Do you want to change your life? Start with your hair. Have you heard this? I made it a rule to change my haircut every spring. And this year I dared to make drastic changes. I changed my hair color. For ten whole years, hair wore a terrible sentence - “blond”. Everything would be fine if it weren’t for their condition. They became brittle, very dry, and the tail looked like a mouse’s!
It turned out to be not so easy to find a master who would convert from blonde to light brown. Remembering the colors my friends painted at home gives me goosebumps. After all, during such repainting you can turn green. This is the whole difficulty of transitioning to light brown - the final color depends on many factors, such as the structure of the hair, its native color, how it “perceives” the coloring.
I decided for myself that such experiments should be carried out only in the salon, and having convinced myself a thousand times that the master is a pro in this matter.
After much research on websites and various forums, I finally found it. The only one I dared to trust to dye my barely living hair from blonde to light brown. So, it all started with preparation. I didn’t wear makeup for two months, constant masks, head massages, and only wearing a hat when going outside, so that in the cold I wouldn’t dry out my hair even more. An alarming day came, gathering my wealth in a bun, I stomped into the salon. There I was met by a very sweet, friendly girl Katya. " So, do you want to change your hair color from blonde to blond? . ", she asked The second stage of going blonde is coloring. We chose the color to be a shade darker than the roots, the paint is the most gentle, it is not permanent. Therefore, after two to three weeks the procedure must be repeated. The third stage is care: shampooing, mask, massage. Katerina told me about all the intricacies of dyeing from blonde to light brown, it turns out that only the third time I will be able to choose the color I like. Ash-blond, wheat-blond, with a golden tint - the assortment is varied. In the meantime, every day the paint becomes lighter, gradually washes out and I like it more and more.
More self-confidence. Change your clothes, change your hair, change your style. Go from blonde to light brown or brown-haired, it doesn’t matter, life loves change!
Brunettes are unlikely to understand the problem of “how to change your color from blonde to light brown.” Just like why would a blonde want to dye her hair something else if she is already naturally blonde?! After all, millions, without exaggeration, dream of blond curls, but they cannot always get exactly that hair color...
Trial and error
How to change your color from blonde to light brown so that you are satisfied with the result? Well, firstly, this color is chosen precisely because it is as close as possible to their native one. A blonde is a delicate creature, and it’s easy to break the image created by nature if you choose the wrong shade of hair dye. In order not to make a mistake, there are two ways:
- first try the desired paint on a computer program;
- Dye your hair with a tinted shampoo to see the color directly on your hair.
Although these two methods also have small disadvantages. In the case of a computer program, it is difficult to achieve the transmission of completely natural colors, and the color on the monitor is one thing, and the color that ends up in the tube and falls on your hair is another thing. Tinted shampoo will also show only an approximate picture of the future. Why?
Half a tone higher
No matter how blonde a blonde is, she will still need to lighten her hair before dyeing it light brown. Of course, this idea may seem devoid of any meaning to you, but nevertheless. The reason is that the dye may apply unevenly to undyed hair. It will be extremely difficult to combat this, only by repainting it in a darker tone or applying some kind of artistic complex coloring, so that in the end the hair looks “and this is how it was intended.”
Lightening blond hair is a mandatory preparation of the “springboard” so that the tone is even. But you can’t apply makeup immediately after bleaching. Hair bleaching is the most aggressive type of color change, so it takes at least three days to restore the keratin layer of the hair shaft - this is for thicker hair, and thin hair requires a longer break, up to five days.
How to deal with greens
But even if all the “rules of decency” are followed and the dye is applied to rested, bleached hair, an unpleasant surprise may emerge: a gray or even green tint. If you can somehow come to terms with gray or wait until after three or four washes the color becomes less intense and can be adjusted, then green color hair was hardly part of your plans. Yes, and it’s difficult to correct.
Just for such cases, in order not to leave the hair salon looking like Disney's Little Mermaid, when going for coloring, you need to have on hand not only a light brown shade, but also a darker one. It will help hide traces of unsuccessful painting. It's better if light brown paint, and the darker one will be from the same manufacturer, that is, they will have an identical composition. Because first lightening, then coloring, and after that immediately re-coloring, and even with a different composition - poor hair may not be able to withstand this. As a result, scalp itching and burning may occur for some time. More serious consequences of such a blitzkrieg can be brittle hair or even hair loss. It all depends on what kind of hair you have. If they are naturally dry and thin, then after coloring you need to use, in addition to the obligatory cream-balm, also a moisturizing hair mask. And make such masks after every hair wash.
There is also a so-called folk method of combating the green tint of dyed hair. It consists of taking a pack of aspirin, 10 tablets (fewer if you have short hair), crush it all finely, fill it with water, and apply this mixture to unsuccessfully colored hair. The effectiveness of the method is relative, but the harm to hair is irrelevant.
