Highlighting at home

Today there are a huge number of techniques for partial dyeing of hair that can be performed in a beauty salon or at home. Among such ways of transforming the image, one should single out a rather popular highlighting, which has not lost its position for several decades. Such coloring is quite simple to do with your own hands, choosing for yourself the most suitable option for painting.

Properly planned and carried out preparation for painting will be the key to a good and beautiful result from the color conversion procedure. This is especially true for the independent implementation of highlighting. The first priority is the choice of the coloring composition, namely: the color and shade that will decorate the hair in the future. There are a number of recommendations that will help to cope with the task without the help of the master, given the initial color of the hair in this matter.

Despite the fact that blondes look as feminine and sophisticated as possible, even this hair color sometimes wants to be transformed a little. However, too bright and flashy shades can adversely affect the beauty of light strands, making them too provocative. To revive this color, colorists recommend including several additional colors in the total mass, which will give the hairstyle a visual volume and shine, while preserving the naturalness of light color to the maximum.

For ash blondes, it would be more correct to dwell on colors from a cold color palette, while golden curls can be advantageously emphasized with strands painted in honey and warm colors. As for the fair sex, whose light hair color is not natural, masters consider it successful, including for home highlighting, to use caramel and nut shades that are suitable for long and short hair.

This hair color in itself is very relevant, quite often it is this shade of light color that is used to highlight on fair hair. As for the cases when it is the main one, both light shades and dark strands will become relevant and suitable. It can be red, red or honey inclusions that will transform the hairstyle and the woman as a whole.

Today, masters in salons recommend the following highlighting techniques for light brown curls:

• Caramel California;
• Amber Venetian;
• partial ash staining;
• balayazh and ombre with flowing light shades into dark.

You can do highlighting yourself even on natural gray hair. However, in this matter, it is very important to distribute the dye composition and the strands as evenly as possible in the total volume so that the partial staining looks harmonious. Properly highlight such a head of hair is recommended to itself in the following options:

• "salt and pepper";
• classic way with black or, conversely, light shades;
• the execution of the border along the line of the face.

For brunettes, there is a huge selection of options for the colors used for highlighting from light warm and cold colors to tinting in black. In this matter, you need to correctly combine the colors so that the combination of colors is as harmonious as possible.

Owners of brown hair colorists recommend a fairly popular California highlighting, which suggests the presence of lighter tips. This staining will imitate their natural burnout from ultraviolet radiation. More advantageously, this method is combined with long hair. In addition to this method, brown curls will be combined with copper and coffee shades, purple colors, as well as strands of straw color.

For this color of curls, special skill will be required during the painting, since it is this pigment that is the most persistent, which can complicate the receipt of new shades on it. As a rule, in such cases, special attention is paid to the strength of the oxidizing agent used. In the selection of complementary colors, paint is usually used a couple of tones lighter to achieve the desired effect.

For black hair, shades of copper or coffee can be used in the work, and with special skill you can achieve highlighting in a cold blond. As an extraordinary coloring, resorting to the transformation of black hair with blue or eggplant strands.

For this beautiful and vibrant color, partial dyeing is used to create an even greater emphasis on hair. In addition, strands of a different shade will help emphasize the beauty of a haircut on a fiery hair. Light or cold shades of the blond are used as the most popular colors, strands are painted in a chestnut color, in addition, highlighting in black looks quite expressively on red hair. For creative girls, masters recommend adding brightness to the image with the help of red.

Highlighting the minimum length of hair at home is quite fast, stylists highlight several successful options - creating sharp transitions on the hair, as well as a smooth color change. To give the hairstyle additional volume, it is worth using several shades of the color you like for painting at once, regardless of whether it is dark or light. The color palette will be selected based on individual wishes, the initial color of the hair, as well as the color type of the woman.

Of course, the presence of long strands significantly expands the list of possible techniques used for painting. It is beneficial to emphasize the natural color when using colors a few tones lighter. Hair below the shoulders should be dyed with smooth transitions and tints of flowers to create a neat and expressive look.

