For awhile now, I’ve seen many celebrities like Rachel Bilson, Lauren Conrad, and Sarah Jessica Park rock the Ombre hair look. Ombre is a french word that is roughly translated as shading. Ombre hair color is when a person’s hair color starts from dark to light. The color is usually a gradual or gradient effect.
Pros on having Ombre Hair:
- For natural dark hair gals, like me: No maintenance need for the roots.
- Great way to grow out blond/highlight hair.
- Easier to maintain.
- Looks edgy or rockerish
- Currently in style
- Hair looks amazing when curled.
- Great for medium to long hair.
- Seems to be flattering on most skin tones and face shape.
Cons:
- If not done right, looks like hair is two different toned.
- Cost a lot of money to have it done in the salon
- If natural hair color is bright blond: this hairstyle will not work. I’ve never seen an opposite ombre before.
- Blond tips may dry out hair
- Dark hair dyed blond usually turns orange, eventually.
- When straighten, Ombre looks a little off.
- Some people just don’t get Ombre and think your roots are showing.
- Not so great looking on short hairstyles.
I’ve wanted Ombre hair for a couple months, but not as long as I wanted red hair. I’m not sure if I am going to do it, because I have a lot of white hair. And if I was going to do it, I will NOT pay over $200 to get it done. Instead I found a DIY ombre video from HeyyyJune. I find her video to be the most informative and easiest to follow. Trust me, I’ve seen a lot of DIY videos and hers is the best.
FYI: The volume in HeyyyJune’s videos are kinda soft. I had to wear earphones to listen to her videos.
I love HeyyyJune’s style. She is 100% Filipina (gotta support my Asian peeps) and from Australia. I don’t know if it’s her accent or the way she talks to the camera, but I absolutely love her.
I’ll let you know what hair color I’ll be doing…stay tuned.
What’s your thoughts on Ombre hair? Is it a fierce do? Or a flat don’t?
my classmate tresha did got an ombre, but she called it a fade out. But it looked amazing on her my hair is kind of ombre but its only because i got a bad dye job a couple of years ago that fried my hair and now I’m trying to redeem its natural color.
-Bianca at http://theinbetweengirls.wordpress.com/
HAHA. I used to have the “accidental” ombre look too, but that was when ombre was not in. I hate bad dye jobs. Just be patient, your hair will look fabulous soon. Your classmate is lucky to have a great ombre dye job. I’m scared, what if I screw up my hair?!?
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I love ombre. It’s a thumbs up for me. I believe that anyone will look good with ombre hair, even a troll. It all started in 7th grade……
I had gotten highlights because it was the thing to do + made your face pop a lot more. The thing was, everyone was doing the herbal essences home kit, the kind with the plastic brush, making proportional square inches in between every line (tacky I must say). That freaking look disgusted me, esp when I saw it on my beautiful friends’ heads. Then there were the girls that had the all-over color AND highlights. That style was incredible looking. Until it grew out. Looking like the pen ink ran out lol. I opted for highlights in random places, so I went to the hairstylist and told him to put them ‘all over the place’. He did. It looked herbal essences tacky to me the first few months. But low and behold, a few months later my hair grew out to a nice natural ombre.
….Yes that’s the way my cookie crumbles. From the point of it growing out for 3 years and cutting it off, I would purposely dye the ends of my hair first, splattering here and there of the middle and untouching the top. I am an ombre fiend. Current status: I opted for ombre (after not having it for 2-3 years). I missed it. Plus my all over color was looking fob tacky. I got my hair ombre’ed at my salon and the stylist (nice guy, bad eye) kind of effed it up. At first I thought it would darken, as it was to the point of burnt orange). It did not. Plus I’m in the sun 50% of the time so it made matters worse. I re-did it 2 times in the past month, intentions of evening out the tone. My hair, when pulled up, looks like one of those naked trolls’ hairstyles, orange toned, not to mention burnt the hell out of.
I still rest my case. I love ombre and believe anyone would look good with it. Just make sure you get it done right the first time…….we can’t all pull a Christina Aguilera (she chopped all her hair off and opted for wigs at one point, due to her hair being too damaged).
I thought you had ombre hair the last time I saw you, but I wasn’t too sure. I agree, Ombre looks good on (almost) everyone. Yikes! I hope your ombre hairstyle comes out better the next time. I’m so glad that didn’t scary you off.
HAHA, I love your stories. It’s so awesome. I still remember when I first met you and you were full of stories. I really digged it. I don’t know, I found it fascinating. Honestly, we could’ve talked all night, but we had some drinking to do! Soon, we will go out and relax.
I’m not too sure what I wanna do. I wanna do Ombre, but I always chicken out. I’m still leaning on the red situation, but I’m so indecisive that I don’t know what I’m going to do. UGH…so frustrating. GRRR. LOL
I see a lot of girls doing the red thing. The other night I was out with a bunch of my girlfriends and their friends, one was a hairstylist. She has the nicest jet black hair with a wing of red at the forehead. It’s so characteristic for her because she’s so fierce. I think the red brings out a hint of bad-ass in who-ever’s rocking it. In actuality, someone can have a bad haircut, horrible ombre, uneven highlights, even a toupe…but with the right rocking-of, can look enviable from anyone’s perspective. It’s all in the steez. DTP! hahaha
DTP status!!!! I kinda wanna do peekaboo highlights. Like have black hair on top and have hidden bright red underneath. I full of ideas, but no fall through. Story of my life! LOL.
lol jen don’t forget rumi neely! haha
Bad, Jen! How can I forget FashionToast. She has great style. I want to raid her clothes, even tho, I probably can’t fit any of her clothes. She has the prefect blend of Japanese and Dutch. So pretty. Makes me wanna hate her…nah, kidding! LOVE HER!!!!!
hahaa yea i wish i could do that ombre thing!
Why not, you could. I bet your mom would make you look so hot! You are so lucky to have a mom as a hairstylist. I would go nuts! “Mom, make my hair like that.”
I LOVE ombre! My hair’s too short right now, and I think I want to cut it again, so no ombre for me anytime soon!
Awe, that’s okay. Maybe you could do highlights. I think highlights on short hair is super duper cute. I wanna see your new haircut….when you get it done.