We were all there. You want to dye your hair and set it to a dark brown hair colour, but you do not know which shade to choose. Here are some secrets to getting the perfect shade for the first time with the slightest damage to your hair.
Choosing Your Blonde Shade
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Understand what blonde shades you are considering. Whether you do hair colour at home, shades can sound like food options in a bakery. Warm shades contain words such as warm, honey, gold, butter, caramel, or copper. Cool colours are called ash, beige, pearl, and snow.
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- Determine your skin tone. Most people are warm or cool. The blonde shade you choose for your hair depends on the tones below your skin.
- People with warmer tones have golden, olive, or black skin with brown eyes. Their hair is black, brown, or black in colour. People easily regarded it as a warm tan. When you have a warm tone, your hair shows gold, and gold jewellery looks good on your skin.
- People with a cool complexion have fair skin with blue or green eyes. They have blonde, red, or light brown hair. These people burn instead of being burned. If you have a cool-toned, your hair may reflect silver in the light. Silver jewellery looks great on your skin.
- Rotate your arm. Check the veins on your wrist and arms. When they look green, they have warm tones. If they are blue, they are cool. One way is to hold the white paper and place it on your face. If you have a cool-toned, your skin will look blue compared to paper. If you have a warm tone, your skin will look yellow or gold next to the paper.
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- Get a dark brown hair colour, shade when you dye at home. No matter what skin tone you have, if you want your hair to look natural, go for 2-3 shades lighter than your natural hair colour.
- Going with simple shades can be easily done at home. To enhance the natural hair colour of your hair a few shades can be achieved with a box dye.
- If you are going to pick up a few simple shades on already dyed hair, but your hair is naturally black, find blonde shades.
- Consider dyeing your hair with cool or neutral blonde colours when doing it at home. Warm shades, with gold or honey on the tip, can eventually make your hair look orange.
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Go for cool colours if you have a pinkish hue on your skin. Adding warmth to your hair when you are pink can cause your face to become extremely red. Find cool blonde shades, such as sandy blonde, ashy blonde, or blonde beige.
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Get a dark brown hair colour shade, such as honey if you have dark skin. Anyone can be blonde, but you should find a complimentary shade for your skin. Dark and olive skin may not be suitable for a bright blonde shade. Try honey blonde instead. Another suggestion is to keep your roots dark and ask for the golden beige highlights. The roots help prevent your face from being washed. Caramel is another shade of blonde that will compliment your tones. Alternatively, you can try buttery or strawberry blonde shades.
If you have black hair, be careful not to walk too slowly as it may wash you off. Avoid platinum, white, or orange. Instead, find blonde highlights or lowlights.
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Add extra colour to your hair if you have medium skin. You can try gold blonde, beige blonde, or light blonde. Keep warm in your hair to match the tone of your warm skin. For a subtle ombré, keep your base light brown and add a hint of various honey tones in the centre of your hair, which gets a little lighter at the end.
If you have warm skin, avoid copper-coloured blonde colours. Blonde colours can eventually give you orange colour. Ashy colours can leave you clean.
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- Get gold if you have white skin. If you have fair skin, you want to choose gold, strawberry, or light blonde while you are comfortable with white, ash, and red. The lightness of your skin makes it easy for a blonde shade to go while looking natural.
- Try the butter highlights on a caramel base. For a multi-dimensional, simple natural blonde, find a mixture of butter, gold, and honey.
- Dyeing your hair blonde works best if you were blonde as a child, or your hair became blonde as you spent time in the sun.
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Consult a professional for difficult dyeing tasks. For a bold blonde that exceeds 2-3 shades lighter than your natural hair colour, seek the help of a professional hairdresser. Extremely blurred or prominent shadows require a lot of blurring, and often, a lot of visits to the salon. If you try to whiten your hair at home, you may end up with banana or yellow or orange, gold-coloured hair.
Anyone can put up a shade in platinum dark brown hair colour, but it can take months to achieve. Light hair will be much easier to dye white blonde. Pre-dyed or naturally black hair will last longer. In order to dye your hair safely, you need to lighten the hair slowly. If your hair is black, you will not be able to reach platinum blonde with one visit. It may take months of dye in light shades to work into a white blonde. Most hair colours need at least 3 times to get the perfect blonde look.
With white blonde, go for ice blonde if you have a warm-toned. Platinum blonde works best in cool tones. Remember – there is no white. Ask a hairdresser to help you understand the different white shades if you have a problem.
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Be careful when washing your hair. When doing bleaching at home, be sure to follow the directions in the box directly. Do not leave the bleach on for more than 45 minutes.
Your hair should be light yellow when you finish brushing. If it is orange, which sometimes happens with very dark hair, wait a week to clean again. Apply hair treatment to your hair this week.
If you are trying to dye your hair with platinum at home, you will need to apply a purple toner or shampoo to your hair. This is necessary if you want to dye your hair white blonde because it removes yellow brassiness. Get 30 or 40 volume tones. Rinse with white vinegar to help keep the toner colour long.
Do not try to leave the bleach on your hair for a short time to reach a dark blonde and a long time to reach a light blonde. Bleach does not work this way. It peels off the hair when it is pigmented.
Caring for Your Coloured Hair
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Prepare time and money. Your hair will need a lot of care to keep it looking healthy, and you will need to spend time and money every few weeks filling in the roots or getting a touch at the top. If you are not ready for the burden of blonde hair, consider moving lighter shades instead of anything heavy.
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Prepare your hair before dyeing. Before doing any type of dyeing work, it is important to prepare your hair. Avoid washing your hair the day before you dye it, as natural oils help protect your skin from irritation by-products.
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Wash your hair after dyeing it. This step is important. Dyeing your hair removes colour and lipids, which will dry out. Turn your normal conditioner into a deep conditioner. If your hair is dry, use a moisturizing product; if it is brittle and damaged, use a harmful product. Use a dry shampoo so you don’t have to wash it every day and dry it. Use conditioning masks when washing your hair.
If you go with platinum or ice blonde, use shampoos that contain a blue pigment to keep the colour. Choose a colour care shampoo or bleach-safe conditioner to preserve colour.
Try to apply coconut oil to your hair once a week. Melt and apply to your hair, wrap your hair in plastic, cover with a towel, and leave for an hour.
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Wash your hair after dyeing it. Cleaning your hair can be harmful, so to keep your hair healthy, cut it right after you dye it. This removes dead parts, which can lead to fractures.
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Use a heat shield when styling your hair with heat tools. Straightening, drying and curling your dyed hair can be harmful, so be sure to use a heat protection product before holding the curling iron.
Avoid style products that contain alcohol. Alcohol will dry out your hair, which is a problem with white and dyed hair. Hair extensions, gels, and rodents all contain alcohol. Check the label before buying and apply it to your hair.
Tips
It is not always possible to find a dark brown hair colour setting very easily. It all depends on your hair shade. Keep an eye on what you can reasonably gain from your hair colour.