Features of the highlighting procedure for gray hair

With age, the appearance of gray hair becomes an irreversible process, but not everyone has silver strands, so women try to hide them. One of the most popular methods is highlighting. This painting looks modern, and allows a woman to look several years younger.

Most women remain fairly calm at the sight of the first gray hairs, while others try to hide them, changing the shade using light highlighting. If you compare with full staining in dark shades, then this more attractive option, since when the roots grow, they are not so noticeable against the general background.

This procedure has its own characteristics, since gray hair no longer has coloring pigment, and it is not so easy to dye it. The density of this hair is greater, it completely changes the structure, becomes tough, colorant penetrates harder, therefore, special paints are used.

Moreover, gray hair can be highlighted only under the condition that their total number in relation to the rest is no more than 40%, since only in this version it is possible to harmoniously hide the gray hair. Despite the fact that a woman needs regular corrections, her frequency will be much less. With ordinary highlighting, after a month, it is necessary to correct the overgrown roots, and in this case, you can re-make an appointment with the hairdresser after three or even four months, it all depends on the intensity of hair growth.

The advantage of highlighting is that hair is subject to minimal chemical attack. You can use the technique both for mature ladies and young girls, who, due to the individual characteristics of gray hair, appear much earlier. The procedure is available for curls of any length. When interesting overflows appear, hair is additionally acquire visual volume and look well-groomed.

Most women at the mention of highlighting do not have questions about what to do, since the technique is simply associated with lightening individual strands. In fact, there are several options for how hair can be dyed according to this method.

• "Salt and pepper". Such coloring implies a very smooth transition from light gray to black. This technique is ideal for women with more than 40% gray hair. Actually, it is the only one, if we talk about highlighting. Between stylish strands, natural gray hair becomes completely invisible, this method can also be used for girls whose curls are painted in ashen blond.

• Classic. This technique helps to mask gray hair well, but it should be a bit. Hair is evenly dyed throughout the head, while the craftsmen experiment with the width and frequency of the strands. If gray hair is evenly distributed, then it is worth using frequent highlighting with small curls.

• With a fringing. This technique is not often found, its main feature is the allocation of the hair zone around the face. The edging is painted over with the desired shade, the remaining hair is highlighted.

When choosing a shade for highlighting gray hair, it is very important to take into account the woman’s color type, that is, a combination of skin color, eyes and hair. The easiest way to do staining on short haircut, it takes less time and the costs are not so significant. However, the procedure is also available for ladies with long hair.

Good paint over gray curls fashionable shades of golden palette, but for ladies whose hair is thin, it is necessary to remember that in their case the pigment penetrates more, so the color can turn out brighter than expected. Dull and faded platinum and pearl from cold shades will look, and all because there is no coloring pigment. In appearance, such hair is very similar to gray.

Girls with brown hair and pale milky skin should opt for highlighting ash chestnut or ash brown. When natural hair is even darker, for example, black, and the eyes are brown, then a shade with a blue tint would be an ideal option for highlighting, but in no case should you choose a color with a red tint.

High-quality painting can be done at home yourself, if you show patience and buy everything you need. Such highlighting looks no worse, just follow the technology and follow the recommendations of specialists. Before the procedure hair cannot be washed, they must be dirty so that natural fat becomes a natural protection against chemical attack. Often lightening hair requires pre leaching, especially if the transition is from natural dark hair.

Highlighting can be done in several ways.

• With a hat. One of the most successful methods is how to quickly and easily make hair dyeing in strands at home. Some people consider it obsolete for some reason, however, it is ideal for short hair. The girl will need to take out strands all over her head through the holes, and it will be necessary to highlight them. Curls are pulled with a simple crochet hook.

• Foil. One of the most popular ways to do highlights on gray hair. When using this technique, the review does not interfere, you can evenly apply paint, and you can see how long to paint over. The composition does not spread and does not get on the scalp.

• Comb. Curls are dyed using a comb with sparse teeth, but in no case should it be metal. The technique can be used for hair of any length. The composition is applied over the hair, parted, and so on in several layers, if necessary.

