Highlights on dark hair of medium length: types, tips on selection and care

Owners of dark hair often want to transform their hairstyle, without changing their main hair color. To realize such goals, today we can resort to modern variants of partial coloring of curls. Among the techniques used for brunettes, stylists offer highlighting options, which will be especially relevant to look on medium-length hair.

Some techniques relating to hair coloring, as well as fashion clothes and accessories, after some time become relevant again. This trend has affected the rather popular highlighting of dark hair, highlighting individual strands with lighter tones and colors.

However, the peculiarity of this version of the transformation of haircuts and hairstyles is not only the coloring of individual curls in a contrasting color, but also giving the existing hairstyle a certain texture, as well as volume and visual appeal. As for the hairdressers' work on highlighting dark hair from nature or dyed in black, brown or other shades, today there is a huge amount of ideas for lightening curls, thanks to which every girl will be able to find a suitable way to modernize her hair.

This painting belongs to the category of gentle services to change hair color, however, highlighting may well paint over gray hair if necessary.

Among the currently used fashionable techniques of highlighting dark hair is to highlight the main differences, which cause a different result.

• The area of ​​clarification. Modern beauty salons offer their clients options for painting hair in certain areas, as well as the classic way of working with complementary colors. In the first case, only certain areas will be colored in the hair, when the second technique involves tinting the strands over the entire head of the woman.

• Tone staining. Highlighting can be performed according to the standard scheme, when as additional shades on the hair there will be strands lighter in color. It is possible to dye in the reverse technique, as a result of which the master applies paints with a color that will be even darker than the base color.

• The composition of the materials used. Depending on the type of dye used, contact with the hair shaft may be softer or intense. The main component determining the degree of reaction with curls is ammonia.

Like any hairdressing service, highlighting has certain positive and negative characteristics. For an objective study of this painting technique should consider its strengths.

• Due to partial coloring of the curls after highlighting, the hair shafts will be less damaged. As a rule, out of the total volume the master paints about a quarter of hair.
• Despite the coloring of only part of the curls, hair and haircut acquire visual volume, even on straight and thin hair.
• In contrast to the full coloring of the curls of medium length or the use of other techniques, the results of highlighting will be more natural, which will positively affect the general female image.
• Highlighting can effectively and permanently paint over gray hair of any degree and quantity.
• Over time, the regrown strands with dyed light or dark shades are not so visible difference in the area of ​​the roots. That is why correction is often not necessary.

However, this procedure is not without some drawbacks.

• This primarily concerns the condition of the hair after dyeing. In most cases, the hair shafts will suffer from dryness and brittleness. Therefore, after dyeing, special attention should be paid to moisturizing and nourishing the curls along the entire length.
• Like any other procedure, highlighting will need periodic color updates and corrections.
• The specificity of partial staining takes an impressive amount of time. This moment directly depends on the complexity of the chosen technology, length and thickness of hair.
• Self-staining requires some training and skill. But it may also be difficult to handle the entire length of the hair.
• In some cases, light curls may turn yellow over time.
• Hydrogen peroxide, which is a component, negatively affects the gloss of the strands.

There are a number of contraindications for such staining:

• skin diseases on the head;
• abrasions, inflammations, and so on;
• allergies and increased sensitivity of the skin to chemistry;
• from highlighting should refrain some time after the perm.

Setting yourself to change your image with the help of highlighting, you should study the most popular variations of this procedure.

A popular option for medium length hair. In the course of such staining can use any colors of paint. The essence of the technique lies in the preliminary clarification of the selected curls, after which the strands are tinted, so that on the head we end up with smooth transitions of one color to another. For work the cap or a foil can be used.

As a result of such highlighting, a visual volume is created on the hair due to the use of from 3 to 5 different shades of paint. There are very bold and fashionable options for dyeing dark hair in mauve or mauve shades. However, the American type of staining is also performed in more calm colors.

Quite a popular look for dark curls, which involves coloring individual strands with a harmonious and smooth color transition.

The essence of this type is to lighten the curls, which will look like burnt out naturally in the sun. Such highlighting is also distinguished by the complexity of implementation, since the master is faced with the task of correctly selecting the paint and its tone. As a rule, the coloring composition is applied to the hair in several approaches. And also for the Brazilian painting will require at least three shades for coloring.

The process of painting, the pursuit of creating on the hair a smooth shimmer of color with the transition from dark to light. Painting involves repainting wide and thin strands in the total mass.

An ultramodern kind of highlighting, which involves coloring the curls without separating them from the total mass, as a result of which a very smooth overflow of colors and shades is formed on the head of hair. As a rule, in work it is used 2 or 3 additional shades.

Today, actual colors are natural for highlighting strands. The task of a hairdresser in the salon before painting is to determine the client's color scheme, which will provide a more competent selection of colors for coloring compositions. In most cases, wheat and copper shades are used for highlighting, as well as light brown and coffee variations.

The youth direction in painting is the selection of bright strands in the hair, the color of which is chosen not only in the light of fashion trends, but also with respect to the color type of the woman. The actual will be gray, turquoise, purple and lilac shades. By hair type

In addition to the overall assessment of the appearance of women, experts also focus on the structure and condition of the hair shafts. Stylists recommend cutting hair before painting, as well as getting rid of thin and split ends. Similar flaws of curls can spoil the image created. Seen tips on bright colors in highlighting will be strongly struck in the eyes. Otherwise, for coloring hair can be both thin and thick and dense.

Be sure to before painting and choosing shades should pay attention to the oval of the face of a girl or woman. As practice shows, darker saturated tones will make the face more elongated, while the facial features will be too sharp.

Stylists chubby girls are recommended to stay on the options of dark chestnut, black or burgundy tones. As for platinum or blonde, in this case they should be avoided.

Light additional shades will help to visually add volume. As for the triangular type of face, stylists recommend for highlighting to choose a light red color, a warm blond. For the elongated oval face is to focus on the strands framing the face.

An important point is also the complexion. For a beautiful and perfectly smooth tones, you can use shades of platinum or light blond.

For normal skin, peanuts, honey or light brown shades are allowed. A wide face can be advantageously shaded with the help of basal volume with staining in light colors of curls in the temporal region.

For hairstyles with bangs, highlighting can be done in black, dark shades of red or copper, and the use of chocolate and ashy shades would be appropriate. Optimally suitable option for coloring bangs will help you choose a master.

In this case, consider the length, shape and thickness of the strands on the forehead. For long straight bangs, fine strands of light will be appropriate to refresh the exterior. For oblique bangs, the selection of small thin strips in the total hair volume would be a good option. Round bangs can be lightened with wide strands.

After highlighting, hair care should be carried out with specialized compositions for colored hair, which will help the hair shafts to recover and nourish. In addition, specialized formulations will take care of preserving color for a longer period.

Care after staining requires temporarily abandon the use of a hair dryer and curling. After dark hair dyeing and lightening, special attention will be deserved by tips, which should be regularly cut and moisturized, avoiding cross-section.

Beautiful dark hair will become even more attractive with the addition of warm straw and copper shades. The inclusion of several additional colors will make the hairstyle visually more lush, and a smooth overflow of color solutions will ensure the image of harmony.

In addition to the usual contrast of light and dark, highlighting chestnut curls can be done with the inclusion of eggplant color. The result of the work will be an interesting combination of several colors that will correspond to fashion trends, as well as add brightness and light to the image.

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