The lifting effect hair colors suitable for over 50s

Whatever our age, choose the right shade for our hair, the one that makes sparks with our complexion like Ben does with Jennifer, is not an easy task. Because sometimes, as inveterate beautyhaolic we rely on seasonal color trends, while others we can’t get out of ours comfort zone and we propose, season after season, always the same nuance. But when your hair and skin begin to be no longer so young, it’s time to think for a moment. To choose the perfect hair color, if you are over 50, it is better not to rely anymore on choices dictated by instinct, but rather to make targeted and thoughtful considerations that enhance and rejuvenate (magic word). In fact, the right shade can make a real difference when it comes to achieving an effect anti-age for the hair. Watch the protagonists now perennials of the awaited And Just Like That… who are not afraid to also show some silver thread or to switch colors, like Cynthia Nixon who appears as a ginger red in the last chapter of Sex and The City with silver blond hair.

Anti-aging power

Imagine, in fact, the power of a lifting effect dye combined with the best rejuvenating haircuts. A makeover worthy of the red carpet, which will open the doors to a boom of glow. Of course, thethe watchword must be brightness, there is nothing better than a face with delicate and luminous features to forget the years on the identity card. «I don’t think there are any colors that can be clearly defined as more suitable for women over 50 and, in general, for specific ages. In the world we live in, anything goes. In the salon I have clients over 50 with very dark short hair, so to speak. Someone might object: “But how! After 50 you should have much lighter hair! “. But I would not generalize everything into pre-established categories », assures Tommaso Incamicia, hairstylist for Davines and owner of the My Place Hair Studio salon in Milan. “I would rather say that, after the age of 50, the effects of time on the hair and face require agreater attention in sweetening the whole. A too marked color could mark more a face that is not very fresh; therefore, lightenings on the base color of the hair and in shades with the skin tone would be perfect ».

Pay attention to the skin tone

How then to choose the right color that is right for us and that takes you back in time, yes, I want it now? «Armocromia is a very strong trend nowadays: it is very fashionable to pay attention to the skin tone, to the“ seasons ”, very valid aspects to which we have always paid a lot of attention at My Place. Based on your base hair color and skin tone, the key in my view is to create variegated colors, that create points of light to enhance the hair and, similarly, the strengths of the face. Undoubtedly, using too dark colors on the base of the hair, and therefore on the frame of the face, does not help a face that is no longer very fresh. In this case, it is appropriate create colors that have a variegation, such as to soften the hair both in its pure beauty yield and in its contrast with the skin of the face. Distinctly very cold colors are certainly more akin to people with very light skin or eyes, as they “welcome” them more. We therefore try to work on neutral colors or warm colors, where by “warm” we also mean sand or hazelnuts that are not too dark », advises the expert.

The secret is a variegated color

The rules for the choice of color by the over 50s provided by the hairstylist are basically two: avoid having a hair with all the same color and do not opt ​​for a shade that is too dark. «Finally, I would add that the presence of white hair becomes a difficulty in managing the monthly beauty routine. Therefore, by creating variegated colors, you will not have the extreme need to immediately go back to coloring the base of the hair on which the regrowth has reappeared because the variegated color allows us not to have that imperfection of regrowth as it illuminates the strengths of the face and camouflages white hair. If you had a uniform color, the white hair in its regrowth would be much more evident », Incamicia ends.

The suggestion for the over 50s is to focus, therefore, on ad hoc colors that give light, that help white hair to mix with the dyed one and that give strength to the face. This is the beauty equation for the perfect hair dye for over 50s.

In the gallery, celeb perennials with hair with an instant lifting effect color.

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