Coloring on dark hair: features, types, selection of colors

Coloring hair has long become a popular method of quickly changing the image. On the covers of fashion magazines now and then you can find hairstyles of the most fashionable colors and shades. In this article we will help you understand the intricacies of coloring on dark hair, analyze the features of this technique, its main types, as well as help determine the choice of shade for your hair.

Hair dyeing is one of the oldest techniques of changing the image, another 2 thousand years BC the hair dyeing gave a person power and significance, a strictly defined caste of people could wear dyed hair. Today, hair coloring is a privilege available to everyone that can completely change the appearance in a matter of minutes. Due to the large number of varieties and incarnations of hair dye many girls It is often confused with the classic coloring with melirovannyh curls. Below we look at the key differences between these techniques, and at the same time we will try to form a portrait of the technique of classical coloring.

• The first and main difference is in a variety of color palette. Highlighting hair involves the use of only two shades - natural and light, coloring can use up to 20 different shades.
• Pledge of harmonious highlighting - in gradual gradation of 2-3 colors in a hairstyle. Coloring is not picky for smoothness in tones, and therefore can look bright at the same time, but also sharply, aggressively.
• Highlighting is usually carried out in several sessions, because the yellowness characteristic of dark hair will not disappear anywhere after the first session. In coloring a few more layers of paint are applied over bleached hairand, therefore, repeated sessions of clarification may not be necessary.
• The purpose of highlighting is to achieve the effect of “sun-bleached hair”, which at the same time gives the hairstyle more volume, and the curls themselves - the natural shine. The purpose of coloring - make curls as saturated as possibleAdditional tasks here relate to the selection of the overall image of the beauty, winning facial features or elements of clothing.
• Despite the relatively blurred age frame in hair coloring, Coloring is more young, bright and extraordinary personalities with a fervent character. In the image of solid ladies bust with color gamut can be considered bad taste. What can not be said about highlighting, which looks great for women of any age.

As you can see, it’s easy to understand the differences between these two hair treatment techniques.

Any type of staining has its advantages and disadvantages. The advantages are as follows.

• Any, even the easiest coloring refreshes your look and whole hairstyle. Hair look fresher, brighter, more expressive. Even if the coloring is done with a minimal color gradation from the natural hair color, it in any case makes your hairstyle more expressive, and the hair color is clearer.
• Coloring along with a good hairstyle and bangs can significantly adjust your facial features. Highlight successful, focus on positive and beautiful features and distract from gross and imperfect facial defects.
• Types of non-continuous coloring (zonal, pixel, longitudinal) do not spoil hair so much. In contrast to the techniques of highlighting, the hair looks healthy and strong.
• Shatush, balayazh, classic highlighting - all of these techniques that involve the use of no more than two colors in the color. Coloring offers unlimited number of colors for coloring.
• Moderate staining equally well It goes to very young girls, and older, but not lost the taste for fashion, women.
• Due to the significant color gradation and the lack of clear borders in the figure, colored strands not so quickly require correction and refinement.
• For thousands of years of its existence, hair coloring has segmented into many varieties. At the moment there are more than 10 popular ways of coloring, of which even the most sophisticated girl will be able to choose something for herself.

Taking into account the fact that any coloring of hair implies an effect on curls with external and often unnatural substances, coloring has its drawbacks.

• Lightening - the originality of the scourge when dyeing hair, and if the owners of light curls can do without it, then for dark ones it can become a significant problem. Any lightening - stress for the hair, which without the necessary attention and additional firming masks and creams can start to fall out, will become rare or weakened.
• Any kind of coloring, even the easiest and selective, worth a lot of money. Coloring at home is also possible, but only beautiful women with considerable experience in coloring can achieve a high-quality and beautiful result.
• The more shades of hair, the more likely that to the original natural color you will move for a very long time. That is why hairdressers and makeup artists do not recommend cardinal painting with 5 or more tones.
• Highlighting technique even without the daily care of hair and styling will look spectacular and stylish. What does not apply to coloring, where any breeze without the necessary fixation can completely change the pattern or a special painting style.
• Any staining needs regular maintenance of hair brightness and saturation. Without this, all the glamor from any hairstyle may disappear completely.

There are a large number of types of coloring, they differ in the number of shades, length of hair and bangs, and the desired texture of hair. We will look at the most popular ways of coloring black hair this season.

This option is one of the most common in the modern fashion world. In this case hair on the head are divided into uniform vertical curlswhich are then painted in turn. For long and medium hair with foil. The number of shades here is not limited, watch only for the uniformity of color gradations in order to avoid the "traffic light" effect.

The point here is to paint the finest individual strands of hair. Often, only 1-2 of the main bright colors are chosen, which creates a tempting sun glare effect. With the help of this technique, it is possible to distinguish the shape of the face, visually reduce it, or focus attention on certain advantageous features.

