The appearance of gray hair is one of the most common women's fears. So what happens to hair that causes it to lose color and turn grey, is it possible to stop this process? A study conducted back in 2012 showed that two-thirds of the world's population aged 45-65 years have gray hair.

How does hair color appear and disappear?

Hair coloring black, chocolate, red, ashy or blond sparkling in the sun occurs during intrauterine development, in parallel with the formation of melanocytes. When fully developed, a person's hair takes on a permanent natural color. Its shade is influenced by the following characteristics of melanin located in the middle layer of the hair shaft:

• distribution;
• quantity.

Color saturation is maintained by melanthocytes throughout life, but with age their production begins to be inhibited by the enzyme telomerase. And the hair begins to lose its brightness year after year.

Experts' opinion

Hair restoration specialist Dr. Alan Bauman believes that graying of hair is not an age-related, but a genetic problem that even people in their 30s face.

If you look at your relatives - parents, grandparents, you can see what can await you in the future, and when the first gray hair appears on your temples. Naturally, you won’t wake up one morning completely gray like a harrier. Despite folk legends, this is possible if most of the hair falls out due to stress, but gray hair remains.

Initially, the temples will become white, then the gray hair will slowly spread to the rest of the head.

Gray hair and ethnicity

In many ways, nationality also influences the appearance of gray hair. Thus, according to dermatologist Gill Weibel, residents of the Caucasus and Asia begin to turn gray by the end of their thirties, and Africans will see the sparkle of gray curls by the age of 40.

Stress disrupts the functioning of all organs; the body, saving energy, can stop coloring your hair at any age; this can also happen with a lack of vitamin B12, copper and silicon.

Will plucking gray hairs help?

Some people try to pluck the few gray hairs in the hope that they will not appear again. This is a very risky business, because if you pull out a hair, the follicles still remain in place. Of course, you may be lucky and fully colored hair will grow out of it (this course of events is quite likely). But if this does not happen, the result can be quite disastrous: in place of one torn gray hair, two will appear. It's even worse if you damage the hair follicle and nothing grows out of it at all.

It is worth thinking carefully about whether it is worth pulling out gray hair. After all, it’s better to be gray than bald.

Products for coloring gray hair are presented in a wide range, so you can always dye your hair to the best fashionable color, but restoring their growth is much more difficult.

To paraphrase a well-known saying, we can say that a woman is met by her hairstyle. And in a hairstyle, not only cutting and styling is important, but also coloring. Each season is rich in ideas from colorists. Courage, originality, and contrast are encouraged. Thanks to modern coloring techniques, be it shatush or balayage, bronzing or majimesh, partial coloring or horizontal coloring, double coloring or ombre - all methods will lead to an impressive result. It is important to find a good craftsman and the right shades of paint.

Not all of the listed techniques may be suitable for a brunette when dyeing her hair in two colors. Let's look at the ways we need to transform a brunette with short hair into a beautiful black and white creature.

Peculiarities

The basis of most dark hair coloring techniques is highlighting. Known to almost everyone, it is especially recommended for women who are afraid of sudden changes and at the same time want to look unusual. Dark hair is refreshed by bleaching individual strands of hair.

With the help of highlighting, the volume of hair is visually increased, so you are guaranteed admiring and interested glances from the stronger sex.

Two-tone coloring was made fashionable by Christina Aguilera; Lady Gaga and Rihanna, and then most of the female half of the planet's population, first became her followers. Brunette hair is not so easy for hairdressers and colorists. Therefore, we advise girls and women unfamiliar with the art of coloring not to experiment, but to entrust their hairstyle to the skillful hands of professionals.

On short hair Highlighting is best done on asymmetrical haircuts - the hairstyle will look even more textured.

How to paint it yourself?

If you decide to highlight dark hair yourself, then you should take into account all the recommendations of professionals:

The first step is to prepare the necessary tools:

• plastic gloves;
• foil or a special cap, depending on the dyeing technique;
• an unnecessary towel or large piece of fabric to protect clothes from paint;
• a comb with a sharp end or a crochet hook for pulling out strands;
• paints and containers for them;
• balm and shampoo for bleached or colored hair.

All these available tools can be purchased in a ready-made highlighting kit.

To give strands white There are several types of bleaching compounds:

• pastes and gels;
• correctors and powders;
• oxidizing emulsions;
• cream paints.

When choosing a clarifier, it is better to first seek advice from a professional.

It is important to remember the concentration of the selected bleaching composition. On dark hair use more concentrated products from 6 to 12 percent.

The exposure time also affects the sharpness of the blonde color; for brunettes it reaches 50 minutes or more.

You will spend more than two hours creating black and white shades at home; in a hairdresser, the same procedure will take a master an hour and a half. The coloring lasts for a very long time, because black and white colors do not wash off for a long time.

Repeated highlighting will need to be done on significantly grown hair.

Options

Besides highlighting, there are other techniques you can use to add extravagance to your look.

• Ombre. The method has gained popularity in the last few years. The motto of ombre is: “Down with modesty!”, because the transition from white to black is as noticeable as possible. Often the hair is completely repainted, the natural shade is replaced by a black and white gradient.

