The variety of hair dyes is deceptive. In fact, all paints can be divided into two large groups: permanent permanent and tinting. Ammonia resistant dyes lead to dry and brittle hair. Toning agents, as a rule, do not contain ammonia, but they contain caring components. Thus, professional hair tinting allows you to get a beautiful rich shade and at the same time maintain the beauty and health of the hair. The article gives advice on choosing a composition for tinting and a description of the procedure.
Professional hair tinting at home
What is tinting? Roughly speaking, this term means the same as staining. Only dye without ammonia is used, which also contains caring components. After tinting hair with professional means, the hair looks luxurious: there is a shine, volume. The hair looks healthy and thick. Alas, this effect is quite short: after a couple of weeks, the color fades and the quality of the hair returns to its original state. In order to prolong the effect of the procedure, you should use professional hair care products (this will be discussed below).
The recommended frequency for professional hair tinting is once a month. You can choose a dye and care at a relatively low cost - for example, from Russian manufacturers of professional cosmetics. In this case, the hair will always be in excellent condition, and the financial costs will not be too large.
Toning can give your hair a rich dark or noble platinum color. It all depends on what dye number in the palette you choose. Of course, if this is the tone of the blondes, then the hair will have to be preliminarily discolored. Some girls prefer to tint their hair with professional means tone-on-tone to their native color. This gives the hair shine, volume and vitality.
Professional hair tinting for blondes
The toning procedure for blondes is especially relevant. It helps to avoid the appearance of untidy yellowness, and also maintains hair in excellent condition after a traumatic bleaching procedure.
If you use professional hair tinting products, there will be no trace of yellowness. They can be sold not only in the form of dyes, but also in the form of shampoos, masks. An overview of these tools is presented below.
Without tinting, the blonde looks very cheap: her hair quickly turns yellow, a redhead begins to look through. As a result, instead of noble pearl hair, a cheap image is obtained. After toning, bleached hair is transformed: it looks shiny, well-groomed, the color becomes uniform.
The most popular shades when toning bleached hair:
- platinum;
- caramel;
- golden;
- pearl.
Toning hair in bright colors
For several years, the fashion for unusual shades of hair has not passed. Today, at the peak of fashion, tinting in pastel colors, and such tinting should be performed using the ombre or highlight technique.
The most daring fantasies are used. Since tinting dyes do not spoil hair, you can experiment as you wish! Many girls choose truly extravagant images for themselves, combining several shades in their hair style at once. This can be easily achieved with the help of tinting agents from TM "Loreal", "Estelle", "Londa". Toning hair with professional products allows not only to achieve a bright shade, but also to preserve the shine and beauty of the hair.
Is tinting necessary for dark or red hair?
Among people far from hairdressing, there is an opinion that only blondes need toning to get rid of yellowness. This is a fallacy: in fact, you can tint your hair in any shade.
If a girl comes to the salon for the next haircut and complains to the master that the hair has lost its shine, the tips began to cut off, broken hair appeared, then an experienced hairdresser will advise to protonate the hair in a natural color. This will strengthen the strands, make them stronger and prevent breakage along the length. Both dark and red shades after tinting look truly luxurious.
Is an oxidizing agent needed when toning hair?
Toning can be done at home if a complex staining technique is not implied (ombre, highlighting, etc.). This procedure is quite simple. To perform professional hair tinting at home, you will need the following:
- composition for tinting (sold in ordinary tubes, like a familiar paint);
- an oxidizing agent to it;
- protective gloves for the skin of the hands.
Which oxidizing agent to choose? Almost all manufacturers produce a special oxidizer with a low concentration, especially for tinting. As a rule, the bottle indicates that the concentration is 1.9% or 3%. Oxidizing agents with a higher concentration are used either for lightening or for dyeing hair with a permanent dye.
How to choose the best remedy for your hair?
Before choosing a tinting agent, assess the condition of your hair. If they are thin and lack volume - pay attention to the compositions enriched with keratin and collagen. If devoid of shine, then compounds enriched with oils will come to the rescue. If the ends are split and the hair breaks along the length, then it is necessary to choose compounds with keratin and with plant extracts.
Professional hair tinting paints can be purchased at any hairdresser shop. Do not be confused by the variety of companies and the abundance of palettes - a consultant will always come to the rescue and tell you the right tool. It is optimal to immediately purchase and care for tinted hair - masks, concentrates, thermal protective agents.
Review of tinting paint from Loreal
As you already understood, the key to the beauty of hair is tinting hair. Loreal - professional dyes with a huge palette of shades for every taste. The price category of dyes is different - from Color Touch for 300 rubles per package to Majirel for 1400 rubles for a tube of paint. Also, the Riches non-ammonia toning composition, which ideally combines both quality and average cost, is popular among hairdressers.
