Highlighting on medium-length dark hair: types, tips for choosing and care

Owners of dark hair quite often want to transform their hairstyle without changing their main hair color. To realize such goals, today you can resort to modern options for partial dyeing of curls. Among the techniques used for brunettes, stylists offer options for highlighting, which will especially look relevant on medium-length hair.

Some techniques related to hair dyeing, as well as fashion for things and accessories, after some time again become relevant. A similar trend has affected the rather popular highlighting of dark hair, while highlighting individual strands in lighter tones and colors.

However, a feature of this option for transforming haircuts and hairstyles is not only coloring individual curls in a contrasting color, but also giving the existing hairstyle a certain texture, as well as volume and visual appeal. As for the work of hairdressers on highlighting dark hair from nature or dyed in black, chestnut or other shades, there are a huge number of ideas for lightening curls today, thanks to which every girl will be able to find a suitable option for modernizing her hairstyle.

Such dyeing belongs to the category of gentle hair color change services, however, highlighting may well paint over gray hair if necessary.

Among the fashionable techniques used today for highlighting dark hair, it is worth highlighting the main differences, which cause different results.

• Brightening area. Modern beauty salons offer their clients options for dyeing hair in certain areas, as well as the classic way of working with additional colors. In the first case, only some areas will be painted over in the hairstyle, when the second technique involves toning the strands all over the woman's head.

• Coloring tone. Highlighting can be performed according to the standard scheme, when strands of lighter color will be present on the hair as additional shades. It is possible to paint in the opposite technique, as a result of which the master applies paints with a color that will be even darker than the base one.

• The composition of the materials used. Depending on the type of paint used, the contact with the hair shaft can be softer or more intense. The main component that determines the degree of reaction with curls is ammonia.

Like any hairdressing service, highlighting has certain positive and negative characteristics. For an objective study of such a painting technique, you should consider its strengths.

• Due to the partial coloring of the curls after highlighting, the hair shafts will be less damaged. As a rule, from the total volume, the master dyes about a quarter of the hair.
• Despite the coloring of only part of the curls, the hairstyle and haircut acquire visual volume, even on straight and fine hair.
• Unlike full dyeing of medium-length curls or using other techniques, the results of highlighting will turn out to be more natural, which will have a positive effect on the overall female image.
• Highlighting can effectively and permanently paint over gray hair of any degree and quantity.
• With the passage of time, the difference in the root area is not so visible in the regrown strands with dyed light or dark shades. That is why correction is often unnecessary.

However, this procedure has some drawbacks.

• First of all, this concerns the condition of the hair after dyeing. In most cases, the hair shafts will suffer from dryness and brittleness. Therefore, after staining, special attention should be paid to moisturizing and nourishing the curls along the entire length.
• Like any other procedure, highlighting will need periodic color refresh and correction.
• The specificity of partial staining takes an impressive amount of time. This moment directly depends on the complexity of the chosen technology, the length and thickness of the hair.
• Self-staining requires some training and skill. But it can also be difficult to handle the entire length of the hair.
• In some cases, light curls can turn yellow over time.
• The hydrogen peroxide in the composition negatively affects the shine of the strands.

There are a number of contraindications for carrying out such staining:

• skin diseases on the head;
• abrasions, inflammations and so on;
• allergies and hypersensitivity of the skin to chemistry;
• you should refrain from highlighting for some time after curling.

With the goal of changing your image with the help of highlighting, you should explore the most popular varieties of this procedure.

A popular option for medium length hair. In the course of such staining, you can use any paint color.The essence of the technique lies in the preliminary lightening of the selected curls, after which the strands are toned so that on the head, as a result, smooth transitions from one color to another are obtained. A hat or foil can be used for work.

As a result of such highlighting on the hair, a visual volume is created due to the use in work from 3 to 5 different shades of paint. There are very bold and fashionable options for dyeing dark hair in lilac or lilac shades. However, the American variety of coloring is also performed with calmer colors.

Quite a popular look for dark curls, which involves coloring individual strands with a harmonious and smooth color transition.

The essence of this type is to lighten the curls, which will look like they burned out naturally in the sun. Such highlighting is also distinguished by the complexity of implementation, since the master is faced with the task of competently selecting paint and its tone. As a rule, the dye composition is applied to the hair in several approaches. And also for the Brazilian painting you will need at least three shades for coloring.

A dyeing process with the goal of creating smooth overflows of color on the hair with a transition from dark to light. Painting involves repainting wide and thin strands in total.

An ultra-modern type of highlighting, which involves dyeing curls without separating them from the total mass, as a result of which a very smooth overflow of colors and shades is formed on the hair. As a rule, the work uses 2 or 3 additional shades.

Today, natural colors are relevant for highlighting strands. The task of the hairdresser in the salon before painting is to determine the color scheme of the client, which will ensure a more competent selection of shades of coloring compositions. In most cases, wheat and copper shades are used for highlighting, as well as light brown and coffee variations.

The youth direction in painting is the highlighting of bright strands in the hair, the color of which is selected not only taking into account fashion trends, but also with respect to the woman's color type. Gray, turquoise, purple and lilac shades will be relevant.

In addition to the general assessment of a woman's appearance, experts also focus on the structure and condition of the hair shafts. Stylists recommend cutting your hair before painting, as well as getting rid of thin and split ends. Such shortcomings of curls can ruin the created image. The split ends on bright colors in highlighting will be striking. For the rest, for dyeing, the hair can be either thin or thick and dense.

Be sure to pay attention to the oval of the girl's or woman's face before painting and choosing shades. As practice shows, darker saturated tones will make the face more elongated, while the facial features will be too sharp.

Stylists recommend chubby girls to choose options for dark chestnut, black or burgundy tones. As for platinum or blonde, in this case they should be avoided.

Light complementary shades will help to visually add volume. As for the triangular face type, stylists recommend choosing light red colors, warm blond for highlighting. For an elongated face oval, it is worth focusing on the strands that frame the face.

Complexion is also important. For a beautiful and flawlessly even tone, you can use shades of platinum or light blond.

For normal skin, the use of walnut, honey or light brown shades is allowed. A wide face can be favorably shaded with the help of a root volume with coloring in light colors of curls in the temporal region.

For hairstyles with bangs, highlighting can be performed in black, dark shades of red or copper, and the use of chocolate and ash shades will also be appropriate. The master will help you choose the best option for dyeing the bangs.

In this case, it is worth considering the length, shape and density of the strands on the forehead. For elongated straight bangs, highlighted small strands will be appropriate, which will refresh the appearance. For oblique bangs, a good option would be to highlight small thin stripes in the total hair volume. Round bangs can be lightened with wide strands.

After highlighting, hair care should be carried out with specialized formulations for colored hair, which will help the hair shafts to recover and nourish. In addition, specialized formulations will take care of the color retention for a longer period.

Care after staining requires temporarily abandoning the use of a hair dryer and curling iron. After dyeing and lightening dark hair, special attention will be paid to the ends, which need to be regularly trimmed and moisturized, avoiding cutting.

Beautiful dark hair is made even more attractive by complementing the look with warm straw and copper shades. The inclusion of several additional colors will make the hairstyle visually more luxuriant, and the smooth overflow of color schemes will provide the image with harmony.

In addition to the usual contrast of light and dark, highlighting chestnut curls can be done with the inclusion of eggplant color. The result of the work will be an interesting combination of several colors that will correspond to fashion trends, as well as add brightness and light to the image.

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