Highlights on medium hair

Any girl at least once in her life thought about changing hair color. Some particularly risky young ladies easily repaint their hair almost every month, radically changing the shade and not worrying about the health of the hair. However, if you are not one of these, we suggest you consider a procedure such as highlighting hair to change your image. What kind of procedure is this, what are the varieties of this coloring and how should you take care of your hair after it, and will be discussed in our article.

The average hair length provides a greater range of choice of the type of non-uniform dyeing, which is highlighting, than the length below the shoulder blades. On a short haircut, it is also impossible to implement some hairdressing experiments (for example, an ombre).

Benefits of highlighting on medium hair.

• Suitable for any haircut, be it a bob, square, ladder or other hairstyle. It will perfectly emphasize the structural features of styling, will highlight individual accent locks, will refresh the face. With the help of well-chosen color range, you can achieve a visual volume.
• Highlighting helps fight gray hair, because due to the heterogeneity of staining, it will simply not be visible.
• Neither age nor original hair color play a role. - Streaked curls go all the ladies. Men also did not deprive of this trend with their attention and often ask hairdressers to lighten individual strands to achieve the effect of sun-bleached hair.

The time is long gone when, when mentioning a highlighting procedure, bleaching of “feathers” appeared in the memory. Now the varieties of this coloring - a great many. Choosing one of them, you need to be guided by your natural data, namely the base hair color.

For blond hair, the following options are suitable.

• Mazhimesh. It is considered the most benign, it is recommended only to natural blondes, as in the process of dyeing, ammonia-free paints are used, therefore, they will not be able to “get through” through too contrasting color of curls. It creates the effect of spinning, burned out in the sun.

• California highlighting. In essence, it looks like a mamesh, but the color range of "California" is more extensive. When performing it, do not use foil or other similar material, but apply paint in strokes, creating a glare effect.

• Blondes who want to give their appearance more brightness, it is recommended to dye their hair in shades of red. This will drastically change your appearance, turning you into a fiery beauty. In the red color there are many tones, ranging from gold and ending with garnet. You can play with them by combining them and creating the illusion of live fire in your hair.

For curls of light brown, these types of highlighting are recommended.

• Classic. This is exactly what was mentioned just above - bleaching “feathers”.However, even here there is a variety: you can lighten strands thicker and thinner, you can use several different tones (up to 4 inclusive). You can only gloss out the upper part of the head, and leave the bulk of the hair in its original color.

• Balayazh. Another interesting technique mastered in recent years. Balayage in French means "sweeping." Therefore, when the barber uses this method of coloring, he seems to be “sweeping” the hair with a brush, making vertical strokes. Balayazh is not an easy technique, so to perform it, contact a proven master, whose portfolio already has such work.

• "California". As for blondes, for brown-haired young ladies, this type of coloring is also suitable. However, it is recommended to paint the strands in color, only a couple of shades lighter than the base hair color.

For dark hair of medium length are suitable such techniques.

• Partial highlighting. Coloring individual curls in shades of a lighter color. This will create the effect of sun glare in the hair, give the hair a visual volume. The thinner the strands are, the more beautiful the result will be.

• Shatush. The point is to create the effect of sun-bleached hair from brunettes and brown-haired women. The transition from tone to tone at the same time turns out smooth, and even when the hair roots begin to grow, the difference in color does not catch the eye.

In order to decide what shade you should use for highlighting, Be sure to consider the following nuances:

• What is the condition of your hair at the moment: if there are no split ends, if your hair is not dried out;
• basic natural color;
• is there any dye on the hair at the moment or is the hair not colored;
• what is the length of your hair;
• what haircut you wear or how you plan to cut your hair;
• your color type: eye, skin tint;
• What is the texture of your hair: straight, curly, wavy, curly.

Best of all, any coloring in which 2 or more colors are involved looks on non-uniform haircuts, such as:

• cascade;
• ladder;
• rhapsody;
• kare on lengthening;
• four of a kind on the leg;
• quads with asymmetry;
• pixie.

And now we will consider the technology of highlighting. Let's take the classics as a basis, since it is easiest to master a person who is not familiar with the profession of a hairdresser.

