Highlighting : If you want to look like all your friends who have natural blonde streaks through their hair, you might try getting Foil Highlights. A Stylist or Colorist can give you glowing highlights by putting different shades of color or bleaching agents on pieces of your hair that has been sliced through with a fine tooth comb. Then the pieces are folded up in foil to keep the color or bleach off the rest of your hair. When the hair in the foil is done processing the foils are removed and your hair is rinsed and shampooed. After the process, a good quality color-friendly conditioner is used to protect and strengthen the hair. The conditioning is a very important part of this coloring application, since the hair has just been stressed to the max. Be sure to use salon Color-treated hair products to ensure that your highlights won't fade.
Low lighting : Is an application using a darker color on pieces of hair that has been sliced through with a fine tooth comb and folded in foil. Lowlights are especially good for hair that has been highlighted with blonde too many times. Adding some dark blonde, light brown or even dark brown can really revive worn looking highlights. Sometimes it is done under silver hair to enhance the beauty of silver-gray hair. As with any color service, after getting low-lights one should always use salon products formulated for color-treated hair.
Dark Underscore : This is the name given to the process of coloring just the back, lower part of your hair with a darker color. Usually done on the area just below the occipital bone, it can really make highlights more dramatic as long as you stay within the color hue that you already have. Dark brown is always better than black unless of course have black hair to begin with.
Chunking : This is highlighting hair with thick chunks of hair that radiate down from the part of the hair. Sometimes low-lights of dark color are put underneath the lighter chunks to enhance them even more. This type of highlighting is even more susceptible to damage than regular highlights so be sure to use salon color-treated products on it.
Single Streak of Color : Some people who enjoy being more flamboyant in life, like to adorn their hairstyle with a single streak of color. Whether you have short or long hair, a single piece of hair is chosen (usually near the part) then it is bleached to a light blond. Then a permanent color or semi-permanent color is applied. There are many different semi-permanent colors to choose from. Many football fans like to put their team colors on their streaks. Semi-permanent colors do wash out eventually and have to be freshen up. The best thing about a single streak is, the color can be corrected and changed back to the natural way it was before without too much damage to the hair.
