Women and men about how life changes with new hair color
If you experiment with nail polish, wardrobe and makeup Since many of us are solved because of their fragility, the hairstyle and hair color often do not change over the years. At the same time, everyone no-no and yes stares at the most beautiful pastel colors and dreams, as someday will do something "crazy" with her hair. We found people who had painted themselves in a color that was radically different from their own, and asked how their self-perception changed, whether it was difficult to explain the change in the image to loved ones and how the hair care changed.
Daniel Trabun
Digital Director Esquire Russia
Previously, I was dark blond (or brown-haired), in general, had rather dark hair with care in red. I remember that up to five years I had curly red hair, so I can say that I am red in my soul. I was going to change hair color last year. All that you can change in yourself is not forever, it seems to me, you need to try at some point.
Many in childhood were brought up on the Soviet principle "keep your head down", any change from bright pants to a harmless piercing needed to be explained. "Why did you do that?" - motives must be deep, the act seemed to the controlling authorities as important and risky as investing money in a new cryptocurrency. I hope that today's children are traumatized by this less and they can even paint themselves in the spot. Just because it is their body, their hair and their skin.
I believe that it is necessary to respect the choice of other people and to worry first of all about your own choice. The main rule in this case is that you feel more comfortable. So yes, I feel so comfortable, until the end I don’t understand why. It was as if he had rearranged the furniture in the apartment — everything seemed to be the same, but it was happier to come home in the evenings.
My friends and family liked the new color, with all the incarnations - from the immature chicken at the very beginning to the tildosuintonovskogo unnaturally white, with which I passed, and pittiuomovskogo gray today. My grandfather and grandmother laughed, since in the last version I became equal with their hair color. A gray-haired taxi driver yesterday launched into philosophical conversations about how different people relate differently to one thing, such as gray hair. He wants to paint over, and here I am intentionally turned gray. And then, of course, he switched to foreign policy, comparing us with Russia and the United States. In the subway on a nearby escalator, an unpleasant schoolboy shouted at the whole subway: "Fagot."
Hair dyeing is another small brick in a great job of self-control and work with yourself. Who am i? How do I like myself? All these questions are certainly important, and you should not forget about them in a routine. People spend hours creating avatars for themselves in massive online RPGs or choosing a picture for a social network, not so much to declare themselves to others, but to understand themselves and calm down. With trepidation, I imagine what will happen in five years when the world covers the new VR-Internet.
Hair coloring as the first tattoo - not easy to stay, look at the players with their crazy hairstyles. I have already changed the shade twice and I am sure that I will do something else with my hair this year. True, it has become more difficult to care not only for the hair, but for the scalp. I now have a mandatory weekly home care for my head, because without it, hell begins to happen with hair. It is easy and takes very little time.
Alina Scheglova
blogger Twins About Beauty
I dyed my hair from the age of fourteen, but I did not try to wear anything more radically than the calm "mahogany". A year ago, she painted her face in bright red, to which the spouse responded with a replica: “Redhead is so trite, it would be painted purple!” Before that, I had not thought of painting in such a radical color. In addition, Veliky Novgorod is a very small and boring city, there are no colorists here that would work such miracles. Then I was frightened by the need to maintain a bright color - as a rule, it washes out quickly, but Moore Sobolev was advised to me by "Anthocyanin" - and everything worked out with him for me, I tint about once a month.
For some reason, my hair color was not shocked by anyone, mostly the surrounding people say that I really like it (true), and I don’t look like a freak. The spouse said: "Well, nothing, a normal color, not Gothic," but my cousin, who opened a barber shop in our city, is very proud of my experiment, which flatters me terribly. The children did not understand at all that something had changed, it seems.
I painted myself last August and still I praise myself every day for it - I have never been so comfortable with the hair color, I will keep it until I get bored, and I think it will not end up in one year. Nobody shows a finger at me, except that other children on the playground giggle and joke about the Winx fairy.
Since I chose persistent dyeing using lamination, the care did not change drastically; I have on my shelf both colored hair shampoo and regular volume shampoo. The only caveat: with this painting it is not advised to use washable air conditioners - but it completely suits me, because, firstly, there is no special need for them, and secondly, I didn’t complain about them anyway.
