There’s a real trend happening in the hair world which involves naming hair colours after food. We’ve had brownie batter brunettes, butterscotch browns, pecan blondes and strawberry coppers.
Now we’re being introduced to the latest delicious colour trend: ‘mayonnaise’ blondes. Ok so mayo doesn’t sound as delicious as pecan or caramel, but it certainly looks good on the hair – just look to Kourtney Kardashian for proof of that fact.The 43 year old recently surprised us all when she decided to switch up her signature dark-haired look for a bleach-blonde shade.
However, unlike the cool, icy shade her sister Kim Kardashian tends to go for when she goes blonde, Kourt is leading a trend with the mayo tone.
So just what is a ‘mayo’ blonde? Emma Vickery, colourist at London’s Percy & Reed salon, explains: “You still need to have the same all-over scalp bleach that you would if you were going a platinum blonde, but then a ‘mayo’ tone is added with a toner.The toner is more balanced than what we’d use for a cool, ashy blonde – it’s balanced with some warmth.The result is a creamy, mayo-like shade that feels less stark than a platinum.” This exact tone is evident in a new snap of Kourt posted by her hairstylist, Dimitris Giannetos.The addition of a slightly darker root also makes the mum-of-three’s blonde slightly more lived in and slightly less harsh.
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