Gray hair can be dyed in many different colors and shades: “platinum blonde”, ashen color, chestnut, red - everything that comes to your mind. But what if you decide to return to the natural gray color? The better this “return” is planned out, the easier it will be to overcome the rejection of the use of hair dye.
Gray hair needs the right hairstyle
Most women do not consider the appearance of the first gray hair a tragedy. They just start using hair dye. For example, they change chestnut colors to light chestnut colors, against which a few gray strands are not at all noticeable. However, sooner or later there comes a time when such measures cease to produce results - gray hair becomes too much. When even the roots turn gray, the people around you begin to notice this, despite all your efforts. Many have to admit that the natural color is no longer chestnut, and gray.
White roots are well distinguishable even on light brown hair. If you want to hide it, you will have to tint them constantly. It should not be forgotten that over time not only the color of the hair changes, but also the structure of the face and teeth. It may happen that the chestnut color just stops you going. It is not uncommon for the transition from chestnut to gray with a well-chosen hairstyle to make the new look with silver hair not only more harmonious, but also younger-looking. Therefore, we advise at least to think about the possibility of such a choice. If you decide to wear your natural gray color, the technique of transition to it will be determined by the characteristics of your hair and those dyeing methods that you used before.
Six Steps to Restore Natural Gray Hair Color
The darker you dyed your hair, the harder it would be to switch to a natural gray color. Together with your stylist, you must find some temporary solution in order to combine new gray hair with old dyed hair. This may be a transition, highlighting, or even a shorter hairstyle.
The longer your hair, the more carefully you will have to plan the transition to gray hair. It sometimes takes several years for owners of long ones. You can try to gradually dye your hair in more and more light colors.
The less you used artificial red pigments before moving to gray color, the easier it will be to achieve the desired result. The transition from blonde blonde to gray hair will pass almost unnoticed, especially if you make some lighter strands at this time.
Intense tint rinsing can also ease the transition to a gray color. It hides both gray hair and darker roots. Over time, the pigmentation after rinsing will wash off.
If you are ready for a radical change in your image, then it is better to stop at a short hairstyle. Before the transition, try as long as possible to refrain from the use of hair dye. Hair grows up to 1.5 cm per month, that is, in a few months you will have a completely gray short haircut and a new image.
A modern and elegant hairstyle in combination with correctly applied make-up, bright lipstick and sharply outlined eyebrows will allow you to look attractive and energetic with a new gray color.
We start with a simple - ashy light brown hair color
Reflecting on whom ashy hair color will suit, first of all imagine a blue-eyed or gray-eyed girl of Slavic appearance. In fact, it is not the type that is important, but the ultimate goal. You can choose as close as possible to the natural hair color, or play on the contrast. Ash hair will become an ornament if by nature you:
- a blonde who has a cool skin tone and a shade of eyes,
- blond,
- brunette with dark brown eyes,
- dark-skinned girl with a bright shade of eyes
- brown-haired with gray or green eyes and fair skin.
As you can see, there are practically no restrictions for those who want to try on their ash-blond hair color.
Light blond ash hair color makes the features of the face softer, the image as a whole - more tender. Dark blond ashen shade - adds a certain sharpness to the face, and the image is dictated by severity, rigid forms in clothes.
Here is a good example of color matching.
An unfortunate example of choosing a hair shade.
Expressively ash-blond hair color looks at those who have Eastern blood - almond-shaped eyes, hanging eyelid, high cheekbones, dark complexion. Only the representatives of the Caucasus region are not suitable; their bright appearance with them looks more coarse.
Especially original ashy shades look on girls with frankly oriental features!
African beauties, too, is coming.
A great alternative is golden ash, brown ash and black ash color. For brown eyes of a warm shade, these options are optimal.
Ashy blond - hair color for the elite
Ash blonde can have almost any color tone. In fact, these are all cool shades of blond from light brown and Scandinavian to platinum. As you know, even girls who were blond in childhood acquire a darker tone over time. Therefore, platinum hair color is so rare. It is logical that since nature has left him only chosen, then this shade will go far from everyone. It is categorically impossible to dye in platinum blond if:
- you have problem facial skin,
- you have an uneven complexion and grayish skin tone,
- you have very bright eyes
- you have naturally dark hair and eyebrows in combination with large features and dark skin.
Snow-white Scandinavian hair and porcelain skin make the girl from the picture look like a doll. Platinum blond in all its glory!
The reddish tone of the skin contrasts with the ash blonde, in this case it was slightly diluted with a golden hue and thus solved the problem.
