which sweep to adopt for her hair?

Red hair can sometimes lack depth. The best option to make them brighter and bring plenty of highlights to the flamboyant red is to go for a balayage. But you still have to know which shades are right for you depending on the intensity of your red.

Red hair is naturally flamboyant. Whether it's your natural color or not, having red hair is often synonymous with fiery character and charm, whether you are a man or a woman. On the other hand, whether you have auburn, Venetian blonde, or flamboyant red hair, it's important to bring some highlights and a little nuance into your hair to make it more lively. Indeed, this color can quickly become dull for lack of relief. If the strands can cut too much, balayage is still a good option to highlight your fiery color.

Why perform a scan?

If your color is uniform, that is, the shade is the same from root to tip, your hairstyle may appear flatter than it is. Much more than lightening your hair, balayage is there to add dimension, depth and movement to your color. Using a coloring brush, the hairstylist or colorist will sweep the tint onto the strands that are on the top of your head, as if they had sunk. Thus, with tones lighter than the base color, the hair takes on a whole new aspect and reveals itself. This sun kiss effect, to provide natural reflections, is perfect to achieve after returning from summer vacation or before going there to keep a similar shade for several months. But the balayage can also be done throughout the year, it is the assurance of having red hair always nuanced and luminous, and to make your colleagues, your friends and your family believe that you have just returned from. a week's vacation in the south of France.

Which balayage color to adopt?

Unlike chestnut, red is full of subtlety. There are indeed many shades of this coloring, which may or may not be natural: auburn, venetian blonde, light red, coppery red, flame red, mahogany or even broux, a mixture between a brown color and a red color. Thus, it is depending on your base color that you will have to choose the one of your balayage for a natural look. So if you have a darker base, your best bet is to make a balayage one to two shades lighter than your root color. On the contrary, if your red hair is rather light, you can afford to go for a blonde or honey balayage! A shade rather not recommended if your hair is a flamboyant red.

More specifically, if you have an auburn red, which therefore tends towards chestnut, favor a red balayage to bring naturally red highlights to your hair. Thus, the result will be very natural. If your red on the contrary tends towards bright red, it will be necessary to bring depth by making a sweep rather garnet or cherry, in warm tones. It will add sparkle to your fiery color. If your red hair is light, like Venetian blonde, you have two choices. If you want to emphasize the red of your color, go for a balayage in light red-orange tones. If, on the contrary, you want to accentuate the blond of your hair color, go for honey or caramel shades! These will prevent your light red hair from fading and will still bring a touch of sun to your hair.

The red hair balayage spotted on Pinterest




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How to maintain your red balayage?

Unlike total hair color, balayage is relatively easy to maintain, both in terms of color touch-ups and care. Here, it will be more important to preserve the red color and its shine than to repair the hair fiber, which will be less sensitized. You can turn to a shampoo that preserves the shine of your color to prevent the balayage from bleeding too much and becoming bland. This shampoo will help tighten the scales of your hair to make the red or blonde highlights of your balayage last as long as possible. Also prefer masks and other hair care with a strong moisturizing power that will preserve the colored strands.

For a natural care, you can bet on rosemary, a plant that gives radiance to red hair and which also has anti-bacterial properties. To make your DIY treatment, put a good handful of rosemary leaves in a saucepan with a little water. Boil everything over very low heat. The water will take on a pretty pinkish hue. Remove the leaves, then pour the infused water into a bottle. Use this water in your shampoo to revive the radiance of the partial color, but also of your natural red.

When it comes to touch-ups at the hairdresser, you won't have to have the roots as with total coloring. So you can easily touch up your balayage once every six months to catch the growth of your hair that will bring down the base of the balayage. If you touch up your balayage too often, your hair fiber will be too sensitized and will weaken your red hair even more. But if you want to let your hair grow without touching up color, it's possible, your balayage will gradually turn into a sort of ombre hair.

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