In addition to choosing a harmonious color of the coloring composition, it is also important to focus on the very quality of the dye used. It is especially important to choose a clarifier for dark hair, which is planned to be shaded using lighter colors. As a chemical agent for bleaching, powder, powdered products can be mixed with an oxidizing agent to obtain the corresponding reaction and remove pigment from the hair rods.

For brittle and thin hairs, it is worth purchasing 1.5% oxide. As for light strands, their color can be changed using 3% of the composition, and on dark hair it will turn out to achieve the desired result with only 6% or 9% oxide. There is also a more aggressive bleaching agent on sale - 12% oxygen, but it is not recommended for independent use, because with the slightest error in the proportions or time of contact with hair rods, chemistry can cause serious damage to hair. The products used to remove pigment also include Blondoran formulations, which are produced by various manufacturers of hair dyes.

In the course of self-staining, it is worthwhile to have the idea that, in addition to oxygen, activators are also used to remove pigment from the hair rods.

In order to give the desired shade to bleached hair, in addition to colors, you can also make beautiful highlighting for yourself with the help of various tonics or tint balms. However, such a product on the hair with each wash will gradually lose its brightness and color, so the procedure for tinting strands will have to be repeated from time to time. Toning can be done at home by appropriate means, which have a similar name. The main advantage of the product is the absence of harmful chemical compounds, including ammonia, in the composition.

To work with hair at home, you can buy permanent dyes that do not have ammonia in their composition, but are additionally enriched with vitamin complexes.

Trade brands also produce professional ammonia products for painting. A feature of these products is the complete absence of the need to pre-bleach curls, regardless of their color. Usually they work together with 12% oxide. Today, these products are presented in a wide variety of colors and shades, which allows you to choose the color for any occasion.

And also, manufacturers of hair dyeing products offer women who plan to perform partial dyeing, special kits with coloring agents. Usually they include a coloring product, a special oxidizing agent, powder for removing pigment from hair rods, as well as protective equipment for work and various restorative compositions for hair.

For successful independent work with hair, it is important to first stock up on all the necessary materials and tools. Regardless of the highlighting technique chosen, the following materials will be needed for painting:

• bleach if persistent professional paints are not used;
• oxidizing agent and brightener;
• container for diluting formulations (it is better that containers are made of glass or porcelain);
• measuring spoon or glass;
• several types of brushes;
• brushes with different size and arrangement of teeth, you may need a toothbrush;
• clips, clips, elastic bands, hairpins for hair to choose from;
• gloves, cape;
• knitting hook;
• towel;
• shampoo and balm for colored hair;
• depending on the highlighting technique - a cap for painting, foil, bag, film, thermal paper and so on.

In addition to the fact that the skin on the head before the staining procedure should not contain abrasions and wounds, which can get a brightener or coloring composition, causing irritation, an important nuance is the allergotest. It should be carried out with any composition that is planned to be used for highlighting.

In order for the partial staining to please the result, the fair sex, who plan to paint at home, you should familiarize yourself with the most common mistakes that can be made at first.

• Wrong timing for painting. The uneven color, as well as obtaining a heterogeneous shade, can be affected by a recent complete staining of curls with henna, basma or other natural means. Permanent effects can also be caused by perm, after which less than a month has passed, general poor health, jumps in the hormonal background, including when taking medications. In the risk zone of hair with the presence of gray hair in a total volume exceeding 50%, curls that will be too weak at the time of painting.
• Wrong choice of color of the coloring composition. In this matter, girls should pay special attention to the color type. In addition, dyeing may turn out to be rather unexpected, during which several colors are mixed at home.
• Neglect of preliminary preparation for highlighting. All products used, regardless of their cost, should definitely be tested.
• Wrong choice of oxidizing agent for paint. In this matter, it is very important to buy the composition that will be able to react with the existing color and type of hair rods.Too aggressive substance can significantly damage hair, and too gentle composition will not lighten hair, as a result, the procedure will need to be repeated.
• Neglecting step-by-step instructions for using coloring compounds. In this case, we are talking about using chemistry in excess of normal amounts, as well as changing the reaction time of the composition with the hair rods in one direction or another.
• The appearance of whitish spots on the roots after highlighting done at home. Such a result can occur if the dye was too liquid in consistency, as well as if the girl wanted to dye her hair without minimal indentation from the root zone.
• The unevenness of the resulting shade along the length of the strands. The mistake of the girls in this situation will concern the application of paint on curls in different quantities, as well as the performance of highlighting on too wide strands.
• Yellowness or green tint on the hair. Such a shade on the strands may appear with errors associated with the choice of time for holding the clarifier on the strands. Compositions for tinting, as well as tinted balms or short-acting shampoos, will help get rid of an ugly color.
• Inexpressive result of clarified curls. In this case, the cause may be staining of too thin strands, as well as the choice of a shade that will be too similar to the original hair color.
• Deterioration of hair after dyeing. Most often, violations of the instructions for the use of oxidizing agents, brighteners and paints lead to this result. In addition, the lack of proper care for colored hair usually leads to a deterioration in their condition.

