Lightening Hair

Ancient Egyptians lightened their hair with lemon juice and clay, used herbs and sprinkled their heads with ashes, substituting it under the searing sun of the desert. However, the secret of the transformation from a brunette to a blonde was retained until the application of hydrogen peroxide.

Hair color will determine the melanin contained in their structure. It can be black-brown or yellow-red. Granules with a pigment determine the natural color. The degree of saturation with melanin is determined on a scale from one to ten. The less saturation, the easier it becomes to become a blonde.

Oxidizers, which at one stroke can radically change the color of hair, almost does not exist. The only exception is the hydrogen peroxide H2O2, favored by barbers.

Lightening hair with peroxide is based on the ability of oxygen to react with melanin, displacing the last of the hair shaft.

Peroxide is available in the form of a cream and a solution. Lightening of hair is mainly done using a solution, and the cream is more suitable for melioration.

Liquid peroxide (6%) is used in all products for lightening and dyeing hair. When choosing a dye, you need to consider your hair type, their length, porosity, the peculiarities of their condition and structure. Thin hair is more easily affected. Long hair is better clarified with the help of a specialist, because it is very problematic to do it on your own.

Lightening of hair can be done only with the help of a certain type of paint. Temporary paints (rinsers, foams, gels, shampoos, aerosols, mascara) can not cope with this task. Short-term (tinted creams, gels, liquids, foams) do not contain peroxide, so they can be lightened only by a few tones.

The most popular dyes, which provide effective lightening of hair, are sparing staining agents based on low peroxide peroxide. They wrap their hair like balm, they do not harm the hair very much. But the result is not more than a month. The dye is washed 10-12 times.

Long-acting paints are the strongest. They are based on natural components, salts of heavy metals, organic substances and some synthetic. It is these colors that make hair as light as possible in one go. In the case, of course, if the paint is single-phase. Since there are two-phase classes of this class. When using this paint, melanin varies greatly, acquiring the necessary degree of discoloration. Then it is necessary to apply the dye. To lighten immediately to white color is dangerous, because it will severely damage the hair. It is better to bring to a pale yellow shade, and then neutralize the yellowness with toner.

Before clarification, experts recommend taking an allergy test to a clarifier, which is a strong chemical. It is also advisable to perform a preliminary test on one strand of hair to check the time of the pigment change and make sure that as a result your hair will get the desired color, and not become yellow or gray.

There are many techniques of clarification: the Scandinavian point (light roots in the cold tone and darker tips), blonding "Platyphosis" (with a platinum-silvery tinge), cotton technology or "cord" (clarified spots "scattered" on the head in separate fragments) "(The effect of playing light)" zig-zag "(the hair in checkerboard pattern is different in tone).

Lightening hair with professional products with peroxide is certainly effective, but does them some harm. For many, the first place in this issue is still the health of the hair and the safety of the procedure. Here, national recipes come to the rescue.

Quite effective is a decoction of chamomile (100 g for two glasses of water), mixed with 30 g of glycerin. Apply to damp hair for half an hour. A very good way - lightening the hair with kefir. This method helps to make the tone lighter by several units. In fifty grams of yogurt you need to add yolk, lemon juice, three spoons of cognac, a spoonful of shampoo. The mixture is applied to dry hair and left overnight. The result, of course, is weaker, but the hair after such clarification will be much more healthy. The choice is yours.