Green eyes and light ashy blond with a blue tint create a winning contrast. Special thanks to the makeup artist, who "married" shades of purple shades.
Before us is a classic, stylish, ash blonde. You can guarantee that in clothes she avoids excessive decorations.
The case when the natural yellowish undertone of the hair does not spoil the final result of coloring. The skin of the girl, too, with a warm shade.
There are exceptions in any rule, but in order to get an ash-blond one, it is not at all necessary to kill the health of the hair with multiple lightening until complete loss of pigment. You can choose a darker tone that will refresh your appearance and add charm to you. Pay attention to shades of beige, ash and ash chestnut.
A very beautiful example of an ash-beige blond and a good color photo.
Here the shade is not so much beige as pinkish. With brown eyes, it looks quite organic.
Beige light strands with ash-brown bangs are perfect for the girl in the photo. See how well these shades are in harmony with the skin tone!
Again a combination of beige, ashen and pink. Success again!
A good example of a noble shade. Ash gray with beige.
And here we have - ashy chestnut hair color. Light balayazh successfully softens facial features.
Coloring and highlighting is a wonderful alternative
To preserve the beauty of hair and hair health, as well as experiment with a new color will allow partial bleaching and multi-level coloring. These are fashionable hairstyles today with highlighting: California highlighting, ombre and shatush. Coloring degrade has become less popular, but with proper performance still looks stylish. If your natural color is chocolate with an ashy shade, it is best to combine it with beige and ash, or light blond. If you are a natural blonde, bleached locks can be made platinum or even gray.
A good option for girls with a warm color type. Almost classic.
And in this photo is an example of a big difference between the tone of the base and the clarified strands. And again, not bad!
Dark ash hair color and almost gray hair in one hairstyle will not spoil the appearance if you like alternative fashion.
Gray hair color
So we got to the most provocative trend of 2018-2017, gray hair. This color has more claims not to the appearance itself, but to the style of the girl who decides to choose it for herself.
First, the style should be! It doesn’t matter whether it’s a sportswear, fashionable preppy, avant-garde or Scandinavian rigor and conciseness of forms. The main thing - a clearly traceable single line that runs through all the elements of the image: from clothing to appearance.
Secondly, in fact, appearance - you must give the impression of a well-groomed woman. A girl in a worn sweater, with a bad face and lifeless hair, dyed in gray tint, can turn into a ridicule. Believe me, it's better to cut the split long hair to medium length than to show the surrounding ends of the strands. Similarly, with clothes, a new one, even from a democratic brand, is better than a luxury brand, but one that has been seen.
Dark skin and eyes of a warm shade create a strong contrast with the gray color of the strands. Why not continue the trend, increasing the contrast due to the dark tones of makeup and light clothes?
Perfect skin, bright eyes, underlined with arrows, red lipstick ... And all this combined with gray hair. It can be seen that a good colorist worked on the hairstyle - the shade of hair has a very light rozovinku, like the skin of the girl from the picture.
The image becomes softer due to the delicate color of lipstick, which is in harmony with the pastel shade of hair. Very unusual!
Here are some more useful life-hacks, which will help to extend even the most mediocre image to the category of “fashionable”:
- Lipstick saturated colors can instantly revive the face and become a bright accent in the image. With gray hair looks great!
- It is better to refuse from jewelry at all, or to choose one large, noticeable, than to put on a lot of different in style and shape of rings, earrings and pendants. Often we wear them constantly and do not notice at all, and in fact they create excessive fullness with details in the image. With gray hair, you need to strive for minimalism in the nuances.
- Gray hair needs to be laid more often.
- Dress in neutral colors, leaving only a few bright accents - red shoes, a turquoise scarf, a purple hat will be a great addition to gray hair.
We combine pastel and ashy shades of hair
Colored hair does not give up their positions for the second season already. In combination with gray and gray, they look especially impressive. How to choose - ash blue, ash purple, or ash pink hair color? Depends on your personal preferences. By the way, in 2018, the transition from color to color can be not only smooth, but also dramatic. Bright green or pink strand on a common gray background will significantly refresh the image.
Where is the line between ashen, black and purple? Thin color transitions on straight hair look amazing!
Ash-red color? It looks like a strawberry blond, but not exactly the same.
Dark ash turns into a gentle lavender hue. Option for romantic girls who love a sporty style in clothes.
Turquoise and ash ... Mermaid!
There are many shades of purple, here the color goes into the red. In combination with ash-black is a very good choice.
But delicate violet as a transitional color from ashen to white.
You can not decide on a color accent? Try some bright colors in combination with silver gray.
