Highlighting with toning for light brown hair

Highlighting with toning on light brown hair is one of the most frequent procedures for transforming a hairstyle. This dyeing technique allows you to experiment with color without harming your hair. In addition, this coloring has a number of other advantages.

Highlighting is one of the very first procedures that appeared after single-color staining. It consists in lightening individual hair strands using special dyes.

Toning is a relatively recent procedure, the basis of which is to change the color of the hair using gentle dyes. They, in turn, stay on the hair for a short time. However, this procedure is able to correct an unsuitable (yellow, purple, greenish) shade of hair after highlighting, which often happens when dyeing at home or among non-professionals.

The highlighting technique with toning has a number of other advantages.

• Both of these treatments are considered the most gentle on the hair. When highlighting, not all hair is exposed, but only individual curls. Toning, in turn, involves the use of only ammonia-free products for the strands, which allows them to preserve their structural integrity.
• Wide color palette. Depending on individual preferences and appearance, you can choose both warm and cold shades for coloring. And for experimenting with color, you can choose any shade for toning, which will wash off the curls in a short time.
• Naturalness and naturalness. With the help of highlighting, light brown hair can be slightly refreshed, giving it a new natural shine and beauty. Toning, however, will allow you to emphasize this beauty, make them smoother due to keratin, which is contained in the composition of gentle paints.
• Highlighting can visually increase the volume, which is especially true for thin and weak hair. Individual strands of a contrasting color, highlighted with a tinted medium, will complete this look.
• This technique perfectly masks hair problems, including gray hair and natural heterogeneous shade.
• Highlighting can reduce the oily hair, thereby giving them a more well-groomed look.
• After using this technique hair can be permed, including chemical, straightening.
• Highlighting with toning allows the hairstyle to look natural even for a long time. The fact is that with this technique, the overgrown roots look natural, and if desired, they can be tinted with individual strands.
• Easy to care for and use. Highlighting, as well as subsequent tinting, can be carried out at home without the presence of special tools.

However, this staining technique is not ideal, and it has disadvantages:

• toning is a very short-lived staining, therefore, after a week you can notice that the color has faded or completely washed out;
• toning is a gentle coloring, which is why it cannot lighten hair;
• it will not be possible to radically change the color of the hair, toning is capable of dyeing only 2, maximum 3 tones, in contrast to the original shade;
• it is possible that the shade will turn out to be heterogeneous or with so-called spots and gaps.

The light brown shade is an excellent basis for highlighting with toning, as the pigment is brighter and more saturated. It is worth remembering the main points when choosing a color.

• When choosing a shade, you should rely on the natural hair color. So, for light brown hair, a honey, sand, caramel shade is suitable. For dark blond, you should take a closer look at pearl, nutty, platinum, cognac shades.
• When choosing a color for toning, you should also remember about the color of the skin and eyes. For light-blond girls with green or blue eyes and fair skin, cold coloring is suitable. In this case, you should choose an ash, coffee, silver shade. For girls with darker skin and brown eyes, golden, amber shades are suitable.
• The color depth is also influenced by the composition of the dye. If it is necessary to give brightness to a faded shade, then it is worth choosing a palette close to the original color of the curls, choosing a product with an intense degree of staining. Such dyes will keep the pigment on the hair for up to two months. For a radical change in color, but for a short time, it is worth choosing a paint of a light degree of intensity. It is washed off already for 2-3 days.
• A sparing degree of dyes can retain the pigment for up to 1-2 weeks. Regardless of the degree of intensity of the paint, experts recommend choosing a shade close to the natural color, as it always looks more sophisticated and neat. Plus, naturalness is all the rage in the beauty industry.

Any hair needs careful care, but dyed curls require more careful and careful handling. In order to preserve their color and health, simple rules should be followed.

• After highlighting with toning, it is necessary to use special products, which include sulfate-free shampoo, balm or rinse for colored or light hair, and a nourishing mask.
• Highlighted hair requires more nutrients. Once a week, it is worth making masks, rinsing them with a decoction of herbs.
• It is better to use toning agents no more than 2-3 times a month for renewal and a cumulative color effect.
• Dyed curls are more susceptible to brittleness and dryness. Do not often dry them with a hairdryer, stay in the sun for a long time without a headgear, or wash them with hot water.
• Remember to cut the ends of your hair once a month.
• You should not comb wet hair, and it is also not recommended to go to bed with such strands.
• You should not highlight your hair after it has been dyed with henna, as the henna pigment, in reaction with the paint, can get an uneven shade with a yellow or green color.
• After highlighting, experts do not recommend immediately toning the hair, you need to wait 3-4 days. This is necessary for the complete absorption of the light pigment into the structure of the curl.

You will learn more about highlighting with toning on light brown hair in the following video.