Rare highlighting: features and technique

For women who dream of changing their image, but are not ready for radical coloring, the best coloring option will be a rare highlight. This technique is notable for its safety and minimal trauma to the hair, and its effect is in no way inferior to more modern types of coloring.

Everyone knows that traditional highlighting covers about half of the hair, and rare ones affect even less, since in this case the hairdresser treats only certain areas of the hair. Accordingly, in a matter of minutes, any woman can get a brighter image and at the same time will not cause much harm to her hair. Thanks to rare highlights, you can:

• give the strands additional volume and splendor;
• visually correct the imperfections of the oval of the face;
• emphasize the saturation and depth of color;
• to rejuvenate the face, diverting attention from wrinkles and a floating contour to the golden play of curls;
• present your hairstyle in the best possible light.

Rare highlighting is also often called "feathers", while the specialist selects thin strands and dyes them in a contrasting color, leaving most of the head of hair unaffected. The technique is successfully used by both short-haired women and girls with medium and long curls.

The following short highlighting techniques are distinguished.

• Top hair highlighting - it usually goes well with a graduated haircut.

• Coloring the lower strands - such a design visually creates an "internal illumination".A similar illumination effect looks very elegant on young ladies with red and brown curls.

• Coloring the strands that frame the face - in this case, a visual "runoff" of the shade is created, which allows you to favorably emphasize the oval of the face.

• Classic feathers - this type of coloring is used for short hair.

• Highlighting the ends - usually it is produced in shades as close as possible to the native color, which allows you to create the effect of strands burnt out in the sun.

• Lightening the strand in certain areas of the shock - this technique is called zonal, it is usually used for owners of asymmetric haircuts.

• Coloration of the crown - this option makes the image more mischievous and flirtatious, if a haircut involves a bang, then in this performance it is also captured.

• Highlighting bangs - this is one of the basic trends of recent seasons.

The main "competitor" of rare highlighting is frequent. This technique has been at its peak of popularity for more than a decade and is not going to give up its positions. Frequent highlighting involves dyeing 45-60% of the curls, all other hairs are either not dyed at all, or tinted with gentle compounds. This procedure is carried out using a special cap or foil. The technique is used by young ladies who want to visually lighten the hair by a couple of tones.

Small highlights have many advantages:

• effectively hides gray hair;
• changes the image without repainting the entire hair;
• allows you to restore the native color in the most gentle way in case of unsuccessful staining.
• However, the technique also has disadvantages:
• the procedure lasts about 5 hours, and a good result is possible only when contacting an experienced master;
• highlighting is not done on newly painted curls.

The difference between the types of highlights is that the sparse looks more expressive, since the colored strands are located at a distance from each other. Thus, rare highlighting is intended to set accents rather than create overflows, as is possible with frequent highlighting. Of the advantages of technology, it should be noted:

• the most gentle technology - dyeing affects two times less hair than with frequent highlighting, therefore, a woman does not face the problem of brittle hair, dryness and cutting of the ends;
• rare highlighting, unlike full highlighting, does not require regular adjustments and tinting of the roots;
• does not take long.

However, there are also disadvantages:

• rare highlighting is not suitable for women in whom more than a third of their hair is gray;
• it can be difficult for a non-professional master to determine the area of ​​hair that is optimal for staining.

Choosing the right shade for rare highlighting is not an easy task, here you should take into account a whole complex of factors - the color type, the native shade of the hair, the structure of the strands and the condition of the hair in general. The universal tones include coffee, chocolate and beige shades, walnut and golden honey are popular. These tones go well with light and chestnut curls. But for owners of black hair, eggplant, blueberry or light purple shades are suitable, and to get the most natural look, it is better to stay on chocolate tones.

For the most creative girls who like to shock the audience, we can recommend emerald, blue, crimson and lilac tones. However, keep in mind that such solutions only look good on young girls and in an appropriate setting, therefore, such staining is best done with quickly washed off paints.

Brown eyes are in harmony with chocolate, copper, bronze and blonde highlights. For gray eyes, toning with pink and wheat shades is suitable. For blue and blue eyes, the use of caramel, honey and reddish shades will be optimal. Green eyes are very fond of copper and red tones.

Warm skin tones look good with warm shades on the hair, so cold skin requires cool strands. But the neutral tone of the face is universal, it allows you to use any color of the strands, so here you need to focus on other parameters.

Girls with the fall and winter color type, as a rule, have dark hair, while autumn looks harmoniously in caramel and red tones, and winter requires the use of honey, nut color, as well as shades of blond, cinnamon and milk chocolate. For girls with a spring and summer color type, the shade for highlighting should be selected in accordance with the color of the eyes and skin.

Rare highlighting, as already mentioned, involves dyeing a small number of strands of a certain thickness in any desired shade. The desired effect is achieved through the use of several techniques.

• Red highlights - in this case, paint of any contrasting shade is applied to wide strands. This method is optimal for the fair sex with thick curls.

• Glare painting - paint is applied to the selected strands 1-2 tones lighter than the main head of hair. This effect creates an imitation of the play of sunlight on the curls, usually the lightened areas are tinted with amber shades. The technique is used for all hair types.

• Partial highlighting - in this case, only the bangs or a few strands are painted, as a rule, near the face. Although there are options for toning curls on the crown or on asymmetrically trimmed areas of the hair. This option is optimal for owners of medium length hair.

Despite the fact that the technique of rare highlighting refers to the sparing, nevertheless, part of the hair is exposed to aggressive coloring pigments, therefore, the strands after dyeing can be dry, brittle and lifeless, which significantly impairs the overall appearance of the hair. To avoid this, you should regularly carry out healing and restoration procedures for your hair - for this you need to use professional care complexes (masks, balms and oils).

In order for the resulting shade to delight you as long as possible, try to avoid any thermal effects. - it is better to dry hair naturally or in the cold blow mode. But styling with curling irons and irons should be minimized at all, since heating makes the shade dimmer and less pronounced, with rare highlighting this can negate all efforts to dye the hair.

Rare highlighting is a technique that allows you to create stylish effects on the hair, emphasizing the originality of nature, gives the look boldness, audacity and expression.

Such coloring looks harmonious on light, light brown and dark hair, and toning can be both as natural as possible and contrasting.

For information on how to make hair highlights, see the next video.