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Highlighting your tresses can enhance your features, brighten up your face and update your look. The experts at L'Oreal have compiled some must-read tips on how to go about achieving this at home!
1. Focus on the hair that frames your face -- it will be easier for you to see what you’re doing. Plus, face-framing highlights can change your look dramatically, even if most of your hair is left untouched.
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2. For easy application, use a highlighting cap. Put the cap on your head and pull small strands of hair through the holes. If you are highlighting for the first time, paint on the color mixture from the mid-length of your selected strands to the tips. Save your product and let your hair process for five to 10 minutes. Apply the remaining mixture to the root area of your hair and let your hair process for the rest of the recommended time. If you are retouching your highlights, apply color mixture to your root area only so you don’t overstress the strands you have already colored.
3. Paint highlights on with a wand or a brush. To do this, pull your hair back with a band and then pull fine strands out in front of you using the highlighting tool. Apply the formula to them by starting one-quarter inch from the root. Product develops faster at the root due to the natural heat from the head. So apply the highlighting mixture more sparingly there and then more heavily throughout the strand because excess product will create “hot” roots.
4. Apply highlights from side to side, working from front to back.
5. Limit yourself from five to ten very thin highlights on each side of your head. If you like your results, go back a month later with a more daring hand.
6. For a more natural look, create thicker highlights if you have curly hair.
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