13 ways to dye your hair for a day

The need to dye your hair for one day can arise for various reasons. Some girls in this way show their individuality, get the opportunity to stand out from the crowd at a friendly party or a costume evening. Older women may feel the need to slightly change the color of their hair, hide gray hair, make the shade richer and brighter, if you need to attend a responsible event, and there is no time left to go to the hairdresser. Washable unstable paints are even used to paint the head of a child or adolescent when it is required to embody the image of a character, for example, to participate in a performance. Journalists conducted an analysis of the cosmetic market and found out how you can dye your hair for one day without harming your hair and causing any other complications. In the article you will find an overview of purchased and home remedies for dyeing curls for one or several days, as well as detailed instructions for the use of each drug.

Purchased products that will allow you to dye your curls for one day

To dye your hair for one day and wash off the pigments when you need to return the image to naturalness and everyday life, you can use the following purchased preparations:

1. Sprays – mainly such cosmetics are represented by a wide range of bright and acidic colors.

2. Gels, jellies, similar semi-liquid cosmetics – in the palette of such preparations, you can find both bright and bold shades, and pastel, natural options.

3. Special crayons, shadows and mascaras – these products are available in a variety of colors – from white to black, but most of them allow you to dye your hair in bright shades.

4. For short-term dyeing of curls, tint tonics are also suitable. But drugs in this group are designed to keep the color for one to two weeks. In order to be able to wash off the paint after one day, the tonic must be diluted with water in a 50/50 ratio before use, and the agent should be kept on the head for 5-10 minutes, not 30-40.

How to dye strands for one day with a spray – dyeing instructions

The tint spray is the easiest to use. For this you need:

1. Wash and dry curls without using any styling products.

2. Separate the strands that are to be dyed, fix the rest of the hair on the back of the head and wrap it with a scarf or towel.

3. Put on a cape over your shoulders to protect your clothing from the aerosol's volatile pigments.

4. Bring a can of paint to a distance of 10-15 centimeters from the strands to be painted, spray the product in an even layer, moving from top to bottom. If you only need to paint the ends, cover the main part of the curls with plastic wrap or a towel, spray paint where necessary.

5. Comb the strands that you have dyed with a flat comb with tightly spaced teeth, which will distribute the pigments evenly.

6. Let the pigments dry for 20-25 minutes.

7. After that, you can shape your hairstyle without fear that the paint will smear or crumble from the curls.

How to dye your hair for one day using gel or jelly – dyeing instructions

To tint your hair with a gel or jelly, you need to follow the instructions on the packaging of the cosmetic product. But usually, the way to use gel, jelly or colored wax is as follows:

1. Wash your hair with shampoo. Balms and conditioners are not recommended.

2. Dry the curls so that they are slightly damp. Some manufacturers indicate that after washing, the hair must be dried completely.

3. Squeeze a little gel or jelly into the palm of your hand, distribute the product over the strands that need to be shaded or over the entire hair.

4. Comb the hairs thoroughly, distributing pigments from roots to ends.

5. Dry your hair permanently with a hair dryer or naturally.

6. During the dyeing procedure, you must not forget about protecting your clothes from paint that can drip from your hair.

Handy tools with which you can dye your hair for one day

There are situations when you urgently need to dye your hair for one or several days, but there is no special paint at hand, or it has suddenly ended, and there is no money to buy a new tube. In such cases, you can use a variety of improvised tools, some of which can be found at your home or you can buy them quite inexpensively at the nearest store. You just need to take into account that it is not always possible to get bright, acidic shades. Most of the improvised preparations are designed to dye the strands in natural colors – brown, red, dark brown, dark blond and golden.

The result of such coloring depends in half on the initial color of the hair shafts. If the girl has black curls, the use of improvised means will not help her, since the pigments will simply not be noticeable on very dark hair. Women with chestnut curls of different shades of saturation can experiment with improvised preparations. But blondes, most likely, will be able to get the color they expect. In any case, before using traditional hair dyeing methods for one day, conduct preliminary testing – treat one strand, evaluate the result – how rich the shade was obtained, how long the pigments stay on the hair shafts, can they be washed off after one day.

