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“Meches” is a word of French origin which means “Locks” and indicates, in the field of aesthetics, a technique for coloring certain locks of human hair. There are many techniques to create light effects and hair lightening, but the meches technique is the most used.
In particular, when the streaks are made, entire strands of hair are made of a lighter color than the natural one. In this article we’ll see how to make meches alone at home.
The meches technique was studied for the first time in the 70s when technology and research began to make great strides. At a certain point, it was even able to cover white hair, without necessarily resorting to peroxide blond.
During the 80s, meches became all the rage thanks to TV characters. Hairdressers all over the world then began to propose streaks to emulate television characters.
Subsequently, instead of streaks, highlights were proposed that gave the hair a softer and more delicate effect on the hair and the color could range from blond to red. The meches have gone out of fashion in the last decade also due to the shatush technique cleared by celebrities, but also by hairdressers from all over the world. In the last two years, however, the technique is back in fashion but in another tone, that of chunky.
Chunky is a popular trend especially by teenagers where hair are colored in different shades than natural ones, sometimes also using colors such as green, blue or fuchsia. With the chunky technique, the entire lock is not bleached, but only the tip with new and original colors.
First of all, let’s start from the necessary material. Here’s what to use to make meches at home:
Finally, here’s how to make them at home: