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New Hair Coloring Techniques: Blonde!

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Different styles of hair techniques Examples of what to ask for at your next appointment! Sometimes it's difficult to know exactly what you want or need when it comes to your hair color . We created this handy guide so you know just how to communicate with your stylist and get the color you want! Summer is finally here and with the warmer months upon us, it's time to lighten up! Whether you're already a professional blonde or just getting ready to dip your toe in the blonde pool read on to find which kind of blonde is best suited for your lifestyle. 1. Highlights & Base: this is the highest maintenance blonde option (next to on scalp platinum). It includes a heavy full foil with a base bump. Foils are placed in a diagonal pattern with the heaviest concentration around the face. The bump is applied in between your foils if you get gray coverage, if not it's a bump at the bowl.  Maintenance: 4-6 weeks 2. Highlights: traditional foil highligh...

6 Highlighted Hair for Brunettes in 2018

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Highlighted hair looks fab, whether your base color is light or dark. And here we’ve decided to discuss the pros of adding highlights for brunettes . Dark hair, when it is well-groomed, looks rich and stunning on its own. However, brunette hair becomes even better when more colors are blended in. Just look through these pictures, and you’ll instantly wish to get it. Glam Highlighted Hair for Brunettes Ideas Find more highlights ideas for brunettes. Brunette Wavy Bob With Warm Brown Highlight Highlighted hair for brunettes reddish brown Bobs are always in style. And they are a great look for the woman who wants shorter hair but isn’t quite ready to commit to something as short as a pixie. And you will still be able to style your hair into cute updos or half updos such as top knots, braids or buns. This shoulder-length wavy bob is very pretty with the caramel hand-painted brown highlights that are so artfully woven onto the chocolate brown base. The colors blend pe...

12 Trendy Balayage Highlights Ideas for Short Hair

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Short and middle-length hair is currently in trend, and various hair coloring like balayage and ombre is too. Combining these trends in your look means getting super trendy and gorgeous hair that will catch all the eyes. We’ve already shown some balayage ideas and today I’ll share some more but these ones are for short hair. Believe me, short can be no less gorgeous than long! Just because you have short hair doesn’t mean you can’t still play around with beautiful shades and tones of your natural color, and a few unnatural ones too. This is what makes these beautiful balayage highlights ideas for short hair such great ones. Just take a peek and you’ll see… Front, blonde balayage highlights If you want to really frame your face with that beautiful platinum blonde shade, you need to bring the look towards the front of your face as well as towards the ends of your hair. As you can see here, the bulk of her hair is that natural darker blonde shade but the front and end...

How To Do Red Ombre Hair

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Cherry. Ruby. Scarlet. Blood. If I had to pick one color from the color wheel that has the most gorgeous shades, it would have to be red. So, does it come as any surprise that this gorgeous hue works like a charm to create beautiful ombre hair looks? Of course it doesn’t. Red ombre hair looks teeter the line between bold and classy with perfection, making sure you look like a sophisticated bombshell. You didn’t think that was possible, now, did you?Now, though I do always recommend getting your ombre done by a professional hairdresser, I also realize that sometimes you just don’t have the dolla dolla billz to do that. So, if you would like to go the DIY way with your ombre (hey, that rhymed!) then just keep reading… How To Do Red Ombre On Your Hair At Home The basic principle of an ombre is that the top color on the top half of your hair gradually fades into a lighter shade towards the ends. While this is much easier to do on blonde hair as you can go straight in with...

Babylights or balayage: which is best for my hair?

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Babylights and balayage are two of the most trending techniques which we often hear a lot of guests ask about when coming into The Chapel. Whilst both techniques have their place in hair coloring and styling, we take a more bespoke approach, combining techniques to give you the exact results you're looking for to make you feel like your most beautiful self. Everyone deserves to be treated to the highest standard - including their colour which should be tailored exactly to you. Balayage, meaning to sweep in French, is where your stylist will use a freehand technique to create bespoke placement of color to the hair. Looking at the direction hair falls, the stylist will use a variety of different tools to add soft, feathered color blending into a brighter finish on the ends of hair. Here, however, we’ll give you an insight from our stylists on these two specific techniques which are in their artistic toolbox. With a better understanding of these techniques, you can underst...

Hair Ideas and Trends For Next Season

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Sexy hair ideas & trends for next season.Chic celebrity inspired hairstyles, cuts and trends from short to long and curly to straight.

How To Use Olive Oil For Head Lice

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What you need and how to use olive oil for head lice.Here’s the thing about lice – once you’re infested, there’s a long battle ahead of you to get rid of them. That’s something you probably don’t want to hear considering they make your head extremely itchy and are quite an embarrassment to bear. Now, there are quite a few over-the-counter head lice treatments that you can buy. However, these contain mild insecticides like permethrin and pyrethrin that can cause mild to severe skin irritation. This is why it’s best to use a natural ingredient to get rid of those pesky little buggers! Which one, you ask? Olive oil, of course!. Insecticides can cause mild to severe skin irritation. It’s best to use a natural ingredient like olive oil to get rid of those buggers. Here’s how olive oil works at killing head lice. Harvard School of Public Health conducted a test that found that lice that were submerged in olive oil died of asphyxiation after 2 hours. Similar studies found that it to...