Colouring Crimped and Ethnic Hair

Hello everybody!

Franz here with a little tutorial for you all today :)

 

 

I chosen a pair of lovely Mo Manning's images to talk about the way I colour curly hair.

There are three different kinds of curly hair in my opinion: Curly, Crimped and Ethnic.

Today I want to have a look to the "Crimped" and the "Ethnic" ones.

 

Here is an image that shows you how I use the marker on these three differes cases:

 

 

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To colour these two images I used about the same colour combo, but in different ways, so you can also see that you can use the same markers to obtain different effects.

 

The first image I chosen is Summer Fairy Finna.

 

First of all I couloured her skin up, since I think it's difficult to colour the hair without colouring skin first.

Finna has lovely crimped hair and I decided to colour them in light brown/blond tones.

 

 

1 - I started with a medium tone since I don't want the hair too dark:

 

 

2-  I added the darkest colour to give a little bit of depth:
 

 

3 - I blended with E15 again leaving some white spaces between the strokes for the highlights:

 

 

4-  Now I coloured the highlights with the lightest marker:

 

 

 

5 - Now I started with E18 again to add some more depth:

 

 

6- I blended with E15:

 

 

7- I added a little bit of colour to the highlights too:

 

 

8- Finally I added some more depth again on the darkest zones with a darker mark (E29):

 

 

10- Here is all the hair coloured up:

 

 

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Now I have Fairy Tabia and her Ethnic Hair

 

I used the same technique (from dark to light) but starting with a darker colour since I want to have very dark hair for her.

 

 

1- I started with E18:

 

 

 2 - I blended with E15:

 

3- I blended a little bit again with E13 leaving some spaces between strokes to have some highlights:

 

 

 

4- I coloured the highlights with the lightest marker:

 

 

 

5- I started from the begin again to add some more depth...E18:

 

 

 

6- Blend with E15:

 

 

 

 7 - E13 and a little bit of E11 for the highlights:

 

 

 

 8 - Here I added some more depth with a darker marker, E29:

 

 

 

Thank you for your attention and sorry if I used too many pics :)

I hope this little tutorial can help you!

 

 

A big hug everybody,

Franz