What are the advantages and who should choose relief coloring?
Don't you like clear transitions in balayage, ombre, and shatush techniques? Do you dream of changing your color while maintaining a natural shade? Want to freshen up your look? This highlighting suits you best.
Owners of any hair can choose it - it all depends on the goal:
- lighten natural light brown by several tones
- get rid of powder blonde
- add depth to a dark color by highlighting small strands
- highlight strands on the face
Relief highlighting technique - video
There are many technicians. Each master uses his own techniques. The main thing is to highlight small strands.
- Hair is divided into zones - occipital and anterior.
- Application of the composition begins from top to bottom. On the upper occipital zone, using zigzag movements, select a strand 4-5 cm wide.
- Using a ponytail comb, small strands are separated from this strand.
- These strands are placed on foil and well impregnated with a lightening or coloring composition. The foil is rolled up. If necessary, secure with a clamp.
- Then a new thin strand is highlighted below - also with a zigzag movement. They don’t touch it - they put it up on the foil.
- Take the next strand and use a comb to trim off the small strands again. Place it on foil and apply the composition. And so on.
- From the occipital area they move to the face.
- After the entire volume has been highlighted, they move on to the strands that were not touched. Using a brush, a lightening composition is applied to them using the balayage technique.
- Leave for 30 minutes and wash off.
- Then comes tinting with the selected shade.
How to paint it correctly?
Procedure:
- Choice of paint.
- Do an allergy test at least 24 hours in advance. Apply some of the composition to your wrist. If there is no redness, irritation, or itching, then you can use it.
- Prepare your workplace (mirror, comb, gloves, napkin, cape)
- Dilute the composition according to the instructions.
- Cover exposed parts of the body with a cape.
- Divide your hair into strands or zones.
- Apply the mixture with a cosmetic brush one at a time, starting from the back of the head.
- Record the time according to the instructions.
- Wash off any remaining paint. Rinse hair with light water.
- Apply the balm and rinse your hair after 2-3 minutes.
- We dry without a hairdryer.
Relief coloring for blondes
This technique is ideal for blondes. Allows you to get a beautiful shade for a long time, forgetting about the growing dark roots. Small bleached strands are mixed with the total mass - creating a natural color.
Choose relief highlighting if you decide to go from light brown to pure blonde. The technique is less traumatic than total lightening. Good for those who decided to move away from powder lightening and, on the contrary, into darkening. During dyeing, the master applies dye to small strands and they gently change the overall tone.
Procedure technology
Blonding your hair is exactly the case when you need to contact a dyeing specialist and visit a beauty salon. Only a professional colorist will be able to choose the ideal shade, technique and dye, taking into account the characteristics of your hair and appearance in general.
For dark hair
Those with dark hair will have to work hard to dye their hair blonde without damaging their hair. Firstly, this can only be done most effectively and safely for hairstyles and hair follicles in a salon. Secondly, this will take more than one hour, and in some cases you will need several such “washes” of color.
Previously colored dark hair may require decapage . If your colorist works on professional L'Oréal Professionnel , he will use Efassor . The only contraindication for it is uncut henna dyeing.
For blondes
If you want to refresh your usual light hair color, you can limit yourself to tinting your hair. This procedure gives undyed blond strands a healthy shine and a richer shade. SalonSecret experts recommend various shades of L'Oréal Professionnel Dia Richesse . The process of gentle coloring with this ammonia-free dye takes no more than half an hour, does not damage the hair, does not lighten it, but only changes the tone.
To tone bleached hair, you can try a delicate toner from the Matrix Color Sync with an acidic pH in the shade Nude, completely transparent. It is used for glossing and light touch-ups between coloring sessions. Pay attention to other tones of the Color Sync : their task is to create an even shade along the length, remove the yellowness that appears during lightening, and restore hair, returning shine and silkiness to it. from alkaline Color Sync in that they do not affect the tone of the lightening and give the hair more shine. Let us remind you that before application, colorists mix dyes of this type with activators from the same range .
For brown hair
The most suitable lightening option for fair-haired people is ammonia-free dyeing. For example, the permanent dye L'Oréal Professionnel Inoa Blond Resist does not contain ammonia, while completely covering gray hair and lightening up to three tones. For simple coloring you will only have to visit the salon once.
