Highlighting - one of the most popular techniques hair coloring since the fifties of the last century. Last years ash-gray shades are especially popular, and thanks to this, so many variations of ash highlighting have appeared.
Given the characteristics of your type, you can use ashy highlighting with success correct shortcomings hair and emphasize the dignity his appearance.
What type of ash highlighting to choose and is it possible to independently perform this procedure at home? Let's talk about all this and consider all the nuances of this staining technique.
Basic principles of ash highlighting
The specifics of ashy highlighting
- Choose cool shades of gray dye.
- Light and light brown curls must first be discolored.
- To make the tone of gray paint natural, add 3% hydrogen oxide to the coloring composition twice as much.
- For dark and thick hair, use 12% hydrogen oxide.
- For blond hair use 8% hydrogen oxide.
- For dark curls, first wash the color, and then bleach.
- Ash strands should be made thin, so they better shade the main color.
- Wide strands can make the main tone faded.
- The transitions between ashy strands and the main color should be smooth, almost blurry.
- Do not do zonal highlighting in ashy color - the hairstyle will look ridiculous.
- Ash highlighting can be combined with ombre.
- Part of the ashy strands in highlighting should not exceed 40% of all hair.
Highlighting has been popular among Hollywood beauties for many years. Jennifer Aniston, Fergie, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Alba and many other fans of hair highlights.
How to do ashy highlighting at home
Variations of ashy hair color with highlights with a photo
The use of ashy shades in highlighting hair is very much. You can do highlighting on ashy hair, or you can use silver shades to highlight the strands themselves. Consider how these techniques look on different types of hair.
Highlighting on ashy hair
You see a very elegant and delicate option in the photo - this is highlighting on ashy hair. Looks good on long hair. Light strands can not only refresh the face, but correct its shape.
Ash-graphite highlighting
This is an option for the bold and extraordinary. In the photo you see that ash-graphite highlighting looks very extravagant.
Ash highlights on blond hair
In the photo you see that even on light brown hair highlighting with an ashy tint looks harmonious. The main thing is to choose the right shades of dyes and take into account all the subtleties of their application.
Ash highlighting
highlighting ashy color, which you see in the photo, will look good with any hair color and can be a stylish accent to your hairstyle.
Highlighting white with ashy
This color combination in highlighting is suitable for owners of very fair skin and gray or blue eyes. Looks elegant and aristocratic.
Ash blonde highlights
This is a very gentle version of ashy coloring with highlights. Highlighting ash blond, as in the photo, is perfect for young girls.
Precautionary measures
- Before highlighting, damaged and brittle hair should be restored.
- Use only professional dyes.
- Avoid highlighting on recently dyed hair (the color may change).
- Refuse highlighting if the hair has been dyed with henna (it is possible to dye the hair green).
- The ash highlighting procedure is best done by a specialist in the salon.
- To eliminate green or red pigment after ash highlights, use a purple tint shampoo 2 times a week.
- If you are doing ashy highlighting at home, then add a purple composition to the gray dye in a ratio of 1: 3.
If it suits you ashy color hair, then you will definitely be a special and feminine girl. We propose to dwell on this shade in more detail.
A few years ago, ashy hair color was in vogue. This season, ashy hair color is experiencing a new “renaissance”. The cold matte ash shade of yesteryear has turned into such a natural and attractive color thanks to highlighting. “Light hair color will never go out of style!” Modern fashionistas say. This is of course true.
Experts and stylists, people who know a lot about fashion and fashion trends, argue that the ash color is a rather unusual shade. It is self-confident, modern and rather conservative, all at the same time.
- Trendy hazel hair color
- Fashionable sand hair color
- Fashionable dark copper hair color
The natural ashy shade of hair in nature practically does not exist. Fashionable ashy hair color with highlights is a rather complex hair color, and it does not suit all women. In order for a woman to decide whether this color really suits her, she needs to go to the stylist, try on a wig of this color or analyze her wardrobe.
If a girl prefers raspberry-red color to orange-red color more, if clothes of languid gray or denim-blue shades are more suitable for her skin and eye color, then ash hair color with highlighting actually suits her quite well. In order not to spoil the bright ash hair color, the colors of the strands with which highlighting will be done can be either lighter or darker, but in no case should they have a warm red tint.
- To get the desired ash color, you need to exclude natural hair pigments. The slightest shade of red can ruin everything and then you get not ashen, but a yellowish color that looks so cheap and ugly.
- If the hair has red pigments, you need to use new ones. quality products bleaching, with a new formula and various combinations of pigments that can perfectly neutralize the yellowish tone of the hair and securely fix the light ash color.
- The shades of the highlighting strands should not be very different from the rest of the hair, otherwise the hair will not look natural. One or two tones will suffice.
- The dye should not contain ammonia, because such dye can greatly damage the hair.
- To make the ashy color more vibrant and vibrant, the paint can be mixed with a spoonful of black or bluish-black paint.
- To protect your hair after bleaching and dyeing, you need to apply olive oil to your hair for half an hour, and then rinse it off with a special shampoo and cool water. In this simple way, the hair will remain moisturized, which is very important for dyed hair, and the color will become more saturated.
