Hair Color According to Season: Making the Switch
With summer in full swing, I am curious to see how many of you beauty freaks have made the hair color switch from dark to light, if you’ve made one at all. Light haired gals, freshened or brightened any blonde or red coloring? Summer brings an urge in some women to lighten their hair color, wanting of course to go with the season. It’s not always necessary though. Making the choice to go lighter in the summer, and darker in the fall will eventually do a number on those tresses. Sometimes, it isn’t always necessary to dye the hair according to the seasons. I haven’t dyed my hair in well over a year, and healthy? Yes, it is. I did get it cut though! Finally!! This was a big step for me and I absolutely love it, but I’ll get into that in another posting next week. Back to color . I saw three of my friends this last week, all of whom had dyed their hair. The first did hers over a month ago, pre-June and went for some blonde highlights, but shortly after only having for a few weeks, went back to dark. I asked her, why did you switch? “Because it’s summer and you get highlights in summer..” was her response. Fair enough, although I was happy to see her go dark. It had looked so good, the blonde wasn’t ever necessary…not this year at least. Then I see girlfriends two and three this week, one had gone darker, the other lighter, but no blonde was involved it was more auburn with a sun-kissed look. Both looked beautiful! And they had freshened up their looks without feeling the need to go light. If you want to make a change, keep it subtle and go for a sun-kissed look, this includes highlights. You can request for you hairdresser to tone the highlights and blend them so they aren’t so strikingly bright and unnatural looking.
Observe the good:
Now, observe the bad:
If you are going to lighten up, there is a technique called the balayage technique. It’s a different way to put highlights into the hair, and less damaging than the traditional foils that are used. It’s more of painting in the color on smaller pieces than sectioning off chunks of hair which can sometimes leave you looking overdone because too much was highlighted. Balayage is a more ‘natural’ looking method, since apparently hair and hair color au natural is all the rage lately.
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