Highlights with toning on light brown hair

Highlighting with toning on light brown hair is one of the most frequent procedures for the transformation of hair. This coloring technique allows you to experiment with color without harm to the hair. In addition, there are a number of advantages to such staining.

Highlighting is one of the very first procedures, which appeared after a uniform staining. It consists in lightening individual strands of hair with the help of special dyes.

Toning is a relatively recent procedure, the basis of which is to change the hair color with the help of gentle dyes. They, in turn, hold on to the hair for a short time. However, this procedure is able to correct an unsuitable (yellow, purple, greenish) shade of hair after highlighting, which often happens when stained at home or with non-professionals.

There are a number of advantages to the highlighting technique with toning.

• Both of these procedures are considered the most gentle for hair. When highlighting, not all hairs are exposed, but only individual curls. Tinting, in turn, involves the use of only ammonia-free products for the strands, which allows them to preserve the integrity of the structure.
• Wide color palette. Depending on individual preferences and appearance for coloring it is possible to pick up both warm, and cold scale of shades. And for experiments with color, you can choose any shade for toning, which in a short time will wash off from the curls.
• Naturalness and naturalness. With the help of highlighting, blond hair can be slightly refreshed, giving them a new natural shine and beauty. Toning will allow to emphasize this beauty, make them smoother due to keratin, which is contained in the composition of gentle paints.
• Highlighting can visually increase the volume, which is especially true for thin and weak hair. Separate strands of contrasting color, highlighted with a tinted tool, will complete this image.
• This technique perfectly masks hair problems including gray hair and a natural non-uniform shade.
• Highlighting can reduce hair fat, thereby giving them a more well-groomed look.
• After using this technique hair can be permedincluding chemical rectification.
• Highlighting with toning allows hair look natural even for a long time. The fact is that with such a technique, regrown roots look natural, and if desired, they can be toned with individual strands.
• Easy to care and use. Highlighting as well as subsequent toning can be carried out at home without the presence of special tools.

However, this staining technique is not ideal, and it has drawbacks:

• toning is a very short-lived coloring, so after a week you can see that the color has faded or completely washed out;
• toning is a gentle coloring, which is why it can not lighten hair;
• dramatically change the hair color does not work, toning is able to dye only 2, maximum 3 tones in contrast to the original shade;
• It is possible that the shade will turn out to be non-uniform or with so-called spots and spaces.

The light brown shade is an excellent basis for highlighting with toning, since the pigment turns out to be brighter and more saturated. It should be remembered about the main points when choosing a color.

• Choosing a shade, you should rely on the natural hair color. So, honey-colored, sandy, caramel shade is suitable for light brown hair. For dark-brown, you should look at the pearl, nutty, platinum, brandy shades.
• Choosing a color for toning, you should remember about the color of your skin and eyes. For light-blond girls with green or blue eyes and light skin, cold coloring will be suitable. In this case, you should choose an ashen, coffee, silver shade. For girls with darker skin and brown eyes, golden, amber shades will do.
• The color depth is also affected by the composition of the coloring matter. If you need to give brightness to a faded shade, then you should choose a palette close to the original color of the curls, choosing a tool with an intense degree of staining. These colors will keep the pigment on the hair up to two months. For a cardinal change of color, but for a short time, it is worth choosing a paint of a light degree of intensity. It is washed off already for 2-3 days.
• The gentle degree of coloring matter can retain the pigment for up to 1-2 weeks. Regardless of the degree of intensity of paint, experts recommend choosing a shade that is close to the natural color, as it always looks more subtle and neat. In addition, naturalness in the beauty industry is now in vogue.

Any hair needs careful care, but dyed curls require more careful and attentive treatment. In order to preserve their color and health, you should follow simple rules.

• After highlighting with toning, you must use special tools, which include sulfate-free shampoo, balm or rinse for colored or blond hair, nourishing mask.
• Streaked hair requires more nutrients. Once a week it is worth making masks, rinsing them with a decoction of herbs.
• It is better to use toning agents no more than 2-3 times a month for renewal and cumulative effect of color.
• Painted curls are more susceptible to fragility and dryness. Do not often dry them with a hairdryer, stay in the sun for a long time without a headdress or wash them with hot water.
• Do not forget to cut the ends of the hair once a month.
• You should not comb wet hair, and also it is not recommended to go to bed with such strands.
• It is not necessary to highlight the hair after they were dyed with henna, since the henna pigment in reaction with the dye can get a non-uniform shade with yellow or green color.
• After highlighting, the specialists do not recommend toning the hair right away, you must wait 3-4 days. This is necessary to fully absorb the light pigment in the structure of the curl.

You will learn more about highlighting with toning on light brown hair in the following video.