Highlighting on long blond hair

Many real women of fashion know an interesting fact about hair highlighting - its history is more than half a century old, which allows you to always answer affirmatively to the question - is it fashionable now. The author of the highlighting idea is Jacques Dessange, a world famous French stylist in the field of hairdressing. Nowadays, more than 500 salons of the Dessange empire operate in the world. The type of hairstyle before and after staining, competently carried out with the most accurate observance of all recommendations for implementation, will impress the most discerning client.

The basis of any highlighting technique is changing the shade of individual strands or the ends of the hair with the same hairstyle. Girls with light brown hair almost always dream of adding bright fashionable accents to their appearance in order to give an image of expressiveness, originality and additional showiness. Such a technique in the art of hairstyle as hair highlighting helps to turn this dream into reality.

Long blond hair is the dream of almost every stylist. This hair type allows you to work with a variety of coloring techniques and is ideal for many creative ideas. Many procedures for highlighting light brown hair are simple, some of them can be done at home.

Before visiting a salon or purchasing paint for lightening, you need to decide on the choice of highlighting technique that is ideal for a particular situation. The beauty of long straight hair will be emphasized by almost any type of highlighting, but stylists consider the best Californian and French techniques, as well as ombre. On long curly hair, light brown strands tinted at the ends with the addition of coloring look spectacular.

In modern style, there are many types and techniques of highlighting for long blond hair, differing in the method of execution, the choice of colors and the location of the colored areas. It is worth taking a closer look at the most popular ones.

The leading trend in the modern world of fashion - naturalness, as close as possible to natural images. Californian highlighting just meets this direction and creates the effect of naturally burnt strands under the sun... A gentle execution technique (staining without an accent on the roots) and the ability to perform at home are an undoubted plus of this type. This technique is suitable for ladies of all ages, visually increases the volume, and disguises gray hair.

Looks spectacular on light blond hair, creates the appearance of a pouring stream pierced by the sun... The lightening is light. And dark blond hair will get the missing appeal with subtle overflows of natural shades.

Strands are dyed with different color saturation, unusual shades may be applied. This hairstyle will liven up the look and give it fashionable touches. It is ideal for long blond hair of any shade.

Performed surface strip painting using foil. An indispensable condition for this method is the obligatory lightening of the strands near the face. The rest of the strands are evenly lightened along the entire length. This method of highlighting is used most often at home. Girls choose it if they intend to freshen up their hair a little without changing the image.

This type of highlighting allows you to shade the main hair color with several similar or contrasting tones. The popularity of ombre is due not only to its many variations, but also to the fact that it is relatively inexpensive method. The strands are not dyed along the entire length, but only at the ends, without affecting the roots, and causes minimal harm. This technique is great for long, natural light blonde to dark blonde hair ("natural ombre").

The color range of paints is selected depending on your hair color. For light blond curls, shades of natural colors are suitable, for example, ivory, platinum, caramel... Dark blond ladies should choose brown and golden shades... In addition, the color type of the appearance must certainly be taken into account - the skin tone of the face and the color of the eyes.

During highlighting, the structure of the hair undergoes significant changes, as a result of the stress transferred, it can become dry and brittle. So that the condition of the hair does not worsen after such a procedure, you should observe the following simple care instructions:

• apply special regenerating shampoos and balms that will give your hair shine and a well-groomed look;
• when washing your hair, use not hot, but almost cool water, approximately room temperature of water is considered optimal;
• it is advisable to temporarily give up prolonged exposure to the sun and from visiting the solarium, do not use a hairdryer and an iron;
• you need to pay close attention to nutrition, so that it contains all the necessary nutrients, vitamins and trace elements, which is extremely important for the restoration of hair weakened by highlighting.

Applying a variety of types of highlighting for long blond hair, any fashionista can always look stylish, create an original image without significant harm to her hair.This outstanding idea of ​​Jacques Dessange brought a new direction to the hairdressing art and organically fit into his world-famous concept of "global beauty", which is based on femininity, naturalness, and the absence of pretentiousness in any of its manifestations.

You will learn more about how to highlight light brown hair at home in the following video.