Types of Highlights
There are many types of highlights available in the salon and for at-home use. Highlights are a way to add dimension and color to your hair. With all of the highlighting techniques available, you are sure to find one that will work best for you. Does this Spark an idea?
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Bleaching Cap
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According to hair-colour.info, bleaching caps come with holes throughout the cap. You pull hair through the holes with a fine crochet needle and then apply bleach all over the cap to the hair that has been pulled through.
Foil Method
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The foil method of highlighting is quite popular. Foil highlights allow color or lightener to be applied to strands of hair. This hair is held within the foils so that it doesn't touch the other hair. You can use several shades of hair color and lightener with this method.
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Hand Painted
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Hand painted highlights are best done by a professional hair stylist. The stylist hand paints highlights on specific hair strands to give a natural-looking highlighting effect.
Balayage
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Balayage highlighting which is similar to the hand-painting technique offers versatility in highlighting, according to balayage.com. These types of highlights can be done on wet or dry hair.
Lowlighting
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Lowlighting can be done using any type of highlighting technique. Lowlighting adds in darker strands of hair color instead of lighter strands. Lowlighting is often done on hair that has become too light or for people who want to gradually go darker.
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