Not a particularly radical version of coloring that offers hair painting horizontal stripes through the use of 3-4 (no more) consecutive shades.The entire length of the curls is conventionally divided into 3-4 parts (tip zone, root zone, transverse zone). Between the upper and lower zones is achieved as much as possible visible contrast, gradually falling to the transverse part of the hair. Thus, either the upper or the lower part of the hair remains dyed, in the other, as a rule, there remain curls of natural shades.

Almost the same as patterned coloring, but using geometrically correct lines and shapes at the base of the pattern. The option is also more for short hair, looks great with bright and even flashy shades.

The simplest type of coloring in coloring is in this case only strictly defined part (or parts) of hair. The peculiarity of this type is that dyed hair must simultaneously harmoniously and brightly stand out against the background of natural, otherwise the effect of the effect will not. For dark hair, a wide range of colors is useful here: from light golden to bright berry.

Looks great on both straight and curly hair, the length of the hair also has no restrictions. In the same type, you can make the staining only bangs or some separate curl on the temporal lobes.

The concept by which all types of coloring are understood using 5 or more shades in coloring. The advantage of this type is that you can use absolutely any shades to achieve the desired result. And here, in a sense, it will even be a plus color incompatibility. Hairstyles with such coloring like young ladies with irregular character and mood.

This hairstyle will only complement the overall image of unpredictability and originality. However, overdoing with the number of shades is not worth it, everything should be in moderation. A nice option would be multicolor coloring bangswhere the rest of the hair remains unchanged.

Without a doubt, one of the most radical options for coloring, which in its pure form is rarely seen. Usually it can be seen on the pages of fashion magazines as an idea of ​​a designer or stylist for a particular bow. For coloring hair this type of coloring is used. special stencils, which ordinary ladies may not be. That is why the coloring in this case is recommended for an experienced master.

The most common patterns and patterns are: leopard and tiger patterns, oblique lines with an emphasis on the bangs and eyes. Often, under the patterned part of the hair, only bangs are given, which in a successful design only gives greater clarity to the facial features.

Coloring is not distinguished by rigid preferences for any particular type of hair, here equally good hair with colored curly curls, straight and docile hair can look advantageous, even for unruly curls there are many ways and shades for painting. As for the length of your hair, it can play a crucial role in the formation of the overall image, and therefore is one of the key points that need to be taken into account when choosing a shading color. Hair of medium length or long type can accept a huge number of experiments. the most successful will be:

• longitudinal coloring options using no more than 2-3 tones, slightly darker or lighter than the natural color;

• long hair with the effect of light burnt tips (golden, ashy, caramel, copper tones);

• micro-colouration of the thinnest strands using 1-2 shades with the minimum difference of the color palette from natural hair;

• horizontal coloring of volumetric heavy curls with a significant color gradation (shades can be very different: from chestnut to red and bright neon);

• selective or zonal coloring of individual strands of hair - bangs, temporal parts using bright and saturated colors: blue, purple, red, green;

• barely perceptible full hair coloring with minimal difference from the original hair color will give it greater saturation.

Short-type hair is also not without good colors in dyeing. The most popular coloring options here are the following.

• Zonal staining, with the coloring of strictly defined locks in the head of hair - bangs, temples, occipital part. Colors used for dark curls: bright red, blue, purple, delicate pastel shades of gold and caramel.

• Patterned coloring using a stencil for applying paint. On short hair, it is much easier to keep the desired pattern and there will be no big problems with further correction.

• Partial contrast staining with the use of aggressive and often even incompatible shades (red with yellow, blue with orange, etc.). This type of coloring is more extraordinary individuals or is used to create a certain image in the model shootings.

• Color or "multicolor" coloring involves the use of more than 5 tones. Often, this option is used to create a nice looking overflow in curls. In other cases, it is strictly contrasting and unusual hairstyles, which are preferred only by the most daring women of fashion.

• Transverse or horizontal stainingin which the border between tones is preserved intentionally, in order to make the image even more aggressive and non-standard. Bright and contrasting tones are used: neon, purple, azure and solar.

The type of haircut is not the only option when choosing a coloring hue, as some girls mistakenly believe. To a greater degree, the success of a particular shade in coloring depends on the color type of the face, the color of natural hair and their length. There have been cases of a successful combination of bob cuts and a cascade with both golden, delicate pastel shades and extraordinary bright and saturated colors. The same applies to medium / long hair.

Face type and eye color - The most important factors in choosing the shade of coloring, it depends on them how well the whole hairstyle will look. There are 5 main types of face: round, oval, rectangular, triangular and square, as well as three main eye colors: brown, blue and green with all the shades that follow.

To determine a more successful hair shade to a particular appearance, makeup artists are initially determined with its color type. There are 4 different color types according to the names of the seasons: winter, spring, summer and autumn.

