DIY Hair Highlights

Highlights add depth and variety to hair color

Highlights allow you to change your hair color without the long-term commitment of coloring your entire head of hair. Highlights can be expensive if you go to a salon to have them done. To offset that cost, many people highlight their hair at home using the same techniques as the professionals.

Foil

Foil highlights are highlights you paint on your hair with a color brush and then wrap the painted strands in foil. Foil highlighting takes longer then other types of highlights, but the foil heats up the hair and results in lasting, precise highlights.

Bialiage

Bialiage highlights are highlights that are simply painted in the hair without any type of sectioning and separating of the hair. The highlights are painted throughout the hair with a color brush and left to lighten without any type of foil or cap. These highlights are not as precise as the foil highlights but are easier to touch up because the original highlights are placed randomly in the hair without a defining pattern so they can easily be painted over.

Chunking and Piecing

Chunking and piecing highlights is a highlighting method used to color larger sections of hair. Instead of thin highlights that blend into your hair, chunking and piecing highlights are meant to stand out. This method is accomplished by choosing whole sections of your hair, such as your bangs, and coloring the section a lighter or darker color than your current hair.

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