Hair lightening: techniques and tips to avoid damaging the hair!
There are many ways at your disposal to lighten your hair gradually or even clearly and clearly. As you will see, each method has its own characteristics and ensures you a type of result, so choose according to your wishes! When you lighten your hair or even if you just color it with a dye you have to pay attention to some very important things, watch the video to get to the super prepared dye!
Hair lightening: lighten with highlights and with Shatush
The highlights are a lightening technique with a very natural effect on the hair. They light up the hair, work on fine strands and go well with blonde and brown hair. Even on darker ones, for example dark brown or mahogany, coppery red lightening up to two tones can be obtained. Shatush only touches length and tips, it doesn't reach the roots. First a delicate discoloration is done; the bases of the hair are cottoned and then the lightener is applied. In this way it is possible to lighten the hair up to three tones compared to the initial color. Obviously, if you intend to repeat this treatment after some time, maybe you should cut the length first, as the second lightening, adding to the first could give a much clearer result. It seems to us to be an excellent lightening technique for the thin hair, because backcombing gives more thickness to the hair. It goes towards the tips with more intense color, without necessarily following the vertical direction, but also proceeding diagonally, forming triangles and rhombuses. The effect resembles that of a regrowth or lightening due to a very prolonged exposure to the sun's rays. The gray shatush and the blue and pink ones are always very eccentric. If you have brown or light brown hair, blond gives it a perfect light, but copper also illuminates them optimally. If your hair is dark, a nice cool brown is the right color. In case you want to try the DIY shatush at home, there are also for sale on line of special kits complete and easy to use Sometimes each salon personalizes these lightening treatments with various terms, but more or less the techniques are always the same.
Hair lightening: lighten with Balayage and French Balayage
The term Balayage derives from the French “balayer”, meaning to sweep. The hairdresser with this method can lighten the hair, sweeping off their outer surface. The hair takes on a beautiful light and the result is a very natural hair, in which bands of light mix with the base color with a sunkissed effect, ie "" kissed by the sun "". Balayage should be repeated at least every three months and it is a lightening effect that gives everyone. Precisely for this reason it has become a trendy treatment, in great demand even by famous models and actresses. For the Balayage the hairdresser divides the hair into 5 parts; can draw striae along the length, lightening the various locks with different color tones. After lightening, a toner blends with the base color. Shatush and balayage bleach the hair to give that sun effect that remains after a beach holiday. Now with these techniques you can always have it, all year round. French Balayage is very trendy nowadays, both with hand lightening and with papers, with shades starting from the root. With this technique, toning is fundamental, in order to give depth to the roots and blend the color changes, so much so as to make them imperceptible. In traditional Balayage the chromatic border is sharper, in French it is very gradual. French Balayage naturally lightens by 1 or 2 tones; it is suitable for any base color, because it does not give too showy effects initially and does not create too strong chromatic contrasts; the toning agent discharges with the subsequent shampoos and all the hair takes on light. While in the shatush the hair is teased and it is a technique more suitable for long hair, the balayage acts only on the strands and has a more natural and sunny effect; with the shatush you get a decisive separation of color between the upper and lower area of the hair. Furthermore, the backcomb before the shatush weakens the hair, while the brush in the balayage does not damage it in a particular way and, therefore, is a good quality lightening.
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Hair lightening: the light of micromèches
The micromèches suggest the fashion of several years ago, but this technique is making a comeback, obviously rather modernized. These subtle streaks can be done in such a way as to give light to some points of the face or to the entire length of the hair. With their brightness, the angular contours of the face are softened and oval shapes that are too round are given movement. This technique allows a very refined hair contouring (a technique that hides the defects of the features with the color and enhances the merits of the face) very refined with streaks much more subtle than those of the past. The micromèches require bleaching on very fine locks, fading along the length to the tips. On blond hair the result will be less evident, but very natural; on a dark base color it could be too artificial or uncomfortable, because the speed of regrowth must always be taken into account. This technique gives a very pleasant blonde effect even on very light brown hair. However, it is a question of having patience, because the procedure is long and the hairdresser has to put a lot of papers on the hair. However, it is not recommended to do excessive bleaching and backcombing, because these are always a bit stressful for the hair. That is why after these treatments it is necessary to use nourishing and repairing products regularly. Degradé is also very popular with women and its sunkissed effect is very attractive. However, it is a more complex technique (which requires the experience of a professional in the sector in a good hairdressing salon), which can combine up to 4/5 shades of color. The hair is divided into various locks. covered with foil along the entire length. Some strands remain their natural color, others are colored. The degradé effect is not conspicuous, the hair does not even look dyed, also because the roots are not treated with chemical dyes, but with some natural reflectors obtained from beeswax. These products also do not contain ammonia, are not aggressive for the hair, nor harmful to the skin. Choose the degradé if you are interested in a very sweet sunkissed effect, without fear of damaging the natural shine of the hair , and if you want to cover the first white hair (in this case it's about coloring), playing with soft shades without losing your original color.
Hair lightening: Ombré
Ombré, which in French means shadow, allows you to change the hue, without straying too far from the base color: it is a two-tone color, darker towards the root and lighter on mid-length and on the ends in order to create a shadow by hand without maps or other, which gives dynamism to the original color in an elegant and natural way, in a total fusion with the base color. The blond, coppery or hazelnut reflections must be very natural, without exaggerated chromatic variations. However, we advise you not to do often lightening on the tips, especially if they are stressed and brittle. Now that you know a little more about these techniques, go to your hairdressing salon and choose the new look for your hair. The goal is always to find a very natural and at the same time very personal style, taking into account the base color and the type of hair as well as the cut.
