Última atualização em 30 de setembro de 2021 por Chauncey Morgan

Cansado da loira platinada, mas ainda não está pronto para entrar em pleno território “My Little Pony”? Cabelo prateado tem atitude, mas é sério o suficiente para ir ao escritório. É devido a ser uma das tendências de cabelo mais populares este ano. No entanto, antes de dar o passo, vale a pena considerar a manutenção do cabelo prateado e como ele se encaixa no seu estilo de vida.

A manutenção do cabelo prateado não é para os fracos de coração. Se você quiser manter sua juba grisalha com a melhor aparência, precisará de trabalho. O cabelo prateado requer xampus tonificantes, clareamento da raiz a cada poucas semanas e muito TLC para os fios descoloridos. Vale a pena? Totalmente.

Dicas de manutenção do cabelo prateado

Os princípios básicos para manter o cabelo prateado com uma aparência incrível e seu cabelo o mais saudável possível são:

• Use proteínas e tratamentos hidratantes para manter o cabelo descolorido o mais saudável possível. O branqueamento até o nível 10 causará danos. Mesmo se você usar Olaplex. Então seja gentil com o seu cabelo.
• Muitas pessoas juram pelo óleo de coco para cabelos muito desidratados. Deixe-o como uma máscara durante a noite antes de lavar.
• A tintura de cabelo prateada desbota rapidamente, então tente evitar a lavagem diária. Se o seu cabelo é apenas oleoso, mas não sujo, o xampu seco pode ajudar. Tente lavar o cabelo não mais do que duas vezes por semana, se possível.
• Use um shampoo de depósito de cor roxa ou violeta ao lavar o cabelo para manter o amarelo afastado.
• Evite modelar com calor sempre que possível, pois isso não apenas danificará o cabelo, mas também fará com que a cor desbote mais rapidamente. Se precisar, use um produto de proteção contra o calor de boa qualidade e um ajuste de temperatura baixa.
• Cuide de suas raízes. Espere ter que retocar suas raízes a cada quatro semanas ou mais.
• Once a week use a mix of conditioner and vegetable silver hair dye (such as Manic Panic) to replenish and even your silver hair color.

Root Maintenance With Silver Hair

Silver hair rooted with dark can look great, but if that’s not your cup of tea expect to touch up your roots monthly. If your natural hair color is warm or you want a full snow princess effect with no roots, then you may even need to do it more often.

In order to dye your hair silver you need to bring your hair to a very pale yellow color (Or hair level 10). This usually requires bleach, and so it damages hair to some degree, depending on your original hair color. Dark hair that has been colored before may require several bleaching sessions. It is not unheard of people spending 18h at a saloon to achieve that white blonde hair of their dreams.

On the bright side, touching up your roots means only working on virgin hair and not applying bleach to your entire head. This makes the process considerably quicker. If you have a lot of experience bleaching your hair, you can do it yourself but it’s not exactly an easy process. Definitely not one for a bleach novice!

You will need to apply bleach ONLY to the roots, which will lighten up very quickly because of the heat of your scalp. This is very important to keep in mind, because you can end up with hair that is different shades of yellow and that can be difficult to tone. If you have long hair that is difficult to section, get a friend or family member to help.

Once your roots have lifted to pale yellow, it is time to tone them to silver. You can do an all over tone to refresh the color of your hair. Or you can leave your roots darker, and use a charcoal toner such as Pravana Vivids Silver + Pravana Black N1 to nicely blend into the grey. This is more forgiving than full on silver roots, particularly if your natural regrowth is dark.

This video shows a lavender silver hair with darker roots.

Silver Hair Vs White Hair

White hair is an extreme version of platinum hair. It is not actually just hair bleached to the maximum level 10, as that would be a very pale yellow, but it starts there. You will need to use violet toner to keep the yellow tones at bay, but if you use too much ashy toner you will start veering into silver hair territory.

Unlike with silver hair, if you want white hair to look good you need to make sure it’s even. It may take a few rounds of purple toner until you balance your newly bleached roots with your ends, but it’s worth it so it looks professional.

Manic Panic’s Virgin Snow, Wella’s White Lady, and Directions white toner are three white hair toners that work really well to achieve white hair on level 10 hair.

What to Do If Silver Hair Looks Yellow

Silver hair maintenace is all about keeping the yellow at bay. Yellowish undertones on grey hair just look dirty, but they are easy to remove with the right products.

To start with, once your hair is level 10 you need to tone it with a violet toner. Wella T18 White Lady is a classic for a reason, and you can use Wella Color Charm Liquid #050 Cooling Violet afterwards to create a silver/grey effect. If your hair is not light enough this won’t work, so make sure you are at a very pale yellow first.

If your silver hair looks yellow after a few washes, this is usually because the silver dye is washing off your hair. You should use a purple shampoo and conditioner to counteract the warmt tones. This will deposit violet dye on your hair, which is the opposite to yellow on the color wheel and will cancel it out.

Other reasons why silver hair can turn yellow are environmental factors such as:

• Shampoo residue (always use a sulphate free shampoo)
• Chemicals from hair styling products
• Your scalp’s natural oils
• Mineral deposits from water (invest in a shower filter such as this one for longer lasting color)
• Pollution in the air

Also, chlorine from the swimming pool can turn your hair yellow… or green! So avoid swimming pools or use products such as this one to act as a barrier between your hair and the water.

Help! Silver Hair Turned Blue (or Purple)

This is the opposite situation to silver hair turning yellow. It’s usually caused by excessive toning or overuse of color depositing shampoos. Thankfully, this is easy to fix: This kind of products usually wash out from the hair pretty quickly.

If you are unhappy with your silver hair, semi permanent vegetable dyes such as Manic Panic and Directions are great. They wash out after a few weeks, but will cover excessive purple or violet tones in the hair without adding warmth.

You don’t want to add a yellow dye to the mix (warm or golden colors) because you can end up with either muddy or greenish hair that has the worst of both worlds.

Silver Grey Hair Inspiration

Só para terminar, eu queria acrescentar que existem muitos estilos diferentes de cabelo prateado que se adequam a uma variedade de estilos de vida e personalidades.

Como você pode ver, o cabelo grisalho e prateado é uma tendência que tem tantas variações quanto qualquer outra cor de cabelo. Dependendo de qual você escolher, a manutenção do cabelo prateado será mais ou menos difícil, mas vale a pena. Você está pronto para pintar seu cabelo de prata? Você vai querer ler nosso guia completo sobre a cor do cabelo antes de tomar qualquer decisão!