Technical blond and visual blond: what is the difference? Under what circumstances?

There are numerous shades and styles of blonde hair, and the terminology used to characterize these variations can occasionally be unclear. "Technical blonde" and "visual blonde" are two terms that are frequently used to describe blonde hair. Despite their similarity in pronunciation, they speak to different aspects of hair color and perception.

The term "technical blonde" refers to the precise mixture and method used to produce a certain shade of blonde. This frequently entails exact color mixing, selecting the appropriate developer, and lightening hair using particular methods. This term is primarily used by colorists and hair stylists who use precise measurements to produce the desired look.

Visual blonde, on the other hand, describes how a blonde shade seems to the eye. This is less about the technical aspects of the hair color and more about the overall impression and effect of it. Visual blonde is more subjective and individualized because it can be affected by lighting, surrounding colors, and even hairstyle.

Gaining an understanding of the distinction between technical and visual blonde will help you communicate with your hairstylist more effectively and get the desired look. Understanding these phrases will help you greatly in your hair care journey, regardless of whether you’re trying to achieve a specific shade or are just curious about how a blonde tone will look in various contexts.

Bleaching and lightening: what is the difference

It’s very easy: dye is used for lightening, and bleaching is done with powder and lightening creams, pastes, and clays. However, let’s take a look at each of these procedures as well as the underlying working theory of each product just to be thorough.

Bleaching

As I mentioned earlier, paint that has been mixed with oxide can be used for bleaching. The way the paint functions is as follows: a certain percentage of oxide causes the natural pigment to be "removed" and replaced with a cosmetic pigment. More natural pigment will be substituted with cosmetic pigment the higher the paint number and the lighter the paint. All of this charm will eventually fade, exposing the background of lightening, or what’s left over after natural pigment is removed and replaced with cosmetic pigment. Lightning has therefore struck.

A MUST The paint that has been mixed with a specific percentage of oxide has an action time of its own, after which the dye stops acting and can be removed with water. Although you shouldn’t overexpose it, if you do, the effects won’t be as severe as if you overexposed the powder—more on that later.

Lightening with a main-line paint

Using a main-line paint, you can lighten any existing oxide percentage in accordance with the standards and tables. This method has a lightning power of up to three tones, and less frequently, up to four. For instance, even airtouch can be done in this manner to go from 5 ugt to 7 ugt. However, not everyone wants to go to level 7, but rather 10–11, and I experienced something similar:

Alternatively, if you have light natural hair and have reached level 7 or higher, you have a good chance of becoming a canonical blonde without the use of powder and SMS if you paint your hair lighter.

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Lightening with special blond\super blond

You can also make your hair lighter with special blond\super blond, which work at 9 and 12%, the technologies of some brands allow the use of only 12% oxide. Lightening power up to 4 tones, less often — up to 5 tones.

In fact, a row of special blond or super blond in the same dye pile for color highlighting or special highlighting developed precisely for maximum lightening of the hair without the use of powder. Low oxide paints won’t work on certain blondes, and you can only use 6% and higher on special highlights. The residual ammonia in the paint will cause damage to the hair. Why do I write like Klitschko, damn it?

Theoretically, you kill multiple birds with one stone with this approach: you lighten and tone at the same time, setting the color of your hair without having to wash off the helper and apply the second stage, the toning mixture. Forget the saying "coloring kills hair." However, in actual use, extra color correction or toning may be needed.

The following posts contain information about lightning with special blonds:

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• My adventures at the end of the marathonlana_lucifer

Nuances of lightening

Naturally, any level of tone depth can be lightened by using the paint from the regular series. However, for a few tones, special blonds are more suited for lightening natural hair with tones 7-8 and higher. This allows for higher expectations, a gorgeous cosmetic tone for your blond, and maximum lightening.

Simply put, special blond’s pigmentation is physically insufficient to cover the redness or yellowness that results from having darker hair. Furthermore, the mistaken product choice and your insistence that "let’s do it without powder" are the real points—not the "strong yellow pigment"!

I was an 8–9-ugt girl with my natural six after special blond hair.

Additionally, not all brands carry a lightening colorless corrector and special highlighting dyes that are designed to highlight specific colors. These dyes can be used on both natural bases and cosmetics that have already been dyed. Can be used with varying oxide percentages, but don’t expect a powdery effect.

Importantly, there is no appreciable loss of quality when using any of these techniques for a single, initial procedure on the same section of natural hair. Your hair’s quality will suffer from any further alterations made using the same techniques.

To put it more gently, your hair will turn… well, you will be unhappy with them if you repeatedly apply a special blond at 12% or a regular red at 6-12% to the same section of your hair.This will be especially noticeable if you have thin Slavic hair and, God forbid, not thick hair.