You won't get any lighter
Why and why blondes decide to change their hair color, which others so strive for, removing their natural pigment using all available methods, is a mystery. Blondes in general are a complete mystery. Most likely, they, like all other women, are driven by the desire to change something in their appearance. You just need to keep in mind that in this case, quickly “replaying” everything anew and returning to the natural state is as easy as changing your hair color from blonde to light brown. You can become darker, but not lighter. More precisely, you can, but only when your natural hair grows and you can cut off your dyed locks. So just think about whether you need to change your image so radically.
Girls are fickle people. Today they want to be sizzling brunettes, tomorrow – dazzling blondes, the day after tomorrow – natural, fair-haired beauties. Sooner or later, any girl becomes a blonde (you have to try what it’s like to be a modern Marilyn Monroe). Some people like this role so much that they don’t want to leave it for the rest of their lives; some, on the contrary, want to return to the mainstream of a normal, “dark” existence, in which there is no place for offensive jokes about narrow-minded fair-haired girls.
How to choose the right shade of light brown?Any professional hairdresser knows how to go from blonde to light brown. Color transformation can be done at home, but it is better to entrust your bleached, brittle and worn-out hair to the hands of an experienced person. He can easily assess their condition and, based on the regrown roots, determine the shade of Russian (light, medium or dark) that is right for you. Before painting, you can use a special computer program yourself or with the help of a specialist to select the desired shade of light brown. Finally, suitable color can always be found by test painting using tinted shampoo or tonic of one or another Russian shade. The hair will return to its original color in four weeks, which will allow you to embark on new experiments.
How to dye blonde hair brown?
In order to change from blonde to light brown, you will need very little - a high-quality coloring composition (preferably produced by a well-known, well-established manufacturer) and following the chosen dyeing technology. Natural blondes can keep the dye on their hair for the amount of time indicated on the package. Girls with bleached hair should reduce the time they use the dye by a third.
There are three ways to change from blonde to light brown:
- Coloring. Blonde hair They are painted not in one, but in different shades of light brown. The resulting result is striking in its versatility of color. Colored brown hair visually looks more voluminous and thicker than hair dyed in a single tone.
- Permanent coloring. Blonde hair is dyed in the classic way. They look as natural as possible. For painting, it is better to use gentle products, without hydrogen peroxide and ammonia.
- Toning. Blonde hair prepares for perception light brown, initially painted in warm, soft shades bordering on blonde or more dark color. Honey, caramel and cinnamon can later be transformed into deeper brown tones.
Let me start with the fact that I was blonde for 12 years. I’ve been wearing makeup since I was 14. It’s true that I’ve never lost color, I applied paint right away. And then, after the birth of my daughter, I wanted to recolor myself in my real color, or rather, I’ve wanted to for a couple of years now, but I decided only now. I chose the paint quickly, standing in the store in front of a rack with a variety of this product. Since at that time I was breastfeeding my baby, I wanted paint without ammonia so that it wouldn’t stink throughout the apartment. I chose Schwarzkopf Perfect Mousse because I liked the color on the packaging and it said that it was ammonia-free.
My hair is shoulder-length (overgrown bob). I bought two packs because, based on long-term experience, I know that one pack is not enough to dye all my hair. My mother painted me for the first time. But we were so “mossy”, we diluted the paint in a jar, as we always did with other cream paints, and began to paint with a brush. Mom spat, cursed and said that it was terribly inconvenient to paint! In general, we finished painting almost after a fight. My mother had a negative attitude towards this paint. BUT! In defense of this paint, I will say that it really does not stink, it smells a little, but quite pleasant. The color after painting turned out almost the same as on the box. A slightly grayer tint, but after a few washes, the grayness washed off. It doesn’t flow, doesn’t bake, and doesn’t make your head itch. And the most important thing is that one pack was enough for me to dye all my hair!!! I didn't expect this!
Since I still have one more pack left, besides, naturally, after quite a long time it was a little washed off and the roots of the industry, I decided to paint it again. This time there was no one to paint me, so I did it myself. She did everything right, diluted it not in her jar, but in a bottle, and began to apply makeup in front of the mirror. I painted it honestly, I’ll tell you HOW! that is, of course, I tried somehow in order, so as not to miss anything, but there are no eyes behind me, everything is by touch... And then I realized why this paint was created, namely to paint myself! How convenient! You splash it here and there, then shake it with your hands and that’s it. I didn’t expect that the color would be even, considering how barbarically I applied it! And besides, it’s kind of endless! I've already painted my entire head, but it still doesn't finish. I collected all the hair at the top and began to dye it again, like the top ones. Everything seems to have run out of paint. I shook the bottle and it got a “second wind”; I had to cover my whole head with paint again. In general, it was possible to paint it twice...
I don’t know about blonde shades, but if I dye my hair light brown or brunette again, for example, and there is no one to dye me, then I will 100% choose this dye! Moreover, the child will not have to smell the ammonia smell.