If summer has got you itching to make a hair change, consider a DIY cocktail hair colour, says editor Trudi Brewer who shares her favourite on-trend blonde shades, you can create at home.
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Lockdown taught us how to colour our hair at home, so now you’re are confident, it’s time to have some fun. Colour cocktails are the fastest way to add radiance to your hair colour, blend the grey and boost shine.
Here are the on-trend blondes we are coveting right now.
Butter Cream Blonde
To achieve a creamy blonde your natural hair colour needs to be a dark blonde to light brunette to start. This shade flatters a cool skin tone, and this cocktail will give your hair a sun-kissed vibe.
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The MYHD colour cocktail recipe
Mix half a tube of MYHD 8.2 Light Beige Blonde and half a tube of MYHD 9 Very Light Blonde, together with 30 Volume Developer, if you want the same depth as your natural base shade. Or use 40 Volume Developer to take your natural colour two shades lighter.
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The MYHD colour cocktail recipe
Mix half a tube of MYHD 8.2 Light Beige Blonde with half a tube of MYHD 9 Very Light Blonde, with either 30 Volume Developer, if you want the same depth with a peach overtone. Or use 40 Volume Developer if your natural hair colour needs lightening two shades.
Peach Blonde
On-trend and uber-pretty this light copper blonde gives naturally light hair instant radiance. Flattering on a warm skin tone, this pretty titan shade works best if your hair is a light to medium blonde naturally.
Salted Caramel Blonde
Bring the warmth and sparkle back into a mouse-brown hair colour with this delicious shades. This colour is ideally suited to those with a warm skin tone, and hazel or brown-coloured eyes.
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The MYHD colour cocktail recipe
Use half a tube of MYHD 7.53 Chocolate Blonde and half a tube of MYHD 8 Light Blonde with 30 Volume Developer if you want the same depth as your natural base shade. Or use 40 Volume Developer to lift your natural hair colour by two shades.
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The MYHD colour cocktail recipe
Mix half a tube of MYHD 7 Medium Blonde and half a tube of 7.3 MYDH Golden Blonde with 20 Volume Developer if you want the same depth as your natural base shade. Or use 30 Volume Developer to take your natural hair colour two shades lighter.
Hazelnut Blonde
To give your naturally mid-blonde-coloured hair a cool overtone, or to eliminate that brassy post-summer look, or to cover those stubborn grey strands this nutty shade is super flattering on warm skin tones.
MYHD Colour Cocktail l Hazelnut Blonde
My Hairdresser Colour Cocktails, $43, (save 10% buying two tubes of colour together instead of separately and are available exclusively from Beauty Garage the MYHD developer is sold separately.