After almost a month of confinement, our highlights are not the same. More than one of them had to go to the hairdresser to have their color touched up these days –yes, I was one of those–, but surely, with Easter so close, the majority thought was the same: “I'll wait until Easter week". And, of course, the holidays are gone as they came and our wicks continue without remedy. Is there a solution at this point? Yes of course. Can highlights be tinted at home in an easy way? They can be done and two experts tell us how to do it.
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Tinting highlights at home, as you imagined, is risky. Do we control chemistry? Have we ever been taught to do it and do we have experience? The answer to both questions is the same: “no”. So daring to qualify without any knowledge is somewhat "kamikaze".
There is the possibility of doing it, in fact there are products on the market to achieve it, as Olga G. San Bartolomé told us on her blog, but it is not easy or recommended by experts. As she herself has written: "shoemaker to your shoes".
“To maintain the highlights at home, I recommend now, in these circumstances, and always, to use a shampoo for highlights and products formulated to especially protect colored hair, but if you don't have one at home, it is advisable to use a sulfate-free shampoo, as mild as possible – you could use the baby one if you have one. In addition, you have to hydrate it a lot, and take care of it with masks, oils, serums... Another basic of any colored hair and also with highlights is the use of shampoos, masks or conditioners with pigments, "says Eduardo Sánchez, the owner of Maison Eduardo Sánchez .
An opinion that is also shared by Amado Quílez, hairdresser and make-up artist at the exclusive Club Alma Sensai. "The only trick to tint highlights at home, in the case that they are yellow, is purple shampoo or purple mask."
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"The lilac shampoo will help us neutralize yellow tones or whiten natural gray hair when they have taken on a yellowish tone, while the blue shampoo is the only one that can eliminate the orange tone after a discoloration”, has pointed out Olga G. San Bartolomé.
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