tones such as strawberry, lavender, turquoise, giving an original and fashionable result. If you adhere to the classics in hair coloring, it is better to combine silver tones with dark blond or mother-of-pearl.
Silver hair care
Dyeing the strands silver is one step, but keeping them intact is more difficult.You should not neglect the advice of the master colorist - if you have already entrusted your head to him and received the result, then he will best of all tell you how to save and consolidate it. It is better to purchase the recommended products with a ruler - shampoo, balm, mask, serum. It is in the complex that they work most effectively, moisturizing, protecting, and also toning the hair.
On tinted strands, you can not use funds from scrap materials - sour cream, mustard, burdock oil, onions, garlic and other products. The result that such a mask can give on silver hair is unpredictable. Therefore, care should be carried out only with the help of professional cosmetics for colored hair, otherwise yellowness may appear. If you are using a hairdryer, curling iron or hot curlers, apply a protective product to your hair first. In late spring and summer, when the sun is most active, additional protection is needed. For this, balms and masks with a UV filter are suitable - they will prevent the fading of tinted strands.
When choosing a silver shade for dyeing your hair, it is important to understand that such a non-trivial solution will oblige you a lot. For example, to the daily styling of your hair. Lack of hair will instantly turn you into an unkempt woman of advanced age. The only category that can afford a combination of gray hair and sloppy buns on the head is very young girls. The rest need styling.
Silver goes well with smooth bob or page haircuts. Weaving looks great on strands dyed in this way - the more complicated, the more interesting. Artificial gray hair looks no less impressive in the "Hollywood wave" or "Chicago" hairstyle.
For information on how to get silver hair color, see the next video.