As you know, I recently returned to the salon for a color update. Erin at Sally Hershberger took my ombré bayliage (hand painted highlights – the word “balayage” is French for “to sweep”) to new shades of sunny browns and blond.
Ombre hair color on WhoWhatWear:
This is the lightest my hair has ever been and I really like it, though that’s knowing that I’ll go darker again come Fall. I definitely feel best as a brunette. (Isn’t it an interesting concept that we might identify with different hair types or colors than our natural? Are you a blonde at heart? Straight and smooth even if your hair thinks it’s curly?)
Erin is excellent at what she does – custom coloring and considering your skin tone, eyes, lifestyle, trends and future salon visits. As you know, I gushed about my last visit. Despite coloring my hair since I was 14, I’ve never had one more complementary than my first with her. This time, she added more lightness to the ends left my roots natural (last time we dyed them a rich, dark brown) in order to prep for a more subtle Fall shade.
I’ve been curious about the trend of monochromatic color since reading the “Highlights are History” article in Vogue a couple of months ago. (It included photos of Leigh Lezark, Kirsten Dunst and model Maggie Rizer — below.)
I quizzed Erin about the process of varying the shade of the highlights. (She does it all by slowly diluting the solution, and allowing it to sit on sections for different lengths of time.) She advises this to a monochromatic color because variety shows of the shape of your cut, and looks more natural.
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Leigh:
Kirsten:
Maggie: (Funny, when looking up Maggie, I found a bunch of rumors about her returning to red at Anna Wintour’s behest. The story on Stylelist.)
And in the spirit of side-by-side comparisons, I thought it’d be fun to look at my hair today beside what it was during my first days as HairJunky.
Thoughts?