Olesya Iva
Glamour.ru editor
I used to have my own beautiful color: dark blond with overflows. I must say that I wanted to dye my blonde when I was still at school - usually then there is a desire to look at myself with different eyes. At sixteen or seventeen, for the first time I was in a barber's chair, which constantly cut me, said: "Beauty me blonde". She said she would not, because she felt sorry for my hair. Plus, I felt parental disapproval: no one said anything radical to me, I have super-mild parents, but my mother would have sighed more than once as I messed up my gorgeous hair. Plus, then I did not have my savings to dye my hair, so I did not do that. The idea left and just experimented with haircuts.
But I had another cherished dream since the release of the No Doubt "Ex-Girlfriend" clip - to have pink hair. She infinitely inflamed in me, and then, before my birthday, I decided that everything, I want to break into pink hair with my 28 years old. Perhaps, I still had an internal restructuring, and I wanted to make drastic changes, because a couple of months before dyeing, I cut myself in the kitchen from long hair to priests. In general, I wanted a pink square, like in all sorts of sexy films like "Proximity".
As it turned out, from the first time my dark hair can not be overcome. At least, the master, to whom I signed up, was inexperienced and could not immediately repaint me into a blond. Pink I wanted pastel like cotton candy, not bright, but we got a caramel ombra with it (pink I wanted a gradient so that there was no wig effect). I spent a couple of weeks with him and realized that I still needed a pink ombre. The salon "Ryabchik" turned up, in which I was happily painted with ultra-red color with nuclear paint. Again, cotton candy did not work, but in fact the color was very beautiful, I did not expect. He washed off, however, for a week or two and turned back into this caramel. I realized that pink is expensive to maintain.
On this, I returned the idea of painting in a blond. It sounds ridiculous, but Kim Kardashian inspired me at the presentation of the Yeezy 3 collection. Soon I got to the presentation of the wonderful Colbacolorbar bar on Tverskaya. There are very cool masters who can do anything with their hair. My master herself was a blonde, and her hand was obviously full. From the first time, in 7 hours, she bleached my hair to a coldish blond.
I must say that the life of a blonde is completely different. First of all, they started bringing me to my house for free. Secondly, they began to try to talk to me in public transport, in line to the ticket office, everywhere. Why am I - the men are activated, right instantly. Then I got to know about the application of the guys from "Sex-Clearing" Pure and for the sake of experiment I downloaded my photo with a blond. And showered invitations to meet here and now. The next day I uploaded a photo with dark hair. They also fell down, but with the blonde they were still more. In general, I realized that men are really being led to blondes - this was a discovery for me. On the other hand, maybe I really have more blond and my facial features began to play in a new way.
Care is the first problem with dyed hair. As you know, dyed hair is empty and you need to take care of it. Yes, there is Olaplex and you can lighten up with it. I did not reach him, but if I could brighten him even more, he would already be needed. Lightened hair has to be infinitely nourished with oils, masks, but the roots of the hair, to which the ombra did not get, never shone and were not as happy as they are now. Another blond turns yellow, and you have to apply bluish tonic every week. In fact, now it has become a habit and has become a normal procedure for me, but for the first few days it was freezing me.
Everyone around liked a new hair color, me too. Now I work in the editorial office of Glamor, and my life is glamorous and beautiful. In fact, I now like the hairstyle as never before. Pink hair is not a bit of mine, as I understood. Now I can make the very pink cotton, but for now I like so much to be a blonde that I don’t want to change anything.
By the way, with a pink nuclear hair color, life becomes much more difficult: you have to clearly think through your image so that it is harmonious, but not teenage. Saves minimalism: only with concise monophonic things pink hair, in my opinion, and look. I wore neutral things all the time with pink hair, and passersby on the street said compliments like "not a fig myself."
Gevorg Petrosyan
visagiste
My hair color was dark brown, not quite black. I saw lots of cool pictures of insta girls with cold gray hair. I had a difficult period in my life and at work, I wanted a change, but I could not make strange haircuts. The length could be changed, but nobody said anything about the color. I participated in the beauty salon competition "Monet", and the hairdresser suggested that I paint myself, warning that the color would be bright. I said, do not care, beautiful, and it turned out so cold blond.
