So many people don’t know the difference between ombre and tipping. They are very similar and it’s understandable why they wouldn’t know the difference. In alpha we learned creative color and found out what the difference really is.
With tipping, you divide the hair into six sections just like a haircut sectioning. You use your foiling comb and starting from the nape, you section out two 1/4 in sub sections and you drop those down. On the third section, you tease the tips so there is no distinct one when you apply color or enlightener. And you continue on with that two to one ratio.
With an ombre it is more than two colors on the hair. The beginning on the midshaft, what some would call roots, would be one color fading into another color in the middle of the hair shaft, then on the ends it would be another color. This is a technique that not everyone can do. They may not know how to tease in a way that it makes that blurred line.
I have been able to do this kind of style on a couple people and I am so thankful I have great teachers that have shown me how to get it to come out beautifully. When we learned, they did my hair, since I was bright blonde. It started out with this really pretty pinky-purple and faded into this gorgeous purple/grey color. I had this for awhile and had a lot of fun with it, until I had to cut my hair off because of it.
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