Highlights on dark hair, medium, long, short haircuts, with and without bangs. Who suits, what it looks like, how to do it step by step at home. A photo

Highlighting is a type of hair coloring method. It is popular with women and girls, regardless of age. The greatest effect of such highlighting is manifested on dark, long curls. Constantly evolving technologies and methods make it possible to refresh a woman's appearance, add shine to her hair, lush volume and color to her hair.

Shades suitable for highlighting dark hair

When choosing a highlighting shade, one should take into account the individual characteristics of a woman's external data, skin color, face contour and many other factors.

It is necessary to take into account the condition and structure of the hair and, based on these indicators, choose the best option. For dark shades of strands, muted tones of caramel, honey, milk chocolate and coffee shades are acceptable.

Highlighting performed with thin long strands looks natural and natural on dark hair, and wide and light stripes will add extravagance and style to the hairstyle. With this technique of processing curls, only the dyed areas of the hair are exposed to chemical action, which is a gentle dyeing option and does not affect the entire scalp.

Highlighting on dark hair with toning

Highlighting on dark long hair can create a great effect and change the image using toning. Dark colored strands are an excellent base for dyeing them in shades of different colors.

Highlighting is carried out in a certain sequence in stages:

1. Preparing a bleaching compound, the necessary tools and a hat with slots or foil.
2. The hair is divided into strands that are pulled through the holes in the cap.
3. The prepared lightening composition is applied to the prepared curls for a certain period of time.
4. After the discoloration time has elapsed, the composition is washed off with water and shampoo. If the desired result is not achieved, the clarification procedure is repeated.

After a few days, it is recommended to tint the clarified curls with special toning dyes to smooth out the transitions between colors. Toners bring pigment into bleached hair, covering each hair with a protective film and protecting it from dryness and breakage.

Tinting compositions of one or several colors are applied for the required time until the desired effect is obtained. The thickness, placement and distribution of the strands must be uniform in order to obtain the desired staining result.

Highlights for dyed dark hair

Despite the effect of highlighting on dark long hair, care should be taken when performing the procedure on hair previously dyed dark. It is necessary to maintain the interval between full hair coloring and highlighting for a month. This period is necessary to avoid chemical damage to the hair structure.

If, after dyeing, the hair has lost its elasticity, shine, become brittle and dull, then before highlighting it needs to be treated and restored with the help of medical masks or balms.

Colored hair lightens longer and harder than natural dark curls and the procedure is performed in several steps. A feature is the fact that the desired color of curls is not obtained at once and not always the desired shade. For dyed hair, the highlighting method using foil is effective.

The methods involve wrapping each strand to be dyed in foil, which protects adjacent curls from paint exposure:

1. With the help of clips and a comb, divide the hair into areas of future highlighting, tie up excess hair or cover it.
2. Separate the strands for highlighting from the selected curls and apply a pre-prepared bleaching composition to them.
3. As the dyeing progresses, wrap each strand in foil and secure with a clip for the required time.
4. After the lightening time has elapsed, rinse the composition with the strands first with water, and then using shampoo, which neutralizes the effect of the oxidizer on the hair.
5. Apply an emollient mask or balm for a few minutes and rinse with warm water.

You can enhance or diversify the effect by subsequent toning in shades that are in harmony with the main color. Soft honey, fire or red shades are best combined with dark hair.

Classic highlights on dark hair

Highlighting on dark long hair involves lightening individual curls or strands along the entire length of the hair. This technology can be performed in two ways - frequent and rare, depending on the condition and type of hair.

A rare type of highlight is used for large strands of thick or curly curls, while frequent highlights are used for straight hair.

Thin strands are lightened and painted in several tones of color of different intensity and saturation, which gives them a more natural and natural look. In this case, the strands are selected thin and uniform with carefully selected color alternation.

In order not to create a sharp contrast, the thickness of the colored strands should be within 3-4 mm, and after highlighting, it is recommended to tint the treated strands.

For the classic highlighting option, a plastic cap or bag with slots or foil, a comb and a brush is required.

1. Pull thin strands through the slots of the hat or bag.
2. Apply the brightening composition to the prepared hair bundles and cover with foil for the required period of time.
3. Rinse treated hair with water and shampoo.
4. Apply tinting dyes with a difference of several tones for a certain time.
5. Wash off the tonic with warm water.

Zone highlighting

Zonal highlighting is not applied to the entire scalp, but only to certain areas in the region of the crown and temporal parts near the face.

For what:

• the colored strands rise;
• the unprocessed part is covered with foil or cellophane;
• the working composition is applied to the selected curls for the required time;
• at the end of the staining time, the composition is washed off with shampoo.

