Toning Hair with Highlights

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Amelia and on behalf of expertvillage.com we're going to be talking about highlighting at home. We all had our highlights done and taken them off and looked at them. They're yellow or gold or they're maybe even be too light. So the easy easy way to fix that is to tone. The best way to do that is to go to a beauty supply store and you can get just a simple bottle of toner and there is several on the market that are just toners. You just mix them and put them on your hair or you can go to the store and get a deposit only color in just a box color. Whatever you feel more comfortable doing the people who are more advanced, go the beauty supply. For you newbies out there, go to the grocery store or drugstore and pick a nice neutral base, deposit only color and the lightest shade you can find. I say neutral base because say if you're too light but you want to be, tone it down a little bit. That's the best way to tone it down with out adding access warmth. Now let's say you're too gold. If you're too gold, you're going to want to consider your color wheel and the color that is across from gold is blue. So you're going to want to find a blue or a match base toner and apply that to your hair. So you apply that to the hair, you let it process with shampoo it out no problem your highlight will be fixed and the color you want. Then you want to maintain them with a purple base shampoo. If your highlights are a little bit to light or a little bit to cool, then you can warm them up. Some people like warm highlights so then you can use like a golden base, I wouldn't use a cooper base I would use more of a golden base I wouldn't get any further down the warm scale than gold. You apply that to the highlight and you have a nice golden highlight like this one and it will blend in nicely and that's how you tone in your highlights."