Every woman ever dreamed of changing her hair colour. Someone goes to experiments easily, and someone finds it difficult to decide on a radical change of appearance. In this case, there is a wonderful way out – melting: the way of dyeing hair in separate strands. However, this way of dying has a lot of other advantages.

Advantages and disadvantages

The pros.

Compared to traditional staining, melting has a number of advantages:

• helps to “revive” the hair without sudden changes in colour;
• Helps you smoothly return to natural colour after dying;
• Visually increases volume and enhances shine;
• Well, masks grey without regular colouring;
• Not so noticeable growing roots;
• Less spoil the hair;
• Does not require frequent updates (enough to dye your hair once in three months);
• Shades the skin well – it looks smoother and smoother;
• Suitable for women of any age and noticeably “rejuvenate”.

Minuses.

The procedure also has some “flaws”:

• The procedure requires certain skills, so it is quite difficult to conduct it yourself;
• Painting can take a long time – it depends on the type of melting, the number of colours used, etc;
• Like any other chemical, melting agents are harmful to the hair, especially if this procedure is done regularly. Therefore, it is necessary to take care of the curls – make masks, wraps and other restorative procedures;
• Hair should not be melted after henna dyeing or immediately after a curl;
• If there is a lot of grey hair and regular colouring is required, it can make it a bit more difficult to colour the roots afterwards.

As you can see, the advantages of melting are much greater than the disadvantages, and those are very relative, so it is hardly worth giving up such a wonderful way to improve the appearance of your hair.

Melting methods

The dyeing composition is applied to the hair in only four variants:

With the help of a hat, it is a classic that is now considered a little outdated. It is also a time-consuming and time-consuming process: a special rubber cap with holes is used to hook the individual straps on which the dyeing compound is applied. This method is suitable for short hair and medium length curls.

With the help of foil – a more modern method that allows you to well dye long curls and use several tones. The dyeing compound is applied to individual strands, which are wrapped in foil.

With the help of a comb it is possible to dye the hair of any length. For this purpose, the dyeing mixture is applied to the comb with rare teeth and the curls are brushed from root to tip (or to a certain length).

Hand rubbing is usually done on curly or curly hair, both short and long. It is done mainly in two techniques: “frosting” and “glazing”. With the latter, only the tips are clarified and the “frost” is applied in such a way that it emphasizes the natural movement of the hair, creating an additional volume. Usually, the paint is applied by hand, but sometimes a brush is also used.

Melioration types

They differ in dyeing technique, colour and length of hair that can be applied, number and size of strands to be dyed. Some of them are already considered traditional but do not lose their relevance. Others are recent and have already gained popularity. All of them can be divided into several main species.

Classic and zonal

Classic is the uniform dyeing of hair strands along the entire length. The thickness and width of the strands may vary. The thinner they are and the less the difference between the main colour and the coloured curls, the more natural the hair looks.

Zoning is only about dyeing individual strands of hair. In the classic version, the upper strands of dark-coloured or dark hair are lightened. But creative melting is becoming increasingly popular, as well as asymmetric, diagonal, root, avant-garde and other types of partial dyeing.

Traditional and vice versa

With traditional melting, the hair is lightened, while the opposite is true for individual strands, which are dyed darker. The latter way is practised by blonde girls who want to make the hair darker or lightened brunettes and brunettes who want to restore their natural colour without a sharp transition.

Normal and gentle.

If you can change the natural colour by as many tones as you like during normal melioration, the gentle colour changes by a maximum of two or three tones. The paints used in this procedure do not contain ammonia and include additional moisturizing components. The most gentle is the dyeing of a small number of fine strands of hair, mainly from the middle of the length or at the tips.

The 7 most popular types of melting

There are a lot of different types of this procedure, and a whole book is probably not enough to mention them all. That’s why let’s focus only on the most popular “trimming”.

