Winter's chill doesn't have to mean dull hair. In our latest episode, we discuss how to add life to silver hair with sophisticated lowlights, reveal the secrets to radiant chocolate and caramel balayage, and discuss giving auburn hair a vibrant touch with caramel highlights. And for those who love their chestnut brown, we talk about infusing it with subtle blonde highlights for a youthful but not overdone, look. Plus, you'll get the scoop on maintaining color-treated hair with sulfate-free products and discover why less frequent washing and weekly deep conditioning are your best allies against winter dryness.
Join our heartwarming conversation as we redefine what it means to age beautifully. From skincare to makeup and lifestyle choices, we share insights and stories that celebrate our journey beyond 50. I encourage you to be part of our growing community by sharing your own experiences, whether they're full of unexpected twists or inspiring successes. And for those who've been considering sharing their story with a wider audience, find out how you can become a guest on our show. Your subscription, ratings, and feedback keep this show thriving, and there's even more awaiting you on our YouTube channel to enhance your style and radiance. So tune in, and let's embrace this season of life with grace and flair.
Winter's chill doesn't have to mean dull hair. In our latest episode, we discuss how to add life to silver hair with sophisticated lowlights, reveal the secrets to radiant chocolate and caramel balayage, and discuss giving auburn hair a vibrant touch with caramel highlights. And for those who love their chestnut brown, we talk about infusing it with subtle blonde highlights for a youthful but not overdone, look. Plus, you'll get the scoop on maintaining color-treated hair with sulfate-free products and discover why less frequent washing and weekly deep conditioning are your best allies against winter dryness.
Join our heartwarming conversation as we redefine what it means to age beautifully. From skincare to makeup and lifestyle choices, we share insights and stories that celebrate our journey beyond 50. I encourage you to be part of our growing community by sharing your own experiences, whether they're full of unexpected twists or inspiring successes. And for those who've been considering sharing their story with a wider audience, find out how you can become a guest on our show. Your subscription, ratings, and feedback keep this show thriving, and there's even more awaiting you on our YouTube channel to enhance your style and radiance. So tune in, and let's embrace this season of life with grace and flair.
It's wintertime. We need to change our hair right. Welcome to Beauty Beyond 50, where we explore beauty, style and confidence for fabulous women beyond 50. I'm your host, denise Kylitz, and if you've ever walked by a mirror and wondered who that reflection belongs to, well, you were in the right place. As women over 50, our insides still feel like we're in our 20s, but our outside tells a different story. I'm in my late 50s and things are changing. My memory is not as sharp, my tummy is not as flat, and don't get me started about those hairs that seem to grow overnight In my three decades in the beauty industry, the best moments are when someone like you comes in seeking advice on looking and feeling more confident.
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So I asked myself why stop doing what I love? That's why I'm here, sharing my 30 years of knowledge. Let's form a community where we can talk about midlife nuances, from hair care to lifestyle choices. Stay tuned for enlightening conversations, expert interviews and lots of laughter. Remember to subscribe, rate and share your feedback. Here's to embracing beauty beyond 50. Let's do this together, alright.
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So now I know it's probably snowy, icy where you're at. I know it's really cold where I'm at. So what are we supposed to do. Let's play with our hair, shall we? So I want to talk to you about what are some of the popular hair colors in the wintertime for women over 50. Alright, let's start with silver hair with low lights. Yeah, what is that? It is when you take your gray beautiful hair and you ask your stylist to put low lights throughout. This will deepen the contrast in your hair and it will give you a sense of depth, if you will, and plus, it adds a lot of shine. So how do they actually weave the darker gray into your hair? They could either use highlights with foils or they can actually paint it on there as well with a technique called Bolliage. That's really used a lot lately in the salons. A lot of younger stylists prefer to use that method.
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Alright, what's another color that you might be thinking? Maybe you've got brown hair, chocolate with Caramel Bolliage. I tell you, that is beautiful. You take a deep chocolate color, kind of think like a Hershey's chocolate bar. That could be the color of your roots, and then you have your stylist paint on caramel highlights or Caramel Bolliage on the ends. It is a beautiful combination. It's going to give you that depth. It's going to give you that shine it's going to give you that spice, if you will, that you need when you're feeling kind of gloomy on the inside.
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Alright, what about you redheads? Yeah, I'm talking to you. Auburn hair with Caramel highlights. Okay, hear me out on this.
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You take your Auburn hair and you Bolliage just a few highlights, especially around the face, the face framing. All it does is it gives that dimension that you're looking for, that spark that you're looking for. You know, we're inside, we're reading our books, we're cooking, we're trying to stay motivated. We need that extra sparkle, do we not? I think so. Now let's talk to you women that have that chestnut brown hair, but you don't want it too dark. How about me? How about me Don't want to be blonde, I just need some dimensional blonde highlights. So what you do is you take your base of your brown and it could be a chestnut brown, it can be a medium brown and you just play strategic highlights throughout. And those are blonde highlights, not Caramel Blonde highlights. They could be very, very fine highlights. They could be chunky highlights, because that's really making a big comeback. But ugh, try not to make them too chunky. It's very aging. We want to stay youthful, don't we? So I would say, just soften it up around your face, some face framing and you should be good to go.