There is very little likelihood that the paint will be as many tones lighter after repeated lightening, such as in the scenario where the painter says, "I was 5ugt, I was lightened to 7ugt, but I want it lighter, but I don’t want to use powder."

"Dye does not lighten dye" is not because the dye does not lighten; rather, it lightens, but you will not notice it because it is negligible and will degrade the quality of the hair. It goes without saying that low-cost dye brands are involved in this as well as prohibited, well, covert technologies that work around official technologies, which occasionally take away the meaning of your "lightening without powder"?

Bleaching

We can bleach hair with the use of powder, paste, clay, or cream combined with oxide. What does this signify? This means that, unlike dye, when powder gets on your skin, hair, hands, T-shirt, pants, or other non-synthetic surfaces, the mixture actively removes the natural pigment without providing any additional color. Therefore, they must be tinted after bleaching in order for the hair to not be empty and to have the color you require. I intend to write more on tinting.

A bit of boring theory about hair color and why we bleach yellow?!

Different amounts of pheomelanin and eumelanin make up our color.

Blue and red molecules make up eu-melanin, which is dark in color. Red molecules break down later, while blue molecules break down first. Therefore, hair first turns red or reddish when lightening and bleaching.

Pheo-melanin is responsible for a lighter color, it consists of red and yellow molecules, as well as air molecules I don’t know what to call it scientifically, it’s just air space, a gaseous state. Yellow molecules are the most persistent and are the last to go. During lightening\bleaching of light hair and further bleaching of dark hair, hair turns red, then turns yellow and continues to lighten for a long time, but remains yellow until the very end. If they became white from powder… not light yellow, but white, then… we can just sympathize with you and be patient, because hair is not teeth, will grow back.

Bleaching with powder

Natural hair is easiest to bleach to the lightest possible base, but dyed hair may have trouble coming out of black in the same post below. Powder can be used to bleach both natural hair of any tone depth level and previously dyed hair. The difference will be in the quality of the result.

Different oxide percentages can also be used with powder. Another concern is the condition of the hair and the circumstances in which oxides higher than 3% are typically used.

There exist powders with varying levels of lightening capacity. While we discuss lightening, which suggests the use of dye, we refer to the powder’s work using the same term: There are universal powders that range in tone from 7 to 9, which are meant for open techniques like balayage patterns and total blondness, and closed techniques like airtouch, shatush, and highlighting. They are also suitable for anything that is wrapped in foil or thermal paper.

An open technique slows down the powder’s lightning ability, whereas a closed technique increases its aggression.

• With powders for closed techniques, it is recommended to use 1.5%, 3% and 6% oxides. Anything higher is not worth it.
• With powders for open techniques, you can use higher oxides, some brands allow working in the open technique balayage with 9% and 12%, but you understand, it is not enough to apply powder with 9%, it is important ON TIME to monitor the work of the powder and ON TIME to wash it off.

+his hair is very tenacious and not thin Slavic

If not, using powders with high oxide content can lead to negative outcomes. Are you a guesser or a NNADA spoiler?

I work only 1.5% and 3% because I’m a slow person; I hardly ever take 6%.

A MUST The powder’s work is linked to the duration of action, unlike dyes, which stop working after a specific amount of time. You will have to be under the powder’s operating time control. And this is more crucial than before. Avoid applying too much powder to your hair.

Instead of using steam, you can use 1.5% oxide to bleach thin blond hair. You can use 3% oxide if your hair is thicker and darker. You can take 6% if the Asian hair is thick, even though I bleached 3% of these lovely people using two different methods.

Powders "whitening articles:

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• You can’t lighten or tone. Do you need to put a punctuation mark?miss.karina-music
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• I want to buy red hair dye… I will buy red hair dye hair! I will not indicate the authorship, just take my word for it: the author is ashamed of that scribble, now the author understands the matter much more..)

Bleaching with creams

Other bleaching products, such as clays, pastes, and creams, exist in addition to powder. They’re not offered by every brand. I won’t name them because you can look it up on Google and because everyone has varying means of subsistence and access to territory.

But why am I being so avaricious? Bleaching pastes are, at least, available in the Kaaral Baco, BB-One Picasso, and Nook lines.

There is a belief that powder is more damaging and harsh than cream or paste. Can I now refer to these products as creams? Yes, but don’t fool yourself—just like with powder, your hair won’t appreciate you if you leave this mixture on it for an extended period of time. the variations in consistency and composition.

However, the majority of the difference is in consistency, which is accomplished by including mineral oil in the mixture.

+An opinion exists regarding the powder/cream’scomposition:some believe that the persulfates in the mixture are what make the powder/cream work.

