These days everyone follows trends of fashion industry, be it styling our self or styling our hair. Not only your face attracts people, even the healthy hair attracts too.
Many people love to try trending hair styles and hair colors. The most exciting thing is hair toning where many people love to try and experiment on them.
What Is Hair Toner:
Hair toner is used to remove all orange and yellow tones form your hair. Toners are especially used by people who often color their hair like platinum, gray or blue.
How Does A Toner Remove Unwanted Warm Tones?
People are blessed with different types of hair. Some have thick hair and some have thin, the people with dark hair tend to have warm natural pigments and the people with light hair have warm yellow tones with the regular use of chemical filled shampoos.
A toner is helpful in removing all these pigments by using cooling tones to the end of the color spectrum to neutralize the warmth.
When Should You Apply Hair Toner?
You can apply this hair toner, whenever your hair starts fading the color or right immediately after bleaching your hair. Make sure to apply semi permanent hair color before toning your hair.
Instead of going for salons that put hole to your pocket opt for home made hair toner which is actually more beneficial. Make sure to select right toner for your hair.
Below are some of the hair toners that can be easily done by sitting at your home.
How To Make Hair Toner At Home:
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Baking Soda Shampoo:
Baking soda is also called as sodium bicarbonate which can actually do wonders to your hair. When it is mixed with food color, it works to eliminate the accumulation of minerals, at the same time it neutralizes natural warm tones present in the hair.
What You Need:
Little amount of sulphate free shampoo
One table spoon of baking soda
2 drops of blue food color
2 drops of purple food color
What You Need To Do:
- Take a bowl and combine all the above ingredients by adding little amount of water.
- After rinsing your hair with water, rinse your hair with this mixture and let it remain for more than 5 minutes.
- Follow with water and then conditioner. You can also add food color to the conditioner too for extra shine to your hair.
Make sure not to apply this more than once in a week, overusing this shampoo might result in dry hair.
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Lemon For Hair Toning:
Lemon contains excellent properties that tone your hair completely. The citric acid and vitamin C in lemons when combined with honey acts as bleaching agent will tone your hair for at least for couple of lighter shades.
What You Need:
¾ cup of water
¼ cup of lemon juice
2 table spoons of honey
One spray bottle
What You Need To Do:
- Pour all ingredients in a spray bottle and mix it well.
- Now spray this mixture to your hair and let it remain for 2 hours.
- You should spend 30 minutes of these 2 hours in sun. Rinse it off with sulphate free shampoo followed by conditioner.
- Make sure, you do not apply this mixture on your scalp and repeat this process only 3 times in a month.
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Apple Cider Vinegar Rinse:
Apple cider vinegar contains acetic acid that helps to tone your hair and remove all yellow and orange tones. It also helps to remove all dead skin cells on your scalp and cleanse it to remove protect buildup.
What You Need:
4 table spoons of apple cider vinegar
2 tablespoon of water
What You Need To Do:
- Mix apple cider vinegar with water and pour it on your hair and leave it for 15 minutes.
- Rinse your hair with lukewarm water or cold water.
- Do not follow this process for more than 3 times in a month.
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Black Tea Toner:
Black tea contains numerous essential properties that protect your hair to be healthy. Drinking or using black tea will tone your hair.
What You Need:
4-5 black tea bags or pouches
One cup of water
What You Need To Do:
- Boil the water with the tea bags until the mixture turns out dark brown color.
- Let it cool down and apply this mixture to your hair and let it remain for more than 40 minutes.
- Once you feel your hair is dry, then rinse your hair with cool water.
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Hair Dye Toner:
You can also tone your hair easily with hair dye. If you have bleached your hair recently and the outcome has not satisfied you, then try this for positive results.
What You Need:
Semi permanent hair dye
Conditioner
What You Need To Do:
- Pour handful of conditioner and add little amount of semi permanent hair dye in it. Mix both ingredients well.
- Apply it over the entire length of your hair and let it remain for 15-20 minutes for desired results on your hair.
Why Opt For Homemade Hair Toner Solutions?
All home made hair toning solutions are sulfate free and the major reason is light yellow tones are very easy to remove in our home. No need to waste lots of money in salons to remove them. You can also switch to sulfate free shampoos will help to keep warm tones out of your hair.