Here are a couple of recipes for toning bleached hair tinting composition from Riches:
- If you need a cold shade, use Riches 9.01 + 9.02 + claire (30 g + 30 g + 60 g).
- If you need warm, then take "Riches" 9.02 + 9.03 + claire (30 g + 30 g + 60 g).
This is a rather complicated, but working scheme for colorists. If you plan to carry out the tinting procedure at home, then you can buy only one tube with the composition - for example, 9.01 (blond cold ash) and an oxidizing agent (clair) to it.
Review of tinting dyes from "Capus"
Kapus is a domestic company that for ten years has been producing inexpensive and high-quality products for professional hair care and dyeing. Today, the company offers an excellent dye for tinting Hyaluronic Acid with hyaluronic acid. The cost of one tube is about 350 rubles. The composition includes hyaluronic acid, which intensively moisturizes dry hair and helps prevent fragility along the length.
The palette is very rich - there are many beautiful blondes (beige, ashen, gold, pearl, etc.), there are many copper shades and, of course, dark colors.
Pay attention also to the tinting means of Magic Keratin from "Kapus". The composition of this line includes keratin. After tinting with this product, the hair becomes shiny, more magnificent, in general, it looks much healthier than before the procedure.
Review of tinting dyes from "Londa"
Toning products from the world famous company "Londa" have long established themselves as leaders in the hairdressing market. Masters are attracted by the relatively low cost and huge professional Londa palette. Hair tinting can be done using the following tools:
- Extra-Coverage is a dye without ammonia, but with a high degree of resistance. Stains even gray strands. Highly active Vitaflection molecules with color pigment penetrate deep into the hair shaft, where they connect to each other and are blocked inside the hair, so that the saturated color remains for a long time. The dye is enriched with waxes and lipids, which make the hair shiny, lush and dense. After the tinting procedure with this tool, it seems that the hair has become thicker, there are more.
- Londa Color is positioned by the manufacturer as a composition designed for professional tinting. The palette is represented not only by familiar shades, but also by mixtons, adding which you can adjust the final color in cold or warm. However, if you use this tinting dye at home, then first try the tinting procedure in one shade and without adding mixton. Do not forget to immediately purchase an oxidizing agent for the dye.
Tinting dyes from the domestic company "Estelle"
Estelle is a Russian company that has been developing and producing professional hair care products for many years. Toning products that Estelle offers the buyer:
- Estel Prima Color - a dye for toning, the composition includes acrylic acids that nourish the hair along the entire length, from the roots to the ends. The disadvantage of this tool is a relatively small number of shades, there are only 10. They are pleased with the cost - only about 200 rubles per jar.
- Estel De Luxe - due to the proteins included in the composition, makes hair more fluffy, while not provoking the appearance of dryness. The palette is very rich - there are many shades of blonde, there are copper, golden, beige tones at different levels of tone depth. When buying a tube with a tool, do not forget to immediately purchase an oxidizing agent.
Shampoo with toning effect for blondes
Professional shampoos for toning hair come in handy for blondes. The use of such a tool will preserve a noble ash cold tint. How is the effect achieved? The composition of shampoos for tinting includes special purple pigments that, when used regularly, neutralize yellowness:
- Estel Curex Color Intense Blond Shampoo should be used two to three times a week. For the most pronounced effect of getting rid of yellowness, you should leave a foamed shampoo on your hair for two to three minutes.
- Shampoo silver Nexxt Professional for light and bleached hair, neutralizes the yellow nuance, gives a noble platinum color. The best product in terms of price and quality. Of the minuses - some girls complained that the shampoo stains the skin of the hands in a purple tint. When working with tinted shampoos from other manufacturers, this is not observed.
- Matrix Total Results Color Obsessed So Silver shampoo to neutralize yellowness costs a little more than analogs, but the quality of this product is on top. Never stains the skin of the hands or head, acts directly on the hair. Gives a fairly persistent silver color to blond and previously tinted hair.
What care does the hair need after the tinting procedure?
After the tinting procedure, to extend the effect, adhere to the following principles of hair care:
- use special gentle shampoos without aggressive components in the composition;
- after each shampoo, apply a mask on the hair with restoring and color-preserving components;
- before styling or blow-drying, apply a thermal protective agent to the hair surface;
- refuse to use homemade masks made of oil, sour cream, henna, etc.
- if the tips are in poor condition - use separate reconditioning concentrate for them.
How not to spoil hair when using professional products
Rules that will help not worsen the condition of the hair during the tinting procedure at home:
- carefully read the instructions for the composition, follow the dye exposure time indicated on the hair there, and carefully observe the recommended proportion of the oxidizing agent with the coloring cream;
- do not purchase an oxidizing agent of too high a concentration - such use may not only not improve the quality of the hair, but also lead to drying out.
If necessary, warm up the mass of hair after application, but only if this method is recommended in the instructions.