Degradè: how to revive your hair with natural and bright sun reflections!
Are you a lover of Sarah Jessica Parker or Jessica Alba's hair? So, you must know that the two Hollywood stars with shining hair are fond of degradé, a hair lightening technique that allows you to revive the base color with natural reflections, the result of a mix of different ton sur ton shades, which give a bright and always irresistible sunkissed effect.
If your desire is to show off sun-kissed hair, then the degradé is right for you, because, unlike streaks, highlights and shatush, it is able to give a completely natural effect, avoiding a sharp contrast between root and tips of the hair and respecting the natural rose of colors from which you start.
Before proceeding, we remind you that if you start from a light or medium-light base, it is possible to lighten your hair naturally even with a more economical and practical DIY, obviously with a decidedly lighter but no less intriguing result. .
Degradè is a coloring technique conceived by Claudio Mengoni di Joelle, in the Eighties, created to enrich a hair otherwise too flat and monochromatic with multi-faceted ton sur ton reflections. The secret of this treatment, also known as the Joelle degradé technique, is to guarantee a shaded and gradual effect that runs along the entire length of the hair, mixing three shades of color close to the starting one, as we will see better shortly.
This innovative treatment is not only designed to lighten dark hair or give bright and natural reflections, but also to cover gray hair, thus avoiding to proceed with a real dye that can often cause an unnatural color and appearance. oxidized, making slaves of the unpleasant regrowth. The degradè in these cases is done starting from the root, mixing different shades and taking only some of the white hair to avoid an excessively unnatural and full effect. The result is a vibrant hair, the result of a game chromatic chiaroscuro all in nuance with the natural starting colors.
How degrade is made
First of all it must be said that this technique must be done by an expert hairdresser to have an excellent and flawless yield; this, first of all, will divide the hair into locks with a comb, moving in a zig zag way, then choose from each of them only some hair that will color and tone with a color in line with the base one. The other part of the lock will not be touched or will undergo a small addition of color reflections, slightly brighter than the starting color. The whole will then be wrapped in aluminum foil and left on for about half an hour.
The characteristic feature of this technique lies precisely in the need to carefully select the three different shades among which to move to give the hair a kaleidoscope of colors in nuances able to revive the hair and give it a new brightness with a natural sunkissed effect. This is the reason why, to obtain a perfect degradè, it is necessary to turn to expert professionals, who, for a cost between 60 and 90 euros, will be able to make it flawlessly and to recommend the most suitable shades for the your natural color and according to the characteristics of your face.
Advantages and benefits of degradè
In addition to giving a vibrant, luminous and completely natural color, to warming faces and making them more harmonious, the Joelle degrade has three other rather advantageous benefits:
- It has a rather long duration, and can last up to six months, avoiding the unpleasant and unsightly regrowth effect. In fact, taking advantage of the principle of vertical coloring and not reaching the root - except in cases of gray or white hair - the treatment it does not necessarily take up again after a short time. Generally in fact, in the root area a reflex is used very close to the starting color but which is not a true colored dye, so as to minimize the contrast with the regrowth as much as possible, while it is on tips and lengths that are applied real shades of color, all however, with the aim of guaranteeing a natural gradient effect.
- It has the advantage of looking good on any type of cut, even on medium-long ones, as opposed to bleaching techniques such as balayage, highlights or shatush, which give the best of themselves with a long cut and wavy styling. Degradé turns out to be an excellent choice even for medium-short curly and straight hair.
- It can be made on all colors: from blond to brown to darker hair or shades of red, mahogany, copper or Titian red. The trick is, as already said, in finding the shades closest to the color of the base to give it a "vibrant and rich interpretation without being unnatural or artificial. The blond degradé, with cool shades of beige or warmer shades of gold, and the brown one played on blonde, caramel, bronze or golden reflections, are undoubtedly the most popular versions because they allow you to recreate the effect of the summer sun in a simple and impeccable way, giving harmony to faces and features and warming hair that is often too dim and dynamics.
In short, do you still have doubts? If you want a bright and lively color, degradé is the solution! Just choose the color you love, perhaps taking inspiration from the hair of the stars, and have an expert hairdresser help you to make it in the best way!
