Every girl wants to look not only beautiful and stylish, but also to meet current trends in the fashion world. Highlighting is one of the most popular modern methods of coloring, so the theme of the relevance of this method arouses an interest among many girls.
In this article we will look at fashion trends in hair dyeing, examine the features of this method of dyeing and decide the immediate question - what kind of highlighting is now at the peak of relevance.
A bit of history
The first successful attempts to highlight appeared in 1960. An innovator of this technology has become a little-known French hairdresser Jacques Dessanzh. This is not the only discovery of a hairdresser in the fashion world: the famous women's haircut garcon, experiments with chemical perm hair - all this was published thanks to the talented hands of Dessange. To date, thousands of beauty salons are open around the world under his name.
And now, more than 5 decades, highlighting remains one of the most common methods of hair coloringthat in the usual case would mean the imminent extinction of the popularity of this dyeing technology.
However, this technique experienced all the hardships and flashed bright colors with the opening of the new fashion season.
Advantages and disadvantages
Girls with melirovannyh curls can be found literally every day - on TV, in fashion magazines, and just on the street is full of fashionistas, appreciated this technique. Let's look at the main positive reasons why highlighting is still at the peak of relevance.
- Modern methods of hair coloring can not risk the health of the hair. Already today there are sparing paints and brighteners, which only slightly lighten the hair - within 30-40%, thanks to which you simultaneously get the desired appearance of the hair without causing them much harm.
- High-quality highlighting keeps on the hair for a long time (3-4 months) - for girls with long hair, this effect lasts longer. If the type of highlighting is chosen without affecting the hair roots, this effect may persist for six months or more, in contrast to the usual coloring, which must be carried out regularly to maintain hair saturation.
- Highlighting technique perfectly fits any hair style, type, color and length of hair. The same applies to the age restrictions with which this technique is not burdened.
- Highlighting is one of the cheapest methods of hair coloring. As a rule, only two shades are used in the procedure - third-party and natural, therefore, neither the master nor the fashionist herself needs to buy a large number of expensive coloring agents.
- One of the main advantages of highlighting - the creation of a natural volume through the "effect of sun-bleached hair." Due to the smooth color transitions, the hair seems to be voluminous, shiny, most importantly - healthy.
- A huge number of varieties of highlighting offers the XXI century - even the most sophisticated fashionista will be able to find something that really pleases.
- Highlighting is not difficult to do at home, it is a long, but quite feasible procedure for every beauty.
The highlighting has its own minuseswhich, even despite the rapid passage of time and the development of increasingly new and sophisticated hair dye techniques, preserved from the second half of the 20th century.
- Any coloring, even if partial, as it happens in the case of highlighting, causes some harm to the hair. Streaked hair without care can quickly fade, lose density and healthy appearance. Usually such problems appear after using low-quality paints or due to bruising with the duration of the wrapping.
- Not recommended to highlight newly dyed hair or hair that has been subjected to chemical perm. In this case, there is a greater risk of getting a completely unexpected result - due to conflicts in the composition of different colors.
- Girls with already weakened and damaged hair should also refrain from momentary highlighting. After this procedure, the hair will weaken even more. We advise you first to improve and restore your natural curls, and then engage in experiments with color.
- Especially undesirable highlighting on hair dyed with natural coloring agents. Clarification of curls will have to be done in several stages (which, again, is another stress for curls), since natural dyes, such as henna, are very poorly brightened.
Trendy colors
The current season offers us a lot of room for imagination in hair coloring, which is equally true for highlighting itself. At the moment, this technique is characterized by different directions.
- Coloring is going through a period of “rupture of patterns”, where only natural, natural and similar shades look most impressive and attractive. This technique is a real find for the highlight technique, since even the most cardinal coloring of such a plan retains the natural hair color, only giving it more volume and freshness.
- Not long ago, in tasks of highlighting, hair saturation with color was considered, more aggressive dyeing methods were used to isolate hair in a common beauty onion. Today, high-quality highlighting is valued for simplicity - the best-looking curls will look only 1-2 tones lighter or darker than natural ones. This method updates the hair, gives it more dynamics.
