Hair highlighter – find out how to highlight your hair in the best way possible!

Let’s be honest highlights will always be in vogue. Adding this extra tones to your dye job is giving us the texture and dimension to all of the hair types.

It is not that hard to do as it might seems to be, you can use at home highlighting kits and do it on your own. Keep reading thre article to find out how to do that and much more about highlight hair!

How to highlight hair at home like a professional colorist?

That’s right you can reach a beautiful hair highlights at home. There are couple of steps to reach a beautiful at home gloss! Here goes our instructions for you:

1. First step is to consult with the colorist. This will help you understand what you are just about to do. The colorist will for sure tell you that the box photos are never the same. That’s why you should get an advice from specialist when you are about to do your own highlights.
2. Second step is to find the right at home highlighting kits for your hair. Now when you talked about the highlights with a professionalist you have gained some informations that are going to help you in choosing.
3. Gather needed materials. It is a good idea to ask the colorist to order the right materials for you! However if you are going for a kit or a box you will have everything there, starting with gloves finishing with an application bottle.
4. Now it could be a good idea to perform a standard test. To do this test you will have to take a small sliver of hair and apply your color solution. This will show you how the final look will turn out.
5. Then you will choose the method. There in fact are many ways to physically highlight the hair. Hairdresser might use foils, they might also do balayage or he/she may backcomb your ends before using foils and then stick you under a dryer for an hour.
6. When you choosed the method now just section your hair. You should start with clipping into three sections.
7. At this point you will have to paint the strands. Very important is to apply around the hairline you should take a fine slice of your hair. You can do that with tail comb. To be honest the most important thing is to apply the bleach in the way not to touch the scalp skin.
8. Apply the toner now. Those actions helps you to neutralize the intense yellow shade that appears from bleaching. Keep is simple when it comes to the toner check the color of bleached hair and then apply it.
9. The last step is to do deep conditioner treatment and then just blow dry and cross check your beautiful new hair highlights.

Types of highlights that you could do on your own hair

There are couple types of highlights. Here goes some of the common types you should know of before you will decide on doing your at home hair color.

1. blended blonde – in fact anyone can have this type, no matter the hair color or hair type,
2. curlights – this one is indeed very cute type of highlights it is a hao of lighter color which is around your face thart will draw the attention,
3. lit carmel – those highlights in a very soft way to contour the face. Darker brunettes you will have to highlight every three to six months since the overall foundation of the hair is still dark,
4. wispy babylights – those looks like they were sun-kissed highlights. They looks like they were melting into the hair.

What color should be expected?

Each person has got a different tone and different color of their hair. Here goes the results that you might be expecting:

• dark brown hair are supposed to turn chestnut brown or orange,
• medium brown hair shades may in fact turn brown with a golden hue,
• red hair may turn out orange or evn blonde,
• darker blond her might turn light blonde,
• lighter blonde hair may turn white-blonde.

Facts and tips about at home hair color

• there are couple of ways to highlights your hair like for example single process color. If you go for this one remember to choose a semi- or demi-permanent color to help your color fade over time but not leaving a longer-lasting stain on the hair what will create more work to correct later,
• you should stick to your hairline if you got a blonde hair color and try using DpHue’s Blonding Brush,
• you can bleach your hair without using bleach, however you shouldn’t go for diy way’s that contains hydrogen peroxide, baking soda or even white vinegar,
• if you are a brunette your best choice is Revlon Color Effects Frost and Glow Highlights Honey,
• use a shampoo as well as conditioner if you colored your hair to keep the hue vibrant for longer,
• it would be the best for your hair to be at least four levels lighter than your natural base color,
• you can notice a grown-out roots after six weeks or so,
• there is also something called hand painted highlights what means using hands to create highlights,
• if your at home highlights won’t turn out well you can always go to the beauty salon for a color correction,

Conclusion

Are you bored of your natural color? We showed you how to lighten your own hair in a safe way, however you should remember that there is no need to do that (even with our directions) if you feel like you can’t do that. Wait for your colorist to lighten your hair in the right way.