Hair chalk
Here's how to color your hair with chalk
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Do you fancy a little more color on your head? Then there is a colorful surprise for your hair: hair chalk! You can find out what advantages chalk has and how to use it here!
Hair chalk: what is it?
Hair chalk is colored chalk that is available in all rainbow colors. It is easy to use and lasts until the next hair wash. With hair chalk you have the opportunity to dye your hair in all shades of color and thus test which color you like best: Whether you just want to add a little more color to your everyday life or whether a special occasion like Carnival , Festival, party or birthday is coming up. Then you simply wash the hair out with shampoo as normal and get your natural hair color back.
Basically, the hair chalk is also reminiscent of the street chalk that we used to decorate curbs and asphalt as children – and it's basically something similar: Hair chalk consists of lime that has been mixed with color pigments. The mineral is easy to apply, then sticks to the hair and can be rinsed away with shampoo and water. As a clear advantage over conventional hair colorations, hair chalk does not penetrate the hair structure and does not damage it – but the splendor of color with hair chalk is not permanent. Incidentally, the color is known in English as "Hair Chalk".
Hair chalk: application
Requirements: The hair should be free of care and styling products.
How to apply hair chalk:
- Put on an old T-shirt or place an old towel on your shoulders – otherwise the chalk could stain your clothes (don't worry: it will wash off again!). To avoid staining your hands with paint, you can wear household gloves.
- Wet your hair (or the individual strand at a time). If you have very light hair, you can also use the hair chalk directly on dry hair. Darker hair should be damp (not completely wet!), However, so that the chalk holds better.
- Use a styling comb to section off the section of hair that you want to color. Tuck away the remaining hair with a hair clip.
- You can use a thin cardboard box as an aid to coloring: Place the hair on top and brush the hair over the hair with the chalk. Note that you have to stroke the chalk in the direction of hair growth. The box provides some support and helps to run the hair chalk over the hair more easily. If you don't have a box to help you, you can pull the hair taut with one hand and slide the hair chalk over it with the other hand. If necessary, twist in the strand a bit. Run the hair chalk over your hair several times until you have achieved the desired color intensity – Especially with darker hair, you should touch up several times with the hair chalk. Color in each of the strands that you want to be colored.
- Let the hair air dry. Note: If possible, do not use a hair dryer, it could weaken the color intensity – unless the effect is desired.
- At the end, the colored hair is sealed. Use for this a Straighteners (The hair must be completely dry for this): The heat of the straightening iron fixes the color pigments and binds them to the hair! Crepe irons or curling irons work similarly. Finally, apply some hairspray. Finished!
Note: Color pigments can also come off after sealing. So if you change your clothes, you should be careful. It's best to wash your hair before going to bed, otherwise colored stains on your pillow are likely.
For which hair colors does the hair chalk work
Basically: Hair chalk works on natural and colored hair.
- Blond hair: Whether natural blonde or colored hair – the colored pigments of the hair chalk come into their own on light hair. Here you can draw from the full range of colors. The only disadvantage or advantage (depending on what you want): It may take a little longer with blonde hair before the hair chalk is washed out again. Some of the color particles may still be visible after washing your hair. Anti-dandruff or peeling shampoos then clean the hair more intensively.
- Brunette hair: With hair chalk, brown hair is not colored as intensely as blonde hair. Nevertheless, nice effects are possible, e.g. B. with pink or red.
- Red hair: Here, too, you have to use strong colors so that the hair chalk is visible. For example, purple or a dark blue are beneficial.
- Black hair: The hair chalk gives dark hair only a slight shimmer, bright color effects are difficult to achieve. Use very strong colors here too.
Applying hair chalk: tips and tricks
- If you want to let several colors flow into each other, always start with the lightest color and then apply the darker ones. For example, you can go from pink to a soft blue and finally a dark blue. If, on the other hand, you apply dark blue first, the pink will no longer be able to cover the blue.
- For a For more intense color results, use white hair chalk first and then the color of your choice.
- If your hair chalk is having a hard time delivering color, you can Moisten the sticks with water.
- If your hair still has a slight sheen of color after shampooing, anti-dandruff or peeling shampoos will help.
- Hair chalk removes moisture from the hair. Hair that looks brittle can then be the result. So give your hair a shampoo when you wash it Flushing or Hair mask. Hair oils can also be used here as super moisture boosters. Tip: make your own hair treatment.
- Typically, good quality hair chalk should withstand a rain shower. Because the chalk only rinses out again in combination with shampoo.
- With colored hair, the roots grow out again at some point. Here hair chalk is a way of concealing this for a short time.
Hair chalk: inspirations and looks
Set accents
With hair chalk you can create wonderful single-colored or multi-colored accents. Often a few strands are enough for a radiant wow effect. A colored pony is also guaranteed to be an eye-catcher.
Color head
Those who are brave can dye their entire hair with the hair chalk. But you have to bring some time with you …
Dip dye
Colored tips – as if the hair had just been dipped into a paint pot – this looks particularly nice on medium to long hair.
Rainbow hair
A good mood is inevitable at such a sight! With a little skill you can conjure up a gradient in your hair.
Ombré look
A great ombré look can be generated with different shades of a color family.
What hair chalk are there?
The following models are available in stores:
- Pressed chalk sticks: There are palettes with the common basic colors or pastel colors in different nuances.
- Hair chalk comb: With this method, the hair chalk is integrated directly into a small comb and can therefore be applied more easily.
- Hair chalk spray: The spray is very easy to use because it is simply sprayed on – but it also comes off the hair more easily.
- Liquid hair chalk: Can be applied with a kind of colored pencil / mascara
- Hair chalk powder: Contains an applicator to apply the hair chalk in doses.
Hair chalk: tips on buying
You can get hair chalk in any well-stocked drugstore or simply online. Make sure that the color pigments in the EU approved for cosmetics are. Some people are allergic to color pigments – even if these are actually harmless. To rule out this, you can test the hair chalk in the crook of your arm beforehand. In addition, some hair chalks contain talcum powder, which could contain traces of asbestos, but which, according to the Ordinance on Hazardous Substances, may not contain more than 0.1 percent.
For the sake of the environment, do without hair chalk with glitter particles or metallic shine: it contains microplastics that pollute the environment.You should also avoid silicones in the hair chalk if possible, as they dry out the hair. Silicones can be recognized by the ending "-cone" or "-xane" among the ingredients.
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