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Highlighting Hair
When you highlight your hair it will look brighter and glossier. If you want your highlighting to be perfect then it is best to have it done by a hairdresser. But you can create good effects with homemade treatments. For example finger painting and streaking can be used quite easily.
Finger Painting
For this you need to wear a pair of thin gloves and the finger paint must be carefully made up following the instructions. All you do is dip four fingers of each hand into the bleach solution and then run through the hair as if pushing the hair back away from the face. You would start at the front hairline working your way back as far as you want. Leave the solution on for the time periodstated on the pack, and follow it by a rinse, shampoo, and conditioning.
Half-head Streaking
This helps to gain a lighter and brighter effect, as highlights can be seen at the sides and at the crown. But this way you can take sections of hair and apply the bleach and then wrap in foil paper. The best results can be achieved when you place the highlights close to the hairline, but touch-ups are essential every six to eight weeks before the growth becomes visible.
Whole Head Streaking
Despite being time consuming as this time you are colouring the whole head of hair. The effects that is creates are great. As it produces a blonde effect and depending upon the degree of light and darker streaks are placed close to the hairline. This needs to be touched up every six to eight weeks too.
D-I-Y Streaking
Before you start, it is important to know that this kind of streaking is striking for medium-brown or light-brown hair and that this should be done on dry hair.
What you need is a streaking kit, toothbrush, and foil, a plastic or glass (not metal) bowl for the bleach, a rat-tail comb and some clips.
Step-by-step Method
- Hold back the hairline with clips so that streaks don't show there.
- Cut about 12 strips of foil which are 10cm long
- Prepare the bleach according to the instructions stated on the kit, making sure it is not too thick, since it will thicken on its own when used.
- To start: Using a rat-tail comb, separate a thin layer of hair at the top of the head. Move horizontally.
- Fold a foil strip about five cm in and push it under the hair that has been separated.
- Take a toothbrush laden with bleach and cover the separated hair. Then cover with the foil strip.
- The next row to be streaked should be about 1.25 cm below the previous streak and kept 1.25 cm apart. The hair that I not being streaked should be clipped on to the foil.
- Repeat the procedure till the required amount of hair has been dealt with.
- After the hair wrapping is complete, the first wrap should be checked for colour. The colour should be golden and if it's not so, re-apply bleach and leave for five minutes.
- As you open out the first few wraps, keep rinsing them with warm water to remove the bleach.
- When all the wraps have been opened out, shampoo hair and condition. And watch a myriad hues emerge
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