Blonde and Black Hair Color Ideas

A high contrast two tone hair color can turn you into a modern day diva, so take your cue from the following blonde and black/brown hair color ideas and revamp your look in a totally unique manner!

In a year dominated by solid shades, a multi-tonal hair color can generate a heavy dose of excitement, so dare to be different and play with your fave blonde and black hair color tones as there are numerous ideas generated by the vast color palette and the innovative hair coloring techniques available. Contrasting shades such as blonde and black or blonde and brown hair color combos can transform your look in an instant and infuse a high dose of fierceness in your style, so regardless of your haircut, you can find the hair color style to revamp your look and make it fiercer and up-to-date.

Now, a statement hair color doesn't mean it has to lack femininity, in fact this innovative dual tone hair color has a high dose of femininity attached. It all depends on the way you choose to layer the blonde or the black on your tresses. For example, dip dye hair color styles have a certain vintage chicness attached that makes heads turn, peek-a-boo panels of color have a certain futuristic allure while blonde hair with black underneath / black hair with blonde underneath looks a bit more mysterious.

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The honeys that want to achieve an edgy but elegant hairstyle can turn towards lovely highlights and lowlights to upgrade the glam factor of their tresses. If you're looking for a glam punk look, opt for platinum blonde locks mixed with peek-a-boo black highlights, but if you want something with less drama, darker blonde tones that topped the charts this year are a perfect option to mix in with panels of dark color.
These streaks of color work wonders with long hair as well as shorter crops and look fantastic when worn with plenty of disheveled texture that puts into value the lovely multi tonal coloration!

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The ladies sporting chic shorties with or without the statement undercut style can definitely accentuate their fab crop using a multi-tonal hair color, so dare to push the limit with your style and enhance the edgy, sharp lines of your haircut using chunks of color. If you have an undercut, color the short hairs darker and keep the long length a rich blonde. If you're looking for a bolder look, you can inverse the shades as either way your trendy crop will stand out from the crowd.

For the girly-girls, a stylish dip-dye hair color or color blocking blonde/black locks pose as the safest approach to a statement style that is unique, bold yet feminine. You can color the ends of your locks, half of your hair, a part in one color and the other into another shade or you can color just the hair strands that caress your cheeks as the color combo options are vast, so get creative with your hair color and let your imagination and boldness push you into the spotlight!

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Rihanna Tweets New Black Hair Color & Style

It seems that Rihanna is making sure she's maintaining her hair icon status by going under another complete HAIR-over! The diva also revealed a new haircut, an undercut which she proudly flaunted on Twitter for all her fans to see, so check our Riri's new hairstyle!

It seems that Rihanna has been inspired once again when it comes to her look as she has switched her new blonde locks in favor of a cool and glossy black color that compliments her style perfectly. The diva, who seems to be able to rock all styles, displayed proudly her new hairstyle and hair color on her Twitter account, so all her fans could see her new look. Along with the new color, RiRi chose to switch things up by adding a cool undercut to the left side of her head. Posing like a true rock-chick, Rihanna swished her long black colored locks to the right side of her head to expose her brand new, cool undercut.

The closely trimmed area around her temple and ears is however not as bold as the hairstyles the diva has gotten us used to in the past. Rihanna is known for her penchant for fashion and style, so she constantly manages to reinvent and shock her fans with her creative hair and fashion looks.

Although the diva has experimented with shorter hairstyles in the past, she tells her fans via Titter that she's not prepared to chop off her long locks, at least not yet although she does miss the times when she was donning her fierce short crops.

In the photographs she posted on Twitter, Rihanna posed seductively donning a cool cropped T-shirt and black and red animal print pants that matched perfectly her sizzling style. The Barbadian singer seems to enjoy following this undercut trend that has inspired an array of celebrities from Cassie to Jada Pinkett Smith, but we can't help but wonder for how long as Rihanna has gone in a very short period of time through a spectrum of hairstyles and hair colors that ranged from short to long and from black to red, blonde and back, so we can't wait to see what the diva has up her sleeve next as far as her hairstyles go!

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Celebrating the black beauty and advocating diversity

Sunday, Procter Gamble & will present a screening of "Imagining the future" in collaboration with the Tribeca Festival. The film, which aims to empower African-American women, features Janet Goldsboro, a teenage girl from Dover.

"I didn't look like what I saw in a magazine,", said Ms. Goldsboro on his childhood in the documentary. I am different from all my cousins. I had dark features, black hair, black eyes, big nose and thick lips, and I used to get made fun of because of how I watched it. ?

