Dark shades of hair perfectly complement the image of women with olive skin and brown, gray, green eyes. Dark hair is an opportunity to create almost any style, whether it be a female vamp or a simple student. Modern industry allows you to achieve both chestnut and chocolate hair color. But which one to choose? For an ordinary person, the difference may not be noticeable, however, a slight difference in color nuances makes these shades completely different. And brown and chocolate hair color is now at the height of fashion. The article gives advice on how to choose a shade based on the color type of your own appearance, as well as which dye to choose for the best staining result.
What is the difference between shades of hair - brown and chocolate?
The abundance of dyes on store shelves does not leave indifferent any girl. Everyone loves experimenting with their own image, style. And what is the easiest way to instantly change your image as radically as possible? Just dye your hair!
What is the difference between brown hair and chocolate? Indeed, at first glance, these shades are almost identical. Any experienced colorist will report that the chocolate shade does not have warm tones in itself, the exception is light golden. Chocolate is usually cold, that is, manufacturers add purple, blue, green pigments as mixtons in this shade. But chestnut involves the addition of copper pigment, which provides a fairly pronounced red.
At the same time, both chocolate and brown hair have one level of tone depth - this is about 5-6. In simple terms, these tones do not mean going into a strong darkening, but they are much darker than the usual light brown color (which is at a depth level of 7-6). This is the basic knowledge for choosing a paint.
Chocolate-brown hair color is also present in the palettes of some manufacturers of both professional dyes and the mass market. In particular, “Garnier” and “Estelle” have such shades. They imply a very light redhead - thus, the shade can not be clearly defined either to chestnut or chocolate. But colorists usually recommend choosing a more specific shade - either with a pronounced copper tint (chestnut) or with a golden or cold (chocolate).
In turn, the chocolate shade is also divided into a fairly wide range of shades - this depends on the presence or absence of goldenness, on the severity of the ash tone (that is, literally on the amount of purple mixed paste added by the manufacturer in the manufacture of the dye). As a result, the result depends on the choice of a particular tone. About how to preserve the health and beauty of hair after dyeing, we will discuss below.
How to choose a shade that perfectly complements the look
Before finally deciding on the shade of hair, you should evaluate your color type. There are four of them in color. The names are given to them by the seasons: winter, autumn, summer and spring. Of course, you can take the advice of a competent colorist on choosing a hair shade, but with minimal knowledge in color, it is quite possible to decide for yourself which is more suitable for your face - chestnut or chocolate hair color.
- Girls of the winter color type have porcelain, delicate and very fair skin, have a contrasting appearance. This means that eye color contrasts sharply with protein. Most often, the color of the eyes of girls of the winter color type is saturated blue, brown, black. Women of this color type have a beautiful chocolate hair color, but an exceptionally cold undertone. If they try to dye their hair auburn with a copper tint, their appearance will take on a painful, unhealthy appearance.
- Spring-type girls also have white, fair skin, but they usually have freckles. Eye color - green, blue, all warm light shades. Women of this color type are suitable for chestnut tones at a minimum level of depth of tone. This is a light chestnut-copper, mocha, mustard, dark caramel. They also suit current shades of chocolate-colored hair with a golden nuance.
- Girls of autumn color type can afford any chestnut shades. They perfectly complement brown eyes, olive skin and freckles. it should be noted that of all color types, dark saturated tones with copper or gold supplement the image of women of the autumn color type most of all - with such a shade of hair, the girl looks younger, her complexion looks healthy and even, her eyes are radiant.
What color type girls do not go dark shades of hair
Girls of the summer color type look with dark hair (especially with copper and golden nuances) faded. This is not their choice at all. In women of the summer color type, gray or light blue eyes, skin without freckles. The maximum that they can afford from a palette of chocolate tones without risk of acquiring a painful appearance is milk chocolate, that is, quite light and without a hint of warm mixtons. This shade should be as cold as possible, with the addition of a large amount of violet. Some dyes offer such options - for example, “Capus” 6.1, “Constant Delight” 7.1 or 6.1. It is important to pay attention to the unit (1) at the end of the digital code of the palette - such a dye will provide the coldest staining result.
When dyeing hair color chocolate of all shades, you should also pay attention to the selection of hairstyles. If the hair is weak, split and broken along the length - not one, even the highest quality dye, can turn them into luxurious silk. Even if the tips are overdried, with the help of a properly selected haircut, you can achieve their acceptable appearance. For example, a short flight of stairs with maximum milling, or a square. An experienced hairdresser will always be able to advise a haircut that would be best combined with the color of the hair and hide their imperfections.
Chocolate hair color: types of shades
Modern color offers the following varieties of chocolate shade of hair:
- Milk chocolate is suitable even for girls of spring and summer color types. They should give preference to this shade, because it is relatively light and almost completely cold. thus, it is possible to emphasize the whiteness of the skin. If there are freckles on your face, then you can also experiment with a chestnut shade that is not too dark and without excess copper. Reviews about hair color milk chocolate are different. Thanks to this shade, some girls were able to find their image, their own unique style. For others, he did not approach the color of his eyes; he had to change his everyday make-up and the general orientation of the style for a new hair color.
- Dark cold chocolate is perfect for girls of the winter color type. This is a deep, rich and luxurious shade that perfectly complements the image of a vamp woman. In recent years, it is very popular, therefore, it is present in the palettes of almost all dyes - both professional and mass-market. For example, Loreal Casting (an excellent ammonia-free inexpensive dye that can be purchased at any supermarket) has the “Frosty Chocolate” tone - it has an ashy shade without a hint of red or gold, while it is quite dark - but not black.
