Large highlighting: features, selection of shade and recommendations for care

The once-popular highlighting is again becoming fashionable today. It looks neat and thoughtful, while the goal of the hairdresser is to qualitatively lighten individual wide strands and make your haircut more layered, vibrant and voluminous.

Large highlighting is the high-quality lightening of certain strands. For these purposes, apply:

• brightening tone - the most sparing of all types of painting;
• bleaching powder (helps whiten curls for 7-8 tones);
• special paste (with a mild effect on the structure of curls);
• wax dye (the structure will keep on curls without problems).

The technique of highlighting with wide strands is quite easy - you just need to choose curls 2-3 cm wide and color them in different tones of white.

If you have fulfilled these conditions, you will ultimately have an amazing result.

In order for highlighting with large strands to suit you, so that it complements your image, it is worthwhile to determine your color type, skin tone, and hairstyle features in advance.

Large highlighting is perfect for swarthy brown-eyed ladies, as well as for women with elongated hairstyles or haircuts of medium length, owners of thick and dense hair.

It is better not to choose such a dye if you have a short haircut and if your hair has been dyed earlier, if your curls are curled or if you have recently done a curl.

• Zonal. This look is perfect for those ladies who do not want to spoil their curls with discoloration. Here, individual wide strands are clarified only on the surface of the prepared hairstyle. The master does not affect the locks at the back of the head or behind the ears. The zonal appearance of highlighting will create the appearance of burnt curls and add volume to the haircut.
• Bronzing. Another name for this painting technique is multicolor highlighting. When booking, the hairdresser selects several suitable light tones, which will be as close as possible to the natural colors of the curls, but slightly different in the lighter side. The correct selection of tones will allow you to get a natural and smooth transition of all tones. With proper bronzing, dark hair becomes very shiny and vibrant.
• Venetian. The basic principle here is naturalness. Masters will not pick up contrasting colors, on the contrary, for this type of highlighting you will need paint, which differs from the natural color by no more than 2 shades. The strands are dyed randomly. Here the paint is applied from the very roots. After it shades well.
• Venetian and Californian (American) highlighting is a very similar technique. The difference is that the “Venetian” will look better on brunettes, and the “Californian” - on blondes.
• Blonding. This method is suitable for those who want to smoothly change the darkened color to blond. Blonding is a gentle procedure. A specialist will help you choose the most suitable color: warmer and softer or, conversely, quite cold.
• Partial highlighting. Almost zonal color, but slightly different from it. This view allows you to beautifully revitalize your hair. Colored wide strands will help to structure the haircut and give it the necessary volume. This technique is perfect for ladies who dream to change their image at least a little, but do not want to change dramatically.

Large highlighting has certain advantages and obvious disadvantages. Pros of this technique:

• wide highlighting is attributed to a gentle coloring technique, since the dye will fall on only part of the strands;
• help to qualitatively "mask" the existing gray hairs;
• in the right places located locks with lightening will highlight the advantages and hide the flaws of your face;
• locks will look much more healthy and voluminous;
• many wide highlighting techniques do not touch the roots during the execution, for this reason you will not need to buy paint and pay for the expensive services of the master every month;
• if you do not get the desired result, then you can easily return to your former hair color;
• many modern coloring technologies will help highlight the multi-level haircuts, such as, for example, a ladder or a cascade;
• You can choose the type of suitable highlighting for strands of any length and any state.

Cons compared with the benefits are completely insignificant. A high-quality procedure of broad highlighting can take far more than one hour, therefore it is best to free up a full day for it. If the usual coloring can be done with your own hands at home, then for highlighting it is best to turn to professionals.

Any girl wants to follow fashion trends and be the most attractive for the opposite sex, but when choosing shades without fail, you must be guided by several important rules. Otherwise, the final result will not emphasize the natural beauty, and in some cases it can even seriously spoil the appearance.

Wide highlighting on short hair is an interesting, albeit rare, option for a similar hair length. Thanks to this lightening technique, you can visually hide small imperfections in appearance - to mask a bulky nose or narrow lips, or even rare hair.

Using the technique of highlighting on medium curls, you can create a truly bright and catchy image, where part of the strands will be well highlighted.

Large highlighting on long curls will look beautiful, while it spoils the hair structure less than their full lightening.

For wave-like strands, large bronzing is suitable - staining entire strands in colors similar in scale. As a result, your curls will look natural and stylish.

With large highlighting, you need to be extremely careful not to spoil your curls and make your image too vulgar. Highlighting everyone for envy can only be done by a true professional. Shades are best chosen in a cool range.

Many women consider the light brown color to be very pale, inexpressive. In their opinion, wide highlighting will provide an opportunity not only to highlight the natural female beauty, but also to create glare, lighten skin tone or correct facial imperfections.

The result of its use are white curls of different widths. More interesting is a thick lightening of hair.

By choosing the right amount of colored locks, color saturation, you can get interesting results: completely change the image, supplement the haircut with catchy accents or create a look of strands burnt out in the sun.

Brown hair is considered the most versatile base for highlighting. Lightening here involves serious bleaching of individual strands.

In order to maintain a well-groomed appearance of hair after major highlighting, you will have to follow the basic rules of care. Therefore, it is extremely important:

• do not use stylers, hard curlers, hair dryers and irons;
• use special cosmetics and only high-quality dye for care;
• to get a high-quality conditioner and make caring masks as often as possible;
• get rid of split ends once every 2 months;
• moisturize and nourish hair with vitamins;
• Do not perform the highlighting procedure too often.

Good face masks can be made at home. So, for the density of the hair and their moisture, use a composition of 2 raw yolks. It is applied to the entire length for only 30 minutes.

You can make a decoction of onion leaves, as well as add nettle and chamomile to them. All ingredients need to be mixed 1 tablespoon, pour boiling water and insist. After the broth has cooled, rinse with wet hair.

A mask of olive oil, one yolk and a spoonful of honey will make your hair luxurious. The mask needs to be applied to the roots for only 15-20 minutes.

You can use sea buckthorn or castor oil in various masks and in pure form. Masks with oils are best done on unwashed hair. A warm hat should be put on your head, and a towel should be tied over it for extra warmth.

Oil should be left on your head for 30 minutes or more, and then thoroughly rinse with water and shampoo.

What else you should know about highlighting in large locks.

• Before starting the procedure, you should adequately assess the condition of the curls.
• Shades of dye, oxidizing agent and highlighting techniques are selected together with the hairdresser in the salon. Before the procedure, competent consultation with an experienced master is required.
• The rules for applying dye should be strictly followed and the time indicated on the package must be observed.
• Properly care for bleached curls.
• Highlighting with large strands can make you more attractive if you take into account all the advice of the master and prepare your hair well for this difficult procedure for them.

Varieties of hair highlighting are presented in the next video.