She says she is "in boys"- and that their comments can sting. ".

"" "" "Boys say,"I like light-skinned girls", or"I like white girls because I want my unborn baby quite"," says Ms. Goldsboro.And that makes you wrong because it makes feel you as if you were ugly looking. ?

The documentary is co-directed by Shola Lynch, whose documentary "Free Angela and all political prisoners" about Angela Davis is now in theaters, and Lisa Cortes, who also produced the documentary and who has been the Executive producer of the Oscar-winning film "Precious."

The filmmakers find their subject through Black Girls Rock!, a Brooklyn non-profit with programs, including a leadership camp in which Ms. Goldsboro participated last year. Procter Gamble & supports the Organization financially by My Black Is Beautiful.

Interspersed with footage of the teenager, who is visiting South Africa, are interviews with women, including Michaela Angela Davis, writer and cultural critic; Gabby Douglas, Olympic gymnast and Melissa Harris-Perry, the MSNBC host.

Ms. Lynch, the Director, was dubious when Ms. Cortes first approached on the documentary.

?Lisa came to me and I was like, lit, Procter Gamble & will allow us to tell this story, how we want to say to him? '' Ms. Lynch said.

"We knew that this wasn't going to be a piece of dough," said Ms. Cortes the 30 minute documentary that explores how the media images of rail-thin white women as a standard of beauty can make black women, those particularly well rolled, feel inadequate. "P. & g. not to be an employee of support," Ms. Cortes said, "but really gave us creative freedom."

In the documentary, Ms. Goldsboro visits a market in Johannesburg with Lebogang Mashile, poet, actress, activist and said: 'I heard that in South Africa that skin bleaching is a big problem here?'

Ms. Mashile responds: "it is a problem for a long time. He has hatred, does not have enough mirrors who claim you. ?

The documentary does not mention that Olay, a trademark of Procter Gamble & markets products lighten the skin anywhere in the world. A line called White Radiance is sold in the country, including Malaysia and Singapore; another, white natural, is sold in India, United Arab Emirates and elsewhere.

In South Africa, Olay has recently launched a range called peer & smooth skin lightening. A new commercial features Gail Nayak, a singer and actress, who apply the product and is instantly bathed in light, giving the effect of his skin becomes more light several shades.

Efforts as My Black Is Beautiful represent "a new trend among cosmetics companies to use language that criticizes the domination of white beauty standards in order to sell new products to women of color," wrote Margaret Hunter, an associate professor of sociology at Mills College in Oakland, California, in an article published in The Journal of Pan African Studies in 2011.

The new documentary is "thinking very endearing and very provocative on racism," Professor Hunter said in an interview after the consultation. "But it is Procter Gamble &, meaning that some money behind the documentary is made excluding paste lighten the skin, which completely undermines and reversal of this message.

When asked about its lines of skin lightening, the company issued a response.

"These types of products are very popular in Asia and are designed to help tone uneven women address and boredom which can be caused by acne, skin discoloration problems or overexposure to the environment and help restore the original tone of the skin," the read statement.

In a 2009 report on marketing for black women, market research firm Mintel noted that during the 1950s, whitening creams, have been marketed in the United States with 'after' photographs featuring lighter skinned women, but such an approach has become taboo in the 1960s, when "cosmetic companies started to focus on the properties of task-fading of whitening creams and minimize strategy ?better pale skin?

Procter Gamble & in his statement, stressed that it does not market the brightness white and white natural in the United States, but these products are available through several providers that import products on Amazon.com.

"Imagine a future, which is not officially part of Tribeca Film Festival, but rather the object of a coinciding with it, will appear on Black Entertainment Television on July 5 and will be posted on YouTube.

Imagine that the future is also the name of an initiative presented in 2012 which promises to have a positive impact on black girls 1 million by 2015. The effort is a partnership of My Black Is Beautiful, started by Procter Gamble & in 2006, the United Negro College Fund and Black Girls Rock!

"There is a need to celebrate Black beauty and support diversity, and all of our brands view the consumer African-American as a very important consumer, said Lauren Hoenig, Associate Director for multicultural marketing at Procter Gamble & marketing. '" " We know we have to win with the African-Americans in order to win. ?

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: April 20, 2013

The column advertising Friday, about "imagining the future", a documentary supported by Procter and Gamble and which aims to empower black women, falsely year-round campaign My Black Is Beautiful P. & G. has. It was 2006, not 2008. And the column, using incorrect information from a press release, has concealed the date of regular screening for "Imagining the future" on BET. On 5 July, pas is July 7.

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