• Coloring is horizontal. One of the types of ombre. Hair is dyed not from the roots to the ends, but, on the contrary, from the ends to the top of the head.

• Transverse coloring. Another type of ombre, but done with deliberate roughness. The transition from black to white is quite abrupt. More suitable for brunettes.

• Booking. Only the ends of the hair are dyed. Thus, the roots of the hair remain natural, and the ends turn blonde. Very convenient for those who rarely visit beauty salons or those who grow their hair. The relevance of the hairstyle does not suffer; regrown hair is as beautiful as after visiting the hairdresser.

• Coloring is partial. Only a separately selected section of hair is dyed. Some people dye their bangs or a strand, while others choose an entire segment. To achieve maximum effect, hair should be the same shade. Creative hairdressers can give your haircut a raccoon color or any other pattern.

• Owners of wavy hair do not need to give up bronzer. This type of coloring will highlight your cheekbones, refresh the complexion of pale or dull skin types, and most importantly, it will structure your hairstyle.
• Older ladies should avoid contrasting shades, because too bright colors will only emphasize their mature age.
• If coloring errors are not too noticeable on curly hair, then owners of straight hair should be careful - smooth hair will reveal any low-quality touch in the work of the master.
• For women with a dark complexion, highlighting is most suitable - the tan will be unobtrusively shaded.
• Those who have not been blessed with voluminous hair by nature should resort to 3D coloring or shatush - with the help of these techniques volume and fullness will appear.
• Contrasting shades with double dyeing are best used by those with thick hair.

• Do not ignore the balm under any circumstances. Its use will help restore the water balance of the hair, since during the dyeing process some of the water is significantly lost.
• Hair care only by special means. Balms and shampoos are perfect for bleached hair; they should be used strictly according to the instructions.
• Subsequent staining should be carried out no earlier than after 2-3 months. This is the period for complete restoration of damaged strands.
• After washing, you should not resort to combing or rubbing your hair with a towel.
• Try to use a hair dryer and curling iron as little as possible, because your hair is already weakened.
• To speed up hair regeneration, use therapeutic and nourishing masks.

When stained in black and white tones Both the external appearance and the inner world change radically. And in order not to look like a black and white magpie, approach changing your appearance as carefully as possible, having first weighed all the pros and cons.

Additional coloring methods

Let's look at a few more techniques for coloring women's short haircuts, as well as their pros and cons.

Balayage

Several color schemes in one hairstyle is balayage. The play of various shades with highlights on individual strands will give contrast to even a timid and inconspicuous girl, because not only her facial features, but also the beauty of her hair will appear in a favorable light. When stained in balayage technique The curls are given shades close to natural.

Attention is focused on the ends of the strands; the paint itself is applied in a V-shape. The word balayage comes from the French "sweeping".

The word balayage comes from the French "sweeping".

Therefore, the master makes strokes as if with a brush, and if rougher, as if with a broom. It is important to follow several rules:

• strokes of the brush for painting only vertically, from top to bottom;
• the shade chosen for coloring should be adjusted to the native color;
• the tone should apply unevenly, the enhancement goes to the ends, the upper part seems to be slightly powdered;
• noticeable transitions are unacceptable in order to create the impression of naturalness.

Balayage is best suited for girls and women with long bob haircuts. Among foreign stars, Selena Gomez, Jennifer Lopez and Ani Lorak chose this coloring.

Pros: looks great on short hair, has no age restrictions, you can rarely visit a beauty salon - as it grows, the regrown roots are not visible. Disadvantages: the procedure takes quite a long time, causes little damage at the staining site.

Shatush

You see a woman, her hair seems to be slightly touched by the sun's rays of the southern islands. And you still have 9 months until your vacation, but you want to look the same right here and now. Then you just need to go to an experienced craftsman who is well versed in the technique of painting shatush. Smooth transitions from dark to light shades and natural highlights - this is the effect you wanted.

Looks good on both straight and wavy hair. It goes best with a bob haircut.

But before achieving the desired result, the master must fulfill several important conditions:

• first select the desired shade and prepare the dye according to the technology;
• correctly separate hair into zones;
• comb certain areas and distribute dye on them;
• the degree of staining is determined by the master, and if necessary, corrects it;
• after 40 minutes of waiting, the paint is washed off;
• if tinting is required, the master performs this procedure.

The advantages of coloring shatush: gray hair is effectively masked, the hair looks great without any styling, the effect on the hair is gentle - since shades close to the native one are used.

There is only one minus - the procedure is quite expensive.

Mazhimesh

This type of coloring is still unfamiliar to Russian fashionistas. Mazhimesh is a type of highlighting, but more gentle. The preparations for this procedure do not contain ammonia. They are used in the form of a creamy substance with the addition of excipients and wax. This creates the effect of strands with golden tints.

Pros:

• the natural effect is achieved thanks to smooth transitions, so the hair looks shiny, alive and dynamic;
• can be used even on damaged and dry hair, because the dye does not contain ammonia;
• suitable for any hair structure: wavy, straight and very curly;
• frequent correction and touch-up are not required, because the color transition is smoothly stretched, barely noticeable, which means that updating will only be required after 3-4 months;
• looks great on haircuts such as ladder and cascade.

