• Purple shampoo or mask is a must when you have ash blonde hair! We recommend the Joico Color Balance Purple Shampoo and Conditioner Set from Amazonas . It’s the best way to maintain those cool tones in your hair and to keep brassiness at bay without repeated salon visits. If you are keeping your roots darker, the shampoo will also help to neutralize warm tones in your natural color in order to better marry the dyed parts and the natural parts of your hair.
• Even if you don’t make the switch to a purple shampoo, do make sure to avoid sulfate-based shampoos. They are very stripping and will speed up the fading of your ash blonde hair color.
• We know it can be tough, but giving up on ultra-hot showers is really important for dyed hair. Switch to lukewarm water (at least when washing your hair) since hot water can lift the cuticle to dehydrate the hair and pull out color.
• Im Allgemeinen, over-washing the hair is not a good idea, even if you’re using a purple shampoo. Try to limit how often you wash your hair to just once or twice a week or every other day if your hair gets very oily.
• Dry shampoos are great for use in between washes since they soak up all of those oils without dehydrating the hair or damaging the color.
• Like hot showers, heat styling can also be damaging. Use a heat protectant spray before heat styling, and try to stick to gentler options like blow-drying on low heat instead of ultra-hot straighteners and curlers.
• Masking the hair regularly with conditioning treatments will really help to keep it strong and shiny. If your hair is feeling particularly brittle, masks with proteins will help restore a bit of strength and integrity to it.
• Avoid swimming in chlorinated swimming pools for a few days after bleaching your hair, and if you do finally get in the water, make sure to wear a swimming cap to limit your hair’s contact with the chlorine.
Makeup Tips for Those with Ash Blonde Hair
There are so many stunning makeup looks you can rock with ash blonde hair, but you might want to also make a few adjustments to your staple techniques and products in order to make your makeup work with your new hair color.
Complexion Makeup for Ash Blonde Hair
When it comes to your face makeup, you don’t need to change too much. Keep doing your foundation however you love to do it and stick to a color that matches the skin tone of your neck and chest.
When it comes to bronzer and contour, jedoch, you might want to make some alterations, especially if your ash blonde hair color is very cool. The cool tones in your hair can emphasize any orange undertones in your complexion products, which can be especially problematic with products that are supposed to look like a natural shadow. Look for neutral, taupe, or chocolate-colored bronzer that doesn’t have too much red or orange pigment in it and is just a few shades darker than your natural skin tone.
Your hair will also bring out orange tones in peachy blushes, though that’s not necessarily a bad thing. If you still want to avoid that happening, then stick to neutral pink and berry-colored blushes instead.
Eye Makeup for Ash Blonde Hair
The most important change you might have to make after switching to ash blonde is probably going to be the color you use to fill in your eyebrows. You generally want your eyebrows to be a shade or two lighter than your hair, although there is definitely something trendy about having very light ash blonde hair with darker brows.
What’s really important is that your hair and brows have the same undertone, so an ash blonde or cool-taupe pomade, pencil, or powder is key. We love the Etude House Eyebrow Pencil in Gray or Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow in Blonde.
When it comes to other eye makeup products like mascara, eyeliner, and eyeshadow – you can change everything or change nothing! Since your hair will now be cool-toned and potentially lighter, dark eye makeup looks might be more striking, while cool metallics might be more harmonious.
Warmeye makeup looks like oranges, peaches, and coppers will really stand outagainst your hair. There are no rules here about what will look good or badsince makeup is all about being creative, but it is more so that everything isgoing to look just a little bit different than it did before.
Lipstick for Ash Blonde Hair
Just as with blushes and bronzers, warm-toned lipsticks are also going to be a little more difficult to wear with ash blonde hair, especially if it leans towards very cool. If you do really love warm red, brick, or orange lipsticks, it’s better to wear them along with a warm-toned blush while keeping the eyes a little more neutral since your lips are going to be very striking.
If you’d rather keep things easy and harmonious, then stick to neutral lipstick colors like nudes, roses, and raspberry tones. Cooler shades like magenta and fuchsia are still going to stand out since they are quite vivid, but not quite as much as warm shades, so they might be a better choice when you want a striking lip color.
What Colors Flatter Ash Blonde Hair Most?
Since ash blonde is mostly a neutral hair color (though it does lean slightly towards cool), there aren’t many colors that it can clash with vivid fashion hair colors, but we gotta admit that some colors look totally stunning.
• Zuerst, let’s get the obvious point out of the way:neutral tones like black and white will always be an easy choice you can gravitate towards that is guaranteed to look great.
• You want to be a bit more careful with beige, taupe, or other lighter neutrals in the realm of brown. They can be lovely accents, but a full look in the same taupe or beige shade can look too monochromatic with your hair.
• If you like lighter colors and prefer a romantic look, pinks look wonderful with all shades of ash blonde hair, while peaches are especially stunning when the ash blonde hair leans a little more towards golden.
• If your main goal is to turn heads, opt for a very saturated red if you’re a neutral ash blonde, or a slightly cooler burgundy or red-blue if you’re a cool ash blonde.
• For those with extra cool ash blonde hair, cool tones like blue, pastel blue, blaugrün, indigo, and lavender can look lovely and harmonious, with a bit of a wintery feel.
• Both silver and gold metallics look incredible with ash blonde hair since it’s a hair color that perfectly straddles those two shades.
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