by Ricky Fingerz

Created on: March 11, 2009

Low Maintenance Hair Color Blending
(Don't You Just Hate Hair Color Shock Treatments?)

For those of you out there that color your hair and out of pure shock, shriek, "Oh my God, what did I just do to my hair?", here's an interesting idea you might want to consider...try the snowcap or mudcap technique and multi blend with three or more colors. Multi-color blends are interesting and are "uptown" these days. You can easily transform in and out of any color you choose and you'll always have a different look every few months; without the shock.

This style of color blending is unique and it truly looks marvelous; it's a low maintenance coloring routine for the busy schedule's we all contend with today.

If you are amiss and don't know how to do the snowcap or mudcap technique, just copy and paste the following into your browser for an instructional article on how to "Do it yourself" at home. It's so very easy and looks terrific.

http://www.helium.com/items/1288603-uptown- hairdos.

It can be frustrating when you finally decide on what hair coloring brand to use and the color you imagine yourself to be and after the bludgeoning, you're devastated; SHOCKED; where do you hide. The cure for this is blending (a form of streaking but much softer) two or more colors to soften the image shock. Blending is a much softer transition and you never have to worry about the extreme changes from say brunette to blond. Sometimes you look into the mirror and horrify yourself not to mention the others that you scare too.

Try this easy technique with maybe up to four different colors if you like. You color in steps every two, three or four months. Let's say you're a brunette; cap and streak with a chestnut brown. By the term "cap", I mean that just the top crown of your head is to be completely color changed with streaks of the same color flowing or blending its way down through the rest of your hair. A form of streaking.

Wait two or three months or so, cap and streak with auburn or red and finally, two or three months later, cap and streak with blond. You change your look every few months or so without other's searching for a compliment because they're trying to recognize you. The change is subtle. Mix the color applications over time to your liking. If you prefer the particular color you have last applied and choose it to be the dominant color, simply use more of that color between color changes.

When the roots start to grow in, they are barely noticeable with all the other color blending that's going on and this is what makes maintenance so easy. Two to three months later you may change your mind and go purple just to perk it up a little. The color combinations are many and so easy to simply blend them in.

The multi blending look can also be achieved without the snowcap or mudcap style by simply combing the colors through. Try different colors; this is the now, anything goes. Step it up and be courageous.

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