On the hair of medium length, they no longer use the obsolete way “through the cap”, since the curls longer than 10 centimeters can simply become entangled when drawn out, with the result that the coloring will turn out to be uneven and ugly. Therefore, to perform the highlighting at home, purchase a special cosmetic foil in a specialized store.

So, let's proceed to the procedure.

• Comb your dry curls well. You should not wash them immediately before dyeing - their “freshness” should be 2-3 days old, because the sebum on the surface of the head will help protect the hair from the aggressive effects of dyes.
• Divide hair into zones - they can be from 4 to 8, it depends on their thickness. Using special hairdressing clips, fix each received "pile". In the absence of clips, you can twist them into “buns” and stab them with ordinary pins or tie them with rubber bands.
• Wear overalls: peignoir, bathrobe or anything else that you are not afraid to dirty.Be sure to protect your hands with rubber gloves.
• Mix the selected product: add the oxidizing agent to the coloring matter, mix well or shake to obtain a homogeneous mass. Carefully read the instructions for the preparation of the drug.
• Dissolve the beam at the back of the head and divide it into thin strands.
• Take a piece of foil - it should be pre-cut into strips about 5 cm longer than your strands. Barber foil has 2 sides: matte and shiny. Turn it upside down with a matte part and bend the upper edge “towards you” about 1-1.5 cm. Insert the “tail” from the comb into the resulting pocket and hold it like that.
• Next, with a brush dipped in the preparation, draw a line along the matte side. Slip the foil under the selected strand with the “tail” and fix.
• Apply dye to your hair, moving upwards.
• On both sides of the curl foil, hiding in her strand, and on top cover it with another piece of foil. Seal the "envelope" and secure it with the "invisible".
• Stitch the rest of the strands in this way, moving from the back to the sides of the head. The head part and the bangs (if available) leave for last.
• If you use only one color for highlighting, fasten curls with hairpins, which remain in their native color. So they will not bother you and try to "climb" where it is not necessary.
• Guided by the instructions, soak the dye on the hair. Do not exceed the time specified by the manufacturer - it is fraught with overdrying and hair damage.
• Start flushing paint. Do this in the same order as you did when painting.
• Unwrap the “envelope” with the colored strand, rinse it thoroughly. Do not remove the foil to preserve the clarity of the picture.
• When all the “envelopes” are removed, wash the hair thoroughly.
• And in the end - apply on the curls a nourishing balm-conditioner or a mask.

After highlighting, and indeed after any chemical attack on the hair - it is necessary to properly care for them. Experts give the following tips.

• As mentioned earlier, immediately after staining, use a balm or a mask. This is necessary in order to restore the water balance in the hair structure, since they dry out due to lightening.
• Get a special shampoo designed for highlighting hair, as well as a tint to get rid of the yellowish tint of bleached strands. The shampoo contains a vitamin and mineral complex to maintain healthy hair, it will prevent their fragility and make it shiny and elastic.
• Correction of highlighting is recommended not earlier than 60 days after dyeing, in order to give the hair time to recover.
• If possible, use hair dryer, curling iron and hair styling iron as rarely as possible. The heat will not bring any benefit to the already dehydrated curls, but the damage can be colossal. If you really can not dry your hair naturally, turn on the mode of cold blowing.
• Do not comb the wet curls, do not squeeze or rub them strongly with a towel.
• Learn how to pamper your hair with homemade masks: use chicken egg yolks, fruits, honey, kefir, castor oil. Inside, take vitamin and mineral complexes.

If suddenly after some time after the highlighting procedure you notice that your hair started to fall out, then it is time for more intensive care:

• in the evening, before going to bed, massage the scalp with a brush or massage the aponeurosis of the skull with your fingers - this will help improve the blood supply to the hair roots;
• get a comb made of natural wood, which also helps to save hair from static electricity;
• Switch to proper nutrition: enter vegetables, fruits, nuts, olive oil, dairy products into the diet;
• If the quality of hair has deteriorated, you can start taking a vitamin complex for pregnant women or specialized for skin, nails and hair.

In our photo gallery presents fashionable examples of highlighting the average length of hair. Take a look at them and choose the one that best suits your idea of ​​the beautiful.

To learn how to highlight hair of medium length at home, see the following video.