Highlighting on brown hair: features, shade selection, care tips

The desire to perform highlighting on brown hair arises for both long-haired beauties and owners of a short haircut. The use of bright color accents allows you to make the image more fresh and interesting, while you can get a natural burnout effect, add volume, highlights, radically change the overall color scheme.

Before choosing a highlight color for dark brown hair with or without bangs, you should make sure that there are no allergic reactions to the lightening process. Be sure to take into account the features of the procedure for short and long hair, exposure time, since the application process will vary significantly.

Not every stylist will undertake highlighting on brown hair. A color that combines natural red and black pigments is quite difficult to interrupt with dyes. Getting a pure white tone without yellowness, with clear transitions between light and dark strands requires some effort. But it is worth remembering that for natural strands, the effect can be quite traumatic, provoking thinning, damage to the rod, its fragility. It is necessary to highlight on healthy hair, after eliminating the existing problems.

Stylists call highlighting the creation of contrasting strands that are formed by lightening or toning in bright colors. Traditional cold Scandinavian style solutions are not suitable for the chestnut color scheme.Here the tone should be softer and warmer: honey, wheat, allowing you to gently emphasize the richness of the color palette of curls.

Not all highlighting techniques are suitable for brown hair. Among the most effective solutions, there are several.

• Venetian. Creates the effect of curls burnt out in the sun. In the light version, it is often called Californian. The exposure is performed on open strands using several shades and smoothly stretching the color from root to tip.

• Brazilian It uses various types of shades and colors, with the natural highlighting of selected strands without a sharp transition of tones.

• European. It differs in the natural way of drying the highlighted hair. They do not turn into foil, but remain free.

• Hollywood With a careless spread of the width and location of the curls subjected to highlighting. With lush and thick hair, this effect looks especially stylish.

• Veil. Here, individual thin strands are selected, introducing a slight contrast, enlivening the overall color scheme. The width of each strip is 3-4 mm. Only the upper part of the head is involved in dyeing, strands superficially cover the bulk of the hair, like a thin veil.

• Balayazh. The best option for those who only want to try changing their image without a radical transformation. Such solutions are especially effective on very long curls.

• Ombre. It can hardly be called highlighting in full. But it is clarification without affecting the basal zone that looks especially impressive on brown hair. Gradient transitions, natural shades will make the image soft and feminine. This choice of techniques is due to the complexity of creating highlighting on brown hair.

Among the obvious advantages of highlighting on brown hair, the following points can be distinguished:

• the possibility of trying on a new image without a radical change in color;
• light camouflage of the first gray hair;
• anti-aging effect without significant effort;
• brightness and personality of the image;
• a chance to gradually move away from the radical chestnut hue in staining;
• visual correction of the appearance - you can distract attention from the shortcomings, emphasize the advantages;
• add volume, radiance, shine without expensive procedures;
• to solve the problem of leaving for a long period is important on vacation, when there is usually no time to go to the hairdresser.

A big plus of highlighting is the absence of restrictions. It can be used on hair of any length - from radically short to as long as possible. And subsequent care will take a minimum of time and effort.

But the highlighting process is not associated with only advantages. It also has disadvantages. In particular, it will be practically impossible to complete the entire procedure according to the rules at home. You will have to forget about highlighting for those who have recently dyed or curled their hair. Restrictions apply to the choice of colors or shades - the palette will be limited only to warm, close to the natural range, options.

The salon procedure is also quite costly from a financial point of view. The duration of the procedure is another negative factor. Especially on long hair, manipulations can take more than one hour, and the color scheme changes with preliminary total clarification of the selected strands. With a shallow and frequent location of such areas, the damage from the procedure will be similar to complete discoloration.

If improperly performed highlighting, the highlighted strands can break, as a result, the entire hair will look unhealthy, lose its attractiveness and shape.

Contrast black highlighting is not suitable for brown and brown hair, because it will look dark. Here you should definitely pay attention to more natural combinations that form soft transitions of tones. Combining the general color with highlighting, you must always remember about typing the appearance. For "autumn" girls with golden chestnut hair, you need to choose cognac, copper, amber, honey and golden warm tones. If the natural color type is “summer” with ash-brown hair close to light brown, you can create a spectacular combination with silver and platinum impregnations, as a result you get a very light, and at the same time natural effect.

In the process of choosing shades, it is worth considering other significant factors. In particular, it will be necessary to take into account the type of face, and the presence or absence of bangs, as well as the features of the hair.

Based on the type and length of hair, we can conclude which particular highlighting option will be most effective and expressive. For short haircuts with a boyish effect, a variant of the shape of the pixie, including with asymmetric bangs, the easiest solutions are selected. Here the effect of a veil or Hollywood highlighting will be appropriate.

Owners of long curls with a haircut cascade fit Brazilian natural effect. He will emphasize the volume, splendor of the hairstyle. Long straight hair requires European highlighting, you can use other ways to create strands that look like they burned out in the sun in a natural way. Here too bright and contrasting solutions will be superfluous.

Medium-length hair, trimmed using the caret models, page or elongated bean, should be decorated with veil or Venetian highlighting. In addition to the gentle effect on the strands, here it will be possible to maintain the severity and harmony of the form.

The choice of technique and type of highlighting for brown hair can be associated with the type of face:

• the strobe effect with the formation of glare in the upper part of the hair, on the bangs and crown is suitable round;
• oval fit soft, framing highlighted strands along the entire length, considerable width;
• square and rectangular shapes require the creation of glare in the cheekbones, allowing you to visually balance the contours and shape;
• rhomboid and triangular variants with an accented chin, the emphasis should be on contrast in the bangs;
• with a trapezoidal shape, it is necessary to enhance the contrast by adding a combination of dark and light curls around the face.

In the presence of bangs, highlighting is complicated by the need to somehow include this element of the hairstyle in the general combination of color transitions, avoiding the creation of the effect of “zebra” stripes or watermelon peels. On well thinned or beveled hair, you can easily apply European and American technology with a choice of wheat, gold shades. On a straight thick thick bang of medium length, a Hollywood type stain or a light veil looks good, not changing the appearance of this hairstyle element too much.

Hair care after the procedure should take into account the careful preservation of the natural structure of the hair. Be sure to regularly cut off split ends, allowing you to maintain the shape and length of the hairstyle. Excluded the possibility of perm, repeated exposure to dyes within 1.5-2 months after the procedure.

Highlighted hair is harmful thermal effect.When using ironing, hair dryer, curling iron, compositions with thermal protective properties should be used. When visiting the pool, avoid direct contact of the strands with chlorinated water. In a sauna or bathhouse, they should be protected from exposure to hot steam. On the beach, protect from direct sunlight with special sprays.

Daily care must also take into account the degree of damage to the hair.

Consider highlighting on brown hair looks somewhat interesting.

• Effective and not too catchy highlighting on reddish-brown hair. Warm honey hue looks elegant, harmoniously combined with the main color scheme of the hairstyle, supports the created image of a stylish woman.

• The luxurious ombre effect on long hair looks Hollywood expressive. The combination of a natural chestnut tone in a rather dark design and contrasting bright highlighting allows you to emphasize the graphicity of curls, to make them more magnificent in appearance.

• Venetian highlighting with the effect of burnt strands looks especially expressive on brown short hair. Light glare gives the image of youth and enthusiasm, without fundamentally changing the whole image.

You will learn more about how to do highlighting on brown hair from the next video.