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Highlights Hairstyles
High lights or low lights are used to give a different and fresh look onto our hair. May be if you ever try high lights or low lights for any matter, you won’t need to have your hair cuts regularly.
High lights give minimum exposure for people to take notice of your hair which high lights give a glow to your natural hair, using only a single color to emphasize strands of hair. While low lights (preferred as streaks) makes use of complementary colors which are darker to give shade to your hair.
There are many high lights available for hair. How do you know what kind of high light to give compliment to your hair? There are dozens of hair highlight styles to choose from. How do you know the best way to highlight your hair? One of the simplest ways to highlight your hair easily and correctly is to have a professional help you. They can recommend appropriate colors to blend in with your natural hair, and help you change your highlights to match your moods or even the season.
There are many different hair highlight styles popular today. Here are some examples of popular highlight styles:
Hair Chunking - This technique is sometimes referred to as baliage technique and allows a stylist to apply color to the hair freely to create natural but chunky or fatter looking highlights. This technique originated in France and produces larger strands of color. You can use this technique (hair chunking) to emphasize a style or to highlight only certain sections of the hair.
Foil highlighting - Foil highlighting is a traditional way to highlight hair naturally. Foil highlights allow you to add texture and body to your hair by adding small sections of color to specific strands of hair.
Block coloring - Block coloring is less of a highlight technique and more of a means to color large section of hair a single color.
Low lighting - Low lights are a darker form of highlights; some refer to them as streaks. Usually this involves adding complementary colors to your hair a shade or two darker than your natural hair color. Many opt for lowlights instead of overall color for your hair. Lowlights can help add body and texture as well as deeper dimensions to your hairstyle.
Slicing - As it sounds using this technique the stylist will add highlights by slicing them into the hair for a dramatic appearance.
Ribbon coloring - This is also referred to as weaving where the stylist artfully weaves color into the natural base color.
Not sure what technique will best suit your hairstyle? Consult with your stylist. He or she should be able to offer you recommendations based on your hair texture, hair style and personal preferences. Many women opt for low lights during the winter months and highlights during the summer. You can usually easily interchange between the two at any time of year.
Maybe you prefer to do or apply high lights/ low lights at home? Well, it’s one of the most expensive ways to give your hair emphasis. Here are some tips to get you going with whatever kind of style you choose while doing it at home.
Be forewarned though this can lead to disaster if you aren't properly prepared. The first thing you need to realize is you should never attempt to highlight your hair more than one or two shades lighter than your natural hair color. While you can color your hair a few shades darker than normal, trying to lighten your hair color more than a couple of shades could lead to disaster. Orange, brittle and burnt hair often results, and that will cost more than a salon highlight job to fix in most cases.
If you do decide to highlight your hairstyle at home there are a number of easy to use products available on the market. Just remember to stick with a color similar to your own. If you can, enlist the assistance of a friend or family member who can help ensure you spread the color evenly throughout your hair. Worst case scenario? You can always color over your highlights with a block color if you decide you don't like them.
Here are simple steps more to guide you while enjoying hair lighting or low lighting at home.
A) Go to the store and purchase a home hair highlighting kit. It is safest, especially if this is your first time highlighting your hair, to choose a color only 2 to 3 shades lighter. Don’t stray too far from your natural color or the results could be less than stellar. If you have dark brown hairs try a light golden brown or dark blonde color. Blondes can get a great effect with subtle highlights in a blonde two shades lighter, such as light platinum blonde.
B) Consider the type of hair highlights you want. There is specific hair highlighting kits for each procedure. For highlights all through the hair a kit that uses a plastic highlighting cap is your best bet. For just a few highlights in the front or top of the hair a “paint on” kit with a specialized brush works best.
C) Select a room to work in. The bathroom is the best place to perform the highlighting. If not a bathroom then a well lit kitchen works too. You’ll want a place with good lighting, no carpet (in case of spills) and little clutter.
D) Draped an old towel over your shoulders to catch any color drips.
E) Read the directions accompanying your highlighting kit thoroughly before beginning. It is very important to follow the directions for the best results.
F) Tie the cap tightly but comfortably to your head if using the cap method. Use the provided metal hook to carefully pull fine pieces of hair through the cap’s holes. The traditional amount to pull through is a fine piece in every second hold in every second row for an all over highlighted effect. The smaller the section the more it will blend with your own hair color—thicker pieces will stand out more.
G) Comb your hair as you’d usually wear it is using the paint on method. Decide where you’d like to have your hair highlights placed. In the front bangs or along any part is a good place to start.
H) Apply the color as directed to the highlighting brush and brush the color through the areas you want highlighted. Be sure to have enough color on the brush to coat the sections of hair to be highlighted—but beware of excess color that may bleed or drip onto hair you don’t want colored.
I) Follow the timing directions suggested and keep the color on the full time.
J) Rinse your hair thoroughly as directed to remove all the color once the processing time is completed.
K) Dry your hair completely to check the color results. If there are any problems with the results consult the toll free help line of the company or seek the advice of a professional stylist.
Not sure what colors will look great on your hair? You could always consult with your stylist during your next haircut and ask them what they think. Mind you they are likely to encourage you to let them highlight your hair. As long as you don't mind a brief sales pitch, there is no harm in asking!