I'm a beauty director and Hailey Bieber's candlelit hair is my prettiest colour ever
25.02.2023 - 12:13
/ ok.co.uk
Perhaps it’s because it sounds romantic, or perhaps it's because we've all been braced for power cuts, but "candlelit colour" is this season’s burning hair desire. From Hailey Beiber and Zendaya to Rita Ora and Camila Cabello, it the trend giving A-listers a new season glow up, and it’s blazing a hashtag trail through social media.
But what do you need to know about this hot new hair look? “It’s all about mimicking the effect of candlelight reflecting on your hair,” Jordanna Cobella from Wella Professionals explains. “It’s different from ribbons of high contrasting tones and depths that you get from balayage or highlights.
Candlelit colour is all about subtlety, with an underlying warmth to mimic the reflective tone of candlelight. Instead of sun-kissed, think candle-kissed!” To achieve that luscious flicker on your own hair, Jordanna explains that you need to go for finely scattered pieces not much lighter than your base shade.
“All natural hair colours already have so many subtle tones peppered throughout. Candlelit colour is about turning those illuminations up a notch, so hair glistens as the light hits each strand.” What’s involved in candlelit colour? The actual technique is quite distinct from regular balayage, in case you suspected that "candlelit colour" might just be a whizzy marketing term to part you from your cash.
“It’s a much more strategic placement of lighter pieces, so you’re bleaching less of the hair, which is ultimately better for its condition,” says Charlotte Ashley, colour specialist at Live True London, who’s giving me a candlelit brunette makeover at the salon's Soho branch. "The hair-lightening foils are also placed at an angle so you’ll see the shimmer popping through the darker pieces when
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