Highlights on short dark hair

Highlighting is a special technique for dyeing individual strands in lighter or contrasting shades. For shortened hair, the technique is considered to be a fairly easy and fast process that allows you to change the usual hairstyle to a more spectacular, fashionable and stylish.

It is believed that highlighting is a more gentle technique than full coloring or highlighting, since only part of the hair is colored. Selected locks usually discolor and then tinted. Thanks to such a sequence of actions, it is possible to obtain a pure shade, create a soft play of color on the hair and visually add a pile of pomp and density.

The peculiarity of highlighting for short strands is the use of fairly saturated shades of light, as well as dark and color tones, so you can create absolutely any image - from delicate and sweet to bold, bold and shocking. It is very simple to make highlighting on short strands - the paint is distributed fairly quickly on them, does not flow and does not leave gaps or stains. Through the use of thin or wide strands, you can visually change the volume of the pile and focus attention on such interesting details as:

• asymmetrical areas (bangs and strands);
• unusually treated neck area;
• shaved whiskey or, on the contrary, elongated.

Nowadays, there are at least several dozen variants of highlighting, which differ from each other by the used technique, color palette, and coloring features. For curls with a length of less than 15 cm the following options are most in demand.

• Peek-a-boo - it is highlighting, in which the strands are lightened, and then a lot of thin strands of a darker shade are added to the lower part of the bleached area. This design makes the hair more lush, and the color - deep and rich, professional masters pay special attention to the temporal area and bangs, due to which you can emphasize all the advantages of appearance and visually smooth the flaws.

• Two-tone - this is the option of painting short hair, in which the strands are painted in several shades that are close and visually complementary. This type of coloring makes the image stylish, spectacular and gives the woman the very highlight that so attracts men's looks.

• Bright strands - Another fashionable solution. With this method of dyeing, several rather wide strands are created, which stand out clearly against the background of the total mass of hair. Usually curls are painted with natural paints.

• For straight short hair, preference is given. small frequent highlighting. This technique is considered the most time-consuming and difficult, but as a result soft strands are formed on the strands, which emphasize the geometry of the haircut. It is better to do coloring of this type in salon conditions, skill and speed are important here, with insufficient experience, the result obtained may differ significantly from the expected one.

• Owners asymmetrical haircuts can focus on a beautiful styling, coloring several broad strands, thereby reinforcing the impression. In most cases, bangs or temporal areas are stained, so it is quite possible to make such highlighting on your own without the use of assistants.

• For curly hair Preference should be given to wide strands, since thin will simply be lost in the total volume of hair.

Before you begin to highlight, it is very important to think in advance exactly what details of the haircut you want to emphasize and highlight. For example, you can draw attention to the bangs - in this case, the rest of the hair can be left in the native color, you can make accents on the temples and the crown, or you can trace the whole pile - everything depends on your individual style and personal preferences.

Highlighting has many advantages in comparison with traditional coloring:

• the technique allows you to create soft play on the hair from natural shades to lighter or colored ones, as a result, the haircut looks more stylish, charm and originality are introduced into the look;
• highlighting is considered to be a rather gentle technique, since in this case no more than half of the hair is colored, moreover, the coloring does not affect the root zone, which means that the hair follicles remain intact;
• as the regrowth grows on the plated strands, the roots are not as noticeable as on those painted in one tone.

Since the short hairstyle needs frequent correction, the ends of the strands injured due to the effects of brighteners quickly cut off, respectively, the heap looks healthier and stronger.

Highlighting on short hair looks very elegant and refined, however, you should be very careful when choosing a technique. TO For example, modern shatush and ombra are not suitable here - the length does not allow to create smooth transitions from dark to light, and hair painted in a similar way looks untidy. However, balayazh and classic highlighting on short strands look very stylish and beautiful, so you do not need to abandon these options for coloring.

When preparing for highlighting on short curls, you need to carefully select the shades. Be sure to keep in mind that cold color tones (for example, ashy, pearl or platinum) will be optimal for owners of a cold color type, and warm colors for honey (as well as wheat, cognac, caramel and beige) for warm characters. Depending on the chosen palette, highlighting can be carried out in several ways.

• California - this method is optimal for chestnut and blond strands, in this case, the nuances of the nude color range are usually good - amber, pearl and caramel.

• Venetian - highlighting harmoniously on the hair of any color: from medium blond to black. Here for coloring choose shades of copper, violet, wine-colored or Marsala.

• Voila - a similar method is good for owners of dark-blond hair, at the same time they paint only the uppermost strands and take pure light colors for highlighting, creating a visual effect of a veil as if covering the strands.

• Red - this is a fashionable and very spectacular highlighting, which creates on the head the whole gamut of brown, as well as red and red shades.

• Color - such coloring is suitable for courageous and impudent girls who like to attract general attention. Usually the procedure is carried out with the use of non-traditional tones in order to emphasize the features of the geometry of the hairstyle. On dark curls, as a rule, make up locks of red, purple or blue, and on light ones, preference is given to pink, blue and even lilac.

Hair coloring short length does not require much experience. Any woman can cope with dyeing even at home, especially when it comes to ultrashort haircuts, but for strands up to the neck it is better to find yourself an assistant who can properly dye the hair at the back of the head.

For highlighting you need:

• brightener;
• basic paint;
• balm conditioner.

It is also necessary to prepare a bowl for dilution of the emulsion, a comb with a separator, a foil or a silicone cap, a cape and a brush. First you need to wear a special cap on the hair for highlighting and use the knitting needles, a separator or a hook to draw out the required number of thin strands. They smear the clarifier, incubated for 15-25 minutes, then thoroughly washed off and covered with paint of the primary color.

Highlighting on short hair for more than 10 years does not go out of fashion, however, dyeing techniques change with each season - from year to year new methods of applying paint and beautiful colors are added. When highlighting only appeared, women simply lightened the strands - stained with “feathers”, but today stylists offer many other, more modern techniques.

This technique allows you to create a play of light on your head, imitating the effect of hair sunburned in the sun. On short strands, highlighting is traditionally performed using salmon and bronze flowers. For women with light brown curls, light ash or pearl tones may be appropriate.

This is a similar technique, which involves applying 3-15 shades, related to each other, as a rule, from the general color scale. In contrast to the California dyeing, brighter colors are relevant here, the most popular are red - this highlighting looks very effective on brunettes.

This highlights the most harmoniously on the short-haired owners of dark strands. Here are the bright glare, reminiscent of sunbeams on curls.

This is an option for bold girls who prefer a contrast between native strands and a touch of highlighted areas. Looks like this coloring perfectly, regardless of the hairstyle.

The most daring highlighting, which is based on the use of several bright, contrasting shades. Colored accents will not let their owner get lost in the general crowd and will invariably attract enthusiastic views of others.

How to make highlights on dark short hair, learn from the video below.