Here's what a master colorist does:
- Inoa dye Inoa ODS2 developer in the required proportion, and then adds SmartBond protective concentrate if necessary.
- The resulting mixture is first applied to the roots and then distributed along the entire length.
- After 35 minutes, thoroughly rinse hair with warm water and technical shampoo to complete the coloring with L'Oréal Professionnel Inoa Post .
For redheads
To save your nerves and hair, it is better to contact an experienced colorist to lighten red hair - the orange pigment is quite capricious and can behave unpredictably when dyed at home. There is no need to be afraid of ammonia dyes; in this case, this is the most effective way to turn your hair blonde. To work with a natural red base, SalonSecret experts recommend Matrix Socolor.beauty Ultra Blond , which is mixed with an oxidizing agent of 9 or 12%. You will have to wait about an hour, as a result - lightening up to five levels of tone, while the strands become softer and more radiant.
Relief coloring for brunettes on dark hair
Dark color can be boring. It lacks glare and movement. In this case, the relief coloring technique works best. Small light strands create visual volume. Change color a little. If you want dramatic changes, you can lighten your hair by 3-5 tones.
Caring for colored hair
Blondes should not neglect home hair care: the lightening procedure is considered one of the most difficult and stressful for curls, so you will have to take care of your hair with a vengeance.
What products will be needed to maintain healthy bleached hair? We turned to SalonSecret experts with this question, who are well versed in the Matrix and Kérastase .
To neutralize yellow and brassy tones: Matrix So Silver
Stylists are always ready to tell a lot of interesting facts about the color wheel and the influence of different pigments on each other, but blondes are much more interested in the final result. And that's reasonable. If you have light hair with silver undertones, we recommend trying this range.
- Shampoo Matrix So Silver
Its task is to adjust the tone of the hair between colorings, neutralizing unwanted warm shades. Use at home as soon as you notice your favorite blonde, bleached or highlighted hair color starting to change. It is enough to use this shampoo 2-3 times a week, each time leaving it on the hair for up to 10 minutes. It is also suitable for natural gray hair, which often lacks a refined silvery nuance.
- Conditioner Matrix So Silver
It acts in a targeted manner, restoring damaged areas of the hairline. If you are afraid that after lightening your strands will become very porous, brittle, brittle, dry and lifeless, after each shampoo, apply conditioner, massage it into the strands, and then rinse.
- Intensive neutralizing mask Matrix So Silver
Super concentrated care with pigments for salon use only. Stylists say that the mask is absolutely not suitable as a home remedy. Firstly, it will be difficult to wash off from the surface of the bathtub and from the walls. Secondly, it is not suitable for every blonde; it requires a trained eye.
To neutralize yellowness: Matrix Brass Off
The hated yellowness will make itself known sooner or later, but proper care will save you from encountering it. Brass Off is just like that.
- Matrix Brass Off Shampoo
Created personally for cool blondes of levels 5-8, that is, not the lightest. These are, first of all, light brown-haired, dark blond (light brown tone), medium and light blond. Then there are dazzling shades of very light tones; the So Silver . But Brass Off works within this framework, and works well: it returns a cool nuance to the hair and preserves the naturalness of the color.
- Conditioner Matrix Brass Off
The formula of this nourishing treatment is enriched with vitamin oil for elasticity and softness of hair. With Brass Off , your blonde is in no danger; you can forget about the common horror stories (that after bleaching your hair will look like straw) you can forget forever.
- Matrix Brass Off Mask
Another exclusively salon mask, which, if handled carelessly, will turn your blonde hair into a mop with a lilac tint. SalonSecret experts are always careful, so in their capable hands this product works wonders. In those cases when you don’t have an extra hour at the salon, and the blonde has already lost its luxurious cold nuance, go see your hairdresser for at least 10 minutes. During this period, the mask will neutralize the warm undertone and drive away yellowness.
- Cream Matrix Brass Off
Cream for deep nourishment of hair colored in cool light shades. There is no need to rinse it off; after application, you can safely curl your curls or straighten your strands with an iron - Brass Off also protects against high temperatures. It will also come in handy before blow-drying: capricious blondes don’t like hot air.