How to dye your hair if there is no special paint at hand:

1. Natural ground coffee and henna will help to dye your hair for one day in the dark color of dark chocolate. You need to take two tablespoons of coffee and brew over low heat for 5-10 minutes. After the broth has cooled, you can add a small amount of henna powder – one or two teaspoons. Using a brush with a long handle, you need to coat the hair along the entire length or individual strands with liquid. If the curls are long, fix them on the back of the head with a hair clip, and then cover with plastic (bag, cling film) for 10-40 minutes. The longer you hold the dye composition on the hair, the richer the color will be, and the longer the dyeing result will last.

2. You can dye the strands dark with a mixture of coffee infusion and hair conditioner, which does not need to be washed off. To prepare the coloring mixture, pour boiling water (200 milliliters) over two tablespoons of ground coffee, let the liquid cool. Then add 200 milliliters of hair conditioner and two more tablespoons of coffee to it. Stir the mixture and apply to the strands in need of dyeing, spreading it over the entire length. Curls must be dry before toning. The mixture must be kept on the head under a plastic cap for 5 to 90 minutes – it all depends on how persistent the result should be. 5-10 minutes should be enough to dye the strands for one day, if kept for 1.5 hours, the effect can last for 1-2 weeks. After staining, rinse your head with warm water.

3. Oak bark will help you dye your hair a dark color or make your own chestnut strands more saturated. You need to take three tablespoons of crushed dried bark, pour one liter of boiling water. The liquid must be boiled over low heat for about 15 minutes, then cooled and filtered. Then you need to completely immerse the strands in the broth, pouring it over the head itself in order to moisten the area at the very roots. Then you need to wrap your head with plastic and a towel for 10 minutes. If you want to dye your hair for a longer period, you can withstand the 'compress' for 50-60 minutes. After that, you need to blot the hair with a towel, without rinsing it, dry it naturally or with a hair dryer.

4. You can dye your hair for one day in a red or reddish tint using natural tea and carrot juice, as well as a small amount of henna. You need to take three tablespoons of tea (preferably leaf, without any extraneous additives) and brew a cool tea leaves. When the broth has cooled to room temperature, it must be diluted with water so that the liquid becomes dark amber. Then add to the broth 100-150 milliliters of carrot juice, which you squeezed out with your own hands (purchased juice is not suitable for these purposes). If you add a few teaspoons of henna to the mixture, the shade of the dye will be brighter, but it will also stay on the hair for more than a day.

5. Spruce bark will help to paint the head in a dark brown shade. You need to take 200-300 grams of bark, pour 200-250 milliliters of water and cook over low heat for about 30 minutes. After that, the broth should be allowed to cool, cover the head with liquid, wait 5 minutes, then rinse with water. The longer the composition is kept on the hair, the darker it will become, and the longer the dyeing result will last.

6. To dye your hair light brown for one day, you can try using rhubarb and white wine. To do this, you need to take 300-400 grams of rhubarb, chop as finely as possible, dilute with high-quality white wine (the contents of one bottle). The mixture must be cooked over low heat, after boiling it is necessary to boil the liquid so that three quarters of the volume remains of it. Next, you need to cool the broth, strain through cheesecloth and apply to the hair with a cosmetic brush. Withstand 5-10 minutes, rinse the curls with the rest of the broth.

7. To dye the strands in a golden hue, you can use an aqueous infusion of medicinal chamomile with the addition of lemon juice and natural honey. After you apply the mixture to the strands and stand for 20-30 minutes, they need to be rinsed with warm water. If this is not done, the strands stick together due to the presence of honey in the improvised dye, which contributes to the adhesion of the hair shafts.

8. You can paint your head a dark color with walnuts, but they have such persistent pigments that they may not wash out at once. Therefore, if you want to restore the natural color of the hair in one day, soak the mixture on the curls for 5 minutes, instead of the 60 recommended in the recipe.

