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They are there ! Your first white hair grows. Not always easy to assume, this capillary upheaval will however end up happening on everyone's head. But nothing helps, you don't want to see them. And although the first instinct is to tear them off, there are much gentler solutions to cover them up. So, how to hide your few gray hairs? Find out the tips and solutions to do this in this article.

Cover some white hair with a balayage

To hide some white hair, the option of Balayage is highly recommended. Balayage provides a natural effect and covers sparse and few white hair. This technique is however more effective for blond or light brown hair, than for brown or red hair. Indeed, the sweep will not color the whole of the hair. It will therefore first of all blend the white hair into the hair, which will be much less visible thanks to the shades of color that the sweeping will have brought.

This technique therefore offers a made natural which covers the few gray hairs sufficiently well for light hair, while avoiding having to go through the hairdresser's box every month. Indeed, the demarcation being much less visible at the level of the roots than a permanent coloring, the sweeping can be done every 2 months without problems.

Hide some white hair with coloring

The option of coloring is also a good method to hide your few gray hairs. It exists several coloring techniques. Depending on the amount of white hair, your hair color, and your styling habits, choose the color that works best for you.

Natural coloring

La natural coloring made from powdered plants is one of the most interesting for hide your first white hair. Indeed, natural colors are durable and formulated without chemicals and ammonia. It does not damage your hair, unlike conventional colorings which tend to damage and dry out the hair fiber over time. The natural coloring is therefore perfect if you have had the young white hair.

There are many plants and therefore many natural colors on the market. What to find your happiness of color without great difficulty. You can find these natural colorings in online stores, in organic stores or even concoct them yourself by mixing henna and coloring powders:

• To obtain blonde highlights, Venetian blonde, or maintain its blonde color, here are the suitable coloring powders: chamomile, turmeric, Chinese rhubarb, calendula, cinnamon, ginger, lemon, rhapontic.
• For red / red highlights or to maintain its red color, here are the suitable coloring powders: hibiscus, red cinchona, walnut stain, red sandalwood, beetroot, madder, red henna.
• Finally, to obtain brown to brown reflections, or maintain its dark color, the suitable coloring powders will be: pomegranate, walnut, cashew, cocoa, indigo, katam, walnut stain, black henna.

However, as a first step, we recommend that you go to a organic hairdresser. Using healthy colorings, without chemicals, the hairdresser can help you find the ideal shade and cover your few gray hairs effectively.

Tone-on-tone coloring

This tone on tone coloring, also called temporary coloring without peroxide, helps to hide your few white hairs without changing your natural color. It avoids the demarcations at the level of the root and therefore the correction to the hairdresser every month. In addition, this coloring technique damages the hair less because it does not oxidize the natural hair. However, it is only effective for covering some gray hairs.

Permanent coloring

La permanent coloring color all of your hair to completely uniform hair still pigmented and the hair turned white. Its main advantage is therefore to completely hide your few gray hairs. However, it requires much more rigorous maintenance, since after 3 weeks, the roots will already be visible. More expensive because it needs to be carried out more frequently, it therefore requires a certain rigor for a perfect result. Finally, know that these colorations use a chemical process to penetrate the hair fiber. In the long run, your hair can therefore be damaged, whereas, on the contrary, it requires to be fortified.

Hide your first white hair with accessories

Finally to hide your few white hairs, you can use accessoiries to products that will not permanently alter your coloring.

• A head accessory. A headband, a scarf or even better a durag (currently in fashion), are perfect accessories to hide the roots and draw the eye to something other than your gray hair.

• A product for tinting the hair. Mascara, tinted spray or coloring sray, or even hair coloring powder allow you to camouflage your few gray hairs in a very effective and non-permanent way. These accessories are perfect if you want to avoid dyeing your hair, while still melting your gray hair perfectly.

• Unstructured hairstyle. Hair that is loose, curly or with volume will tend to better hide the first white hair, rather than a flat, straight hairstyle. You can also opt for a hairstyle attached but still with a "combed-disheveled" effect. Indeed, a too smooth hairstyle will only bring out the few white hairs.

As you can see, hiding some gray hair is not really easy if you want to avoid touching your natural color. In these cases, the best will still be to assume your few gray hairs or tricky using accessories and unstructured hairstyles. In the event that it is inconceivable for you to see them invite themselves on your head, the solution of the coloring will be inevitable.

And you, do you have other techniques, tips to hide your first gray hair? Feel free to share them in the comments! 🙂