Every modern woman who wantslook fashionable and stylish, but do not dare to radically change the color of your hair, you can try to do hair highlighting. This procedure will keep the color the same, but will add new shades, give the hair additional visible volume, and individual strands will shimmer beautifully in the rays of the sun. There are three main factors that must be taken into account before hair highlighting:
- Primary hair color.
- The color of future strands.
- Technology of dyeing strands.
There are quite a few ways to highlight hair, but the most popular were and remain: highlighting using foil and highlighting hair through a cap.
Highlighting through the cap
When carrying out this method of hair highlighting,A special cap with holes is put on the head, through which individual strands are pulled out with a hook. It is best to pull out the strands in a checkerboard pattern. The width of an individual strand should be 3-5 mm, and the distance between them is about 1 centimeter. If you plan to highlight wider strands, then the distance between them should be increased accordingly: with a width of 6-8 mm, the distance is 1.5 cm. After all the strands have been pulled out, you can start bleaching them. To lighten the strands by 1 tone, you need to apply the dye for 15 minutes. For maximum lightening, leave the dye on for 40 minutes. After dyeing, the strands must be thoroughly washed without removing the cap. Then carefully remove the cap and wash all the hair with shampoo.
Melting with foil
Another classic, but no less soA relevant method is hair highlighting with foil. First, you need to prepare the foil by cutting it into equal squares of approximately 10x15 mm and lightening paint. Then, starting from the parting, separate a strand up to 5 mm wide and apply paint to it. The distance between the strands should be about 1 cm. After applying the lightener to the entire length of the strand, wrap it in foil. When all the strands along the parting are wrapped in foil, you can go lower and do the same with the remaining hair. After the required time, carefully remove all the foil and thoroughly wash off the paint with shampoo. After hair highlighting, a toning procedure usually follows. It is carried out so that the hair looks more natural, and the colors of the strands do not contrast too much with the main hair color. Basically, pastel, soft tones are used for toning, they can differ in color, but are similar shades.
Types of highlights
- Baliage
This type of hair highlighting is used for short haircuts. Only the ends of individual strands are lightened, using foil. This type of highlighting allows you to focus on the structure of the haircut.
- American Highlights
This type of hair highlighting uses bothas a rule, from 2 to 4 shades of paint, but a larger number of tones is also possible. When choosing shades, do not forget about their compatibility with each other. Such highlighting gives hair a healthy and natural look. To make such highlighting on dark blond hair, shades are perfect: caramel, beige, coffee and chocolate.
- Reverse stripping
This is the perfect highlights for light brown hair.Reverse highlighting will allow you to move from light shades to deeper and more saturated ones. Selected strands with this hair highlighting are dyed in darker tones. Honey, wheat, and golden shades also look great on light brown hair.
- French highlighting
This type of hair highlighting usesa special paint containing components that do not damage the hair, lightening it immediately by 3-4 tones. This highlighting is used on light brown hair to achieve a good highlighting effect. On dark hair, French highlighting will be almost invisible.
- California highlights
This is an interesting highlighting for light brown hair,in which individually selected strands are not wrapped in foil and are in free contact with the rest of the hair. As a result, the bleached strands look natural, and the transitions between shades are invisible. Usually, highlighting on light brown hair is done using gentle dyes so as not to harm the hair.
- Bright highlights
This type of hair highlighting exists for amateursbold experiments. It is applied to pre-highlighted hair. The bleached strands are dyed in any unimaginable color using a gel containing gentle components. Such gels wash off after 4-8 washes. Using bright shades will add extravagance to the image and give it a unique style, especially if the color of the strands matches wardrobe items, nail polish, or even the color of the car. When performing the bright hair highlighting procedure for the first time, it is better to limit yourself to 2-3 colors of strands so as not to look vulgar and ridiculous.
- Partial highlighting
The hair is highlighted only near the face, the back of the headpart remains unchanged. Only the upper strands are dyed. This type of highlighting allows you to refresh the main color without resorting to a radical change of image.
- Contrastive highlighting
For this hair highlighting 2-3shades of paint that match each other. Strands of different widths are selected for this type of coloring. This type of highlighting is more suitable for brunettes or brown-haired women. On light hair, contrasting strands will look rough and sloppy.
- Avant-garde highlighting
This is hair highlighting, in which only the ends are dyed, and the top part of the hairstyle remains unchanged. It is not recommended to use highlighting in the following cases:
- if you just dyed your hair or did a perm;
- if your hair is in poor condition - dry and brittle.
As you can see, there are many types of highlighting. All you have to do is choose the method and select the color scheme that seems most suitable to you. Go for it! We recommend reading:
