You can also use a deeper color on your gray roots, to better blend them in with your natural hair. This will prevent the roots from looking a lot lighter than the rest of your locks and will create a natural, subtle looking variation that covers the protective hairstyles to sleep in grays up. Since, everyone’s hair grows at a different pace, it’s safer to say that highlights can last for as long as four months and as short as two months. After your hair starts growing out, you will need to revisit the salon for a touch up.

In contrary, some people will apply hair dye to all of your head at the same time. Due to the heat of your scalp, the roots are lighter the ends. If you’re a natural brunette itching to go lighter, asking us about keeping your roots dark to make the transition look seamless. In this look, a root smudging technique is used to blend the hair colour which prevents unwanted lines from forming against the highlighted pieces.

Mix silver, blonde, and a little bit of brown, and the result is this ash-blonde hair color with shadow roots. The combo of dark and light undertones makes it a style you’ll def want to try out this year. Look for a purple shampoo and conditioner that’ll keep your hair cool-toned, rather than orange-toned, between trips to the salon. In French, balayage means “sweeping.” In the hair color world, balayage highlights are hand-painted or swept along the surface of the hair. Because the hair color or lightener is concentrated on the surface of each section, the underside remains darker, which gives the hair a very natural, dimensional effect. The resulting subtle balayage hairstyle mimics a natural, sun-kissed effect that has been in high demand from celebrities, models and high profile “it” girls for some time now.

This white platinum blonde-meets-ice blue creation is unexpected yet amazing. Go for a bright and bold color up top while keeping it natural at the bottom. Bonus points for these braids that add a touch of glam with beaded tips. And this blended, reverse-ombré look with cool, strawberry blonde balayage is giving us life. You really can’t go wrong with a blunt bob, ever—but we love this blonde reverse-ombré look featuring platinum roots and deep-blonde tips. So while you might be surprised by how easy a reverse ombré would be to pull off yourself—even if you’re slightly skeptical reading this, and we don’t blame you—we asked the experts.

It might be just smoke and mirrors but at least you can look like yourself again until then. If you pick the right color, your new hair will match up with your natural tone. As it grows out over time, the distinction between the dyed and non-dyed strands of hair will become less obvious.

This will cause the lengths to absorb the color pigments much faster than the roots. Possibly, if you don’t have any experience in coloring, ideally, you should get a professional to match the color between the roots and the rest of your hair. Deep conditioning right after your color is a smart strategy, as it acts as an instant antidote to the drying, damaging effects of any bleach or ammonia in your hair color formula. This can quickly combat any harsh effects on your hair, and hydrate your strands and ends. During the final 5 minutes, use your Wide Tooth Comb to gently comb your mixture from your roots down, to blend your Colour for a seamless and even tone. This will allow you to match your Colour without causing a heavy line of difference .

A good clarifying shampoo will be a life-saver in case you need to fade your current hair color a bit. Root concealers may be helpful during the transition too. Also, once you go dark after bleaching, there’s no going back without serious damage. If you bleach your hair blonde after darkening your locks, you will not be able to re-dye your hair dark for a very long period of time. Some negative effects of returning to your natural hair hue may include the need to explain to other people that will ask why you have several tones in your hair.

Not only will it save the integrity of your hair, it’ll also make the transition easier on you, too. (Anyone who’s done it knows that a quick color change can be jarring, to say the least.) However, not all shades should be treated the same. So Parks, who regularly takes people back to a life of less maintenance, broke down the process for us. In hair highlights, sections of your hair are dyed a shade darker or lighter than your natural hair color to improve the overall appearance of your hair. Of course, strategic placements of highlights can also help improve your complexion and draw attention towards or away from certain facial features. Scalp is usually the result of using a dye that is too warm or too red for your natural hair color.

You’re either darkening, adding color, or enriching your root color. When you need to lighten your roots, well, that’s something else. Unfortunately, “hot roots” does not actually mean people think your roots or even your hair color look really good. On the contrary, hot roots is a term that professional colorists use when the roots of your hair are noticeably–and unintentionally–warmer than the rest of your hair color.

For starters, ensure the hair color you use on your regrowth matches the hair color on the rest of your hair. Don’t touch up with warmer hair color or darker shade. The other option to correct roots that are too light would be to use a toner to calm the offending warmth.