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The modern beauty industry can offer the fair sex a huge number of options on how to make their hair lighter. On sale you can find special brightening dyes, but not always they can give the desired effect. Very often, the curls after staining become not white, but yellow. After that, women begin to look for ways to get rid of the yellowness of their hair.
Why does the yellow tint appear
Hair lighteners act in such a way that the natural pigment is neutralized. Due to this, discoloration occurs. But not a single modern clarifier can completely eliminate all pigment from curls.
Each natural shade of hair has its own color pigments. If you are the owner of dark hair, then lightening it will be several times more difficult than light or natural blond. In this regard, unwanted yellowness very often appears on the curls.
A yellow tint may appear immediately after staining, but more often this happens after a while. Bleached hair is affected by a variety of cosmetic care products - shampoos, masks, balms, as well as styling products - gels, varnishes, mousses. You need to monitor the color of your curls and it is advisable to know in advance how to remove the yellowness of the hair .
If a yellow tint appears immediately after staining, then there may be several reasons:
- Poor quality dye. Even if the expiration date of the dye is normal, it can still deteriorate ahead of time. Therefore, paint must be bought exclusively in specialized stores. If you buy paint elsewhere, then the risk of purchasing low-quality goods is very high. It may be stored incorrectly or they may sell you a fake.
- Wrong hair coloring. If you decide to lighten your hair at home on your own, then it is very important to follow the proportions of the dye that are recommended in the instructions. In no case do not add water to the paint, although many professional hairdressers can use this technique in their practice. In this case, it is best to purchase the paint that is intended specifically for home use. All proportions are initially observed in it, so you will not need to calculate them yourself.
- Lightening hair more than six tones. If your natural color is dark enough, then one coloring is definitely not enough for you to become a blonde. In this case, it is necessary to follow the gradual lightening of the strands, so that later you do not look for a way to get rid of the yellowness of the hair. After the first staining, you need to wait two weeks. Then you can carry out the clarification procedure again. Compliance with these terms will allow you to change the color without harm to the hair. In the end result, it is still necessary to carry out additional processing of yellowness, because several stains will not be enough to fully remove pigments from the hair structure.
Cosmetics against yellow hair
There are a lot of cosmetic preparations in stores that will help get rid of the yellowness of the hair. You need to buy them in specialized stores in order to purchase really high-quality products that will not aggravate the situation and help you quickly solve the problem.
Tinted balm.
If you believe the color, then to neutralize the yellow tint of the hair, you must use a tool that has the opposite shade. You need to choose very carefully. For example, if you take a tonic of a blue tint, then the end result of the hair may turn green. To eliminate the yellowness of the strands, buy a tonic that has a silver or purple hue. Also, the time of exposure of the cosmetic product to the curls plays an important role. If you keep the tonic for too long, you can get "gray" hair. Before use, carefully read the instructions and keep the tonic on the curls for no longer than the time indicated there.
Shampoo
A special shampoo that will help get rid of the yellowness of the hair. On sale you can find special products that are designed to eliminate yellowness after clarification. Products such as shampoo are applied, then left on the hair for a certain time. They usually have a silver or purple hue. When applying this shampoo, you can not use gloves, it will not stain the skin of the hands. Also on sale you can find masks with the same effect. They have a more intense effect on the hair. With the help of a special shampoo or mask, only a slight yellow tint can be eliminated. For more advanced cases, it is better to use a tonic.
Ammonia-free paint.
If after lightening your hair is not affected, then you can use the paint again. The main condition is that now the paint should not contain ammonia. Paints of this type are washed off a little faster than usual, but at the same time they do not harm the curls at all. In order to get rid of the yellowness of the hair, you need to choose an ammonia-free paint that will be one tone darker than what you got after the first lightening.
Folk remedies in the fight against yellow hair
To eliminate the yellow tint after lightening the curls, you can not buy cosmetics, but prepare your own masks, rinse mixtures. They are quite effective, but you will have to spend a little more time to eliminate yellowness.
Masks against yellow tint:
Mask with honey. Take a glass of honey (if the hair is long, you will need a little more) and melt it in a water bath to a liquid state. Honey must be fresh, not candied. Apply liquid honey to your hair, gradually working strand by strand. Be careful not to get honey on the roots. When you process the entire head, put on a special warming cap or wrap your hair with ordinary cellophane. Leave the mask on for an hour and check the result. If the resulting color suits you, then the honey can be washed off or hold the mask a little more to fix the result.
Kefir mask. Take 30 ml of fresh kefir, one egg yolk, two tablespoons of lemon juice, a tablespoon of vodka. Mix all the components of the mask thoroughly and apply to the hair. You need to keep the mask for 2-3 hours.
Chamomile mask. Prepare a decoction of chamomile - pour 150 grams of dried flowers with two glasses of water, boil for five minutes. Remove from fire and leave to cool. Pour 50 ml of glycerin into the resulting cooled broth, mix thoroughly. Apply mask on hair, leave for 2 hours.
Rhubarb mask. To prepare this mask, you need to take dry rhubarb root. Grind it to make a powder and pour boiling water over it. For 150 grams of rhubarb, you need to take 200 ml of water. Then add 60 ml of glycerin to the mask, leave the mixture for half an hour. After this time, you can make a mask. You need to keep the product on your hair for an hour.
In addition to homemade masks, a variety of rinses will help get rid of the yellowness of the hair. You can prepare decoctions of chamomile or onions, make a mixture of water and lemon juice, rinse your hair with a solution of hydrogen peroxide.
In order not to look for ways to get rid of the yellowness of the hair, it is better to lighten the hair in the salon. This will reduce the risk of a yellow tint to a minimum.
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