Not that I foresaw how parents would react. Before that, a long time ago I was with bright cherry hair, I had a teenage period. They responded normally, my mother even helped to repaint. At that time, when I changed my hair color, I wasn’t sure if my parents would react normally, although I really liked the result. I went to visit their family home for a family event, and everyone responded positively, they said that I was very welcome. I was pleasantly surprised.
I really liked the light hair color, I felt much lighter, less negative. I caught myself thinking that my own dark hair color drove me to despondency, and the blond gave some moral lightness (can you even say that?). At the moment I, unfortunately, dark again, because everything was washed away, turned into some kind of dirty green, I had to go to the salon again. I didn’t have time for this, so I just bought black paint and repainted in dark because I had to look perfect at work. Now I am unemployed, so I think I will paint again.
They dyed me in several passes, and in one of them I realized that my hair had experienced some kind of small death. I started using conditioners that I didn’t use in my life, I didn’t care for my hair before. In principle, it is difficult to color from dark to light, you must constantly monitor the roots, but it looks very cool.
Oksana Ushakova
blogger mangoosta
My original hair color is blond (I could even boast a “wonderful bright ashen”, but this “earlier” would apply to childhood), but about six months before the experiment I was already painted in shades of a relative: warm reddish brown, cold dark Blonde and so on. I also loved playing with foams, I had the opportunity to play from almost black to bright red.
Actually, I wanted to paint myself red! I wanted a red about fifteen years ago when I saw Cher with red hair on the cover of a magazine. It just hit me like an electric shock: oh, how beautiful, juicy, bright! But I had long hair, which I had hardly recovered from after frequent permanent staining, and their hand did not rise to discolor. Therefore, I somehow pushed the dream into the depths of the subconscious. And recently, bright colors on her hair have become very common: a high school girl lives in the same staircase with me, who runs out in the morning to school either with blue hair, either with green, or with two-tone black and white. What to say about our blogger circle, where red and purple hair is easier to meet! That's how I remembered my dream. I opened the photo editor, began to try on different shades of hair, and it turned out that the cold colors go more to me, and on the version with blue hair I got stuck.
With a partner, we discussed staining in advance, he is sincerely curious about all my experiments - new shades on nails, eyes, eyebrows, etc. He said that it would be fun to try, the result was quite positive. Parents mournfully expressed a cautious couple: “Maybe you shouldn’t have?” - but since we do not live together, it had no effect on me. Friends mostly responded: "How cool!" And I also got the nickname “Sinama” from children (an allusion to Cinema, of course).
With blue hair, I was sometimes uncomfortable with undue attention. Well, there are just moments when you like to attract him, and it happens that you just went out in the slippers to take out the garbage, figuratively speaking. And with blue hair slippers are strongly discordant: you want to slip out of the mink and back, and shine like a star. Star with a trash bag. But the experiment was worth it, of course: it is always useful to pull yourself out of the comfort zone.
Unfortunately, the biggest discovery after the color change for me was that these bright colors are almost always permanent. All the bedding turned blue in my room, in the first weeks my young man regularly turned blue, blue drops of sweat ran down his temples. This is not just uncomfortable - it's terrible as uncomfortable. Then I changed the paint, things and the people around me stopped painting, but still I had to regularly update the color, almost every hair wash. I finally just got tired of it. So while I want to relax from this experiment.
Before blue, I had a short haircut on dry-prone hair without any problems, ideally: with such a length, my hair had not yet had time to be “tired”, they were healthy, silky and elastic. After the discoloration, I felt a deterioration in their quality, of course: they dried out and began to fall out more. A pile of masks, indelible products, lotions appeared in the arsenal. Theoretically, it can be said that it has become "more difficult", but I like to mess around with cosmetics, so it is even pleasant for me.
Juliana Vetkina
visagiste
My hair is dark brown. It all started with the fact that I painted the tips in a turquoise color, then cut the square and made an ombre with red and then with pink. Actually, I was about fourteen years old and wanted to dye my hair a bright color, but I decided to do it only by twenty. Surrounding this normal. Mom ofigel, but I warned her. Friends were not surprised, but it is because they know me. Since I studied at the university, where at least two people in the group had bright hair, I did not stand out, and, one might say, joined Wednesday. Children also love my hair, they usually show on the street: "Mom, look, pink hair!"
