Ombre is a way to paint the hair into several colors, smoothly overgoing one in another. Most often use two shades. On light hair, this technique looks very natural and naturally even without staining the roasting zone.
Advantages and disadvantages
The trendy way of hair coloring has occurred from the English word Ombre, which means a smooth transition effect on the painted yarn of various colors. The method is based on the embossing of related or contrasting shades with a gradual gradient. Ombre make with the same success on dark and light hair. However, in the trend there is always staining of light curls. Technology allows you to change the style and image, while maintaining the beauty and structure of the hair. The very concept of Ombre is sometimes interpreted as a shadow or shading, which is applicable to blonde women.
Based on the method, multiple staining techniques have been developed specifically for short, medium and long hair. The effect of transition from tone to the tone allows you to profitably reject light strands, bringing flowing light notes. Bright blondes experts offer either darkening the root area, or make the opposite type of ombre: at the top light with a gradual dimming to the tips.
This method also allows you to adjust the oval of faces. Tarous strands visually open face, emphasizing an expressive look.
The classic method is to preserve their own pigment in the roots of the hair, which allows you to look like a growing hair naturally and harmoniously. Professionally performed omber visually increases hair volume. In case of failure, you can always return to the original option. Despite the expensive procedure in the salons, the next staining may be required only after a few months. Therefore, in general, this method is considered the most economical.
Ombre on blonde hair also has a number of features. For example, you can not paint short haircuts. There is also a risk of rearring with the clarification of the ends of the hair, which can lead to their thinning and fragility. You can also spoil the hairstyle with a failed color. Therefore, the masters advise to carry out staining in specialized studio salons, where the positive effect of staining will be accurately guaranteed.
Views
There are various types of coloring in ultramodoop Ombre technique. We give the most popular of them.
- Classic Ombre. Combines several tones with a smooth transition. The basis is the effect of contrast, which is achieved at the expense of halftone. For long hair, the gradient is located at the chin level, for medium - to cheekbone, and for short - on temples or in several centimeters from hair roots. The owners of completely light hair roots are painted with shades of the blond, and the ends are completely illuminated.
- Reverse Ombre . This method is based on a gradual flower transition from the corded roots to the darker ends.
- With the effect of thrust hair. In case women do not suit the natural light color of the hair, they can try to darken the roots. It will seem that painted hair has a little angry.
- With ponytail effect. This method of staining for long hair looks like a horse tail, which is why and got its name.
- Striped. In this case, the root zone and ends of the hair have one color, while separated by a contrast gradient: one or more.
- Color Ombre. For creative solutions, bright colors of several options are often used. This extravagant option is a choice of ladies prone to outrage and provocations. Although warm shades can act as contrast colors.
Cleaning curls in blue, lilac and purple color gives the image some "unearthly" beauty. Pink colors and their shades from coral to fuchsia are suitable for flowing blond strands.
- "Fiery strands". This type of coloring choose extraordinary individuals. Bright fiery strands allocate their owner from the crowd. The coloring system is that bright copper and red colors are applied to highly illuminated strands. On blond hair it looks spectacular thanks to the contrast. It is possible, instead of bright tones, give preference to soft honey shades to tone with light hair.
- Coloring Blonde-Ombre. The effect is to create a complex gradient when painting hair at once in several colors in one gamma. Thus, the curls seem to come to life. This method is suitable for absolutely all owners of light hair, of any age and a set. Thin hair looks more magnificent and volume.
- Healiting. This is another method of staining, almost imperceptible on light curls. Naturalness is achieved by the skillful decisive of several tones over the entire length.
- Scandinavian view of Ombre. This species looks like platinum shades of purple and gray colors at the roots with a gradual transition to a warm brown or beige color at the ends. Scandinavian Ombre is ideal for women "winter" type of appearance.
- "Kiss of the Sun". The technique is especially popular in women in business circles. Thanks to the naturalness and natural species, the visibility of the burned hair in the sun is created. Those who spent vacation at sea, lucky - the wind and the sun did all the work for hairdressers, putting their accents by ultraviolet on long strands. Light curls in combination with tanned skin look very meaningful.
- Ash messenger. It is also called gray, gray or silver. The technique consists in staining strands into ash colors with mandatory darkening of the roots.
This option is used for staining short and medium hair. Many ladies aged prefer this kind of ombre with a refreshing and younger effect.
Suitable colors
Common Tones for Ombre on Blonde Hair may have dairy, caramel or wheat colors. In combination with a more dark pigment of bitter chocolate, walnut, coffee or wild honey, they look in the most advantageous light. That is why almost all types of staining on light hair are considered natural.
Like blondes are identical, but at the same time each woman has their own characteristics in appearance, which determine the choice of hair color. Basically, experts are focused on common types, making their own adjustments.
Blonde ladies of the spring "Spring" and "Summer" choose paint with shades from pearl and sandy to reddish and chestnuts depending on the color of the eyes and skin. Stripping from these signs, we advise you to adhere to the color combinations:
- on blond hair - sandy;
- on wheat - amber;
- On pearl curls - honey shades.
Chestnut colors in this case are applied directly to the roasting zone of the head if necessary.