I’ll say right away that I’m not a hairdresser. I just want to show what the described paint tone would look like in pure form on natural hair. Maybe this will be useful to someone... Painting is a necessary measure. After I had an unsuccessful wash, I healed the damaged hair and didn’t dye it for 5-6 years. But the genes took their toll - gray hair. I had to look for paint, but I wasn’t far from the previous test. I took 7/1 Princess Essex. It was important for me that my natural hair did not differ greatly in color, and that dyeing could be done quickly and at home. Photo before dyeing – hair of natural color (sorry, the hair before dyeing is oily)

Feather test - I dyed a strand to understand how different the color will be from my native one (undyed on the left, dyed on the right)

And here is another photo (unpainted on the left, painted on the right)

I must say, the paint definitely gives off a reddish look (I’ll take a photo of my hair in the sun later). There is no talk of any “ash” there. The paint stinks of ammonia, but somehow it’s pleasant))). After dyeing, the hair is soft and shiny. It seemed to me that they had not deteriorated at all.

I dyed it like this: the main part of my hair was with a 3% oxidizer - I only have gray strands in the front. Front strands - 6% oxidizing agent. With a 3% oxidizing agent, gray hair is not covered at all. 6% is normal. The photo shows 3% paint. For the length below the shoulder blades with the head, 2 tubes were enough. I'll show you the final result in daylight a little later.

Facesitting - sitting on a partner's face - is used not only within the BDSM culture, but also by traditional couples. You can get incomparable pleasure from face sitting, but if safety precautions are not followed, this seemingly harmless practice can turn fatal. So how to do facesitting correctly and safely?

WHAT IS FACESITTING

Face sitting is one of the integral elements of femdom, that is, female domination. The woman sits on her partner's face so that her genitals are in contact with the man's mouth. Compared to regular cunnilingus, the impressions of facesitting are stronger and more vivid. Firstly, the woman herself can control the force of pressure of the genitals on the man’s tongue and at the same time make up-down movements and swaying with her hips. Secondly, in addition to physical satisfaction, facesitting also provides moral pleasure from a dominant position in sex.

As a rule, the dominant partner in facesitting is the woman. This is anatomically determined: the erect penis is directed upward, and it is difficult for a man to have oral sex while sitting on his partner’s face. Although this does not apply to anilingus: in this case, both the woman and the man can dominate.

WHY DO PEOPLE DO FACESITTING?

Oddly enough, facesitting is primarily enjoyed by men - they are delighted by being in close proximity to the vagina. Many people find the taste and smell of vaginal discharge during sex pleasant and erotic. And this is not surprising: it is believed that vaginal lubricant contains a large amount of pheromones, which excite a man and make him consider his partner sexy. By the way, many women use Perfume with pheromones .

Men also enjoy the pressure that female genitalia puts on them. And if a woman is able to experience a jet orgasm while sitting on her partner’s face, this becomes the highest reward for male pride: “Look, I’m just the god of sex, I myself brought you to such an intense orgasm. I’m happy that I can give you pleasure!”

As one of the BDSM practices, facesitting brings pleasure to both the dominant and submissive partner. Control is important for the Mistress, and she, even being physically weaker than her Slave, is able to completely limit the mobility of the one who is below: the Slave is not able to stand up while the Mistress is sitting on his face. For the submissive, the mistress’s pleasure comes first: he does not receive genital contact, and his feelings are secondary to what the Mistress should experience. The submissive's job is to give himself completely to satisfy the dominant.

FACESITTING SAFETY

When engaging in facesitting, the mouth and nose of the partner located below are closed to a certain extent. If the top partner overdoes it and leaves no room for air, then a harmless activity can end in suffocation.

Finding the optimal body position that will be comfortable for both partners is a matter of practice. Until you've mastered the technique, for safety's sake, remember to use safe words or safe signs (such as muttering loudly or jerking your leg).

And if you are not 100% sure that your partner does not have STDs, do not forget to use a latex barrier, which you can buy at the pharmacy or make yourself by cutting a condom or glove.

FOR MORE FUN

You can add even more spice to facesitting by using bondage and restraints. Feelings of humiliation, helplessness and submission, as well as being forced to perform oral sex, excite the submissive's imagination. Therefore, any form of mobility limitation will only add to the severity of the sensations. You can simply tie the submissive's wrists, tie his hands to his body or to your hands, shackle him, put him in a straitjacket. In a word, the use of BDSM paraphernalia will only benefit everyone.

The “zest” of facesitting will also be added by dirty words from the mouth of the dominant partner: depending on the situation, these can be humiliation and insults, as well as encouraging words and moans of pleasure. And for greater dominance, it would be appropriate to use the attributes of erotic spanking - a small whip or a flogger.

Another element for hard BDSM is the use of the nose, rather than the tongue, to stimulate the clitoris. This can be achieved by sitting face to face with your partner and moving your hips back and forth. Touching your nose to the clitoris will provide additional pleasure for both partners.