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Cheveux Oil Slick : La Technique Coloration Arc-en-Ciel

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Si vous cherchez a coiffures that features audacieux colors that can blend in with your naturel shade, vous allez adorer the oil slick hair trend. Pretty much exactly what it sounds like, the oil slick technique mimics the iridescent rainbow of blues, purples and greens that you see when light shines on oil. Deeper and more concentrated than pastels, these oil slick shades can be used to add mèches against black or brown hair in a super subtil peekaboo or audacieux balayage style. Si vous cherchez something more noticeable, vous pouvez banish your naturel color completely and go for a full head of oil slick coloration. If you’re ready to hear more about the oil slick hair technique, read on for information about how to get the look, and to see photos of 20 new and tendance oil slick styles.

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How To Get An Oil Slick Style 1

How To Get An Oil Slick Style

Even though most oil slick styles feature deeper shades of purples and blues, most shades of hair will still need to be lightened before these colors can be applied. You’ll need to apply bleach everywhere that you’d eventually like to have the audacieux new colors, whether that’s in a balayage, peekaboo, or all-over style. Once hair is lightened vous pouvez apply your selected oil slick colors. Blues, purples, and greens are the most common, but some oil slick styles also feature warmer colors like pinks and yellows. Proper maintenance is key to keeping your saturated oil slick shades from fading. Wash hair as infrequently as vous pouvez, and use cold water and color-safe shampoo when vos cheveux needs to get clean.

Oil Slick balayage 2

Oil Slick balayage

naturel black hair provides the perfect backdrop for oil slick mèches, and a balayage technique allows for just the right mixture of indigo, teal, and burgundy shades. Even though these shades don’t completely contrast with a dark base color, they begin high up enough to make a audacieux color statement whether you’re wearing hair up or down.

Oil Slick boucles 3

Oil Slick boucles

This cheveux bouclĂ©s has been treated to a full head of oil slick color, with a deep peacock blue being the dominant shade. A splash of magenta mixed in with the peacock and teal blues gives this oil slick style a fun and flirty feel. If you’re planning to lighten naturel boucles on your own, using a low volume developer can help prevent over-lightening that can damage hair and cause loss of texture.

Subtle Oil Slick 4

Subtle Oil Slick

The bright range of hues in an oil slick coiffures can be so subtil that they only become noticeable when a strong light shines on vos cheveux. To get a super subtil style like this one, you’ll want to lighten very thin strips of hair instead of big, thick chunks. Choosing deeper, jewel toned mèches instead of lighter shades will also help to make your oil slick look subtil against a dark base color.

Bright Oil Slick balayage 5

Bright Oil Slick balayage

If you’re going to the trouble of lightening vos cheveux to get an oil slick style, you might want the new color to be obvious enough to spot from a distance. Using wider sections of color in a balayage technique makes these bright mèches pop more than if they appeared in thinner strips.

Peekaboo Oil Slick carré 6

Peekaboo Oil Slick carré

Adding oil slick mèches underneath the upper layer of a carré creates a magnifique coloration style that can become more or less obvious with vos cheveux’s naturel movement. Another benefit to adding mèches in middle layers is how easy it is to grow out the color without requiring touch-ups.

naturel Brunette Oil Slick 7

naturel Brunette Oil Slick

Oil slick styles might be the most popular over very dark base colors, but we love the earthy, hippie vibes that come along with blue and purple and green mèches over lighter brown or dirty blond hair. If vos cheveux is quite a light brown shade, you might be able to get this style without lightening beforehand.

Pastel Oil Slick 8

Pastel Oil Slick

A lightened up version of the classic oil slick look, this coloration style features lighter shades of blue and purple over a lighter blond base color. If you’ve got an existing champagne or platine blond style, this oil slick style will take the least amount of effort to achieve.

