From anti-aging hair color to curl contouring: 6 tips for masking gray hair from a colorist

For most people, gray hair is associated with aging, which is why we so want to get rid of it completely or somehow harmoniously “integrate” it into our current image. The colorist explained to us how best to hide silver locks over time. Memorize the 6 best ways to dress up: from the simplest ones you can manage at home to complex salon techniques.

Small strands or a slight “silvering” of the parting can be easily disguised at home. For this, special sprays have been developed. I recommend my clients to choose a shade with a hairdresser in a beauty salon. So you can avoid the unpleasant fate of “darkening” or “highlighting” gray hair, further accentuating its presence for those around you. In rare cases, I recommend choosing a spray 1-2 shades darker, when it is acceptable to “darken” the hair root area slightly.

To mask gray hair with little extension, use a mask or conditioner that has direct pigments in its composition (pure color concentrate). Use them during each hair wash, strictly observing the manufacturer’s recommendations.

Be extremely careful with balms and masks containing a copper or red undertone: on gray hair, it is recommended to reduce their exposure time (the time the product is kept on the hair) by a few minutes compared to that standard.

If there is a small percentage of gray hair, toning will help. Without exception, all tinted hair products contain a significant amount of caring components. It can be various natural polysaccharides, amino acids and vitamins. Vitamin E will be particularly useful for gray hair: it protects the hair from environmental damage and free radicals. Toning products that contain amaranth oil in the composition are also good.

Properly selected dye will allow you not only to achieve the desired shade on your hair, but also to create a protective film on their surface that will protect strands from the sun. The process of toning hair in a beauty salon does not take much time: the procedure takes an average of 1.5 hours. To maintain the tone, you will have regular visits to the salon.

When there is already a lot of gray hair on your head, and you want to hide it for a long time, you act differently. You can gently integrate gray streaks into the rest of the pigmented mass of hair with complex anti-aging coloring. With it, gray hair becomes invisible: it seems to blend into the overall picture.

With this method of hair coloring, the master does not change the shade of gray hair, and clarified hair brings it as close as possible in tone and level of depth. With the help of a certain hair lightening scheme, the regrowth will be as smooth as possible and will not require frequent correction in a beauty salon.

From my own experience, I can say that foci of gray hair most often appear on the temporal zones. The second most popular place is the parting, which also begins to change color faster than the occipital area. For my clients who don’t even want to see a silvery white veil on their hair, I suggest coloring using the contouring technique.

Depending on the individual anatomical features of the client, the percentage and location of gray hair, the arrangement of contrasting accents is selected. Usually it is whiskey, parting zones and bangs. Most of the hair, unaffected by gray hair, is not subject to lightening, so the outline can be attributed to moderately sparing hair manipulations.

Brushing is a delicate method of lightening hair, since during operation the strands are not sealed in foil. What is gray hair? This is a small trick: due to the fact that soft inclusions of an extraordinary shade appear on dark hair, all attention is instantly transferred to it.

How to get the coveted brown on your hair? It is best to go directly to a professional. Only an experienced master colorist who understands the essence of the method will create a set of shades on the hair, which will fill the image with shine and youth. It is necessary to correct such staining with the help of tone a little more often than described above, but the hair only gains in quality and external splendor.

Gray hair annoys both men and women. If you do not want to camouflage gray hair with sprays, mousses, masks and balms, you can effectively shade them 1-2 times a week using a special light show. To do this, you need to have in your arsenal either a shampoo with purple pigment, or a styling tool with the same functionality. Thus, gray hair will nobly shine in the sun.

Having achieved the desired shade and getting rid of gray hair, it is important to understand that without competent home care, the image will quickly lose its shine, and the shade will completely “leave” the hair. For home care of gray hair, sulfate-free and silicone-free shampoos are ideal.

Alternate the use of these shampoos with products to correct unwanted undertones (purple, ash, silver shampoos). Be sure to apply balms or masks during each shampoo, without attacking the scalp. When buying a leave-in product, opt for two-phase sprays, light veils or loose gels with a smoothing effect.