Fashion trends in hair highlighting

Every girl wants to look not only beautiful and stylish, but also correspond to the current trends in the fashion world. Highlighting is one of the most popular modern coloring methods, so the topic of the relevance of this method arouses genuine interest in many girls.

The first successful attempts at highlighting appeared back in 1960. The innovator of this technology was the still little-known French hairdresser Jacques Dessange. This is not the only discovery of a hairdresser in the fashion world: the famous women's garcon haircut, experiments with perming hair - all this came out thanks to the talented hands of Dessange. Today, thousands of beauty salons are open all over the world under his name.

And for more than 5 decades, highlighting has remained one of the most common methods of hair coloring., which in the usual case would mean the imminent extinction of the popularity of this dyeing technology.

Girls with streaked curls can be found literally every day - on TV, in fashion magazines, and just the street is full of fashionistas who appreciated this technique. Let's take a look at the main positive reasons why highlighting is still at the peak of its relevance.

• Modern methods of hair dyeing allow you not to risk hair health. Already today, there are gentle paints and brighteners that only slightly lighten the hair - within 30-40%, thanks to which you simultaneously get the desired appearance of the hair without causing severe harm to it.
• High-quality highlighting stays on the hair for a long time (3-4 months) - for girls with long hair, this effect lasts longer. If the type of highlighting is chosen without affecting the hair roots, this effect can persist for six months or more, in contrast to the usual coloring, which must be carried out regularly to maintain the saturation of the hair.
• The highlighting technique is great for any hairstyle, type, color and length of hair. The same applies to age restrictions, which this technique is not burdened with.
• Highlighting is one of the cheapest hair coloring techniques. As a rule, only two shades are involved in the procedure - third-party and natural, therefore, neither the master nor the fashionista herself needs to buy a large amount of expensive coloring agents.
• One of the main advantages of highlighting is the creation of natural volume through the "effect of sun-bleached hair." Thanks to the smooth color transitions, the hair looks voluminous, shiny, and most importantly - healthy.
• The XXI century offers a huge number of varieties of highlighting - even the most sophisticated fashionista can find something, really, to her liking.
• Highlighting will not be difficult to do at home, it is a long, but quite feasible procedure for every beauty.

Highlights have their own minuses, which, even in spite of the rapid passage of time and the development of more and more new and perfect hair coloring techniques, survived from the second half of the 20th century.

• Any coloring, even partial, as is the case in the case of highlighting, causes some harm to the hair. Highlighted hair without proper care can quickly weaken, lose density and healthy appearance. Usually, such problems appear after using low-quality paints or due to brute force with the duration of wrapping.
• It is not recommended to highlight recently colored hair or hair that has been permed. In this case, there is a greater risk of getting a completely unexpected result - due to conflicts in the composition of different paints.
• Girls with already weakened and damaged hair should also refrain from momentary highlights. After this procedure, the hair will weaken even more. We advise you to heal and restore your natural curls first, and then experiment with color.
• Highlighting on hair dyed with natural dyes is especially undesirable. Lightening the curls will have to be done in several stages (which, again, is another stress for the curls), since natural dyes, such as henna, are very poorly lightened.

The current season offers us a huge scope for imagination in hair coloring, which also applies to highlighting itself. At the moment, this technique is characterized by different directions.

• Coloring is going through a period of "breaking patterns", where only natural, natural and close to them shades look most impressive and attractive. For the highlighting technique, this period is a real find, since even the most radical coloring of such a plan preserves the natural color of the hair, only giving it more volume and freshness.

• Until recently, in the tasks of highlighting, the saturation of hair with color was considered, more aggressive methods of dyeing were used to highlight hair in the general bow of a beauty. Today, high-quality highlighting is appreciated for its simplicity - highlighted curls will look the most advantageous by only 1-2 tones lighter or darker than natural ones.This method renews the hairstyle, giving it more dynamics.

Let's take a closer look at the most winning hair shades this season.

The current season is pretty sparse for dark hair experiments. Any luxurious dark hairstyle is designed to sparkle in the center of attention, while dark curls are offered modest naturalness and spontaneity this season.

At the moment, there are several dyeing techniques in trend for dark hair.

• Venetian highlights - selective lightening of strands in the head of hair, starting from the ends of the hair. Used shades: caramel, wheat tones, honey and nut shades.

• Classic highlighting - the best option that will never go out of style. Looks equally good with any texture and hair length.

• Armor technique - slight highlighting by dyeing certain strands in soft chocolate and chestnut tones.

• Veil technique or lightening hair ends with the further use of styling products for styling. Renews the hairstyle, gives a natural shine.

For light brown hair, the current trends in highlighting are a real find, with this hair color ash, golden and platinum shades will look great. Let's take a closer look at the successful highlighting techniques for light brown hair.

• Shatush - a fashionable technique designed to give the hair more saturation and brightness. Last season, it was one of the most winning options for fair-haired girls, whose curls often lacked natural brightness. This season, shatush does not accept flashy aggressive shades, only calm tones with gradual transitions.

• California highlights - the popularity of this type is justified by the natural shine on the hair and the rare effect of solar overflow. Together with natural light brown hair, these strands look just great.

• Bronding using ash, coffee and chocolate shades - this technique aims to give your hair more depth.

The current fashion season has not been stingy with dyeing experiments for owners of blonde hair. Below we briefly consider the current methods of such highlighting.

