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Highlighting Hair at Home
Today, everybody likes to try out hair color ideas. Whether it comes to getting skinny highlights for a textured hair look, chunky highlights for a summer kissed look, or totally dyeing your hair to completely change the way your hair looks. Many people who have gray hair, tend to dye their hair at home. If you wish to try out any sort of hair coloring, then remember these tips to do a neat job.
Hair Coloring and Highlighting at Home
Color Compatibility
People who have cool skin tones like dark brown, medium complexion with light pink color in the cheeks, or no color medium complexion and golden undertones, bronze or brown complexion after tanning, olive complexion (Asians and Latinos) or pale complexion with pink undertones or no color, should go for shiny raven black hair dyes or cool blonde mink or icy white shades for hair dyeing. For hair coloring at home to get highlights, honey, wheat, ash, purple or burgundy can be opted. Those who have warm skin tones like brown skin tone, with pink or golden undertones, ruddy complexion, pale complexion with peach or golden undertones, or a freckled complexion, can go with hair color of dark brown, chestnut shades or golden brown shades. Highlights can be of shiny blonde, reddish orange, copper, or golden shades.
Getting Ready for Coloring
Given above were tips that will help you select a hair color and highlight color appropriate for your skin tones. Here are some basic home hair coloring tips that will help you further in the job. Get the stuff you need to color your hair. If you want to dye your hair, buy the right color of hair dye. However, if you wish to highlight your hair then buy a lighter shade than your hair color, of a shade which suits you. For highlighting, you might need a shower cap too. Get gloves, a hair dye brush, a bowl and keep some paper towel and an old t-shirt too.
Pre-bleaching
If you want to highlight your hair, or dye them in a bright color, then bleaching hair at home prior to coloring is very very important. If you don't pre-bleach the hair sections that you want to color, then the color which will set will be lighter, so hair bleaching prior to coloring is advisable.
Hair Highlighting
Whether it comes to highlighting hair with lemon juice or chamomile or highlighting hair with foil, a shower cap is a good idea. Shampoo your hair and let them dry. Then wear a shower cap, and make holes in the shower cap then take out the hair strands that you want to color to create hair highlight. Apply color or lemon juice to them and let it sit for the recommended time. Cover the hair color applied hair with foil. When using color, refer to the instructions on the box. When using lemon juice keep it on the hair for half an hour, then go out in sun and expose your hair for half an hour, then return inside and leave lemon juice for half an hour more. Then leave the lemon juice for some more hours, or for a day if you can. Then rinse your hair to check the highlights.
Covering Gray
Covering gray hair at home is a simple easy to do process. Just wash your hair, and apply the dye using the hair brush, and be careful not to let it come in contact with your face, neck or ears. Then, let it sit for recommended time, and shampoo your hair. For more instructions, read the dye box carefully.
These were tips on coloring and highlighting hair which can be done at home. So, remember the above tips to pick the right color for your complexion and color your hair at home.
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