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

Popular once highlighting today is becoming fashionable again. It looks neat and thoughtful, the purpose of the hairdresser is to lighten some broad strands of quality and make your haircut more layered, lively and voluminous.

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

• lightening tone - the most gentle of all types of painting;
• bleaching powder (helps to bleach curls 7-8 tones);
• special paste (with a soft effect on the structure of the curls);
• wax dye (the structure without problems will be kept on the curls).

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

If you meet these conditions, you will end up with a terrific result.

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

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

It is better not to choose such coloring if you have a short haircut and if your hair was dyed earlier, if your curls are curled or if you have recently done a perm.

• Zonal. This type is perfectly suitable for those women who do not want to spoil their curls bleaching. Here individual broad strands are brightened only on the surface of the prepared hairstyle. Master does not affect the strands at the head or behind the ears. The zonal appearance of highlighting will create the appearance of burnt curls and add volume to the shearing.
• Booking. Another name for this coloring technique is multicolor highlighting. When booking a hairdresser, the hairdresser chooses several suitable light tones that will be as close as possible to the natural colors of the curls, but slightly different in the lighter side. Proper selection of tones will allow you to get a natural and smooth transition of all tones. With proper brondirovanie dark hair becomes very shiny and bright.
• Venetian. The basic principle here is naturalness. Masters will not pick up contrasting colors, on the contrary, this type of highlighting will need paint, which differs from the natural color by no more than 2 shades. Strands are covered with dye chaotically. Here the paint is applied from the roots. After it is well shaded.
• Venetian and Californian (American) highlighting - very similar techniques. The difference is that “Venetian” will look better on brunettes, and “Californian” - on blondes.
• Blondirovanie. This method is suitable for those who want to change the darkened color to blond as smoothly as possible. Blonding is a gentle treatment. The specialist will help you choose the most appropriate color: warmer and softer, or, conversely, quite cold.
• Partial highlighting. Almost zonal coloring, but slightly different from her. This view allows you to beautifully revive the hair.Dyed 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 a little, but they don’t want to change drastically.

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

• wide highlighting is referred to as a gentle coloring technique, since the dye will fall only on a part of the strands;
• helps to “mask” the existing gray hairs;
• in the right places, located strands with clarification will highlight the advantages and hide the shortcomings of your face;
• strands will look much more healthy and voluminous;
• many techniques of wide highlighting when performing do not touch the roots, for this reason you will not need to buy paint every month and pay for the expensive services of the master;
• if you do not get the desired result, you can easily return to the former hair color;
• Many modern technologies of coloring will help to 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.

The disadvantages when compared with the advantages are completely insignificant. The high-quality procedure of extensive highlighting can take far more than one hour, because it is best to release a full day for it. If the usual color 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 it is necessary to follow several important rules. Otherwise, the final result will not emphasize the natural beauty, and in some cases even be able to seriously damage the appearance.

Broad highlighting for short hair is an interesting, albeit rare, option for a similar length of hair. Thanks to this technique of lightening, you can visually hide small imperfections of the exterior - mask a bulky nose or narrow lips, or even sparse hair.

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

It will look beautiful large highlights on long curls, while it spoils the hair structure less than their full lightening.

For undulating strands fit large brondirovanie - painting whole strands in colors, similar in range. As a result - your curls will look natural and stylish.

For large highlights, one must be extremely careful not to spoil the curls and not to make your image too vulgar. Highlighting all the envy can only make a real professional. Shades better pick in a cool range.

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

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

By selecting the right number of colored strands, the saturation of the color, you can get interesting results: completely change the image, add a haircut with bright accents, or create the look of strands that have sun-faded.

Chestnut hair is considered the most universal base for highlighting. Lightening here implies serious bleaching of individual strands.

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

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

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

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

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

It is possible to use sea buckthorn oil or castor oil in various masks and in its pure form. Masks with oils are best done on unwashed hair. A warm hat should be worn over the head, and a towel should be tied over the top for additional warmth.

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

What else you should know about highlighting large strands.

• Before starting the procedure, you should adequately assess the state of the locks.
• Shades of dye, oxidizer and highlighting techniques are selected together with a hairdresser in the salon. Before the procedure will require competent advice from an experienced master.
• It is necessary to strictly follow the rules for applying the dye and observe the time indicated on the package.
• Properly care for bleached curls.
• Highlighting with large strands can make you more attractive if you take into account all the advice of the wizard and prepare your hair well for this difficult procedure.

Varieties of hair highlighting are presented in the following video.