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1.WHAT IS OMBRE?

For hair colour technicians, Ombre was the start of thinking outside

the box “How can I create that bleach grown out look?” A regrowth
of three to four months seemed to be what the hair colour technicians
were looking to recreate. Why three to four months regrowth? This
amount of regrowth was especially appealing because of the tri colour
effect caused by the newest growth from the scalp (three quarters of
an inch yet to have Keratinised so one shade lighter (roots) than the
next two and a half inches of Keratinised hair (middle lengths) which
becomes one shade darker after Keratinisation). Finally the rest of
the hair is the highly bleached hair that has grown out from a full

head bleach.

Hair colour technicians began to create this tri colour look on
virgin heads using varied root and middle length colours to blend with
varying blonde ends. This technique is now known as OMBRE.