• Classic highlighting will never lose its relevance - selectively lightened or darkened by 1-2 tones curls will give the hair more depth, refresh the hairstyle, and focus on the necessary facial features. Highlighting of the "classic" type is performed by dyeing individual strands on small pieces of foil so as not to hurt natural curls.

• Still popular highlighting light hair with selective dyeing of strands in darker tones. Such an image will surely give the overall bow more dynamics, it can add harmony to color schemes in your clothes. The colors used in this case: light chestnut, auburn, copper.

• Bronded highlighting like ombre. This highlighting involves a smooth change in the shade of the hair from the roots (dark) to the ends of the hair (as light as possible). Used shades for darkening hair: coffee, chocolate, oak, dark caramel.

• The most elegant and mysterious highlighting option for blonde hair is ash highlighting technique... Ash blonde is one of the most controversial, but certainly fashionable shades for coloring. Suitable for both very young girls and older ladies with an excellent sense of taste.

Despite its unique natural beauty, all red-haired girls suffer from one problem - over time, such hair quickly loses its saturation and brightness, dims and loses volume. Highlighting is the perfect way out of the situation.The right shades will not only give the hairstyle the same depth, but also decorate them with unique solar tints and new bright tones.

Present to your attention popular techniques for highlighting red hair in the current season.

• Selective and zonal staining thin red curls in pastel colors with nutty, honey and wheat shades.

• Highlighting with light tones: golden, sunny, platinum shades. The option is suitable for warm color types such as summer and autumn - with light or dark / creamy skin.

• Dark highlights - ideal for girls of autumn color type (dark eyes, light skin). For red-haired girls with this color type, rich chocolate and coffee shades are great.

• Scarlet staining. Red color in red hair will only add saturation and shine to the entire hairstyle. Strawberry, wine, crimson shades can fit perfectly here, depending on the color of your natural hair.

Let's take a closer look at the most relevant and winning highlighting techniques today. Each of these techniques is good and unique in its own way.

Light classic type. Unlike other types of highlighting, this type causes the minimum amount of damage to the curls and changes the natural hair color to a minimum. In this case, the masters use the minimum range of shades, and the coloring is based on ammonia-free coloring solutions. To this type, you can also add partial highlighting of hair - up to medium length, only bangs or only the ends of curls.

Ombre in the modern sense is a technique of highlighting curls, in which smooth color transitions of shades on the hair are observed. It can be both natural shades that are most similar to each other, and cardinally contrasting ones. The technique usually uses 2 or 3 basic shades, the effect of uniformity is achieved by gradual shading.

The staining method itself was named after one of the American states. It was in hot California that girls from prolonged exposure to the sun received the famous effect of burnt hair, which gives the curls a visual volume and attractive sun glare and play.

The current fashion season, as we have already said, encourages any natural hairstyle, and therefore unpretentious but stylish Californian highlighting has every chance of breaking out into the leading positions of successful and relevant hairstyles. The plus of such highlighting in uniform smooth transitions from the hair roots to the very ends, where the roots remain unchanged, and the tips are 2-3 tones lighter or darker.

The most successful tones for Californian highlights are selected based on the color of your natural hair and the color of your eyes. Increasingly, there is a clear prevalence of gentle, soft pastel shades in hairstyles: honey, golden, soft chestnut, wheat tones.

The American type of highlighting, like the Venetian, was originally developed for women and girls with dark and black curls. It was intended to give them a little more natural volume by supplying the hair with light gradient overflows.

If in the Venetian and California highlighting a maximum of 2-3 shades were used, then in this case the masters could experiment with 3-4 tones to give the hair the coveted glossy effect. This effect is achieved by applying dye or clarifier only to the front of the hair, without affecting the lower layer.

New for the season is the trend towards American highlights with soft caramel and chestnut shades on dark or even black curls. This effect looks most successful with long, slightly curly curls.

The peculiarity of Venetian highlighting is in the extremely selective lightening of individual thin strands of hair. This creates an overall slight sun discoloration effect. The technique itself came to us from Italian fashionistas at the end of the 20th century. Fashionistas specially spent whole hours under the Italian sun in order to achieve at least minimal light reflections on the hair. Italy is a country of dark-haired and dark-skinned women, and therefore the sun glare on such curls was especially appreciated.

If before the current season it was fashionable to use bright and sometimes even contrasting shades in this type of highlighting, then today, the preference is given to all the same naturalness. The difference between the tones of bleached and natural hair should be literally minimal, and thin curls, which were previously distributed throughout the head of hair in complete disarray, now fit in close proximity to each other.

If we consider the differences between the Californian and Venetian highlighting styles, then the first type was initially aimed at fair-haired ladies who wanted to give their hairstyle more depth and naturalness, while the second was intended for dark hair and served to refresh them and update the entire image of the girl.

Highlighting is a picky option for coloring curls; it does not require any special hairstyle or styling from you. With streaked curls, both short haircuts such as a bob and a bob and long hairstyles such as a cascade or a ladder can look stylish.

This staining technique offers just a huge number of staining options. This can be either a gentle highlighting with the color of only one ends, or a full-fledged ombre type with a bright contrast between tones.

In the next paragraph, you can familiarize yourself with successful examples of highlighting for short, long and medium curls with different types and colors of curls. There we will also provide you with examples of stylish haircuts with highlights for the current season.

Stars, models and actresses are the best examples to showcase the most current hair coloring and haircut techniques. Consider the most successful examples of hair highlights:

• Californian hair highlighting;

• American highlighting;

• gentle highlighting;

• classic highlighting;

• highlighting with extraordinary shades.

Watch the video - highlighting with veil technique.