How to fix unsuccessful highlights?

Highlighting hair allows you to add brightness and showiness to a woman's image. Unfortunately, it is often not possible to achieve the desired result, and the errors of the would-be master also cause significant harm to the hair. You can fix unsuccessful staining of strands in different ways. Get acquainted with the recommendations on how to resuscitate curls, depending on the scale of the tragedy.

Usually, such a problem can occur if the procedure for dyeing the strands is performed by a beginner who is not yet familiar with the basic nuances of highlighting. Departure from the generally accepted technology, as well as our own experiments, not only harm the hair, but also worsen its health. Today we can distinguish several reasons for unsuccessful highlighting:

• the master neglected the strict proportions of the components to be mixed;
• unsuitable components have been selected for the procedure;
• the technology for the preparation of the highlighting agent has been violated;
• the dye composition is overexposed on the hair for more than the prescribed time;
• too aggressive oxidizing agent is used in the composition;
• the master took too wide or, conversely, too thin strands for dyeing;
• the composition is applied to the strands unevenly or in a thick layer;
• curls wrapped in foil casually;
• highlighting was performed on dyed hair.

To save the situation, you need to understand the reason for the unsuccessful staining. For example, if strands are unevenly highlighted or there are large indents from the roots, you can resort to re-lightening. In this case, the prepared composition must be applied only to the places of the required processing.

If highlighting on dark or light brown hair is done unevenly, in this case it is worth making an independent adjustment. With this problem, it will be more expedient to lighten not only the occipital strands: it will be necessary work with curls around the face, giving it freshness and giving a feminine image with brightness. This will create the visual effect of facial rejuvenation.

Explicit yellowness is also an unsuccessful lightening, which is obtained either when lightening dark hair, or with insufficient holding time of the composition on the treated strands. It is imperative to get rid of unpleasant yellowness. In this case, they usually resort to the use of blue-violet tonics.

One of the most effective methods of correcting unsuccessful highlighting is lamination hair. This procedure allows you to seal the split ends of the hair, reduce fragility, smooth out the sharp contrast of the color transition of highlighting. And also lamination of the strands will give them a healthy shine.

At homere-highlighting is undesirable... This can break your hair and cause hair loss. In addition, it is quite problematic to apply the brightening composition to the strands pointwise. Such work should be done by professionals, using more gentle dyes and techniques.

At home, you can try to wash off the highlights, doing it on the "do no harm" principle. In order to remedy the situation, you can resort to using permanent dyes... Such materials have the ability to delicately envelop the hair shafts without intrusion into the inner layers and exfoliation of the scales.

These coloring compositions are distinguished by a gentle type of effect; they are bought in cosmetic stores. Depending on the variety, materials are divided into two categories: for salons (professional) and home use... When choosing a shade, you need to pay attention to the color of the highlighted strands. Through such compositions, you can lighten the curls by a couple of tones, smoothing out the unsuccessful staining. After the procedure, the hair will regain the lost shine.

This technique is considered simple and feasible for any girl and involves the use shampoo tonic... It is used in case of an unnatural shade and allows you to remove yellowness after unsuccessful highlighting. The disadvantage of this method is short duration of effect: it will stay on the hair for no more than two weeks, or even less.

You can try to deal with the problem by buying a special wash-off compound in the store. If necessary, you can prepare such a mixture yourself. For example, you can make it from water and regular baking sodausing 2 tablespoons of the product in 2 liters of water.

You need to use the mixture as a rinse after shampoo.In this case, you need to use a variety of hair masks with a regenerating effect and leveling the tone.

This technique is more complicated than the others, it is important to observe the ratio when combining the components of the coloring composition. The technique implies mixing dye with corrector and an activating cream. To get rid of excess brightness, you should use a colorless corrector.

Before resorting to emergency correction after unsuccessful highlighting, you need to take note of a few nuances.

• Re-toning impossible immediately after visiting the salon. At least a week should pass, only after that you can think about a correction.
• When the highlighting shade close to natural hair color, there is no point in making any adjustments. After a couple of weeks, the color will even out on its own. It is enough just to use special shampoos.
• When you want instantly wash off highlights in the salon, you need to understand: the wash harms the hair structure. It is necessary to weigh the pros and cons, but for weak hair, washing is impossible.
• For correction you need to know the type of highlighting. For example, with a gentle technique (Californian, Venetian type), ordinary henna is enough. If the master performed the clarification according to the American method, then it will not be possible to fix the problem without professional paint based on an oxidizer on your own.

The yellow color of the highlighted strands, which appears with every wash of the hair, is the main problem that spoils the appearance of the hairstyle. It indicates that the master chose the shade incorrectly or neglected the rules of the highlighting technology. In this case, it is advisable to contact a professional who will handle the curls once a month. special solution. It is difficult to do such a procedure at home on your own, since only a specialist can correctly assess the condition of damaged hair and choose the correct concentration of the correcting agent.

At home you can only tint curls, thus masking the unsuccessful staining result. However, it is important to understand that along with a change in the shade of the highlighted strands the main shade of the native strands will also change... This technique is especially good for blondes; you need to apply a tint balm on wet hair. If the girl is afraid to use special means, you can resort to folk methods to eliminate the yellowness of the strands.

To do this, you can use white grape juicemixing it with shampoo in equal proportions and washing the strands from root to ends. You can use table vinegar as a rinse aid: it helps to quickly wash out the dye from the hair. Alternatively, one can use boiled onion skins... Strands are impregnated with this mixture, left overnight, and washed off in the morning. Sometimes bees are used for washing. honey and laundry soap.

If the girl is not too confident in her own abilities to correct the unsuccessful highlighting, you can turn to the professionals. As a rule, in this case, they can advise you to save the situation in three ways: root correction, reverse highlighting, elimination of yellowness... Root correction implies additional painting of the indents from the roots. It removes the effect of regrown highlights, especially noticeable on dark and light brown hair.

Frequent and narrow colored strands need back highlighting. In this case, you need to select a dye with a tone, close to the client's natural shade... In this case, hair treatment can only be done with a gentle composition. Professionals suggest masking yellowness and unnatural color of curls coloring... At the same time, light strands are first darkened, and then all hair is dyed. In addition to coloring, professionals select complex of caring and restorative procedures.

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