It is possible to make beautiful coloring of the house with the help of a hat for partial color change. In this case, the algorithm of actions will include a number of steps.

• The curls need to be combed, put on a hat and tightly fix it on the head.
• Using a crochet hook, draw the required amount of hair along the entire length into the holes.
• Wear a cloak and gloves. Dilute clarifier. You need to start staining with the crown. At the end of the composition distribution procedure, it is best to cover the head with a film, leaving a bleaching agent for the required time.
• After the lapse of time, the strands should be rinsed and treated with balm. Then remove the cap and wash hair again with shampoo for colored hair.

Highlighting can be done using food foil. Let's consider how independent work on painting strands will look like.

• All hair needs to be combed, divided into zones, they can be from 4 to 8. Each area should be fixed with rubber bands or hairpins.
• The next step is to prepare a paint product. Work with the substance only with gloves.
• Staining should be started from the back of the head, pulling several thin strands in the selected order from one zone.
• Next, a section of foil is placed under the strands with the matte side to the hair. The strands are stained and wrapped to the roots. To carefully fix the foil, you can use the invisible.
• Thus, work is carried out with all other hair.
• After time, the foil from the hair needs to be removed, and the hair thoroughly washed. At the final stage, it is recommended to use a balm.

You can also make beautiful highlighting at home with a regular scallop.

• First you need to comb through all the hair and prepare the composition for staining.
• Next, the dye is applied to the comb, which you need to evenly walk along the entire length of the hair from the roots to the ends without gaps.
• The composition is aged on the strands for the required time, after which the hair is washed with water and a moisturizing composition.

You can also perform highlighting with the help of folk remedies. In this case, lemon juice will act as a clarifier. However, this option guarantees a good result only on fair hair. The painting algorithm in this case will consist of several actions.

• For staining, the composition is prepared using freshly squeezed lemon juice. It is applied to selected curls along the entire length.
• After that, the substance will need ultraviolet for the reaction. Therefore, a girl with her hair must go out in the sun without a hat for 50-60 minutes or visit a solarium.
• After dyeing, the hair should be washed with shampoo.

To maintain a healthy appearance of dyed and lightened strands, certain care recommendations should be followed.

• After highlighting, all care products should be from a series intended for colored hair. Otherwise, there is a risk of getting brittle and overdried strands.
• Twice a week, you need to do nourishing masks. They can be based on folk remedies or from the store series for hair care.
• After home highlighting, it is worth rinsing the hair after washing with a composition based on table vinegar or decoctions of herbs.
• Wet colored curls can not be combed.
• Using a hair dryer to dry, it will be more correct to turn on the device in the cold air mode. The use of pads and irons should be minimal.

For owners of black hair, they can transform their hairstyle with the inclusion of light strands of coffee shades of medium size. The curls framing the face will make the appearance more fresh and bright, and the locks arranged in the correct and symmetrical order will emphasize the beauty of any haircut.

Highlighting with the ashen color chosen as an additional shade will make the hair unusually beautiful. Thickly arranged light strands will look equally attractive loose, as well as in any hairstyle due to the correct and expressive color transitions.

About how to do highlighting at home, you will learn from the video below.