Introduction to Hair Highlighting

Series Summary

Men and women have been coloring their hair since the beginning of time using chemicals, plants and pigments. In recent times, men and women dye their hair a variety of colors including everything from blonde to blue. Hair dye is made up of pigments (color) or bleaches. Depending on whether you are adding color to your hair or taking color away, the process of dying your hair can be lengthy and sometimes painful. Highlights and lowlights are accent colors that are added to specific sections of hair, as opposed to an “all-over” color that is applied to all the hair on the head.

In this free video series, our expert will show you how to highlight your hair like a professional. You will get step by step instructions for finding the right highlighting products and setting up a workspace for highlighting. You will also learn how to apply hair highlights and use foil for highlights. Finally, get tips on how dry hair, apply product and care for highlights after you are done. If you want to do home highlights, let our expert show you everything you need to know in this free hair care video.

Video Transcript

"Hi, thank you for visiting expertvillage.com. My name is Issac I'm a hairstylist in LA, California I'm currently working in the Melrose shopping district off of Melrose and Martelle. Today we're going to go ahead and show you a highlighting technique that I like to use in the salon and I want to go ahead and show you how to do it at home as well. We rather you come into the salon but if you can't this the technique we're going to go ahead and show you. I've been working in the business for approximately about 8 years, I've been in LA for about 6 years. This is my client Grace she's been with me for almost the entire time I've been here in LA. So we're going to go ahead and get you started on the different techniques the do's and the don't on highlighting or using any kind of chemicals service on your hair. The safest way to process, the safest way to use any of the products that we're going to use and let's go ahead and get started, are you ready. (lady) I'm definitely ready, I need some highlights."