Summer in the hair: bright colored strands with their own hands

In the summer you want to look brighter than usual,try something new and creative, and not only in terms of wardrobe. Someone is limited to buying a new dress or lipstick, and someone goes further and cardinally changes the color of their hair. Well, if successful. To avoid unnecessary tears, you can try to experiment on the hair with the mind and instead of a sharp color change choose a temporary staining of the strands. Not even paint, but special colored crayons. If the end result does not like it, you will not have to walk with unloved color for a long time - after washing your head, the pigment will disappear. Hair, despite the numerous horror stories on the Internet, will remain.

What are crayons for hair?

It is worthwhile to say at once that these are not the crayons thatare sold in the department of stationery or shops for artists. There are craftsmen who paint their hair with them, and then resent that the hair for some reason looks like bog. Indeed, why would it? You do not paint your hair with felt-tip pens or gouache, you do not need art pastels. Although cheaper, and like the same. By no means.

Crayons for hair - a special tool,designed for dyeing strands. They are evenly applied to curls, do not crumble, have a softer structure. In quality products of well-known brands, vitamin complexes are present in the composition, aimed at combating dryness and brittleness.

Advantages and disadvantages

If to compare with a paint, crayons nevertheless are lessTraumatic, if they do not use every day. Colored strands can be worn for up to 8 hours, and then you should wash off the beauty with shampoo. To avoid overdrying, immediately after washing your head, apply conditioner or a moisturizing mask. Then the effect of urine can be avoided. But here, too, has its own nuances: if the hair is initially dry, you need to think about the possible consequences. Yet that would be the manufacturers were not added to the composition, and no matter how assured in his humanity, crayons much dried. This is an absolute minus.

It should be prepared for the fact that the colored strands in the hair, obtained with the help of chalks, get dirty. Not much, but none the less.

The undoubted advantage is that you can safelyexperiment with color: palettes are large and you can choose the right shade easily. It is also easy to apply it on your own hair and make colored strands of the same width, length and intensity that you need.

Types of crayons

To date, only two kinds of crayons are represented on the market: in the form of a pencil and in the form of shadows.

The first differ more dense structure, are more difficult put, but possess a wider palette of shades.

Crayons-shadows have a cream-like structure, are easily applied, but are consumed more quickly, and the palette of shades, as a rule, not rich. At a cost more expensive chalk-pencils.

If you are interested, what are less harmful to the hair, then both options are equivalent.

How to use

To paint hair chalk can even the mostthe last ineptitude, because for this you do not need any special skills. All that is required for the procedure, in addition to the chalk itself, is a towel and latex gloves so as not to stain clothing and hands.

First, comb the hair and twist the strands chosen for coloring, into small flagella. This will help to apply color evenly and avoid strange spotting.

Color the curls strictly in one direction - from top to bottom.

To fix the color, sprinkle the colored strands with varnish or treat each curl or iron, set to a gentle mode. In order not to overdry the hair, use a varnish.

Little stealth tricks

If you want to get more intenseshade, then before applying chalk on hair, curls can be moistened with water. In addition, the intensity of the color depends on how many times you hold the chalk along the strands, the more - the brighter the result.

On hair, suffering from dryness, any shadeit will be more vivid because of their porous structure, this should be taken into account. However, if you are not satisfied with the result, you can comb out excess chalk with a comb.

In order not to spoil your hair, it is better to use such coloring not more often 1-2 times a week and choose crayons from famous producers (Hot Huez, Hair Chalk, for example).

How to wash off?

When correctly applied and fixed, colored strandspreserve the original form from 6 to 10 hours. Longer to wear them is undesirable, as well as sleeping with a hair color so colored. To get rid of coloring, you can simply wash your head with your usual shampoo. If the hair is light or you have colored it intensely, you will need several approaches to get the color off completely.

After washing your head, be sure to use a moisturizing conditioner or mask.

Alternative

What to do if you want to experiment, andhair is very dry or try scary? You can use an alternative method - colored strands on the clips. In online stores there are many, different lengths and colors. This, of course, is not an option for every day, but for a photo shoot or a party it will do. In addition, if you enjoy the result, you can find a good specialist and do the build-up of colored strands.