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The following article was sourced from a Wikipedia page at the following address: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_highlighting HAIR HIGHLIGHTING
Hair highlighting/lowlighting refers to changing a person's hair colour, using lightener or hair colour to colour hair strands. There are four basic types of highlights: foil highlights, hair painting, frosting, and chunking. Highlights can be done in natural or unnatural colours. Colour highlights come in four categories: temporary, semi-permanent, demi-permanent and permanent. Hair lightened with bleach is permanent. BASIC FOIL HIGHLIGHTING Foil highlighting is the process of using foil to separate strands of hair which will be lightened from strands of hair which will remain its natural colour. The process is done by applying lightener to the hair that has been woven and separated using an applicator brush. The foil is then folded to protect the hair and surrounding area during the "processing" time. This is the amount of time required to achieve the desired results. In highlighting hair, hydrogen peroxide mixed with pigment is used to change the colour of the strand. This process is also used in applying "lowlights" to the hair. In this process, hair dyes are used to create strands of hair that are darker than the natural colour. HAIR PAINTING
Hair painting is a method of highlighting hair that may be done at home. Hair painting methods are often permanent and employ a simple hair-painting brush. Hair painting is also used with temporary and semi-permanent types of brushes. While brushes are commonly used in hair painting, one may also use combs to paint or highlight thin-sized strands of hair. Balayage is a technique referring to free-form painting on clean, styled hair. The results are subtle, and thus more natural-looking than foiling or chunking. Leopard hair highlights or Leopard hair prints consist in creating hair highlights with a leopard pattern. The process to create leopard spots effects can be realized first bleaching in spots a hair tuft and then colouring with a brown tint the external parts of the bleached spots. It is even common to use funky and eccentric colours for this effect. This kind of hair process started as urban Street_fashion as new trend, in fact is often combined with weird haircuts. Gallery and How to Leopard hair print. It is possible to apply the leopard hair print both on long hair tuft or on shaven head parts. Another similar motif used for spot hair highlight is the cheetah hair pattern. FROSTING Frosting refers to the process of free-hand lightening the tips of the hair, and is generally performed on men with short hair. CHUNKING Chunking refers to a style of highlight which is larger and thicker than a traditional highlight, rather than to a method of creating highlights. Chunky highlights are generally offered in a wider variety of bold natural colours, as well as a large number of artificial, or unnatural, colours and are used to create more contrast, rather than subtle texture, as in traditional, thinner highlights. To read more about hair highlights, please click on the following link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_highlighting |
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