When you are blonde, there is a perfect color to transition to gray hair smoothly. Without too much effort, or repeated trips to the hairdresser. Zoom.
After the age of fifty, managing the first gray hairs often becomes a real headache. Between monthly colorist appointments and unsightly roots, silver threads can quickly become a burden. However, a new hair approach, particularly popular with women looking for naturalness, is shaking up our beauty habits. Far from opaque and uniform colorings which tend to harden the features after 60 years, this method focuses everything on transparency and softness. The idea? No longer seek to camouflage at all costs, but rather to merge salt and pepper with a frosty glow that instantly illuminates the face. A small revolution for those who want to go gray hair, and say goodbye to monthly hairdresser appointments, all far from boring results. The secret of his success? She has already been adopted by Pamela Anderson herself.
Before going for this coloring, it is important to point out that it is particularly suitable for blonde manes. This softened version of traditional platinum offers the natural glow of platinum blonde, with the added bonus of glossy butter highlights that are very coveted this year. “Platinum blonde is ideal for blending with gray hair, as these two shades share a very ashy tone and a light, pale appearance“, explains Nicole Kahlani, professional hairstylist, to the British version of the media ELLE. “This combination creates an imperceptible transition, making it the best choice for achieving a natural result.“Arctic Blonde is in fact a “colour-melting” technique, that is to say “color fusion”. It is not a total coloring of your mane, but a mixture of very cold platinum blonde shades with the natural gray hair. The idea is to no longer hide the white/gray hair, but to integrate it into luminous and homogeneous hair. To create this effect, the hairdresser uses very fine balayage to integrate blonde strands here and there among the gray lengths. adds a patina on top. It is essential to neutralize the yellow reflections and maintain the cold and shiny side. Thus, the blonde and the gray blend naturally. The little extra? If you already have a salt and pepper base, this technique requires much less maintenance than dark colors.
In addition to helping you adopt your silver hair very gradually, Arctic Blonde requires very little care. With a platinum blonde, we work on tones close to white or gray: the contrast is therefore much softer than with dark shades. Regrowth is less obvious, maintenance becomes lighter and you no longer feel obliged to run to the salon every three weeks.
The only downside of this technique is undoubtedly for people with a natural dark base. This trend will require them to go to a professional much more often in order to maintain the clarity of the roots and avoid too marked a contrast. Perhaps the opposite of the “low maintenance” side sought with Arctic Blonde.