• Color type "winter" It presents girls with white skin and a dark shade of eyes (these can be either brown, caramel or black, or some shades of cool blue). In this case, the appearance will be effectively combined with curls of especially dark, even black colors and shades (rich chestnut colors, black colors of dark chocolate).

• "Spring" - girls with caramel and warm skin tone and bright, expressive eyes. Most dark shades will not work here, however, chestnut curls, dark copper tones and shades of oak bark will still look good.

• "Summer" - characterized by bright eyes and fair skin. In this case, only light shades of hair are recommended, however, if you are the owner of luxurious dark curls, you should refer to the longitudinal or transverse coloring with the addition of clarified curls.

• "Autumn" - tsvetotip girls with dark eyes and dark skin with a natural copper tan (classic tsvetotip for girls, brunettes). Almost all shades of dark hair will look good here, since there will be no conflict with the color of the eyes.

For staining at home you will need some tools.

1. First of all, it is, of course, hair clarifier. Depending on the length of your curls you can take from 1 to 3 bags.
2. Paint - the second necessary material. For classic and easy coloring, it is better to take no more than 3-4 tones, for more radical or coloring for a certain image, you should get 5 or more shades similar in color palette. Try to choose paints and brighteners from the same line and from the same manufacturer.
3. Any coloring is a danger to harm not only your hair, but also your beautiful skin. Therefore, we recommend using special polyethylene or rubber gloves.

Above the scalp is also worth working on. After dyeing the hair with many colors, the skin in places hard-to-wash can be a real rainbow. That is why, before the lightening and dyeing itself, the skin on the head should be thoroughly rubbed with greasy creams.

1. Materials for applying clarifier and paint - brush, sponge, all kinds of brushes. Everything, than it is convenient to you to apply painting substance.
2. It will be useful to prepare in advance several plastic pans for mixing and preparing clarifier and paints.
3. Depending on the complexity of the future hairstyle, you should choose a few hairbrushes for styling and hair separation. Here, in any case, there will be no unnecessary brushing, a comb with thin and rare teeth and a metal separator.
4. Good towel useful at the stage of drying hair, and with a small sheet at the time of applying paint and washing you can protect your eyes and clothes from getting there paint.
5. All kinds of hairpins, clips and crabs help you fix individual strands of hair and separate them from each other.
6. Foil or food film for wrapping hair. It is advisable to cut into small strips in advance, depending on their length.

Now let's step through the staining technology itself. Do not forget that for some moments in coloring you will be extremely needed third-party help, especially for long hair.

1. Hair before coloring Wash and dry, comb.
2. Wear gloves, it is advisable to throw a towel over the shoulders so that the paint does not drip onto the clothes.
3. Apply to hair Special greasy cream, so that at the time of washing the hair and skin wash off faster.
4. Conditionally divide the hair into several parts: occipital, temporal, crown. Hair fix crab or stealth.
5. Gently choose the first thin strands for coloring, enclosing under them in advance prepared foil or film.
6. Try to move in a circle - either from the nape to the bang, or in the opposite direction.
7. Already painted curls wrap in foil and place so that they do not interfere in painting other hair.
8. If you choose several shades, try to apply them with as small a gap as possible so that the shades do not differ. At this stage, an extra pair of hands is very useful.
9. After staining wait until the time indicated on the dye package for all the hair, then safely wash it off with the help of special shampoos.
10. Dry, we adjust, we stack.

After any coloring with lightening, the hair experiences tremendous stress, so dyed hair without proper care can lose all color saturation and integrity in one week. Immediately after coloring it is recommended to follow the following tips.

1. If earlier you were used to washing your hair daily, which is normal for long curls, then for the first half a month after coloring try to limit 2-3 times a week, no more. At the same time, it is advisable to boil tap water in advance to avoid too much hardness. Rinse the hair with warm water.
2. Immediately after coloring you should abandon the usual shampoos and resort to help professional products for freshly dyed hair. This also applies to the air conditioner, designed to maintain the brightness of the color and give it a natural gloss.
3. Heat treatment just bleached and dyed hair is undesirable, it is an even greater blow to the fragile hair structure. It is best to resort to natural drying in the open air. The same applies to exposure to direct sunlight - from them colored curls can simply fade.
4. For quick hair restoration it will be helpful to periodically resort to help. nutritious and moisturizing natural masks. If you try, you can safely make such a mask with your own hands - with the help of low-fat yogurt, eggs and herbal decoctions. Masks are best carried out at least once a week before washing your hair. To restore over-dried and weak hair, masks based on vegetable oil are ideal.
5. Immediately after coloring forget the old and rough metal combs, use only soft instruments with small frequent teeth. The main thing is not to damage or tear the hair.

Pixel coloring on dark hair.

Patterned coloring.

Multicolor coloring.

Longitudinal staining.

Zone staining.

How to perform coloring for dark hair, see the following video.