Staining technology
Ombre technology for long hair is quite simple, But requires certain skills:
- First, the hair is divided into separate strands;
- Then the painting composition is applied from the tips, gradually affecting individual strokes all strands;
- Locks wrapping foil;
- After a while, the wrapper is removed and wash;
- Next apply a tinting kel;
- holding a little, wash your head again;
- The final barcode is dried and laid in any familiar way.
The cost of the procedure in the beauty salon depends on the amount of hair and the degree of their processing. On average, painting on the hair of medium length is 5 thousand rubles. True, in the famous studios for Ombre, you can pay 15 thousand rubles. The pleasure is not cheap, which is why many women prefer to master this technique themselves.
To paint curls in the style of Ombre at home, you need to cook: Capacity, wide brush, gloves, foil and hair balm. Step-by-step instructions for Ombre at home:
- split strands on the head starting on behalf of the face;
- Mix the coloring composition according to the instructions;
- Gently put the paint, lubricating the ends first, gradually moving up to the roots, causing wide strokes;
- Each strand wock in foil;
- withstand time - from 20 to 40 minutes - depending on the properties of the hair;
- Then the head is thoroughly washed;
- dried hair;
- Stripes continue, moving to the next stage, bringing the composition to the curls slightly above the already painted zone;
- After about 15 minutes, the paint was washed off, rinsing the head with a restoring balsam or any other familiar hair care means.
That's all. If the result of staining does not suit, you can always change something. For example, "repay" excess yellow with samples. Short blond hair stained not completely, only tips. In general, to avoid any unwanted effects, you need to adhere to some rules and councils of specialists.
- Strictly follow the instructions, especially in the part where the time is indicated. The disturbed paint can give unexpected effects.
- Take more time to accurately choose shades of staining, because it will be difficult to correct the result.
- Always make the focus on the transition of colors one to another. The most winning is the blurred version on straight hair.
- It should be refracted from hair staining in Ombre technique, if the hair has recently been treated with henna, bass or other natural pigments.
- Do not interfere with damaged hair. It will only worsen their condition, and the effect will be directly opposite. Before the procedure, the procedure is best to make a complex of medical wraps and masks.
- And the most important rule is if you do not have any elementary skills in this matter, it is best to entrust such a complex painting a professional.
Care
Immediately after staining, the head should not be washed. Frequent washing of painted hair only harms them, dehydrates and dries. The optimal option is a couple of times a week, and then using gentle detergents and special balms for painted hair. And also necessarily use mousses, foams, varnishes and other means of laying, preserving color pigments. To protect curls from cutting, you should not often use the tongs and the iron.
It is better to try to dry hair with a natural way, without using dryers and a hairdryer. If there is a problem of the seeds of the tips, you should immediately make a haircut. Moreover, it is not necessary to coherent the bulk of hair, just cut the tips.
Many ladies prefer laminating painted curls, believing that it will secure the color in every hair. Partly this, indeed, so. Lamination by oils in domestic and salon conditions gives curls an additional shine and the volume necessary when creating light waves.
Successful examples
- The best options for staining in Ombre technique will definitely obtain from long natural-blond hair. Unlike classic melting, ombrov is considered the most sparing method of staining. In the case of light curls, the paint on the roots can not be applied using light color strokes on separate strands. If there is a check, it is not recommended to paint, otherwise you can spoil the general view of the hairstyle.
- Another advantage of this technique is that It can be successfully applied to artificial strands and extensive curls.
- Bright Omere Created on the basis of classic, easily adjusted in one or another color scheme using washing color pigments. They hold on average up to three months, but you can wash them off completely after a month with special means.
- The most successful options in color design look at the cold-type women - with bright eyes, snow-white leather and medium-rusia hair. Clean pastel colors for blondes are considered the most successful in this type of staining.
- In case the hair is collected in the hairstyle Ombream Locks Only won from this due to the refraction of light on the surface of the curls. A somewhat embarrassed strands, painted with colored passenger, give the image the completion and integrity.
- Silvery colors and shades along with pearl shine We adequately add natural seeding. Therefore, mature women prefer this type of ombre in combination with medium hair length. Operations with short haircuts can easily create a Scandinavian clarification in her head, which is especially spectacularly looking at both young and adult heads.
- Reverse Ombre with Shadow Effect Gradient Visually opens the face, giving a look particular expressiveness and depth. One of the successful combinations is caramel curly tips, smoothly passing on the neck line in beige, and then sandy colors. As a result, hair is subjected to triple staining immediately. This is a very time-consuming, but very impressive kind of ombre on blond hair.
- Light curls They themselves look spectacularly, they gently absorb light and decorate women, emphasizing their advantages. But, like a real diamond, hair needs "cut". In this case, in the emphasis of the features: softness and radiation. That is why the masters create special engineering techniques of curls with amazing results.
- Hairstyles and loose curls based on Ombre It looks very harmonious and relevant. In any case, this method ensures that you will not be unnoticed. And multiple color variations and style techniques allow you to create your own individual style in any situation. Try to find your unique style and image!
On how to make a bright ombre on light hair, see the next video.