Let's take a closer look at the most advantageous shades for hair this season.
On dark and black hair
The current season is pretty meager to experiment for dark hair. Any luxurious dark hairstyle is designed to sparkle in the very center of attention, meanwhile this season dark curls are offered a modest naturalness and spontaneity.
At the moment there are several dyeing techniques for dark hair in trend.
- Venetian highlighting - selective brightening of the strands in the head of hair starting from the tips of the hair. Used shades: caramel, wheat tones, honey and nut shades.
- Classic highlighting - the best option that will never go out of fashion. It looks equally well with any texture and length of hair.
- Armoring technique - slight highlighting by dyeing certain strands in soft chocolate and chestnut tones.
- Technique "veil" or brightening the tips of the hair with the further use of styling tools for styling. Refreshes hair, gives natural shine.
Light brown
For light brown hair, the current trends in highlighting are a real find, with such hair color ashy, golden and platinum shades will look great. Let's walk in more detail on successful techniques of highlighting on light brown hair.
- Shatush - Fashionable technique, designed to give your hair more saturation and brightness. Last season it was one of the most advantageous options for fair-haired girls, whose curls often lacked natural brightness. This season, the shatush does not accept flashy aggressive colors, only calm tones with gradual transitions.
- California highlighting - the popularity of this species is justified by the natural shine on the hair and the rare effect of solar modulations. Together with natural blond hair such strands look just fine.
- Booking Using ashes, coffee and chocolate shades - the task of this technique is to give your hair more depth.
On light
The current fashion season is not stingy with experiments with dyeing and owners of blonde hair. Below, we briefly Consider the current methods of such highlighting.
- Classic highlighting never lose relevance - selectively lightened or darkened by 1-2 tones of curls will give your hair more depth, refresh your hair, focus on the necessary facial features. Highlighting of the “classic” type is done by dyeing individual strands on small pieces of foil in order not to touch natural curls.
- Still popular highlighting of blond hair with selective coloring of strands in darker tones. Such an image will certainly give the general bow more dynamics, it can add harmony to the color solutions in your clothes. The colors used in this case: light chestnut, auburn, copper.
- Bronded ombre type highlighting. This highlighting implies a smooth change of hair color from the roots (dark) to the tips of the hair (maximum light). Used shades to darken the hair: coffee, chocolate, oak, dark caramel.
- The most elegant and mysterious option to highlight blond hair is ash mapping technique. Ash blond - one of the most controversial, but certainly fashionable shades for coloring. Suitable for both very young girls and elderly ladies with an excellent sense of taste.
Most importantly, this shade should match the appearance.
On redhead
Despite its unique natural beauty, all red-haired girls suffer from one problem - over time, such hair quickly loses its saturation and brightness, grow dim and lose volume. Highlighting is the perfect way out. The necessary shades will not only give the hairstyle the same depth, but also decorate them with unique sunny tints and new bright tones.
Present to your attention popular methods of highlighting red hair in the current season.
- Selective and zonal staining thin red curls in pastel colors with nutty, honey and wheat shades.
- Highlight highlights: golden, sunny, platinum shades. The variant is suitable for warm color types of summer and autumn - with light or dark skin / cream skin.
- Dark highlights - an ideal option for girls of the color type autumn (dark eyes, light skin). For red-haired girls with such a color type, rich chocolate and coffee shades are perfect.
- Scarlet staining. The red color in the red head of the hair will only add to the whole hairstyle saturation and brilliance. Strawberry, wine, purple shades can perfectly fit here depending on the color of your natural hair.
Popular technology
Let's take a closer look at the most relevant and winning techniques of highlighting today. Each of these techniques is different in its own way and unique.
Gentle
Easy classic type. Unlike other types of highlighting, this type of hair causes a minimal amount of damage to the curls and minimally changes the natural hair color. In this case, the masters use a minimum range of shades, and the basis of staining is ammonia-free coloring solutions. To this type, you can also add partial highlighting of hair - to medium length, only bangs or just the tips of the curls.