Vibrant Pastel Oil Slick 9

Vibrant Pastel Oil Slick

Featuring shades somewhere in between bright jewel tones and very light pastels, this oil slick style looks great on fair skinned naturel blondes. While most of our styles feature oil slick mèches, this style boasts an almost completely full head of blues, purples, and greens, making it a bigger plunge into the world of unnatural colors.

Barely There Oil Slick 10

Barely There Oil Slick

Tiny touches of burgundy and green mèches over a dark brown base color make this a perfect oil slick style for your very first foray into unnatural coloration. If you decide the style isn’t for you, it can be gone with a quick trim or an easy at-home dye job.

platine Silver Oil Slick 11

platine Silver Oil Slick

Oil slick hues in purple and green look especially luxe against this silvery platine base color. If you’re looking for a coloration that’s setting trends instead of following them, this bright carré is the one to copy.

Hidden Oil Slick 12

Hidden Oil Slick

Hide your blue and green mèches under thick layers of hair and your oil slick style will only be visible when you choose to show it off. This coloration style is perfect for women in professional careers who want to be able to show off a fun and funky shade on days off, while staying lisse-laced from Monday to Friday. Voir aussi: Rainbow Hair: 30 Crazy Rainbow coloration Inspirations.

Oil Slick tresses en épi 13

Oil Slick tresses en épi

This oil slick style features warm and vibrant reds and yellows mixed in with blue and green shades. Like almost any dimensional color style, a tresse is the perfect way to show off this color job, and this tresses en Ă©pi creates unique patterns where the various mèches can play together. Don’t worry if you haven’t mastered the fishtail technique: a french or dutch tressĂ© style will make your oil slick mèches look equally pretty!

Dusty Oil Slick 14

Dusty Oil Slick

A few light touches of muted purple and blue shades create a subtil dusty oil slick style over a light brunette base color. Essayez ce style out if you want to get a little taste of an oil slick color job without committing to a full head of purples and blues.

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Jewel Tones Oil Slick 16

Jewel Tones Oil Slick

Deep jewel tones with a high concentration of pinkish purple create a luxurious looking oil slick style that will dress up any coupes de cheveux. Wear these saturated tones to inject a dose of vibrant fun to any coupes de cheveux.

ombré Oil Slick 17

ombré Oil Slick

An oil slick ombré adds a bright splash of rainbow colors to the bottom half of this naturel brunette hair. Choosing an ombrĂ© technique for your oil slick style means that if the chemical lightening process is damaging to vos cheveux, you won’t have much trouble trimming away pointes fourchues or coloring vos cheveux back to a solid color.

Face Framing Oil Slick 18

Face Framing Oil Slick

A little touch of oil slick color in side swept frange take this face framing coiffures to the next level. You can hide these vibrant colors slightly underneath vos cheveux’s top layer if you’re looking for more of a peekaboo effect in your frange.

Ultra Vibrant Oil Slick 19

Ultra Vibrant Oil Slick

A more intense look than just oil slick mèches, this brilliant style features a full head of vibrant shades, including an intense violet at the roots. If you’ve already tried a basic oil slick over your naturel coloration, this super audacieux style could be your next step.

auburn Oil Slick 20

auburn Oil Slick

Reddish brown auburn hair provides a pretty canvas for oil slick mèches using a balayage technique. Mixing warm tones in your base color with cool blues and purples creates an ultra audacieux contrast that will catch lots of attention.

Chunky Oil Slick Colors 21

Chunky Oil Slick Colors

While most oil slick styles feature thin strips of various colors that mimic the swirled pattern we see in a patch of oil, this chunky color job takes the trend in a funkier direction. Larger chunks of color — like purple roots, green frange, and large sections of deep blue — create an audacieux patchwork of oil slick colors, taking the style in a cool new direction.

Burgundy Oil Slick 22

Burgundy Oil Slick

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Burgundy might seem like a super bright color, but when worn in deep tones it looks a lot like a deep brown or naturel black shade. Against a burgundy base color, the blue and green oil slick mèches in this ondulé carré look subtil but chic.

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