Rare highlighting: features and technique

For women who dream to change their image, but are not ready for radical staining, rare highlighting will be the best option for coloring. This technique is distinguished by safety and minimal trauma to the hair, and in its effect is in no way inferior to more modern types of coloring.

Everyone knows that traditional highlighting covers about half of the hair, and the rare one affects even less, since in this case the hairdresser processes only certain sections of the hair. Accordingly, in just minutes, any woman can get a brighter image and at the same time will not cause much harm to her hair. Thanks to rare highlighting, you can:

• to give strands extra volume and pomp;
• visually correct the flaws of the facial contours;
• underline saturation and color depth;
• to rejuvenate the face, diverting attention from wrinkles and a swam contour to the golden colors of curls;
• present the hairstyle in the best light.

Rare highlights are often called “feathers”, while the specialist selects fine strands and dyes them in a contrasting color, leaving most of the shoals of hair unaffected. The technique is successfully used in both short-haired women and girls with medium and long curls.

There are the following techniques of short highlighting.

• Surface bleaching of upper hair - It usually goes well with a graduated haircut.

• Coloring the lower strands - such a performance visually creates an "internal illumination." A similar effect of illumination looks very elegant on young ladies with red and brown curls.

• Coloring strands framing face - in this case, a visual “dripping” of the shade is created, which allows to emphasize the oval of the face.

• Classic feathers - this type of coloring is used for short hair.

• Highlighting tips - usually it is produced in shades as close as possible to the native color, which allows you to create the effect of strands faded in the sun.

• Lightening pryadok on individual parts of the stacks - this technique is called zonal, usually it is used for owners of asymmetrical haircuts.

• Crown coloring - This option makes the image more mischievous and flirtatious, if the haircut involves bangs, then in this version it is captured too.

• Highlighting bangs - This is one of the basic trends of recent seasons.

The main "competitor" of rare highlighting is frequent. This technique has been at the peak of popularity for a decade and is not going to give up its positions. Frequent highlighting involves dyeing 45-60% curls, all other hair or not painted at all, or tinted sparing compositions. This procedure is carried out using a special cap or foil.To the technique of resorting young ladies who want to visually brighten the hair on a couple of tones.

Small highlighting has many advantages:

• effectively hides gray hair;
• changes the image without repainting the whole head of hair;
• It allows the most gentle way to restore the native color with unsuccessful staining.
• However, the technology has drawbacks:
• the procedure lasts about 5 hours, and a good result is possible only when contacting an experienced master;
• highlighting is not done on newly painted curls.

The difference between the types of highlighting is that the rare looks more expressive, because the colored strands are at a distance from each other. Thus, rare highlighting is intended to place accents rather than create overflows, as is possible with frequent highlighting. Of the advantages of technology should be indicated:

• the most gentle technology - coloring affects two times less hair than with frequent highlighting, therefore, a woman does not face the problem of hair breakage, drying out and cutting the tips;
• rare highlighting, in contrast to the full, does not require regular adjustment and tinting of the roots;
• does not take much time.

However, there are downsides:

• rare highlighting is not suitable for women who have a gray hair over a third of their hair;
• it is difficult for a non-professional master to determine the shaggy part that is optimal for dyeing.

Choosing the right shade for rare highlighting is not an easy task, here you should take into account a whole complex of factors - the color type, the native shade of the hair, the structure of the strands and the condition of the hair in general. The universal tones include coffee, chocolate and beige shades, walnut and golden honey are popular. These tones are well combined with light and chestnut curls. But the owners of black hair fit eggplant, blueberry or light purple shades, and for the most natural look it is better to stay at the chocolate tones.

For the most creative girls who love to shock the public, we can recommend emerald, blue, crimson and lilac tones. However, keep in mind that such solutions look good only on young girls and in the appropriate setting, therefore, it is better to carry out such staining with quickly flushable colors.

Brown eyes are in harmony with chocolate, copper, bronze and blond-melirovaniem. To gray eyes suitable toning pink and wheat shades. For blue and blue eyes the best would be the use of caramel, honey and reddish hues. Green eyes are very fond of copper and red tones.

Warm skin tone looks good with warm shades on the hair, respectively, cold skin requires cold strands. But the neutral tone of the face is universal, it allows you to use any color strands, so here you need to focus on other parameters.

Girls with a color type fall and winter, as a rule, have dark hair, while autumn looks harmoniously in caramel and red hues, and winter requires the use of honey, nutty colors, as well as shades of blond, cinnamon and milk chocolate. For girls with spring and summer color types, the shade for highlighting should be selected in accordance with the color of eyes and skin.

Rare highlighting, as already mentioned, involves staining a small number of strands of a certain thickness in any desired shade. The desired effect is achieved through the use of several techniques.

• Red highlighting - in this case, paint of any contrasting color is applied to the wide strands. This method is optimal for the fair sex with thick curls.

• Coloring highlights - paint is applied to selected strands 1-2 tones lighter than the main head of hair. This effect creates an imitation of the play of sunlight on the curls, usually the clarified areas are tinted with amber hues. The technique is used for hair of any type.

• Partial highlighting - in this case, only bangs or several strands are dyed, as a rule, near the face. Although possible options for toning curls at the crown or on asymmetrically clipped areas of hair. This option is optimal for owners of medium-length hair.

Despite the fact that the technique of rare highlighting refers to sparing, yet part of the hair is exposed to aggressive coloring pigments, so the strands after dyeing can be dry, brittle and lifeless, which significantly impairs the overall look of the hair. To avoid this, you should regularly carry out healing and regenerating procedures for hair - for this you need to use professional care complexes (masks, balsams and oils).

To get the shade to please you as long as possible, try to avoid any heat exposure. - It is better to dry the hair in a natural way or in the mode of cold blowing. But styling with curling irons and irons should be minimized altogether, since heating makes the shade more dull and less pronounced, with rare highlights it can negate all efforts to dye the hair.

Rare highlighting is a technique that allows you to create stylish effects on the hair, emphasizing the originality of nature, gives the appearance of courage, audacity and expression.

Such coloring looks harmoniously on light, blond and dark hair, and toning can be as natural as possible, as well as contrast.

How to make hair highlights, see the following video.