Hair highlighting
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Hair highlighting/lowlighting is changing a person's
Basic foil highlighting
Foil highlighting is the process of using
This process is also used in applying lowlights to the hair; dyes are used to create strands of hair that are darker than the natural color.
Hair painting
Hair painting is a method of highlighting hair that uses free-handed technique to achieve a highlighted effect. Hair painting methods are permanent and employ a hair-painting brush. Foils, plastic wrap, paper, or cotton may be used to separate lightened hair from non-lightened hair. While brushes are commonly used in hair painting, one may also use combs to paint or highlight thin-sized strands of hair.
- Balayage (from the French, meaning 'scanning, sweeping') is a technique of free-form painting on clean, styled hair. The results are subtle, and thus more natural-looking than foiling or chunking.[1]
- Leopard hair highlights, or leopard hair print, are hair highlights with a pattern resembling the spotted coat of a street fashionand is often combined with eccentric haircuts. It is possible to apply a leopard hair print both on long or short hair. Another similar motif used is the cheetah hair pattern.
Frosting
Frosting is a process of lightening strands of hair while leaving the adjacent hairs untreated. A highlighting cap may be used with this technique. Hair is pulled through holes in the cap and that hair is then lightened. The effects of this can give the hair a look that is "salt and pepper" with a decent amount of hair left untreated. It creates a stark contrast between the colors and usually does not resemble natural highlights. This is a popular technique for those with shorter hair.
Chunking
Chunking is a style of highlight which is larger and thicker than a traditional highlight, rather than a method of creating highlights. Chunky highlights are generally offered in a wider variety of bold natural colors, as well as a large number of artificial, or unnatural, colors and are used to create more contrast, rather than subtle texture, as in traditional, thinner highlights.[2]
See also
References
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