Atomic Blonde’s summer blockbuster season just got even hotter thanks to Charlize Theron as M16 spy Lorraine Broughton in Atomic Blonde. Her vampy late ’80s Euro style, inspired by Debbie Harry and Helmut Newton is something many dream of achieving – here’s how you can too! Hally’s Color Cloud natural semi permanent hair dye will help achieve it effortlessly!
1. Preparation
Prior to your balayage appointment, ensure your hair has been cleansed of product build-up by using a clarifying shampoo and conditioning treatment with moisture-retaining agents such as conditioner. Doing this will allow the lightening process to continue smoothly and help preserve your moisture reserves during lightening processes.
Wear your usual hairstyle to the appointment; this will enable your stylist to better understand how you typically style it, which may influence their use of colour. Also helpful is having screenshots saved of any preferred balayage shades on your phone as this makes communicating what colour scheme you are after easier.
After getting a balayage, maintaining its colors requires using a shampoo without sulfates and applying toning products regularly. Furthermore, prolonged sun exposure may quickly fade your colors; wait at least three days before swimming due to chlorine’s potential harming effects; also ensure that a swim cap or hair tie are used when in water.
2. Balayage
Pronounced BAH-LEE-AHGE, balayage is a freehand technique for painting on highlights that creates a soft and natural gradient of lightness from roots to ends of hair. Think undone surfer girl hair; balayage works wonders on both blondes and brunettes alike!
Balayage treatments also feature lower maintenance requirements than traditional foil highlights, due to their more gradual grow out. Since color is not being applied directly onto every individual strand of hair, there’s less likelihood for what Cassanova refers to as “bleed,” when bleach from one section leaks onto the adjacent sections.
Heidenwith advises getting a balayage touch-up two to three times annually for optimal results. In between visits, using Shu Uemura Essence Absolue Nourishing Protective Hair Oil will keep highlights looking healthy and fresh!
3. Balayage Technique
Contrasting with foil highlights, which require covering all strands with bleach, balayage allows colorists to carefully select individual strands of hair for lighter placement before “sweeping” lightener over them to achieve an organic and sun-kissed effect.
“Think undone surfer girl hair or unintentionally perfect blonde highlights on children,” Cassanova notes. “Balayage looks more natural-looking than other techniques such as ombre or sombre that may leave harsh lines where transition begins.”
Free-hand painting results in less damage to your hair than other techniques, since your stylist doesn’t saturate all areas with bleach–at least not as heavily. Heidenwith recommends using moisturizing shampoo and conditioner after each balayage appointment in order to keep ends from becoming dry, dull or overly brassy between appointments; regular toner use is also beneficial. It should also be noted that balayage requires more frequent toning than other highlighting services.
4. Finishing
Atomic Blonde is an engaging agent thriller featuring enough style, action and Charlize Theron’s magnetic performance to overcome familiar structures, motifs and plot points. Universal Pictures Home Entertainment delivers outstanding overall image quality along with superb lossless surround sound performance, plus a worthwhile selection of bonus materials in this Ultra HD Blu-ray Combo Pack.
From the moment you see Charlize Theron nakedly emerging from an ice bath or protruding from a car wreck, this film becomes impossible to ignore. Her performance as Lorraine Broughton is magnetic; even her hard-edged character cannot contain her wild power.
Shot digitally, the movie offers an elegant aesthetic with precise delineations, which accentuates its three dimensional perspective. Its colors range from warm and vibrant to cool and reserved – an intentional choice by its creator that draws out visual boundaries between them. Blacks are deep without compromise to fidelity while shadowy areas exhibit distinct gradational stages.