How to dye your hair with walnuts:

1. Take two tablespoons of chopped green (unripe) walnut peels and place in a blender or food processor bowl.

2. Add two tablespoons of alum.

3. Pour 150 milliliters of any vegetable oil into the mixture.

4. Grind and mix all ingredients into a homogeneous mass.

5. Transfer the mixture to a saucepan, add 100 ml of boiling water, boil for 10 minutes.

6. Give the mixture time to cool, strain, let it brew for 60 minutes.

7. Apply the mixture to strands requiring dyeing for one hour (or less).

8. Rinse off the mask with water and a little shampoo.

Stylists and hairdressers shared with the readers of our publication another way, with which you can dye your hair for one day in bright pink, blue, green, purple or any other color without using dye. In order to tint the strands, you can use two amateur methods – using colored corrugated paper and ordinary eye shadow.

How to dye your hair for a day using plain crepe paper

The dyeing technology with this method differs depending on the type of hair. But in any case, you will need such a set of accessories and auxiliary things:

1. Packaging of corrugated paper of the color you need.

2. A container with a capacity of 1.5-2 liters, preferably a bowl or saucepan.

3. Scissors.

4. Plain tap water.

5. Food foil.

Dyeing curls for a blonde is easier than for a brown-haired woman, since her hair shafts are highly susceptible to paint. The sequence of actions in this case is as follows:

1. Cut off a piece of paper about 10 centimeters wide from the roll. You can take more paper, then the shade of the hair will be brighter and more saturated.

2. We put the paper in a bowl, fill it with one liter of hot water. As the water cools, the paint passes from the paper to the liquid. When the water has cooled to room temperature, remove the paper, wring it out and discard.

3. Using a cosmetic brush, apply the liquid to the entire hair or to individual strands. You can get a more saturated shade if you completely lower the curls in the solution for 15 minutes.

This method is most advisable if you do not need to paint the entire hair, but only the ends of the strands. It is enough to bend over the bowl with the pigment solution, dip the ends of the hair into it and sit in this position for 10-15 minutes, then dry your head with a hairdryer, not rinsing the strands, but only slightly blotting them with a paper towel.

It will be more difficult for brown-haired women to dye their hair for one day using corrugated paper, they will need another technology for toning strands:

1. Soak half of the paper in hot water, cut the other half into pieces 7-10 centimeters wide and a length that matches the length of the curls.

2. When the liquid has cooled, you need to dampen your hair or place the strands directly in a bowl for 15 minutes. After that, you can do it in several ways:

3. Wrap wet strands in foil for 10 minutes.

4. Wrap the strands in dry corrugated paper, then in foil for 10 minutes.

5. Wrap the strands in dry corrugated paper, sprinkle with water from a spray bottle, then wrap in foil for 10 minutes.

6. If you want the shade of the curls to be more saturated, hold the paper on the strands longer, periodically unwrapping one of the 'compresses' and evaluating the result.

Life hack from specialists – to dye strands in different shades, use corrugated paper of 3-4 or more colors, placing it in different bowls and steaming separately.

How to dye strands for a day using regular eyeshadow

There is nothing easier than giving your hair a new shade using eyeshadow. It is especially important to use this method if you have cosmetics lying around in your clutch, the expiration date of which has expired, and it is not safe to use it for make-up. The texture of the eyeshadow can be any – from dry pressed or crumbly, to cream and gel. The last two options are the easiest to apply to the strands.

How to paint your hair for one day with eye shadow:

1. Comb the curls and separate those that are to be toned, hide the rest under the bandage. It is not necessary to wash your hair; dry shadows are especially well suited to moderately dirty strands.

2. Rub the pads of the thumb and forefinger with shadows, pinch the curl at the very base, slide your fingers, like an iron, through your hair from top to bottom. If you have a long hairstyle and only enough pigments to dye the top of the strands, dip your fingers into the cosmetic several times while treating one curl.

3. After you have dyed one strand, comb it with a male flat comb to distribute the dye evenly over the entire length of the hair shafts. Then start processing the next strands.

4. If, after dyeing, sprinkle hair with varnish, the pigments will not crumble and hold out on the curls throughout the day.

In order to make the color of the shadows more saturated and facilitate the coloring of the strands, you can apply the following method:

1. Place eyeshadow in any shallow container, crush into powder with a teaspoon or other object.

2. Dilute the powder with a little water to form a colored thick liquid.

3. Apply the color to the hair shafts using a cosmetic brush. If you don't have a cosmetic brush at hand, you can use a clean painting tool with a bristle width of 1-2 cm.