How to dye your hair gray?
How to achieve ashy hair color, not every fashionable hairdresser knows. It is not so easy!
Many girls with lightening and coloring show a strong yellow, or orange pigment. You can be fair-haired by nature, and after using staining at the same level in your own shade, become the owner of chestnut and even red strands. When lightening the probability of such an outcome increases significantly. The pigment that is added to the base paint will help solve the problem. Ash hair dye has many shades. If you chose a Scandinavian blond, or blond, and copper red appeared - add 3 cm of green pigment from the same company. If yellow is blue, red is purple.
In order to maintain the color in the future, you will need to use a shampoo or a tonic with the same coloring pigment to wash your hair.
A good toning shampoo will help to preserve the freshness of staining for many weeks.
If you want to achieve a gray shade of hair, you will need to completely brighten the strands. It is better to do it on a low oxide with a prolonged exposure time - so the hair will suffer less. A depot serum is applied to the depigmented strands and only then tinted with a graphite gray tint.
Care for gray-colored hair is not difficult. They need to be washed with shampoo to maintain color and trim the ends in time. The advantage is that brunettes can be painted quite rarely - regrown dark roots do not look defiant.
Growing roots will not spoil the hair. But only if by nature you are not blonde, otherwise the look will be untidy. If you have blond hair, the difference between the roots and the rest of the strands can be corrected using a tinting balm.
Decided to paint in ashen or gray yourself? Then this video is useful to you:
Care tips, see here:
Gray hair care
A pen! That's what I was led to ... and where I was a little disappointed. In the color you like, it can be a wonderful decoration of the table is stable, does not fall. After all, manufacturers have given their creation such a name, as if hinting that there will be an angelic attitude to the hair of this handsome steel man.
Does hair pull out when combing with Tangle Teaser? What pleased me, of course, is that with the new Tangle Angel you can blow-dry your hair ... but for this purpose, my favorite brashing is closer to me soft and pleasant to use. Fortunately, the product was not a failure and is very good to use. This is only 1%, ... and maybe all 5% of the difference, but when I know the best, it is already harder to get used to steel changes.
First you need a special clarifying powder and oxide. The percentage of oxide is better to choose a small, and if necessary, repeat the clarification. The most difficult thing is to remove the extraneous shade. Avoid frequent use of various heating tools for styling - silver colored hair is already damaged, you should not test them for strength.
The work was done very high quality, quickly, in a wonderful atmosphere of benevolence, I really liked everything. Special thanks for the advice and for not indifference. In the near future the master will contact you and advise in detail on the services of interest.
You can buy Manic Panic paint in Moscow and St. Petersburg in the specialized stores indicated on our website. Always in the presence of a full palette of colors.
Only one package will give the strands an amazing shine and rich color that will last at least 3-4 weeks. So you can forget about regular visits to beauty salons and constant coloring of the roots. We have compiled an inspiring selection of gray ombres that look incredible.
No, the gray ombre does not look like gray. In addition, you can highlight only gray ends - this ombre option is especially suitable for brunettes.And in this vision, I found an excuse that I need to lower more than one hundred hryvnia to a new comb.
But in the Macadamia series there was nothing so attractive as to replenish the rows of combs. And it seemed to me to be oversold, and Cherab - to be a baby, so this determined my choice - we take the usual version. On the official website and on the website of the representative in Ukraine, the Tangle teaser metallic is referred to the category of ordinary Tangle Angel ... and does not smell like old colors.
Gray hair - a fashionable trend or a lot of worries?
Best of all, the color was transmitted, it seems to me, in the photo in the shadow of the room (second, at the door). But what is the reality? If I am not mistaken, there are eight colors now, although I thought that these 001, 002 are on terracotta ... and they end up because white and pink are a bit like promo photos.
By the way, about integrity and safety. And I’ll not check the next year without scratches and scratches; enamel, like new - and that’s good. Yes, it is good for Angel, but this thickened base (from which I started describing the end of the handle - on which the comb is standing), hinders my little hand a little. Just my little finger does not fit there, neither there, nor here ... And for the wings I do not want to hold - it is wide, nevertheless, for me (the width of the comb in the back is about half its length).
Yes, and cope with dry. That's it ... (visual photo to prove it). And TANGLE ANGEL XTREME seemed overwhelming to me - 227 mm., And I threw away the possibility of buying. Only now I thought not only about the size, but also about the translation of the words cherub (I have not come across it in spoken English before).