To maintain pastel blonde shades: Matrix Keep Me Vivid
There are blondes, and there are BLONDS. Exquisite, unique and very easy to wash off: beige, light coral, strawberry, rose gold, pearl. To protect them, a special range is needed.
- Matrix Keep Me Vivid Shampoo
Sulfate-free cleansing is the main condition for a long and happy life for your favorite shade. This shampoo is gentle, does not cause rapid washout of color nuances and is equally good for both bright and pastel shades.
- Conditioner Matrix Keep Me Vivid
Glazing is a popular salon service. Its effect can be repeated at home using this conditioner. It smoothes the cuticle to a glossy shine and thereby prevents artificial pigments from leaving the hair.
- Spray laminator color Matrix Keep Me Vivid
Stylists use the express laminator immediately after coloring. It seals the color into the hair shaft in a minute thanks to its slightly acidic pH. Feel the difference: a one-time use of the spray allows you to “preserve” the color so that the shade will delight you up to 21 shampoos.
- Leave-in care Matrix Keep Me Vivid
One of the main enemies of any blonde is ultraviolet radiation. This cream contains UV filters, instantly softens the hair, gives it a gorgeous shine and takes care of the color day after day.
To restore after lightening: Matrix The Re-Bond
Do not forget that lightening or bleaching is always the destruction of the natural pigments of the hair. Stylists consider this damage and advise caring for the blonde at home more carefully, even extremely. Re-Bond range gives decent results .
- Matrix Re-Bond Shampoo
The first step is complete cleansing and blocking the harmful effects of negative ions in the hair structure. The shampoo contains citric acid, which prepares the strands to restore internal structural bonds.
- Pre-conditioner Matrix Re-Bond
The second step is intensive strengthening of the bonds in the keratin matrix of the hair. Immediately after shampoo, apply this product, enriched with maleic acid, to keep your strands strong, well-groomed and healthy.
- Conditioner Matrix Re-Bond
During the lightening process, compounds with a bonder strengthen the protein matrix of the hair, but after a while it weakens again. To support it, you need this conditioner, which can restore hair damaged by three lightenings (this result deserves respect) or the abuse of thermal styling tools. The cumulative effect of Re-Bond increases the hair's resistance to any damage.
In cold colors - ashy, silver
Ashes are at the peak of popularity. A cold tone suits a woman of a cold color type. If you decide to have ash highlights, be prepared for regular maintenance. Silver tones, pearl, ashy nuances are washed out very quickly. This type of coloring requires constant tinting. Anti-yellow shampoo, tinting balm and mask are faithful companions of cool shades.
How to choose hair dye
Before you start creating your new look, you need to choose a product. When dyeing hair in a beauty salon, this problem is automatically solved, because the master has all the necessary materials. The visitor can only choose a shade or pattern, tell the hairdresser what she wants, so that he can offer the best solution.
Hair dyes are divided into permanent and gentle. The former contain strong oxidizing agents, which increases the risk of hair damage, but the results last longer. The second ones are less persistent, but not so terrible for the hair.
Additional care products: shampoos, balms, masks, serums - soften the negative effects of dyes.
Relief coloring in caramel tones
Caramel - tasty and bright. A honey, warm shade suits women of a warm color type. If your skin is golden or dark in color, caramel will suit you.
For long hair
Length requires special attention. To maintain quality, you need to paint carefully. Selective application of bleach and dye helps maintain healthy hair.
For short hair
Embossed coloring for short hair is the hit of the season. Visually creates volume. Beautiful transitions look natural. And naturalness is a trend in recent years.
Beautiful color options
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We tell and show which shades of blonde are suitable for light hair of different lengths.
For short hair
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Short haircuts look most impressive and stylish in combination with “Nordic” shades of blonde - white , platinum, pearl . But there is a nuance: the skin tone of the face should also be cold. A great idea for creative people is a trendy pastel pink blonde.
For medium length hair
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Medium hair length is universal for any coloring. You can enliven such a haircut with either a shining ultra-blonde or a “delicious” strawberry blond, or with softer and more natural nuances - wheat strands or an ashy tint.
For long hair
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A long haircut allows the color tints and sun highlights to fully reveal themselves, so techniques such as shatush, ombre and balayage with their transitions from one shade of blonde to another are the most suitable option for long hair.