The most popular ones are potassium persulfate, potassium persulfate (which is the strongest but also the most aggressive for the scalp and hair), sodium persulfate, and ammonium persulfate. It is preferable to use creams and powders without potassium persulfate if you have sensitive skin. For instance, all three types of persulfates are present in my Bouticle BlondPlex, everything is in the Nook and BB-One cream, but there is no potassium persulfate in some powder from Indola.

Posts concerning cream bleaching:

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Getting out of black

This is among the most drawn-out, intricate, painful, and costly transformation processes. It is also very uncommon to go from a black unit to a 9–10 level of blonde without damaging your hair, making it one of the most "bummers." Generally speaking, a lot of masters identify the transition from dark to lighter black coloring as well as from red to lighter and more neutral coloring.

Powder is typically used for this purpose because paint-dyed hair will lighten very slightly even after washing. Additionally, cosmetic pigment is removed from the hair as much as possible with acidic washes prior to applying powder.

As a reminder, I have previously written in greater detail about the function of washes.

In order to remove the cosmetic pigment later on, the wash aids in breaking down the bonds holding the pigment together inside the hair. Any oxidizing effect that can result from oxidizing elements that just appeared out of nowhere in the air or from the abrupt application of any paint on a more or less sane oxide. Yes, and you believed you were in a fairy tale until this happened? makes these shattered connections whole again, and we can see how "the color returns, the hair is black again."

Read the product’s instructions carefully before using it to avoid this. But that won’t make it work. Although I find that washing is best done twice, I can do it up to seven times.

Posts about washing and about leaving black:

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• How to get hair out of black? I"ll tell you about my mistakes that you should not do!Woodyket

The terms "technical blond" and "visual blond" are frequently used in relation to blond hair, but they describe distinct characteristics of the color. Technical blonds emphasize precise formulas and processes to achieve specific shades and tones through hair treatments and dyes. Visual blond, on the other hand, is more about how the hair appears and is perceived overall; this can be affected by lighting, the texture of the hair, and the colors of the surroundings. Whether you want to enhance your natural look or aim for a specific shade, knowing these differences can help you make more informed decisions about coloring your hair.

Outcolve henna and basma

Since I had gone through this myself, I initially wanted to fill out this section, but then I realized that it had already been covered in a henna-related reference book. You can find posts here regarding bleaching basma and henna.

Instead of conclusions

All of this is great, of course, but I do not advise you to lighten and bleach your hair at home unless you have the necessary knowledge, are diligent in putting the advice into practice, and have another pair of equally intelligent and diligent hands. It is really best to consult a specialist. This post aims to give you at least a basic understanding of what you are about to do, rather than encouraging you to dye your hair at home like I did in my coloristics workshop.

If you truly want to change, don’t be afraid to do so. Either that, or better late than never, though, like me, your "never" may turn into "late, but I did it" for a variety of reasons. I think I mentioned in one of the series’ antediluvian comments, "Yeah, I will dye and bleach my hair? "Yes, never in my life!" I searched for it, but I discovered another instead.

In 2022, I asked myself, "So what?" referring to the person who had been bleaching and coloring her hair in her favorite color for four years.

Yes, all of this does not ensure that you will only find a skilled master; therefore, thoroughly examine his reviews and body of work. not advertising oneself

Aspect	Technical Blond	Visual Blond
Definition	A precise shade achieved through chemical processes	The perceived color of hair based on lighting and surrounding tones
Method	Involves dyeing or bleaching with specific products	Natural hair color seen under different lighting conditions
Consistency	Uniform and predictable, as per chosen dye or bleach	Can vary with light, environment, and color contrast
Maintenance	Requires regular touch-ups to maintain the shade	Less maintenance as it depends on natural growth
Purpose	To achieve a specific, often lighter, shade	To show a lighter appearance that may not be the same as dyed hair

Gaining knowledge about the distinction between technical and visual blond will enable you to choose the ideal shade for your hair. Technical blond is the term for a particular color attained by a precise chemical process, which frequently uses lighteners and dyes. With this method, you can customize a broad spectrum of blond shades—from cool platinum to warm honey tones—to match your skin tone and personal preferences.

Conversely, visual blond is less about the specific shade and more about the overall impression your hair color creates. Natural elements like lighting, the color of your clothing, and even the state of your hair can affect it. This implies that depending on these factors, the same shade may appear differently.

Your goals will ultimately determine which technical or visual blonde is best for you. A technical approach might be the best if you’re looking for a specific, long-lasting shade. Thinking about the visual impact can be more useful if you’re searching for a color that goes better with your everyday outfit and is more dynamic and versatile.

In the end, each strategy has its benefits. The most important thing is to choose a style that fits your lifestyle and gives you a sense of confidence, whether you choose a precise technical blond or a versatile visual blond. To determine which option best suits your needs and preferences, speak with your stylist.

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