Hair color light chocolate: shades and features of coloring

The light chocolate shade looks great on both light and dark hair. It can ennoble gray hair and rejuvenate the face of a mature woman. Consider what you need to know to paint yourself.

Despite the fact that the chocolate shade belongs to the warm range, its light tones can have both warm and cold tints.

Among the benefits of light chocolate:

• natural look of hair;
• versatility due to the combination with different eye colors - gray, blue, hazel, amber, green, excluding the black color of the iris;
• the tone is in good harmony with different types of skin - with light and slightly tanned, peach, porcelain, the combination of light brown hair with a golden-beige tan or natural skin color is also unusual;
• in addition, this color helps to noticeably rejuvenate a woman's image if it is lighter than her natural hair by at least 1-2 tones.

Cold chocolate tones can be selected depending on individual characteristics. But also the use of a light golden brown tone should not be ruled out, but then staining should be carried out according to all the rules so that unwanted yellowness does not occur.

Basic light shades:

• milk chocolate;
• Irish creamy;
• caramel;
• chocolate blonde.

A light brown color will look perfect with light skin, blondes may well be painted in this tone.

However, it is worth considering some nuances.

• Delicate light-skinned brown-haired women and blondes with light eyes, eyelashes and eyebrows should not choose too dark shades. Tones such as frosty, milky, creamy are suitable for them.
• For girls of the autumn color type with green, brown and gray eyes, peach skin, a shade of light chocolate is also suitable, but you only need to choose warm colors, for example, golden chocolate.
• The light brown shade of the strands can make the representatives of the winter color type with gray eyes and pale skin unusually attractive.
• A light chocolate shade looks beautiful on gray or streaked hair. And his light undertones, for example, creamy, can brighten the image of a lady endowed with light, transparent eyes, cream or slightly dark skin.
• Iridescent brown shades look beautiful in combination with matte, peach skin, blue eyes.

Whoever does not suit a fashionable color is women with very dark skin. He is able to make the appearance of red-haired ladies a standard, devoid of a special "sunny" attractiveness. The milky shade of the paint does not match the bright black eyes and almost brown skin, making the image odd to say the least.

There are several methods of staining using folk recipes. Of course, the natural color of the curls should differ from the intended color by no more than 1-2 tones.

To give your hair a light brown tint without damaging it, you can use some folk remedies.

• Rhubarb - it will make the color of the strands light chocolate with beautiful light brown tints. For coloring, you need to take the crushed rhizomes of the plant (1 glass), pour a glass of cold water, bring to a boil and boil for another 10-15 minutes. After that, add 3 tbsp to the resulting liquid. tablespoons of vinegar and, after straining, use as a rinse.
• A golden light brown color on dark hair can be achieved with chamomile infusion... You will need a glass of dried flowers and the same amount of boiling water to steam and infuse the broth with which you rinse your head after the usual washing procedure. The recipe is suitable for brunettes and brown-haired women, since their hair is slightly lightened.
• The so-called ginger chocolate will turn out if you use onion husks... It all depends on the concentration of the resulting solution - light shades work better with a small amount of raw materials and moderate infusion, otherwise there is a risk of achieving too dark tones.
• Products such as black tea or coffee... They are brewed with boiled water and infused for 40 minutes. Keep on the strands for about 15-45 minutes. To make the tone light, you should not overexpose the composition.
• Henna and Basma - Another way to get light chocolate hair color. In this recipe, the proportions should be precisely observed: for 1 part of basma, 1.5-2 parts of henna are taken. The mixture is washed off with plain water without soap and shampoo after exactly 1 hour.

The process of dyeing hair for dark-haired young ladies, brown-haired women and blondes has its own subtleties and differences.

1. It would seem that the easiest way for fair-haired ladies to do this, however, when stained in a light chocolate tone, in addition, reddish and yellowness may appear on the curls. Experts advise trying the composition on one strand, or when washing your hair, use neutralizing tonics and shampoos that remove the flaw.
2. Red-haired women have their own difficulties with obtaining this color. First, they will have to discolor their hairstyle, and only then apply the necessary color scheme.
3. Girls with light brown hair and thin hair shafts can quickly achieve a chocolate tone. If you follow the instructions and don't overexpose the dye on your head, you can get by with one try.
4. The hardest thing in this sense for natural brunettes - after all, even the lightening procedure must be carried out several times until the hair is completely discolored. After that, you will need to paint over the strands with a chocolate tone at least twice.

In addition, you need to know that after complete lightening, you cannot immediately apply the desired shade, you need a break of 2 weeks so that the hair, dried out with ammonia and other harmful components, comes to life.

Light brown ready-to-use dyes can be applied to natural blonde or bleached hair. To do this, you should choose high-quality products from leading cosmetic companies.

• Professional cream from the company Igora Royal - This is a gentle agent, despite the presence of ammonia in the composition. The paint does not flow, evenly dyes all hair, to obtain a light shade of chocolate, you need to use brown tones with beige, purple or gold undertones.
• For gray and bleached hair, you can choose a dye Color touch wella... The advantages of the composition are the content of caring ingredients, obtaining not only a uniform color, but also an amazing shine of the strands. The product is suitable as a toning agent for naturally light hair that has undergone perm.
• The ideal light brown color can be obtained by using the popular dye that does not contain ammonia - Matrix Colorinsider... In a series of chocolate shades of this brand there are such tones: light brown, golden brown, copper brown. An additional advantage of the dye is the amazing shine and shine that it gives to the hair.
• A wide range of shades are available in a palette of brown paint tones Palette... These are chestnut, honey chestnut, cocoa, golden roasted nuts. In addition, the brand is famous for its inclusion in the composition of components that carefully care for the curls. These are vegetable oils of nut, orange and herbal supplements that moisturize, nourish and color the hair at the same time.

• But you can also use brand dyes Estel (medium-brown, chestnut, light brown-haired), which result in a light brown tint, or by the product Acme color "Rowan" (shades - rosewood, cappuccino, mahogany), which contains not only mountain ash extract, but also other plant beneficial for hair extracts - St. John's wort, nettle, burdock root.

You can also carry out permanent staining by mixing different persistent compounds, and then you will get, indeed, the required color, which will remain for a long time. But for this you need to know the professional secrets of paint preparation, familiar only to the master. Therefore, in some cases, it is better to visit a hairdressing salon. In addition, colored hair requires careful care with the use of moisturizing and nourishing masks, as well as thermal protective foams when styling curls with a hair dryer or curling iron.

You will learn how to lighten hair at home in the following video.