• Hands. This is a technique used for curly curls to emphasize volume.

The process of preparing and applying paint is also worth special attention. You need to act in the following sequence.

1. First prepare the clarifier mixture in a plastic bowl. It is strictly forbidden to use metal utensils and other paint accessories, as this material reacts with an oxidizing agent. The girl must strictly follow the manufacturer's instructions on the ratio of powder and oxidizing agent. If cream paint is used, then it is immediately ready for use.
2. To protect your handsput on gloves.
3. Share hair into four or more parts, depending on the thickness of the curls. If there is a lot of hair, they are divided into several sections so that the mixture can be applied evenly over the entire surface.
4. Quickly stain each strand up and to the line of growth. The composition is applied evenly. They begin to work from the back of the head, because in this area there is most of all natural pigment, and it takes more time to lighten curls.
5. Cover your head polyethylene and a towel to keep the heat necessary for the reaction.
6. Keep clarifier it takes from 30 minutes to an hour, it is better to check the strands, how well they have stained.
7. Wash off the paint, wash your hair with shampoo and apply balm.
8. When unwanted yellowness occurs You can additionally protonate the hair. To do this, use special shampoos with a purple hue.

there is some mistakesthat allow girls with self-highlighting:

• the appearance of an orange tint;
• using the wrong tone;
• paint leaked and white spots appeared on the hair;
• incorrectly mixed proportions;
• too much time the paint was on the hair;
• the strands were not distributed correctly;
• uneven application of paint on the strands.

If the hair became dull and badly damaged due to the wrong ratio of powder and oxidizing agent, or the girl overexposed the dye, then correcting the condition of the curls will help lamination. The procedure is carried out in the cabin with special tools, it helps to remove brittleness, smooths out sharp transitions, removes cut ends. If staining was too frequent, and the result was not the effect that was expected, then it will help reverse highlighting. The specialist first finds a tone that is as close as possible to the natural color of the girl’s hair, then makes a continuous repainting.

Another, most common problem for women with dark hair is the appearance of orange curls after highlighting. This is because such natural strands contain a lot of pigment, and it is not so easy to whiten it.

The girl in this case should choose professional compositions, not use low-grade products, in the hope of saving. Best buypowder clarifier with 9% oxidizing agent and maintain the composition on the head for 45 minutes, then protonate the hair with a cold shade, it will help neutralize the unpleasant color.

Can be used Apple vinegarto wash off the yellowness of the hair. Apply it not in concentrated form, but diluted with water, three tablespoons of coconut oil and a few drops of purple food coloring. The smell of hair, of course, will be strong. But after a few procedures, the curls will acquire a lighter shade.

After any painting, care is required, as the hair is stressed. It is immediately worth noting that after the first highlighting procedure then only radical correction is done, the remaining curls do not touch, because repeated discoloration leads to fragility, cut ends.

Of the remaining care methods it is worth highlighting such nuances:

• drying and styling takes place without a hair dryer, ironing and curling iron, since any heat exposure only harms the hair more;
• it is not necessary to wash curls so often, once every four days;
• it is necessary to apply nourishing and moisturizing masks using avocado oil and other plants;
• after each wash, it is worth applying a balm to the curls;
• if unwanted yellowness appears over time, you need to regularly tint your curls.

On dark brown hair highlights throughout the head look perfect. The first strands are taken along the hairline around the face. It is desirable that they are not thin and frequent, but wider and across a larger gap.

Can do staining parallel to straight parting in the center of the head. This is a suitable option for ladies with a lot of gray hair who want to hide. The strands are taken thin, but with an even distribution, the result is simply stunning. Moreover, such a painting does not require correction for a long time, however, it is more suitable for women with light brown hair.

If an ashen blond looks good with brown hair, then on chestnut shades should be close to wheat. With this combination, the transition is not very striking, it turns out very attractively, especially for medium hair, if you distribute bleached curls in a direct parting.

See how to dye and highlight gray hair at the same time in the next video.