4. After that, the strands must be allowed time to dry, and then the result must be fixed with hairspray.

Benefits of products that allow you to dye curls for one day

To dye your hair for one day, dyes based on substances that violate the structure of the hair shafts are never used. This means that there will be no ammonia or its analogues in the preparation. This method of short-term changes in appearance has many advantages:

1. To dye your head for one day, cosmetics are used with the safest, most gentle composition. Such dyes do not harm either the hair shafts, or the hair follicles, or the scalp. Some cosmetics, in addition to pigments, also contain nutritional components. Therefore, their use allows you to maintain the health and beauty of the hair. Accordingly, there are practically no contraindications for the use of unstable paints. If you are not allergic to the composition of the drug or diseases of the scalp, you can safely apply cosmetics. How can you quickly make sure you are not allergic to scalp irritation or rashes? Apply the paint first to the skin on the inside of the elbow or on the wrist. Wait 15-20 minutes. If during this time the condition of the skin does not change for the worse, then the composition of the paint is safe for you.

2. You don't have to go to a beauty salon or hairdresser to color your head for one day, as using washable paints does not require any qualifications or a lot of experience. This means that you can paint yourself, at home, without spending money on the services of a master. And the cost of the dyes themselves is not high, especially when compared with the prices of preparations for permanent hair dyeing. And if you use improvised means, the cost of the staining procedure will generally be 'penny'.

3. It will take a minimum of time to dye curls for one day. Even if you only have 30-40 minutes to change the color of your hair, you can easily do it if you have paint and all the necessary additional accessories at hand.

4. It is possible to use unstable rinse off preparations not only to dye your hair for one day for a specific purpose. But also in order to experiment with shades without any consequences, because you can wash off the paint and return to a natural look at any time.

5. Using purchased or available products, you can dye your hair of any type. Even if you have very dry or oily curls, you can easily change their color for one day.

6. Using unstable cosmetics, you can dye the entire hair for one day or change the color of individual strands.

7. You can dye your hair for one day in almost any color. This means that you can choose from a wide range of natural, vibrant and even acidic shades that will change the color of your curls slightly or radically change your appearance for a short period of time.

8. To dye your hair, you can use preparations that are different in release form and consistency, as well as in the method of application. These can be liquid shampoos or toners, sprays and crayons, mascaras and tinted powders.

Difficulties you may face if you decide to dye the strands on your head for one day

Those wishing to change their hair color for a short period of time using unstable dyes may face some difficulties. You need to know about them in advance so that their occurrence does not become an unpleasant surprise at the most crucial moment:

1. It can be difficult for you to dye your hair completely changing the shade if the natural color of the hair shafts is too dark. The fact is that the overlapping ability of pigments may be insufficient to qualitatively tint black or dark chestnut strands. In this case, the natural hair color will seem to 'see through' through the layer of paint. The same applies to gray curls – they are also difficult to tint. Moreover, if the strands are light enough, then dyeing them will not be difficult.

2. Some drugs that are used to color the hair (tonics, shampoos), at the same time, color the scalp, as well as the skin of the forehead at the hairline growth line. Therefore, before starting the procedure, you need to take precautions. You can cover the skin of the forehead with a thick layer of fatty cream, for example, baby. And also protect the skin with a thick bandage, which will prevent the ingress of pigments on areas that cannot be painted over. It is difficult to protect the scalp from toning, but you can try to clean it of pigments by rinsing your hair after dyeing.

3. Some products, for example, mascara, crayon or spray, are not intended to dye the entire hair. This can of course be done, but the process will take a long time and the pigment layer will be uneven. Preparations of this type also have a tendency to crumble, therefore, expecting to dye the strands for one day, you may get a less lasting result.

4. Some drugs that are used to dye hair for one day can stain clothes, underwear, everything that the hair comes in contact with.

5. If you have discolored curls and expect to dye them for just one day, the result may be more permanent than required. The fact is that hair that has been exposed to hydrogen peroxide or other bleaching agents has a too porous structure. Hair shafts are too susceptible to the action of pigments, which, instead of creating a colored film on the surface, are absorbed into the deep layers of tissue. And it can be quite difficult to wash the paint completely.