Highlighting on medium-length dark hair: types, tips for selection and care

Owners of dark hair quite often want to transform their hairstyle without changing their primary hair color. To achieve these goals, today you can resort to modern options for partial staining of curls. Among the methods used for brunettes, stylists offer highlighting options, which will especially look on medium-length hair.

Some techniques related to hair coloring, as well as the fashion for things and accessories, after some time become relevant again. A similar trend affected the rather popular highlighting of dark hair, while highlighting individual strands with lighter tones and colors.

However, a feature of this version of the transformation of the haircut and hairstyle is not only coloring individual curls in a contrasting color, but also giving the existing hairstyle a certain texture, as well as volume and appearance. As for the work of hairdressers in highlighting dark hair from nature or painted in black, chestnut or other shades, there are a lot of ideas for clarifying curls today, thanks to which each girl will be able to find a suitable option for updating her hair.

Such a painting belongs to the category of sparing services for changing the color of hair, but at the same time highlighting can very well paint over gray hair if necessary.

Among the fashionable dark hair highlighting techniques used today, it’s worth highlighting the main differences, which cause a different result.

• The area of ​​clarification. Modern beauty salons offer their customers options for dyeing hair in certain areas, as well as the classic way to work with complementary colors. In the first case, only some areas will be colored in the hairstyle, when the second technique involves tinting strands all over the woman's head.

• The color tone. Highlighting can be performed according to the standard scheme, when as additional shades on the hair there will be strands that are lighter in color. Perhaps staining in the reverse technique, as a result of which the master applies paints with a color that will be even darker than the base.

• The composition of the materials used. Depending on the type of paint used, contact with the hair shaft may be softer or more intense. The main component that determines the degree of reaction with curls is ammonia.

Like any hairdressing service, highlighting has certain positive and negative characteristics. For an objective study of such a painting technique, its strengths should be considered.

• Due to the partial coloring of the curls after highlighting, the hair rods will be less damaged. As a rule, of the total volume, the master dyes about a quarter of the hair.
• Despite staining only part of the curls, the hairstyle and haircut acquire a visual volume, even on straight and thin hair.
• Unlike full staining of medium-length curls or the use of other techniques, the highlighting results will be more natural, which will positively affect the overall female image.
• Highlighting is able to effectively and permanently paint over gray hair of any degree and quantity.
• Over time, the growth of strands with stained light or dark shades is not so visible difference in the root area. That is why correction is often not necessary.

However, this procedure is not without some drawbacks.

• First of all, this concerns the condition of the hair after dyeing. In most cases, hair rods will suffer from dryness and brittleness. Therefore, after staining, special attention should be paid to moisturizing and nourishing the curls along the entire length.
• Like any other procedure, highlighting will need to be periodically updated with color and correction.
• The specificity of partial staining takes an impressive amount of time. This moment directly depends on the complexity of the selected technology, the length and density of the hair.
• Self-staining requires some preparation and skill. But it can also be difficult to process the entire length of the hair.
• In some cases, light curls may turn yellow over time.
• The hydrogen peroxide contained in the composition negatively affects the gloss of the strands.

There are a number of contraindications for such staining:

• skin diseases on the head;
• abrasions, inflammation, and so on;
• allergies and hypersensitivity of the skin to chemistry;
• You should refrain from highlighting for some time after curling.

Given the goal of changing your image with highlighting, you should study the most popular varieties of this procedure.

A popular option for hair with medium length. During such staining, any color of paint can be used.The essence of the technique is to pre-clarify the selected curls, after which the locks are tinted, so that on the head as a result smooth transitions of one color to another turn out. For work, a hat or foil can be used.

As a result of such highlighting, a visual volume is created on the hair due to the use in work 3 to 5 different shades of paint. There are very bold and fashionable options for dyeing dark hair in lilac or purple shades. However, the American version of staining is also performed with calmer colors.

Quite a popular look for dark curls, which involves staining individual strands with a harmonious and smooth transition of color.

The essence of this type is to lighten the curls, which will look like naturally burnt out in the sun. Such highlighting is also difficult to perform, since the master is faced with the task of choosing the right paint and its tone. As a rule, the coloring composition is applied to the hair in several approaches. And also for Brazilian painting at least three shades for coloring.

The process of dyeing, aimed at creating smooth overflows of color on the hair with the transition from dark to light. Painting involves repainting wide and thin strands in the total mass.

An ultramodern type of highlighting, which involves staining curls without separating them from the total mass, as a result of which a very smooth overflow of colors and shades is formed on the hair. As a rule, it is used in the work 2 or 3 additional shades.

Today, natural colors for highlighting strands are relevant. The task of the hairdresser in the salon before painting is to determine the color scheme of the client, which will provide a more competent selection of shades of coloring compounds. In most cases, wheat and copper shades, as well as light brown and coffee variations, are used for highlighting.

The youth direction in painting is the allocation of bright strands in the hair, the color of which is selected not only taking into account fashion trends, but also relative to the color type of the woman. Gray, turquoise, purple and lilac shades will be relevant. By the type of hair

In addition to a general assessment of a woman’s appearance, experts also focus on the structure and condition of hair rods. Stylists recommend getting a haircut before painting, as well as getting rid of thin and split ends. Similar shortcomings of curls can ruin the created image. The cut ends on bright colors in highlighting will be striking in the eyes. Otherwise, for dyeing, the hair can be either thin, or thick and dense.

Be sure to pay attention to the oval face of a girl or woman before painting and choosing shades. As practice shows, darker saturated tones will make the face more elongated, while the facial features will be too sharp.

Stylists chubby girls recommend stopping on the options of dark chestnut, black or burgundy tones. As for platinum or blond, in this case they should be avoided.

Light additional shades will help visually add volume. As for the triangular type of face, stylists recommend choosing light-red colors, a warm blond for highlighting. For an elongated oval of the face, it is worth focusing on the strands framing the face.

An important point is also the complexion. For a beautiful and flawlessly even tone, you can use shades of platinum or light blond.

For normal skin, the use of walnut, honey or light brown shades is allowed. A broad face can be advantageously tinted with the help of a basal volume with staining in light colors of curls in the temporal region.

For hairstyles with bangs, highlighting can be done in black, dark shades of red or copper, and the use of chocolate and ash shades will be appropriate. The best option for coloring bangs will help you choose a master.

In this case, it is worth considering the length, shape and density of the strands on the forehead. For elongated straight bangs, highlighted small strands that refresh the appearance will be appropriate. For oblique bangs, a good option is to highlight small thin stripes in the total hair volume. Round bangs can be highlighted with wide strands.

After highlighting, hair care should be carried out with specialized compounds for colored hair, which will help the hair rods to recover and nourish. In addition, specialized formulations will take care of the preservation of color for a longer period.

Leaving after staining requires temporarily abandoning the use of a hair dryer and curling iron. After staining and highlighting dark hair, special attention should be paid to the tips, which must be regularly cut and moistened, avoiding cross-section.

Beautiful dark hair will become even more attractive when complemented with warm straw and copper shades. The inclusion of several additional colors will make the hairstyle visually more magnificent, and a smooth overflow of color solutions will provide harmony to the image.

In addition to the usual contrast of light and dark, highlighting chestnut curls can be performed with the inclusion of the color of eggplant. The result of the work will be an interesting combination of several colors that will correspond to fashion trends, as well as add brightness and light to the image.

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