It's not worth the risk. To get the desired fashionable ashy shade, you should not conduct experiments, it is better to turn to professional professionals who will safely bleach your hair, effectively apply paint, and do highlighting correctly.
Ash hair color always remains at the peak of popularity, as it is distinguished by its indescribable tenderness, nobility and sophistication, moderately diluted with light notes of aristocracy. This color is ideal for a woman who seeks to create an image Snow Queen, impregnable, and at the same time indescribably elegant.
Who is suitable for ashy highlighting of hair
Before you decide on such a drastic change of image, and seek help from a professional, think about whether such an unusual hair color will suit you. Most of the girls who decided to dye in such a shade became like beautiful ice queens, but some of them completely lost all their individuality and natural beauty.
Ash highlighting is perfect for those girls to whom nature has given beautiful blonde hair, since they belong to the so-called cold type of appearance. Most often, such girls have a pronounced light skin tone, which has an almost snow-white color, close to bluish. The hair of girls of this type is very light, or light brown with an ashy tint, and the eyes are also either gray or light blue.
Girls who by nature have a natural hair color close to dark colors(red, chestnut tones), as well as those awarded with beautiful dark skin, should not use ashy shades in highlighting.
How is the procedure for highlighting hair in ashy color
So that this procedure does not play a cruel joke with you, think carefully and weigh everything before you go to a specialist. Perhaps, after highlighting in ashy color, the result will not please you at all.
If you still decide on ashy hair highlighting, be sure to seek help from a qualified professional who can do all the work correctly and efficiently. However, if you are confident in your abilities, you can this procedure at home on your own. But remember right away that such hair highlighting at home will be a rather complicated procedure.
It will be easiest to carry out such highlighting for natural blondes, but for all girls who have dark color hair will have to work quite hard, because in order to achieve the desired ash color, they will have to act in several stages:
- to begin with, the hair will need to be thoroughly discolored, and it will not work to do it once, most often girls have to lighten their hair about 3-4 times;
- after clarification, you can proceed to highlighting the hair in the desired ashy color.
It is worth remembering that after each highlighting, the hair loses all its natural vitality, which means that it becomes very dry and constantly breaks. That is why after each such procedure it is necessary to use a variety of products aimed at restoring hair.
In addition, care must be taken to maintain an ashy color on the hair, which is very susceptible to the appearance of yellowness. That is why after highlighting it is necessary to use specialized tools.
Another common problem that occurs when highlighting hair in ashy color is the rapid growth of hair roots, they will need to be constantly lightened and tinted, and this should be done in such a way that the new color exactly matches the previous one.
That is why for each highlighting you will need to use the same cosmetics. If you are at least a little mistaken in color, it is likely that after highlighting you will not get beautiful aristocratic ash-colored strands, but ugly purple or marsh shades.
Shades of ashy highlighting
Like any other color, ashy has many shades that can decorate a girl only with the right choice.
Ash highlighting for owners of blond hair
Quite often, experts do not recommend owners of naturally blond hair to use ashy highlights, since their natural shade is already close to the average, neutral color. However, do not despair about this, because with a good choice of shade, any, even nondescript hair, will look very beautiful and aristocratic.
Ash highlights will look very nice on the hair if it is naturally a beautiful light shade, but if the color is close to dark, it is best to opt for brighter ash shades. It is best to seek professional help from a qualified specialist who can correctly assess your color type and choose the shade of ash highlighting that is ideal for you.
In addition, the hair color after highlighting largely depends on what technique the master used during his work. Some very competently know how to combine natural hair color with dyed hair, thanks to which the ashy shade receives additional aristocratic noble notes. However, it is best to consult in advance which ash color suits you best.
Ash highlighting for owners of hair of dark colors
Often women with dark hair color resort to ashy highlighting in order to get rid of excessive blackness, but at the same time not to abandon their usual image and the image that suits them. However, even using ashy highlights not to achieve a complete transition to this shade, but simply to slightly lighten your hair color, you will definitely see what serious changes have taken place in your usual image.
True, some women use not only ashy shades for their highlighting, but also simple gray ones, which will also favorably emphasize all the beauty of your individuality. However, in this case, all black shades will be viewed much stronger than when using ashy highlighting.
When staining, you should not mix the ashy shade with some other colors, since it is he alone who gives the image indescribable beauty and elegance.
Care for highlighted hair
So that your hair after the highlighting procedure does not turn into an ugly washcloth, use special tools aimed at restoring hair after dyeing.
The most useful are fruit masks that nourish the hair, but the usual oil masks should be abandoned, because of them the color pigment will be quickly washed off. Therefore, it is worth spending a small amount of time, and the result obtained from highlighting will pleasantly surprise you and will not leave unpleasant memories.
Ash highlighting is perfect for those girls who are not afraid to experiment with their appearance and like to bring sophisticated and aristocratic accents to their image.
However, if you are a conservative by nature, you should think twice before you decide on such a procedure, because it will make you visible in the crowd. Having chosen exactly the ashy shade for your highlighting, soon, you will no longer imagine yourself in some other way.