The process of staining in gray color
I do not understand why on of.sayte more than 400 UAH, and on others you can find (sort of like the original) for 220? I would be happy to buy it, but I constantly pull myself down that maybe this is a fake. I spotted this comb for a long time (thanks to Instagram, social networks and bloggers), but I didn’t want to buy it in St. Petersburg, I wouldn’t be sure of its originality.
Pay attention to the color of the fabric, suitable for women SUMMER. It has high strength characteristics, can withstand large shock and vibration loads. The product description is informational and may differ from the description provided in the manufacturer’s technical documentation.
For me, it depends more on the shampoo, and on the fabric in contact with the hair of clothing than on a comb. This is exactly the color that everyone fears, and they relate to a biased - Omg! Orange. For those hairs to which a comb combs for the first time, this will seem to be an angelic attitude.
Silver is in fashion today
Many girls put on the hair beautiful gray hair. At the same time, not all women see the difference between gray and gray - and these are completely different concepts.
Gray is the shade with which the girl covers her hair during dyeing, and gray hair is the condition of female hairs.
At the moment, more and more beauties among stars and celebrities are putting ashy paints on their heads. In particular, the gray hairstyle has Lady Gaga, Kylie Jener and others.
Before painting a girl's hair, do the following test:
And if the image of the girl has become harmonious, then you can safely put ashy shades on the head.
If the girl is not sure of her choice of color for the hair, she can contact the hairdresser. The wizard applies strands of dyed hair to the female and gives a verdict - whether the girl is wearing an ashy head of hair or not.
How to get a beautiful ash color
In order to make her hairstyle ashen, a girl needs to put a lot of effort - a lot depends on the girl's natural hair color and condition at the time of dyeing.
In any case, from 1 time - at home, a woman will not be able to make an ash-colored head of hair.
The fact is that the ash color is difficult to obtain when painting at home. As a result, instead of the ashen shade, the lady gets green, purple.
In some cases, even the master in the salon cannot get the necessary shade from 1 time - in such a situation the stylist saves the client's gray hair from the burn.
As a result, the girl should not do her own ashy hairstyle - in a situation like this, a woman should better turn to a professional stylist and make her hair volumetric and elegant.
In addition, the stylist recommends to the client the use of the desired tint balm, which makes the ash gray or removes the red color that occurs when washing off the paint.
The easiest way to dye ashy colors is blond hair. In this situation, you can not do the blondirovanie, and the effect of the composition of the light on the bright hair will be minimal.
If a girl has dark hair, then to get gray hair, she discolors, and then tones hair - makes them ashen.
At the moment, manufacturers produce a lot of different paints for painting curls in silver and other colors.
However, before the start of the painting, the girl makes a preliminary blonding - as a result, the gray color of ash hair is applied only on bleached hair.
Original gray tint
If a girl wants to have a spectacular gray hairstyle, then she needs to use a shade of gray.
When painting the hair in a similar color, the stylist takes into account the age of the client and her color type. In such a situation, the following rule applies: the older the girl, the brighter the shade color for hair (gray hair dye).
Ash blonde
The shade of "Ash Blonde" is considered a good option for fair-haired girls.
When using this shade, a woman gets the desired ash color of the hair and removes yellowness from her hair - replaces it with a silver sheen.
Light-skinned women of fashion with gray or blue eyes often use this shade.
Light gray
When carrying out a multi-level hair dyeing, the girls make their hair light-brown with a light gray tone.
In a similar situation, when getting the desired effect, a woman of blond and silver tones, which are diluted by a blond.
Dark gray
If a woman has dark blond hair, then she paints her hair with gray dark shades. In this situation, the wizard adds similar shades to the women's head of hair.
Such shades are applied to the head of hair of a girl of any color type - such cosmetics are considered universal.
At the moment, the combination of gray color with multi-colored hair strands is considered popular.
Ash gray
The main trend of 2016 is ashen gray. Hollywood stars use a similar touch when forming a spectacular image.
Today, when applying modern technologies, the masters create both a classic and a 3D version. In the latter case, stylists use several shades of gray.
Light-skinned women with light-colored eyes make their hairstyle ashy-gray - a similar color further enhances their appearance.
At the moment, many men are attracted to girls with ashy hair. Such women have a sophisticated and beautiful appearance.
However, a girl should choose shades suitable for her image that refresh the complexion and do not give a negative result. In this situation, a woman is better to turn to a professional stylist, and not to paint her hair at home.
After all, if a girl made a mistake - she made an unsuccessful experiment on a head of hair, then she would have to do a blonder that destroys the hair structure. In this situation, re-dyeing hair can be done only after 2 weeks - no earlier.
