Summer is just around the corner and with it comes new trends in hair colouring. This summer, blonde tones promise to be the star of the show, with a variety of shades to suit all tastes and styles. From platinum to darkest platinum, as well as highlights ranging from warm to metallic, there are many shades of blonde and each option offers a way to brighten hair and refresh the look for the hottest season of the year.

David Lesur, training director at both salons, David Künzle, tells us which ones to opt for and how to care for this shade now in summer. “Blonde is not for everyone. To make a woman look good with this colour, I aim for an overall view through a set of steps, starting with the haircut (fundamental), then the colour and finally the hairstyle, combined with the appropriate make-up and style of dress” – David Lesur points out.

Wide variety of shades

My favourites are gold, wheat and ash blonde: “I always recommend and practice the Californian highlights technique, as they perfectly reproduce a crescendo of colour just as the sun and sea do naturally when we are on holiday at the beach, starting with a darker root that gets lighter as it reaches the ends. Also babylights, very subtle for those who choose to change colour in a gradual and discreet way. These are two techniques that don’t damage the hair and require little maintenance and care”.

One shade to try is mushroom, which can be done with the babylights technique or combined with balayage in cool tones, achieving a colour somewhere between ash blonde and brown with sharp contrasts that add dimension and depth to the hair.

Other blondes to try this summer are sandy, which simulates the sand of the sea and is perfect for women with fair or very fair complexions, baby, which will bring us back to our adolescence through lightened strands in the areas of the hair that provide more luminosity.

Chai, which is a kind of beige in cream tones that is extremely flattering, or one of the trends that has been sweeping New York for years, or dirty, which consists of creating very blurred, soft and warm highlights with a more natural effect. Here, the colours literally blend or get dirty.

Caring for it is simple if we know how to do it

Blonde hair is more fragile than other colours if it is dyed, because we are talking about a process that involves bleaching and that weakens and sensitizes the hair, so it is essential to care for it and nourish it more than natural hair: “There is a long list of products to keep it healthy with all its colour and shine, even with violet pigments to counteract yellowish or blue highlights for orange ones. In any case, I recommend nourishing it every time you wash it with conditioner and at least once a week, give it a deep, repairing treatment with a hair fibre mask.

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