Two-Toned Colors: Highlighted Hairstyles

Coloring hair is a popular way to style hair nowadays, and most women have colored their hair at least once in their lives. The look of today is not just simply dying your hair a different color, but it is getting highlights to match the new color. Hair coloring has been around for some time throughout history, but highlighting did not become extremely popular until around the 1990s (although, in the 80s they used bleach to highlight their hair). The most popular form of highlighting in the 90s was a technique called balayage, and this is basically where the color is applied free hand, which uses a sweeping motion from the base of the hair to the tips. Ever since, highlighting has continued to remain popular, and while some people like to get drastic colors placed in their hair others go for more of a natural look. The natural look is dominant more so today than it has ever been since coloring and hair first started.

There are many different ways to highlight your hair today, and the amounts of colors available are numerous, so you can pick any color you want. Although, it is always a good tip to remember not to go two shades lighter or darker than your base hair color. Two-toned colors have become popular, and there are many different ways to highlight your hair to get that second tone (shade of color) to your hair. Three-toned color has become as equally popular, and the method to getting this effect is to add both highlights and lowlights to your hair. The different highlight techniques include chunking, balayage, hair painting, lowlights, and foil highlighting.

Foil highlighting is when strands of your hair are colored and separated from the rest of your hair by using foil. This is to ensure that the color does not mix into the rest of your hair, so you can have sleek and even highlights throughout your hair. How this technique works, is that sections of the hair are parted and dyed, and then they are wrapped in foil. Hair painting is basically where you paint the highlights on in the places you want, so you are free to determine the amount of highlights you want. Chunking is when the highlights are added into the hair thickly, and this method is best accomplished by going to a stylist because they have special caps with holes where they can take out the desired amount of hair and color it.