BROND

Bronding is a multicolour colouring within a natural colour range. It allows you to create the most magnificent colours and shades. The multispectral and playfulness of the colour visually increases the volume of the hair and makes it shiny, shimmering and energetic. This effect was instantly appreciated by many Hollywood stars, and it was thanks to them that the fermentation procedure quickly gained popularity around the world.

Coffee chocolate, copper chestnut and dark rustic shades are most often used for dark hair fermentation. Blond hair is fermented with beige, amber, wheat, coffee, nut and light brown shades.

Painting of this type can be both classical, along the entire length, and zonal, for example, on the type of omber.

Omber

The technology of omber melting (other names are balayage, degradation) is the creation of a smooth transition from a darker shade at the roots to a lighter one at the tips. The colour gradation can be quite noticeable, for example, from black to white.

Usually, such colouring is two-tone, but sometimes three colours are used. Thus clearness of each colour separately and blurring of transition between them are important.

Shatush

This is a type of treatment that allows you to create on dark hair an imitation of natural sunburn. For light hair, it is used much less frequently, because the effect is not so noticeable. It is also used to disguise grey hair if its amount does not exceed 30%, and to smooth the contrast of coloured hair with overgrown roots.

The procedure is attractive because it does not take much time (up to 1 hour), as well as it can use natural dyes (henna and Basma).

French (majimesh)

Melting performed by a cream-free, wax-free paint. It is considered to be one of the most gentle types. Allows light curls to give golden, pearl and nut shades, but for dark hair, it is not suitable, because there is no intense lightning, but only a slight change of. But this is exactly what makes light hair shine amazing and looks much brighter and more voluminous.

For this dyeing can be used as a single shade and a combination of several different tones.

California (Venetian)

It is a gentle type of hair treatment, in basic features, similar to a broom, but distinguished by a variety of different colour combinations. More saturated shades can be used and the palette of colours used for this procedure is much wider. In addition, it can be used not only on dark hair, but also light brown or, for example, dark-coloured.

If dark hair is created by amber or golden strands, this is called Venetian melting.

American

This type of dyeing is suitable for brunettes and brushes who want to add their own image of bright colours. Two to five red, brown or red dyes are used to shade hair. Although this “autumn” palette has recently been enriched with very bright shades. The bravest of them can make a green or purple finish.

With this type of melting strands can have a variety of thicknesses and widths. Transitions are possible both soft and sharp, contrasting. This is one of those types of melioration, where, in principle, any dark-haired woman can be selected a perfectly suitable option.

Extravagant

Unlike all other types, such non-standard colouring gives not only beauty, shine and volume to hair, but also certain extravagance to all image of the woman who has decided on cardinal experiments with a hairstyle. It can be both bright colours, and an original way of colour separation, and colour scores on atypical hairstyles.

There is no clear style separation between these types of haircuts. According to the colourists, the “Salt and pepper” melting, which is very fashionable in recent times, creates the effect of almost grey hair.

You need even more courage to have to have to make multi-colored furnishings, dyeing the strands, for example, in green, blue and pink tones. The color may be one, but quite bright and sharply different from the general tone of the hair. Such dyeing variants offer such stylish directions as creativity, avant-garde, Crazy colors. Thus, “mad colors” can shade separate strands or be applied chaotically, and even create certain patterns (for example, Colloringparrot – parrot colors, or stencil patterns – waves, circles).

They are calmer in the color scheme of furnishings in the style of magic contrast and diagonal. In the first case vertical lines of bright, contrasting tones (for the most courageous – white plus black) are created. Covering the diagonal type implies a specific separation of samples: vertically or at an angle. Thus in a classical variant the colour scale is not too sated, but necessarily contrasting. If such technique is used to create avant-garde or creative images, the tones are selected much brighter.

What kind of melioration do you prefer?

When choosing a type, it is necessary to take into account:

• condition of hair;
• main color;
• Hair is natural or already colored;
• length of hair;
• type of haircut;
• eye color;
• skin color.

These are all very important points, and if you make a wrong choice or ignore any of them, you can be disappointed in the end result. This is hardly the first time you’ve done this on your own, and an experienced hairdresser will tell you which option is best for you.