Bronzing for dark hair

Hair bronzing is intended to create an effect of increased hair volume, as close as possible to the natural look, using 3-4 similar shades. Each strand is lightened or colored 1-2 tones higher than the previous one, creating a visual effect of the volume of the hairstyle. It is also carried out using foil or a special cap, depending on the length of the hair.

Ombre for dark hair

Ombre hair dyeing technology includes classic and contrasting options. The classic method involves a smooth flow of one color from a dark shade to a light shade, creating the appearance of burnt hair ends with dark roots.

To obtain this result, hair is dyed in several steps:

• first, the composition is applied to the ends of the hair for the longest time;
• the composition is washed off after the required time;
• paint is applied to the next section of hair, 4-5 cm wide for a shorter period of time;
• washed off again;
• the composition is applied to the next part of the hair for even less time.

The root part of the hair remains in its native or base color, and turns into a light color closer to the edges. Ombre looks beautiful not wavy hair.

The contrasting ombre method involves dyeing hair in the same way, only in bright contrasting colors.

Coloring for dark hair

Coloring is a method of partially dyeing individual curls in a different color, or completely dyeing all hair in different colors. It is also practiced to paint individual areas in a contrasting color.

The method involves the use of several dyes at the same time and requires constant adjustments and coloring of the roots. The coloring of extravagance and eccentricity stands out, looks gorgeous and suits young girls and women.

Highlights on black hair with foil

When performing highlighting of black hair, it should be borne in mind that their color pigment is the most stable of all the others, therefore, the highlighting procedure is the longest.

The most acceptable option for black hair is to use foil. For short to medium length hair, you can use a perforated cap, and for long hair, you will need foil strips for two lengths of the entire curl.

If a hat is used, then the strands stretched in a checkerboard pattern are covered with a dye or brightening agent and covered with foil for 35-45 minutes. Then, without removing the cap, the reagent is washed off.

On long hair:

• foil is placed under each strand along the entire length and a working composition is applied;
• the strip of foil is wrapped up and covers the colored strand so that the composition does not touch adjacent curls;
• hair is washed with running water directly with foil;
• strands are freed from foil and all hair is washed using shampoo and balm.

Tinting agents are used to smooth out the color.

Blonding

The blonding process is a method of flushing out natural or artificial, dark pigment from the hair structure. In one blonding procedure, the desired result may not be achieved, given the original hair color. On dark hair, the effect is achieved after 2-3 lightening procedures.

Blondorant is applied to unwashed strands of hair, which are wrapped in foil and aged for 25-40 minutes. Then rinse off and apply a regenerating mask or balm. To prevent hair damage, the procedure can be repeated no earlier than 2-3 weeks.

California highlights

The effect of sun-bleached curls provides a California highlight. You can do it without foil or a hat, evenly coloring individual small curls in 3-4 shades of one tone of paint, stepping back a few centimeters from the roots.

After half an hour, rinse off the paint and tint the dyed strands from dark to light tone at the ends of the curls, performing manipulations from top to bottom. This method gives the appearance of burnout and highlights in the hair by stretching the color from dark to light.

Partial highlights on dark hair

Partial highlighting is performed on separate wide and thin curls, at the ends of the strands in the form of feathers. To do this, it is enough to tie the hair into bundles and apply a lightening or dye composition with a brush to the ends of the bundles, or paint over the entire length of the selected curls.

You can also lighten only part of the hair at the crown, then evenly distribute it over the entire head. After the roots grow back, it is not necessary to tint them, and the hairstyle will change by itself.

Balayazh

The technique of highlighting "Balayazh" refers to sparing types, since it does not provide for dyeing a large amount of hair, but only a few small strands in the crown region and in the temporal part at a distance of 12-15 cm from the hair roots.

This method of highlighting is useful when growing your own hair color to hide the transition between the color of the roots and regrown dyed hair. Thin strands along the face in the temporal region favorably emphasize the oval of the face. All you need to highlight is a paint brush. The adjacent curls are partially painted over and create a smooth transition between hair shades.

What is the difference between highlighting long hair and dyeing short and medium curls?

A distinctive feature of highlighting long hair before dyeing short curls is:

• a more natural overall look of hair;
• only a small part of the hair is exposed to chemical oxidants, and when dyeing short ones, the entire volume of the hair is processed;
• in case of an unsuccessful procedure, reverse highlighting is possible;
• Many types of highlighting do not affect the root part of the hair;
• After hair regrowth, root dyeing is not always required.

It is easier for the master to work with short and medium curls, and some types of painting and highlighting can be done at home yourself. For similar manipulations with long hair, it is better to contact a master.

Highlighting can be done to all women and girls who have long, and especially dark hair, regardless of their age.

Modern techniques offer many options for young girls and older women, you just need to decide on the appropriate highlighting method. This transformation has become possible thanks to the development of new dyeing technologies and their use in practice.

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