Types of Hair Coloring Techniques

There are several different ways to change your look with hair color. You do not need to do a complete dye job to get a fabulous new look. Review these four types of hair coloring techniques to learn more about your options, and discuss them with your stylist and watch what happens!

Highlighting

Hair coloring makes your style look fresher and younger when you highlight without changing the overall shade. Highlights take particular strands of your hair and subtly shift their hue with a lighter version of your true color. Your stylist usually wraps the strands of hair to be highlighted in foil with the lightener inside and then heat them. When the highlighting process is completed, the style looks perfectly natural.

Lowlighting

As the name implies, lowlighting is the mirror image of highlighting. If your hair is a light color, your stylist adds darker shades to particular strands. As with highlighting, your hair looks very natural since the color is simply a slightly modified version of your true shade.

Toning

Distinct from dying, hair toning alters the tone of the color of your whole head of hair. It does not change the color itself. For example, if you are a blonde, your stylist shifts the tone to a golden or ashy blonde. Toner is a semi-permanent option that washes out after a number of shampoos.

Hair manicuring

Similar to toning, hair manicuring treats your whole head of hair without changing the color. Using special moisturizers, this technique adds a deep shine and a slight color enhancement to your overall look. This treatment is very beneficial for hair health as well as making you look great.

You do not have to dye your hair to a different color to get a new look. With highlighting, lowlighting, toning and hair manicuring, discover the ways to shift your shade just enough to be eye-catching. Ask your stylist to tell you more.