The Ombré hair trend trend has been raging like an angry bull. Not too sure what Ombré hair is? Well, imagine a piece of tie dye/dip dye. You know, a fabric or garment that has been hand dyed (or in many cases, just printed to look like it has been hand dyed) to look like the colour fades in hue graduation.
Now, the hair powers that be, have deemed it such that hair can be dyed in the similar manner as it were. To make it look like it is fading in gradually colour, with the lightest area being at the tips and the darkest at the roots.
As the images in the collage above suggest, I like to refer to this hair trend as the the ‘ever so cleverly faded in over due dark roots look’.
I first spotted the trend in 2009 but then it was most grungey chic girls with a laid back downtown style.
This summer, the trend has been adopted everyone and it has a slicker, more glam, fifth avenue princess, polished finish to it. Case in point has to be Gossip Girl, Leighton Meester who has been spotted this summer with polished retro styled Ombré hair.
Everyone from Rihanna, model Lily Aldridge, Lady Gaga rocked it when she died her hair yellow, Carmen to Alexa Chung (who has employed it into her granny chic look and gave her short bob the Ombré fade) has been working the Ombré hair trend.
It has been spotted on many a catwalk in the last few seasons and one such show was the Moschino Cheap and Chic.
Hairstylists say it is the look everyone is asking for this summer. They claim that the pro’s are that it looks like an efforless, less noticeable dye job. They also say it takes years off one’s look with it’s seemingly beachy, sunstreaked effect.
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I’ll pass on this.
oh, rather by accident my hair is spot on with its too yellow-ish highlights which still shine through even though the hair stylist tried to dye them darker. so your post is really good news
i like this on some of these girls. like alexa and rachel.
and i do like blonde hair where the roots are darker.. but when the hair is black and the roots lighter- as shall we say blonde.. ohhh noo.. that is a bad idea.. dont you think. it looks like bold patches.. but i wouldnt be surprised to see someone making that work too..
wish you a happy weekend love
xxx
I really love the look of this ‘do’, I think I kinda have it too, I haven’t had my hair dyed for a good few months
I like that it looks really natural and effortless.yum.
Yea! I’m trendy! Who knew?
Well, I’ve actually just moved to Venice Beach and it’s everywhere … sort of a surfer/punk/downtown/beach thing. I love it on guys with long hair who just look so, umm, delicious. But this is a sort of feckless place with money standing in line with barflys and the fingers of Kerouac and Gene Shacove would be welcome.
London is a town, a proper town with establishment. It would be so outre there, like the seasons of fringed boots or bags. Here, certainly; but there, sigh, I hope not. The English beauties have such good hair and this sort of California stunned in the sun works here, really; not there, no.
I totally love it
have a fab weekend, darling Marian.
xoxo
i have to say, i’m intrigued with the look and want to ‘rachel bilson’ my hair!! i think the look is very 70′s california babe.
xo s!!
I think that it can be interesting if well done.
Hope you’re having a gorgeous weekend like you, my dear.
xoxo
I love ombre hair! I definitely have this trend going on, on my hair right now. Haven’t colored my hair in over 6 months. Wishing mine was more noticeable in my pictures.
love them… but unfortunately they’re not for me since I’ve just got back to dark red after years of extreme bleaching and crazy coloring my hair!
wish you a lovely Sunday dear!
As long as it doesn’t look like Amanda from Merose place…