Highlights for short dark hair

Highlighting is a special technique for dyeing individual strands in lighter or contrasting shades. For short hair, the technique is considered a fairly easy and quick process, which allows you to change the usual hairstyle to a more spectacular, fashionable and stylish one.

It is believed that highlighting is a more gentle technique than full coloring or highlighting, since only part of the hair is colored. Selected strands are usually discolored and then tinted. Thanks to this sequence of actions, you can ensure that a pure shade is obtained, create soft overflows on the hair and visually add a shock of splendor and density.

The peculiarity of highlighting on short strands is the use of rather saturated shades of light, as well as dark and colored tones, thanks to which you can create absolutely any image - from gentle and cute to bold, daring and shocking. On short strands, highlighting is very simple - the paint is distributed over them quite quickly, does not drain and does not leave gaps and streaks. By using thin or wide strands, you can visually change the volume of the shock and focus on such interesting details as:

• asymmetrical areas (bangs and strands);
• an unusually processed occiput area;
• shaved whiskey or, on the contrary, elongated.

Nowadays, there are at least several dozen varieties of highlighting, which differ from each other in the technique used, color palette and coloring characteristics. For curls less than 15 cm long, the following options are most in demand.

• Peek-A-Boo - This is highlighting, in which the strands are lightened, and then many thin strands of a darker shade are added to the lower part of the discolored area. This performance makes the hair more lush, and the color - deep and rich, professional masters pay special attention to the temporal region and bangs, due to this, it is possible to most advantageously emphasize all the advantages of appearance and visually smooth out the flaws.

• Two-tone - This is a dyeing option for short hair, in which the strands are dyed in several shades, close and visually complementing each other. This type of coloring makes the image stylish, effective and gives a woman the very zest that attracts men's looks.

• Bright strands - another fashionable solution. With this method of dyeing, several rather wide strands are created, which stand out clearly against the background of the total mass of hair. Usually the curls are painted with natural dyes.

• For straight short hair, preference should be given small frequent highlighting... This technique is considered the most time-consuming and complex, but as a result, soft overflows are formed on the strands, which emphasize the geometry of the haircut. Coloring of this type is best done in salon conditions, skill and speed are important here, with insufficient experience, the result obtained may differ significantly from the expected.

• Owners asymmetric haircuts, you can focus on the beautiful styling by coloring several wide strandsthereby enhancing the impression. In most cases, the bangs or temporal areas are stained, so it is quite possible to carry out such highlighting on your own without the use of assistants.

• For curly hair preference should be given to wide strands, since thin strands will simply be lost in the total hair volume.

Before you start highlighting, it is very important to think carefully in advance which details of the haircut you want to emphasize and highlight. For example, you can draw attention to the bangs - in this case, the rest of the hair can be left in its native color, you can focus on the temples and the crown of the head, or you can sweep the entire mop - it all depends on your individual style and personal preferences.

Highlights have there are many advantages in comparison with traditional staining:

• the technique allows you to create soft overflows on the hair from natural shades to lighter or colored ones, as a result, the haircut looks more stylish, charm and originality are introduced into the look;
• highlighting is considered a rather gentle technique, since in this case no more than half of the hair is dyed, in addition, dyeing does not affect the root zone, which means that the hair follicles remain intact;
• as it grows on the streaked strands, the roots are not as noticeable as on those colored in one tone.

Since a short hairstyle needs frequent correction, the ends of the strands, injured due to exposure to clarifiers, are quickly cut off, respectively, the hairstyle looks healthier and stronger.

Highlighting on short hair looks very sophisticated and sophisticated, however, you should be very careful when choosing a technique. TO for example, the modern day shatush and ombre are not suitable here - the length does not allow creating smooth transitions from dark to light, and hair dyed in this way looks untidy. However, balayazh and classic highlighting on short strands look very stylish and beautiful, so there is no need to give up such coloring options.

When preparing for highlighting for short curls, you need to approach the choice of shades as carefully as possible. Be sure to keep in mind that for owners of a cold color type, cold tones will be optimal (for example, ash, pearl or platinum), and for warm types, respectively, warm ones (honey, as well as wheat, cognac, caramel and beige). Depending on the selected palette, highlighting can be carried out in several versions.

• California - this method is optimal for chestnut and light brown strands, in this case shades of nude colors usually look good - amber, pearl and caramel.

• Venetian - highlighting is harmonious on hair of any color: from medium blond to black. Here, shades of copper, purple, wine or marsala are selected for coloring.

• Veiled - a similar method is good for owners of dark blond hair, while dyeing only the upper strands and taking pure light tones for highlighting, creating a visual effect of a veil, as if covering the strands.

• Red - This is a fashionable and very effective highlighting, which creates on the head the whole range of overflows of brown, as well as red and red shades.

• Colored - such coloring is suitable for bold and daring girls who like to attract everyone's attention. Usually, the procedure is carried out using unconventional tones in order to emphasize the features of the geometry of the haircut. On dark curls, as a rule, strands of red, purple or blue are decorated, and on light ones, preference is given to pink, blue and even lilac.

Dyeing short hair does not require a lot of experience. Any woman can cope with coloring even at home, especially when it comes to ultra-short haircuts, but for neck-length strands it is better to find an assistant who can properly dye the hair on the back of the head.

For highlighting you will need:

• clarifier;
• main paint;
• balm conditioner.

You also need to prepare a bowl for diluting the emulsion, a comb with a separator, foil or silicone cap, a cape and a brush. First you need to put on a special highlighting hat on your hair and, using a knitting needle, separator or hook, draw out the required number of thin strands. A clarifier is spread on them, kept for 15-25 minutes, then thoroughly washed off and covered with paint of the main color.

Highlighting on short hair has not gone out of fashion for more than 10 years, however, the dyeing techniques change every season - new ways of applying dye and beautiful color schemes are added from year to year.When highlighting had just appeared, women simply lightened the strands - painted with "feathers", but today stylists offer many other, more modern techniques.

This technique allows you to create a play of light on the head, simulating the effect of sun-bleached hair. On short strands, highlighting is traditionally performed using salmon and bronze colors. Ladies with light blond curls may suit light ash or pearl tones.

This is a similar technique, which involves the application of 3-15 shades, related to each other, as a rule, from the general color range. Unlike Californian coloring, brighter colors are relevant here, reds are the most popular - such highlighting looks very impressive on brunettes.

This highlighting is most harmonious on short-haired owners of dark strands. Here, light highlights are created, reminiscent of sunbeams on curls.

This is an option for courageous girls who prefer the contrast between native strands and the shade of highlighted areas. This coloring looks great regardless of the haircut.

The most daring highlighting, which is based on the use of several bright, contrasting shades to each other. Colored accents will not let their owner get lost in the general crowd and will invariably attract the enthusiastic glances of others.

How to make highlights on dark short hair, learn from the video below.