Try something different with your hair colour this Summer
Summer is always a great time to do something different with your hair. Whether it’s for a vacation, celebration or a festival, or you just want to embrace the sunlight, it’s a brilliant way of reinvigorating your aesthetic. Just remember, if you are colouring your hair to keep it as healthy as possible, only use products that are appropriate for coloured hair and avoid heat styling as much as you can to ward off colour fade. Here are our top picks for this year.
Pastel pink
This baby pink shade is back with a bang this summer. It is probably the most popular colour this season and it personifies freedom and fun. Plumping for pastel pink has the added bonus of keeping your bleached blonde hair from becoming brassy and eradicating those unwanted yellow tones. It is also tremendous for highlighting your best facial features, whether it’s your eye colour, cheekbones or jawline, and it is one of those colours which suits all age groups, giving a cheeky lease of life to greying hair, without being too in your face.
Strawberry Blonde
Strawberry blonde shade is especially popular this year, continuing its surge over the last couple of summers. Traditionally, quite a difficult colour to master, it is achieved by infusing golden blonde with soft copper tones, lending it a subtle, natural looking rosy glow. It works best on light hair, applying a very quick copper rinse. Timing is essential in creating this shade. Too much colour or if left on too long, it will saturate your hair and end up a much more intense shade than you’d prefer. A swift rinse will be just enough to give your hair the sun-kissed vibe you are after.
Rich Brunette
Rich brunette is bang on trend right now and is perfect for those wanting to embrace their naturally dark locks but add some extra dimension. The theme is very much focussed on low maintenance, reduced damage and boosted vibrancy with the optional inclusion of warmish brown/subtle red highlights. Likewise, the inclusion of some caramel flecks throughout the main body of your hair really lifts it and gives it a much more energetic feel, which is perfect for summer. The same can be said for adding baby-lights around the face to brighten up your overall look and emphasise the richness of your natural mane.
Iridescent unicorn
Absolutely perfect for all those summer festivals and occasions, the internet is overflowing with a wide variety of takes on the iridescent unicorn look. Each brings its own unique sense of magic, freedom and fun for the ultimate fairy tale feel. Again, a style that is borne from the ever-popular silver trend, these updated versions are really coming into their own, with so many twists and variations. The versatility of the iridescent unicorn, with its array of pastel colours subtly merged together, is that it marries well with any outfit, to make a bold style statement.
Baby blue
This icy blue shade is yet another fun and different twist on the silver trend. Not to be confused with the ‘blue rinse’, this tone is frosty, with a wintry pale blue hue that will actually last you well into autumn and winter should you fall in love with it. This shade is also perfect for older hair too and will really give a new lease of life to hair that has dulled with the ageing process. One thing to look out for with this ultra-light shade of baby blue is the tendency for it to fade into a light green. Fortunately, that is easily remedied with the use of a run of the mill purple shampoo whenever you see those green tones creeping in.
