Ombre or degradation: on the hair, lips and nails

Degrade is a color, a shade, a modern trend of fashion, however, as well as it is necessary to the trend, it is impermanent, often changing in all directions. This shade is found in various accessories, it can also refer to the color of shoes or clothes, in interiors, here it is also necessary to refer the color of hair or nails. Let's just say, today in this understanding is stretched the color, dyeing the hair in several colors, coloring the hair along and or across. After staining, it sometimes turns out that hair has burned out and hair has grown, although this is not the only unusual effect. It is called in different ways, degradation, ombre, DIP-DYE, and bronze.


In the case of an ombre, it produces a smooth color transition of contrasting colors from one to another, it can be light in dark or vice versa. Color combinations can be anything, it all depends on your fantasy. Ideal for those who want to make a fresh note in the property, but do not want a drastic change.

Degrades (gradient), means simply transitions between colors, there are no novelties in it, degradation is used both in hairdresser's art, and in designer, fashion designers, etc. In manicure, the hairdresser's art is called bronze.

Ombre on hair



The modern method of coloring hair, as a rule, with the transition of otemnyh tones to light. The difference from conventional staining is that there is no abrupt transition, thanks to this the overgrown roots of the hair do not stand out sharply and coloring can be worn long enough. The original technology opens the boundaries of diversity, considering that all have their own shades of hair, then the final color is different for all. This is a very popular trend among American stars, which is available to absolutely everyone.

By the way, the ombre gives the hair a visual volume. In the classic form, Ombre Hair is the use of two tones, fuzzy borders and lines, the colors merge and smoothly pass one into the other.

The effect of bronzing is interesting because the upper, rapidly growing roots of the hair are dyed in a different shade, and in a darker and closer to the natural. The bottom of the hair is painted in any chosen shade, as a rule, it's light colors, although, as for the color solutions, they can be very different, up to the venomously bright ones.

Ombre on the lips



Even if modern variants of degradation in relation to nails and hair are already well known and this is not particularly surprising to anyone, then ombre lip liner, this is a novelty even for those who walk in step with fashion. Among the makeup specialists, the ombre for the lips is called Ombre lips.

Probably, many will not understand why this is necessary, why the charm and zest, so:

It would seem that such make-up is suitable only for the celebration of events, but it is not so. Using simple, non-catchy colors, the ombre can be used daily, and the appearance will change radically.

Ways of correct degradation

Actually the main types are two: vertical and horizontal, but the methods of application are sufficient:

Horizontal type

Vertical type

On this, the possibilities of make-up did not end, before you are world experiments and a palette of all colors and shades, you can independently change the colors in places and choose for yourself.

It is important to remember that the gradient makeup should not be washed, the lines should be clear and not blurred, otherwise you will not get a lasting effect. It is recommended to use the basic foundation before the make-up, for this use a foundation, powder, and a simple contour pencil, for your taste and choice.

Ombre on the nails



Manicure-stretching, this is the fashion of the past winter season. As in all cases of make-up, the main role is played by a smooth transition of colors, the dark one merges with the light one. There is another way, when the shades are smoothly changing, moving from the little finger to the big finger.

This makeup takes a little time, and make it quite feasible, you will need:

Now open all cooked varnishes. Sponge moisten the inlet and squeeze it well, leaving a little moisture, so that the water is not allowed to feed the varnish too quickly. Now put one layer of dark varnish on the edges, you may need a couple of layers. The next step will be strips of a more light tone, and then you need to apply lines, they should be located one above the other. Naturally, do it quickly, otherwise it will dry out or absorb.

Now attach the strips on the sponge to a clean sheet of paper, first time, you will see clear line boundaries, but if this action is repeated a couple of times, the lines will lose borders and smoothly connect. When you have achieved the effect of mixing colors, you can apply inflorescence to the nails, attach the kraangs to the nail, press and pull down. The movement can be repeated, the manicure does not suffer.

After each nail, manipulations with the application of the varnish on the sponge should be repeated. After you have applied the nail polish to all the nails and it is frozen, then it will remove the nail polish remover around the nails with a nail polish remover. The last one is the application of the fixer.