Ombre
Ombre in the modern sense is such a technique of highlighting curls, in which smooth color transitions of shades on the hair are observed. It can be as natural shades as close to each other as possible, as well as radically contrasting.The technique usually uses 2 or 3 basic shades, the effect of uniformity is achieved by gradual shading.
The most spectacular of such a technique looks on long curly curls.
California
The name of the method of coloring received on behalf of one of the US states. It was in hot California that girls from long-term exposure to the sun received the famous effect of burnt hair, giving the curls a visual volume and attractive sun glares and playings.
As a result, a whole variety of coloring appeared, for which there is no need to go to California and bask for many hours under the hot American sun - coloring of this kind is included in the list of mandatory techniques of any experienced stylist.
The current fashion season, as we have said, encourages any natural hairstyle, and therefore unpretentious, but stylish Californian highlighting has every chance to break into the leading position of successful and relevant hairstyles. Plus of such highlighting in uniform smooth transitions from roots of hair to the tipswhere the roots remain unchanged, and the tips are 2-3 tones lighter or darker.
The most successful tones for Californian highlighting are selected based on the color of your natural hair and the color of your eyes. The apparent prevalence of delicate, soft pastel shades in hairstyles is increasingly noticed: honey, golden, soft chestnut, wheat tones.
American
The American type of highlighting, like the Venetian, was originally developed for women and girls with dark and black curls. He was designed to give them a little more than the natural volume by supplying the hair with light gradient overflows.
If in the Venetian and Californian highlighting a maximum of 2-3 shades were involved, then in this case the masters could experiment with 3-4 tones to give the cherished glossy effect to the hair. This effect is achieved by applying paint or brightener only on the front of the hair, without affecting the lower layer.
The advantage of this method is that the natural color of the curls is completely preserved, and the colored tips are styled using styling tools in such a way as to give the hairstyle more dynamics and even some unkempt appearance.
The novelty of the season is the tendency to use American highlights with the application of soft caramel and chestnut shades on dark or even black curls. Most successfully this effect looks with long curly curls.
Venetian
The peculiarity of the Venetian highlighting in extremely selective clarification of individual thin strands of hair. This creates a general effect of light discoloration from the sun. The technique itself came to us from the Italian fashionistas of the end of the 20th century. Women of fashion specially spent whole hours under the Italian sun in order to achieve at least minimal light glare on the head of hair. Italy is a country of dark-haired and dark-skinned women, and therefore the sun glare on such curls was especially appreciated.
If before the current season it was fashionable to use bright and sometimes even contrasting shades in highlighting of this type, then today preference is given to all the same naturalness. The distinction between shades of bleached and natural hair should be literally minimal, and thin curls, which were previously distributed throughout the head of hair in complete disarray, now fit in close proximity to each other.
If we consider the differences between Californian and Venetian styles of highlighting, the first type was originally aimed at fair-haired women who want to give their hair more depth and naturalness, while the second was intended for dark hair and served to refresh them and update the whole image of a girl.
The upcoming season offers Venetian highlights a palette of hues from red cognac in dark hair, ripe pear and caramel colors in light curls.
Stylish haircuts with highlighting
Highlighting is a picky color for curls; it will not require you to have any special haircut or styling. With straightened curls can look stylish like short haircuts such as bob and bob, and long hairstyles such as cascade or ladder.
This coloring technique offers just a huge amount of coloring options. This can be either a gentle highlighting with the color of only one tips, or a full ombre-type with a bright contrast between the tones.
The success of the haircut here depends primarily on the correct color and talent of the master, whom you entrusted your beautiful curls.
In the next paragraph, you can familiarize yourself with successful examples of highlighting for short, long and medium curls with different types and colors of curls. In the same place, we will provide you with examples of stylish haircuts with highlights for the current season.
Beautiful examples
Stars, models and actresses are the best examples to demonstrate the most current coloring techniques and haircut techniques. Consider the most successful examples of hair coloring:
- California hair weave;
- American highlighting;
- gentle highlighting;
- classic highlighting;
- highlighting with extraordinary shades.
In the video, see - highlighting voile technique.