- Light chocolate is an intermediate option between dark and milk. The depth of the tone level is 5. That is, it is not completely dark, but it is far from light brown. Perfect for owners of both olive skin tone and porcelain. If there is any doubt about whether chocolate hair color is suitable for the image, and how to dye your hair in order to protect yourself from an unsuccessful result, then it is definitely worth starting the experiment with this shade. It suits girls of any color type (except summer).
- Chocolate-brown hair color (Syoss, Garnier and other mass-market dyes have this shade in the palette) differs from all others in that it has a copper tint. This fact scares some girls, others are attracted. It all depends on whether, as a result of staining, a copper, reddish tone is desired. Since the main difference between brown and chocolate hair color is precisely the presence of copper pigment, chocolate-brown color allows you to solve this problem. After staining, the redhead looks much less pronounced than when stained in a regular chestnut color. But it is still there, and many girls consciously want to get a cold shade of chocolate, so they better refuse to use such dyes.
Brown hair color: fashion and shades
Useful tips for colorists about which shade to choose are as follows:
- stop choosing chestnut only if there are freckles on the face, if the eyes are brown, and the skin tone is not too light;
- if previously the hair was red, and the client wants to darken the general background, gradually abandoning the red completely;
- if under the general image and daily make-up, the client’s style is suitable for brown hair color.
Reviews about chocolate-brown hair color are different. Much depends on the dye: almost all the girls who used a quality product were satisfied: the hair looks thick, shiny and healthy, the color is deep and saturated. In this case, after the procedure there were no problems with hair loss, they did not become more brittle or dry. But the reviews that used permanent dye are not so rosy: the girls note that the color is rather heterogeneous, it rinses off faster at the roots than at the ends, and the hair becomes dry. Of course, each individual review should be passed through the prism of individuality, because each woman has a different initial hair structure, its density and properties.
The chestnut color has much less shades than the chocolate one. Only two main ones can be distinguished: light chestnut and dark. The first is at the sixth level of the tone depth, the dark is at the fifth or fourth (in the palette of each individual dye, the numbering may vary slightly).
The difference between ammonia-free and permanent hair dyes
Which dye to choose? You can subdivide the whole variety of coloring agents into two large groups:
- Permanent, high in ammonia. Their plus is high resistance, but often they are ruthless in relation to the structure of the hair.
- Ammonia-free - do not contain ammonia, it contains a variety of caring components. The disadvantage of such dyes is, as a rule, that they are rather unstable and wash off a couple of weeks after application, the gloss disappears, the color becomes more dull.
How to carry out the staining procedure at home
To whom chocolate color of hair goes, we have already figured it out. Is it possible to carry out the staining procedure yourself, at home? Of course, there is nothing complicated about this.
First you need to choose a dye. If you select a product from the mass market, then you do not need to buy anything else: the kit includes cream-paint, oxidizing agent, gloves and mixing instructions. If a professional dye in a tube was chosen, then an oxidizing agent will have to be purchased separately.
After the ingredients have been mixed, the composition should be applied to the hair, dividing them first into strands. Start application from the roots, end with tips. If it is possible, after washing off the composition, apply a special balm or mask to the hair - this will help to fix the acquired color.
Dyes that allow you to achieve a luxurious chocolate and brown shade of hair
List of popular and inexpensive dyes that will allow you to achieve the coveted shade of "dark chocolate":
- Brelil Colorianne Shine 4.38 - Dark Chocolate.
- Schwarzkopf Palette Perfect Care 800 - Dark Chocolate.
- Estel Professional 7.32 - Dark Chocolate.
- Syoss Mixing Colors 1.18 - Dark Chocolate.
- L'Oreal Casting 403 - Dark Chocolate.
List of dyes that will allow you to achieve a shade of light or milk chocolate:
- Brelil Prestige 5.18 - Light Chocolate.
- Brelil Colorianne Shine 5.38 - Milk Chocolate.
- Syoss ProNature 5-21 - Light Chocolate.
- L'Oreal Preference 6/35 - Light chocolate.
- Garnier Olia 4.15 - Milk Chocolate.
- L'Oreal Casting 535 - Chocolate.
- Estel 7/7 - Light Chocolate;
- L'Oreal Casting 713 - Frosty Beige.
List of dyes that will achieve chestnut and chocolate shades:
- Casting 412 - Cocoa with ice.
- Schwarzkopf Color Mask 600 - Light chestnut.
- Casting 513 - Frosty Cappuccino.
- Casting 534 - Maple Syrup
- L'Oreal Casting 603 - Chocolate.
- L'Oreal Casting 515 - Chestnut.
How not to spoil your hair while dyeing: tips from stylists
In order not to spoil the quality of the hair after the staining procedure, you should follow simple tips:
- choose the oxidizer with the lowest concentration;
- do not keep the composition on the hair longer than the time specified in the instructions;
- refuse metal utensils and combs with metal teeth during staining;
- after the dyeing procedure, pay special attention to care, acquire professional products for this - this will preserve the color, shine and density of the hair even after using the most aggressive permanent dyes.
Hair care after the procedure of dyeing in dark color
The following rules for hair care should be observed after the procedure of dyeing in a dark color to maintain brightness and shine:
- Before hot laying, always use a thermal protective agent in the form of a cream or spray;
- choose a shampoo for colored hair, which includes caring components;
- if it is not possible to use thermal protection, then use at least indelible concentrate before drying with a hairdryer;
- natural oils for colored hair are contraindicated, as they very quickly wash color, and heterogeneous;
- choose a mask with nutritional properties, it is optimal if panthenol, keratin or other proteins are in the composition;
- choose high-quality combs, preferably from natural bristles, which prevent the ends from being cut.