I can say that I really like and fits the hair color that I have now, pink. I felt that it was my pink color, although I used to think that I would change colors until the end of my life, because they bored me all. In the pink I am painted for the second time, as it is right for me. I can not say that it is now harder for me to care for my hair, because I have always had dry myself. At the same time, they did not deteriorate much, which surprised me greatly. I was afraid that they would deteriorate badly, but everything was fine.
Anastasia Popova
founder of the creative agency Awesome Opossum
I used to have a dark blond color, normal. I do not know why I decided to change the hair color. It seemed to me that painting up cool, I never did it at all. And then I decided that if I really need to paint, then ashen blond, because what other options.
Mom does not like it, the rest believe that this is the best decision in life. Well, or they lie, but they say it's cool. In fact, it is very cool to be blond, because it is quite a binding hair color. I began to wear gold jewelry, heels, dresses more often and in general I allow myself much more. I don’t even allow it, but now I’m just interested in how I look, because I used to always score on it. Now, strange glasses, accessories, scarves, hats, handbags go to me. It is possible with this hair color, it seems to me, to try on just about any style from the combat anime to the cool Russian granny. So do.
Maintaining the color is quite difficult, because you need to paint, then use a tonic. Another difference between regrown roots and tips is serious. Последний раз, когда я красилась, я вышла из ванной с тем самым эффектом учительницы начальных классов и даже пошла в русский интернет узнавать, что делать с синими волосами. Вообще, обожаю русский интернет, потому что заходишь туда с вопросом "как избавиться от синего тона волоса", и там обязательно отвечают "ой, девочки, сейчас всё расскажу, у меня тоже такое было. Делаем кефирную масочку: стакан кефирчика, ложку соды (соды не переборщите, а то сушит), делаем пару раз, смываем и всё нормально".I did it - and really, everything was fine.
I don’t want to experiment with other colors yet, I’m not getting used to it yet, although I’ve been going blonde for two months now. I like multi-colored hair on others, but on myself I don’t see this option at all. From the standard colors of red, it seems to me that no one goes, except for red, I have the dark one, and the blond is what I need.
Hair became thinner, and this is cool, because I always had thick hair and it was impossible to fit them. Now they are thin, I can put them upside down, like Sid Vicious, put them in the manner of the 20s and in another way. On the other hand, paint is a tough subject, hair sometimes dries out, you have to smear coconut oil on them two or three times a week. I don’t like masks, they all smell strange. And nothing, smooth and almost do not stick out. But even when they stick out, I still like it, so it seems to me that it became easier to care.
Saul Zamolodchikov
soap boiler
My natural hair color is black (which of the shades I don’t know). He used to paint his hair twice in orange, once in blue - because it’s fun and to change something in your life for a couple of days. Pink color seemed to me the most tresovym - so I chose it this time.
Surrounding react differently, but there was more restrained negativity. At the same time, there were more rejoicing people than I expected. After all, this coloring is a joke, and my friends have a good sense of humor. I will also be painted, I can not imagine how often, but I will.
My self-perception has not changed. Yes, with such a color I feel comfortable, but it seems that I would feel comfortable with almost anyone. The experiment was a success at 99%. Not 100 just because the consultant promised that his hair would glow in the dark, but they did not. However, it did not upset me greatly.
Daria Evans-Radova
journalist
My hair color was dark chestnut all my life, I especially never like it, because it was boring. But until the age of 22, I didn’t do anything with it, because I thought that it’s impossible to do anything with such dark hair. At the age of 14, however, I made a highlighting for pocket money for the release of an art school. Then there wasn’t enough money for the whole head, so I’ve made several strands on the top layer of hair. After graduation, these strands of mine safely fell off right from the roots. So after that, I was experimenting loud.
Nevertheless, I always liked the silver ash color. And at 22 I had a not very simple period in my life, I wanted to change something, and I decided to start with hair. There are these stereotypes that with the new hairstyle everything changes in life. In fact, this is true: people start reacting differently to you, because of this, you also feel a little different. There is a feeling that new hair is like a new passport.
I even bought a wig with this ashy hair color in London and walked around the city for five days. I also had a bright green scarf with which it was not clear that I was wearing a wig. And then the passersby admired my hair - and I also admired with them. Itself believed, in general, that I can have such hair. At the same time I didn’t want to be a blonde, even platinum, I always liked exactly ashy fantasy hair.
