Highlighting on brown hair: features, selection of colors, care tips

The desire to highlight brown hair occurs and long-haired beauties, and the owners of short haircuts. The use of bright color accents allows you to make the image more fresh and interesting, while you can get the natural effect of burning out, add volume, glare, drastically change the overall color scheme.

Before you choose a color highlighting for dark brown hair with bangs or without it, you should make sure that there are no allergic reactions to the bleaching process. Be sure to take into account the features of the procedure for short and long hair, the exposure time, since the application process will vary considerably.

Not every hair stylist will take a highlight to brown hair. A color that combines natural red and black pigments is difficult to kill with dyes. Getting a pure white tone without yellowness, with clear transitions between light and dark strands requires some effort. But it is worth remembering that for natural strands, the impact can be quite traumatic, provoking thinning, damage to the rod, its fragility. Make highlighting is necessary for healthy hair, after eliminating existing problems.

Highlighting stylists call the creation of contrasting strands, formed by lightening or toning in bright colors. Traditional cold Scandinavian style solutions are not suitable for chestnut shades. Here the tone should be softer and warmer: honey, wheat, allowing you to gently emphasize the richness of the color palette of curls.

Not all highlighting techniques are suitable for brown hair. Among the most effective solutions there are several.

• Venetian. Creates the effect of sun-bleached curls. In the light version, it is often referred to as Californian. The impact is performed on open strands using several shades and smoothly stretching the color from root to tip.

• Brazilian. It uses different types of shades and colors, with the natural lightening of the selected strands without sharp transition of tones.

• European. Differs in the natural way of drying the melirovanny hair They do not turn into foil, but remain free.

• Hollywood. With negligent scattering of the width and location of the curls that have been highlights. With a fluffy and thick head of hair, this effect looks especially stylish.

• Veil. Here are selected individual thin strands, making a slight contrast, enlivening the overall color scheme. The width of each strip is 3-4 mm. Only the upper part of the head is involved in coloring, the strands superficially cover the bulk of the hair, like a thin veil.

• Balayazh. The best option for those who want only to try changing the image without a radical transformation. Such decisions are especially effective on very long curls.

• Ombre. It is difficult to call it highlighting in full. But it is the clarification without affecting the root zone that looks particularly impressive on brown hair. Gradient transitions, natural shades will make the image soft and feminine.Such a choice of techniques is due to the difficulty of creating highlights on brown hair.

Among the obvious advantages of highlighting on brown hair are the following points:

• the possibility of fitting a new image without a radical change of color;
• easy masking of the first gray hair;
• rejuvenating effect without significant effort;
• brightness and personality of the image;
• a chance to gradually move away from a radical chestnut shade in dyeing;
• carrying out a visual correction of appearance - it is possible to divert attention from the shortcomings, to emphasize the advantages;
• add volume, shine, shine without expensive procedures;
• to solve the problem of care for a long period is important on vacation, when there is usually no time left to go to the hairdresser.

The great advantage of highlighting is the absence of restrictions. It can be used on hair of any length - from radically short to the longest. And the subsequent care will take a minimum of time and effort.

But the process of highlighting is not associated with some advantages. It has its drawbacks. In particular, to perform the entire procedure according to the rules at home will be almost impossible. We'll have to forget about highlighting those who recently dyed or curled hair. There are restrictions for the choice of colors or shades - the palette will be limited only to warm, close to the natural range, options.

Salon procedure is also quite costly from a financial point of view. The duration of the procedure is another negative factor. Especially on long hair, the manipulations may take more than one hour, and the change in color gamut occurs with a preliminary total lightening of the selected strands. With a small and frequent location of such sites, the harm from the procedure will be similar to the complete discoloration.

If you improperly perform highlighting, the straightened strands may break, as a result, the whole head of hair will look unhealthy, lose its attractiveness and shape.

For brown, brown hair, contrasting black highlights will not work, as it will look dark. Here you should definitely pay attention to more natural combinations that form soft transitions of tones. Combining the overall color with highlighting, it is necessary to remember about the typing of the exterior. For the "autumn" girls with golden-chestnut hair you need to choose brandy, copper, amber, honey and golden warm tones. If the natural color type "summer" with ash-brown hair close to blond, you can create a spectacular combination with silver and platinum splashes, the result is a very light, and at the same time natural effect.

In the process of choosing shades should take into account other significant factors. In particular, it is necessary to take into account the type of person, and the presence or absence of bangs, as well as features of the hair.

Based on the type and length of the hair, we can conclude which version of highlighting will be the most effective and expressive. For short haircuts with a boyish effect, a variant of the shape of the pixie, including asymmetric bangs, the easiest solutions are selected. The veil effect or Hollywood highlighting will be appropriate here.

Owners of long curls with a haircut cascade fit Brazilian natural effect. He will emphasize the volume, pomp hair. Long straight hair requires European highlights, you can use other ways to create strands that look like they burned out in the sun in a natural way.There will be unnecessary too bright and contrasting solutions.

Hair of medium length, trimmed using models of square, page or elongated bean, should be decorated with veil or Venetian highlighting. In addition to the sparing effects on the strands, it will be possible to preserve the rigor and harmony of form.

The choice of technique and type of highlighting for brown hair can be associated with the type of person:

• round effect fits strobe with the formation of glare in the upper part of the hair, bangs and crown;
• oval fit soft, framing streaked strands along the entire length, of considerable width;
• square and rectangular shapes require the creation of glare in the cheekbones, allowing you to visually balance the contours and shape;
• diamond-shaped and triangular variants with chin-accented emphasis should be placed on the contrast in the bangs;
• with a trapezoidal shape, it is necessary to enhance the contrast by adding a combination of dark and light curls around the face.

In the presence of bangs, the highlighting is complicated by the need to somehow incorporate this element of hairstyle into the overall combination of color transitions, avoiding the creation of the effect of stripes "zebra" or watermelon peels. On well-thinned or mown hair, you can easily apply European and American technology with a choice of wheat, gold shades. On a straight thick bangs of medium length looks good Hollywood-type coloring or light veil, not too changing the appearance of this hairstyle element.

Hair care after completion of the procedure should take into account the careful preservation of the natural structure of the hair. Be sure to regularly cut split ends, to ensure the maintenance of the shape and length of hair. Chemical waving, repeated exposure to dyes within 1.5-2 months after the procedure is excluded.

To the melirovanny hair thermal impact is harmful. When using an ironing machine, hair dryer, curling iron, it is necessary to use compounds with thermal protective properties. When visiting the pool should avoid direct contact strands with chlorinated water. In the sauna or bath they should be protected from exposure to hot steam. On the beach, protect from direct sunlight with special sprays.

Casual care should also take into account the degree of damage to the hair.

Consider, it looks somewhat interesting highlighting on brown hair.

• Spectacular and not too catchy highlighting on reddish-brown hair. Warm honey shade looks elegant, harmoniously combined with the main colors of hair, supports the created image of a stylish woman.

• The luxurious ombre effect on long hair looks like a Hollywood expressive. The combination of a natural chestnut tone in a rather dark version and contrasting bright highlights makes it possible to emphasize the graphic character of the curls, to make them more luxuriant in appearance.

• Venetian highlighting with the effect of burnt strands looks especially impressive on chestnut short hair. Light glare gives the image of youth and enthusiasm, without drastically changing the whole image.

You will learn more about how to make highlights on brown hair from the following video.