How to choose a paint color?
To decide which shade of paint to choose, you need totake into account the natural color of your hair, skin and eyes. If you belong to the Northern European type of appearance, have fair skin and eyes, light-brown, reddish, honey strands will suit you. Nutty, milky-chocolate tones will look great. And, of course, natural brown color is always relevant. You can give your hair very light shades, for example, become a platinum blonde. However, it is worth considering that such bright and light curls near the face imply ideal skin condition, otherwise any flaw on it will be immediately noticeable. Girls with dark skin and brown or black eyes are closer to dark shades. Agree, bronze skin and dark brown eyes are unlikely to be naturally combined with golden or light-brown shades on the hair. In this case, your colors are dark chestnut, dark brown, black, chocolate. For the brave - ripe cherry, wild plum and other varieties of red, black and other shades. Young beauties can experiment and try bright tones. Ladies after forty years are recommended to bring the appearance of their hairstyle closer to natural, more traditional tones. It should also be remembered that if you still decide to change radically, the type of hair also plays an important role. And if the transformation from a natural blonde to a brunette or redhead may not harm the hair, then radical lightening in several stages with bleaching products can lead to disastrous results. In this case, you need to dye your hair several times with intervals between lightening and coloring in the desired shade of about two to three days, no less. And it is desirable that the hair is not subjected to a perm in the near future, which additionally burns the hair. So, after you have decided what shade you need, go to the store. Modern stores offer such a selection of coloring products that sometimes your eyes just run wide and it becomes very difficult to choose which one to buy. To make a choice without mistakes, you need to remember what types of paints there are.
Persistent chemical paints
This is probably the most popular type of paint.among modern women. Permanent dyes are ideal for covering gray hair, and also if you decide to change the color to a completely different one, very different from the current one, or to cover up highlights that failed or went out of fashion. Permanent dyes stay on the hair for a very long time, they are practically not harmed by daily washing of hair with shampoo, hair masks and other procedures. You will only have to touch up the roots, because they will differ from the dyed areas. However, permanent dyes also have a drawback: they are the most harmful to hair. Due to the fact that permanent dye contains ammonia and hydrogen peroxide, after dyeing your strands may be damaged and overdried. A fairly common case is when the ends split, then they have to be cut every month, otherwise the hair looks very unkempt. For those who want to grow long braids, this approach to the issue is extremely undesirable. In addition, during dyeing, the natural pigment will be “washed out” of the hair and it will be impossible to return the previous natural look. In other words, it is better to use permanent paints in the most extreme cases.
Semi-resistant and tinted paints
Semi-permanent products have a more gentle effecteffect on hair. However, such dyes will not be able to lighten hair, because lightening is possible only with hydrogen peroxide, which is not included in the composition of semi-permanent dyes. However, if you need to make your curls darker or just give them a bright saturated shade, you should opt for semi-permanent dyes, because they do not harm your hair, making it more beautiful. Over time, if desired, you can return the natural color, because a semi-permanent dye does not remove the natural pigment from the hair, but colors only its outer shell. As for tint dyes, this type of coloring is absolutely not harmful to hair, sometimes you can even find tint balms. Using them, we color only the top layers of hair. The color usually washes out in 3-4 washes, but red and black shades can last a few days longer. Tint dyes are well suited for young girls who love experiments and frequent changes in images without harm to the health of their hair. But older women do not always need tint dyes, as they cannot hide gray hair. Even if at first glance you like the result, then after the first hair wash, gray strands will become visible.
Natural type of paints
The method of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers, by the way, is notis less relevant now. Basma and henna, which form the basis of natural dyes, not only do not harm the hair, but also heal it. Such products are suitable even for not very healthy and long hair that needs especially careful treatment. In their effect on them, natural dyes are similar to semi-permanent dyes, they also envelop the upper layers of the hair, without affecting its core and without removing the natural pigment. Different proportions of basma and henna give a variety of shades: from golden and light brown to coal-black. These dyes do not cause allergies and have a healing effect on the hair, giving it silkiness and shine. But in this barrel of honey, as always, there is a fly in the ointment. If you dyed your hair with henna, then it is simply impossible to re-dye it with chemicals. There are cases when the hairstyle after such attempts acquired cheerful green and swamp shades. Hardly anyone wants to walk around with green hair, so you'll just have to wait until the dyed hair grows out and gets cut. Therefore, you should only choose natural dyes when you're absolutely sure that you'll wear this color for more than one year.