Then I returned to Moscow, then it became inconvenient for me to walk in a wig. But I began to go to salons with this wig and ask if I could be the same. Everyone said that it is possible, probably, but it is not clear what will happen to the hair. But I finally found a master who made me that same ash gray color. I was happy, and for me it was a little dream. My associations with the fact that it is unearthly and fantastic, in general, were not far from the truth: in nature, hair of this color can not be.
My friends are wonderful, they supported me. It turned out that before Olaplex appeared, such hair dyeing was quite a serious matter, and I sent reports to my friends from the salon. Colleagues, too, reacted normally, my mother said something in the spirit of "oh, this is not my child" and somehow painfully perceived at all. The partner also asked why I needed all this trouble with my hair (there really was a lot of it, with all these blue shampoos and masks, hair care became my such little hobby). And passers-by began to perceive me as a typical blonde, men began to pester with the most terrible tackles.
The experiment is exactly worth it (now I have painted myself the second time in the same way), and I do not agree with the boring garbage that the main thing is inside and I don’t have to worry about how you look. Changes in appearance do not necessarily involve in order to make yourself more beautiful, but rather with the desire to change something. If not globally, then at least in appearance. I was pleased that I had completed my project with hair to the end and achieved what had previously seemed impossible to me.
Ksenia Petrova
Wonderzine news editor
Two months ago, I painted myself a gray-lilac of dark blonde. I always liked my natural hair color, so the experiments were limited to changing the length - from a hedgehog and shaved temples to a square that I have now. One time I tried to paint myself with the balm "Tonic" (it was his grandmother with lilac hair who used it), but the crimson hue completely disappeared after two days, so this experience can not be considered.
The desire to do something with hair color came spontaneously: I saw on Facebook a post in which we were looking for models for creative coloring for a master class by American colorist Guy Tang. This is a very extravagant and energetic dude who literally turns hair into a rainbow. I wrote a message to the organizer and forgot about it, until I was offered to come to the casting. At that moment I was traveling on a night train from St. Petersburg to Moscow, so in the morning I pulled a crumpled black dress out of my suitcase, in which I had danced on a rave the day before (they asked me to wear a black casting) and came to Winzavod. I was chosen by Jordan, the kindest guy and the coolest stylist from the Tang team, he also suggested that I paint myself in a difficult-lilac one. In the end, I spent the whole day in the salon, and then I also took part in a hairdressing show, which is worthy of a separate text: I was made a bright make-up, stuck my eyelashes and was forced to walk on heels on the runway - in general, my inner drag-quin aided my soul.
The new color was first seen by the girlfriends, with whom we were just about to celebrate my birthday the day after the show. They really liked it, as did the mother, whom we saw in a couple of weeks, when the lilac was washed off to a cool white. Since my boyfriend was working in Edinburgh at that moment and could not appreciate all the magnificence alive, I sent him the most beautiful selfies, and he also liked it - at least I regard the phrase: “You are super, and you have interesting hair”. A day after staining, I came to an interview at Wonderzine - it hardly has any symbolic meaning, but for some reason it is nice that it coincided.
Probably, if I had painted with the aim of starting a new life, the result would have disappointed me: outwardly the head had changed, but inside everything remained the same. But I didn’t have such a goal, so I think the experiment was a success - I felt a bit of a mermaid with a gray-lilac color, and although that paint had already washed off before the usual blond, this feeling persists with me until now. I also noticed that I began to wear more light-colored clothes than before, and use cosmetics more boldly - when you start experimenting, it is difficult to stop. Now my roots are not very cool, but I don’t do anything with them - I am waiting for the May holidays to get to the St. Petersburg salon with the promising name Hair Fucker. With the color has not yet decided, I think about metal and marshmallow shades that are fashionable now.
After dyeing, I discovered a wondrous new world of hair care: I didn’t really understand why I needed conditioner, washed my hair with professional shampoo, then from a supermarket for 100 rubles and didn’t see much difference. Now, if I don’t use air conditioning, and before drying it with a hairdryer, I also use oil for the tips, the hair turns into an absolutely uncombed mass, like a sponge. I was dyed using Olaplex technology, which, in theory, should harm my hair less than ordinary dye - I have nothing to compare with, but they obviously became much thinner and drier, but they keep their shape better and slower getting dirty.