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Let's talk about how to take care of your color-treated hair. The winter time poses its own problems. The air is drier in the house, our skin's drier and guess what? Our hair is drier too. So you want to make sure that you're using color protection for your hair. That means you want to make sure you're using shampoo that doesn't contain any sulfates in it. You don't want any kind of stripping product in your shampoo and you want to make sure that your shampoo and your conditioner says safe for color-treated hair. Okay, some of the dandruff shampoos that are out there I know we're all combating dry scalp, so we're using our dandruff shampoos. Most of those are not safe for color-treated hair, so just be careful with that, okay.
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Another thing you wanted to is limit your how often you're washing your hair. Really, really try to go two to three days. Okay, you're just going to extend your color longer, because every time that you shampoo your hair, especially with warm water, you're opening that cuticle up. You're losing those color molecules that were deposited in there, so your hair's going to turn brassy. You're going to need a toner a lot more frequent, probably in like two or three weeks. So my advice would be to use lukewarm water and, if you can, cool water most of us can't do that, I can't do that, so ugh.
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Another thing that I would do is weekly mask treatments deep conditioning for your hair. Again, your skin is drier in the wintertime. You've got the heaters going. Your hair is going to be drier. You really need those weekly masks to help support that moisture retention for your hair. And, along with avoiding the hot water when you're shampooing your hair, you want to avoid hot water period and hot styling tools. So if you can let your hair air dry, that's even better.
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But if you are using hot styling tools, please, please, please, use heat protection. I don't care what brand. Every brand has heat protection out there. It's a spray that you spray on dry hair before you put that curling iron in or that flat iron on there, okay. Also, you might not have thought about this, but make sure you're still using your UV protection on your hair in the wintertime. If you're getting out there for a walk hopefully you are, because exercise is king If you're getting out there for your daily walks, make sure you're spraying UV protection on your hair as well if you want your color to last. You'll thank me.
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Also, it is so important to get your regular maintenance done for your hair color. Okay, get those touch-ups done. I know the older we get, those grays just seem to be persistent and they just keep popping up. When we used to go six weeks for our touch-ups, now it's maybe four, sometimes three weeks in between touch-ups. I hear you, I'm one of those too. So just make sure that you're getting your touch-ups. That way, too, your stylist can adjust your toner on the end, so your color will always stay fresh. Look fresh. Okay, ask your stylist too, maybe about a mini touch-up. We used to offer these in this salon, where they just do the T-zone like what we'd call. It is a T, meaning around your face and down your part line. That would get you through and stretch your money. Your stylist might offer it. They might not. I don't know. It's worth asking. The worst they could say is no right, all right, this might not be a concern of yours, but it might be.
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Avoid chlorine and salt water. If you're a swimmer, if you're getting to the YMCA, if you're getting to the gym and you're swimming for exercise, that warm water. It feels good. Just make sure you put on a swim cap. Keep the chlorine out of your hair. If you're hopping into the jacuzzi ooh, I wish I had a jacuzzi Just keep the chlorine out of your hair.
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Another really good tip to do is put a deep conditioner all over your hair before you put your swim cap on. That'll actually protect it even more. It's almost like sealing it before you put that cap on, and so it's almost like a sponge, right? A wet sponge can't soak up any more water, but a dry sponge is just right. Also, be really gentle when you're styling your hair. Use wide-toothed combs in the shower with your conditioner on already. You just want to minimize breakage.
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Remember your hair is dry. It's a stressful time for your hair. Also, one thing, the last thing, it's the most important thing Make sure you're getting drinking your water. Make sure you're eating a balanced diet. Everything that goes through your body comes out in your hair and your nails and your skin and your smile and how you feel. All that good stuff, right?
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Well, let me just say that wintertime could be a fabulous time to play with your hair, to play with the canvas that is your hair. You can really try things that you might not try in the summertime, because I know a lot of my friends. They sometimes don't even get their hair colored in the summertime because they're outside all the time, they're in baseball caps, they're sweating all the time or they're at the beach. So they think why should I go get a toner or get my hair colored? Because it's going to be whipped around by the sun? I totally get it, totally get it. But so wintertime might be your time to shine. And just remember, take care of your hair, have fun with your hair.
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I just encourage you to take this season and embrace it and have fun with it. Be bold, be beautiful. Transition your hair into something maybe you didn't even think was possible. Deepen a little bit, add dimension, have fun. I hope this winter season treats you well. Share this with anybody that you think might enjoy it.
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