Purple hair color for grandmothers. Why grandmothers dye their hair purple

Every year there are fewer and fewer grandmothers with purple hair, but still occasionally they can still be found on the street. We decided to find out why they do it. Maybe they decided to become, or were they just persuaded by the grandchildren?

As users of the portal The Question explain, gray hair is not always a pleasant shade of gray, but sometimes yellow. This is why grandmothers use purple dye toners or shampoos to remove this yellow pigment.

Most often these are cheap tonics that I overexposed a little, and it gave a wonderful violet color to my hair. Moreover, paint fits well on gray hair. But in general, this shade is quickly washed off.

And you can also find fair-haired girls who have purple-tinged hair. Believe me, they hardly wanted such a fate, they just deduced the yellowness.

True, there is another option that, with age, often pulls on bright hair colors. As my mom says, "to distract attention from the face." Perhaps one of the grandmothers realizes that if you overexpose the shampoo, you will be purple, and they like it. If I’m 70, I’ll be sure to paint myself green or maybe even purple. The color of your favorite violets. Why not?

This is not a violet paint color. Previously, there were two cheap paints in the public domain - henna and basma. So on gray, white hair, it is basma that gives purple and blue shades. To avoid this, you need to mix it with henna, and not apply it separately. Then there will be a color close to black, chestnut (depending on the proportion). But apparently not all grandmothers know this ...

Gray hair has some peculiarities when dyeing, in particular, the pigment of the paint does not lay down exactly as it would on non-gray hair. On the basis of purple, many many shades of paints and tint shampoos and toners are mixed, for more saturated shades of dark or for ashy light. For the most part, old birds do not take into account the peculiarities of coloring of gray hair and use paints that are not intended for it, and that's what it turns out.

The love of grandmothers for this shocking color can be explained by several reasons. Firstly, purple was a very fashionable hair color during their youth: in the late 70s and 80s, everyone literally went crazy for this shade. Technically, it was not easy to achieve such a color in those days: there were no special paints, so fair-haired women of fashion painted their curls with ink and carbon paper. Now, when you can go to the store and choose any shade, getting purple paint is a snap. In addition, grandmothers usually do not follow the changing trends, they live by the beauty standards of their youth. This is probably why it seems to them that purple is still considered relevant. In addition, with age, women generally begin to prefer brighter and more noticeable shades: red, red, purple.

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I suppose that they take a dye cheaper and it looks so strange on gray hair. And about purple, many women used to paint with ink, and cheap - and angry, and not gray hair is not so striking. On the contrary, even playfulness is obtained.

I haven't seen the purple-haired grandmothers in a while. It seems to me that they dye that way because they don't want to go around with gray hair. They think they are prettier this way.

Young girls paint in green, pink, bright orange. And when they become grandmothers, they choose lilac and purple. This is a continuation of what we started in our youth. Note that not all grandmothers are purple.

I don't really care how grandmothers paint. If they like to walk with blue or orange hair, then good health. People have lived their lives. I don't think they care what young people think of them. I suppose that they also find in young girls and women a lot of things that you can laugh at.
I do not like to discuss appearance. I think this is redneck.

Everything is simple here. There is such a remedy for hair, called tonic, shades of ashy blond in a tube have a purple tone, babulences are painted with tonic, forgetting that overexposure of the product for more than five minutes gives a gray tint on gray and heavily blinded hair. So such funny Malvins turn out.

I don't understand this fashion, I often notice grandmothers with nuclear hair color. Mine paints with henna, it turns out fine, brownish. We must ask such a granny why?

One of the regular visitors to the virtual portal Pikabu, who is registered under the nickname backupcat, is very fond of dyeing her hair. She also gave specific explanations why there are so many women in the Russian Federation who have purple hair.

“Few people know that grannies get a lilac color, not because they really want it, but because they do not know the basic rules and basics of coloring. Of course, there are those who do it on purpose, however, there are much fewer of them, "- this is how the user argues the situation under the pseudonym backupcat.

The fact is that women who are already at an age naturally want to paint over their gray hair. Therefore, they make a choice in favor of light paint from the mass market. But old women do not take into account the fact that gray hair does not contain pigment. Therefore, paint that has a lot of blue or purple in it can lay down at the highest intensity, more than necessary.

“This dye is not needed to paint over gray hair, but to lighten dark strands. As a result, it turns out that dark hair is simply lightened into a yellowish-dirty shade, which can hardly be called blond, except that the level of lightening is a bit similar. In order for this yellow horror to become a blonde shade, it is necessary to bring it to a neutral state, tinted with a different color. Just for yellow, this is the lilac hue, therefore, here the purple pigment is added, "- all this explains the author of the post.

But after all this is painted with gray hair, yellowness does not appear, but purple, which should overlap it, appears and firmly adheres to the hair.

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1. Why do grandmothers dye their hair purple?

They don't really paint. Rather, they do not do it on purpose. It's all about the structure of the hair and the peculiarities of coloring. Older women most often choose blond for coloring, because, according to their logic, it is more convenient to mask gray hair with this color. But most often, unknowingly, older ladies do not buy paint, but a clarifier.

In general, dark hair is lightened in a dirty yellow color, and in order for it to become blond, it needs to be neutralized - tinted with the opposite color. For yellow, this "antagonist" is just purple, so this pigment is added to clarifiers.

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