One more quick tip, though—you may want to reach out to your local salon, or the colorist you go to. Most have gotten accustomed to using FaceTime or Zoom and can give you a personal consultation or even walk you through the process. Some are even offering custom color kits that you can pick up curbside instead of playing a guessing game at the drugstore. It's a win-win—you get to support your favorite stylist and you get to make sure you don't hate your hair more after you add highlights than you did before.
No matter what kind of at-home highlighting kit you select, it will always include a lightener—not your standard hair dye. Also, the creamy consistency of all over dye is not the same as the thicker lightener used for highlights. All-over color can also move through the sections, transferring the color to areas you didn't want it to go—resulting in a blotchy finish.
When deciding on which shade to go with, "choose a kit that's labeled for your starting point rather than your desired highlight color," says Kyle White, a colorist at Oscar Blandi in New York City. If you grab a box that says "caramel highlights," it will look totally different on someone with a brown base versus someone with red strands.
So look for highlight kits that say things like "for brown hair" instead. Bridgette Hill , a colorist and trichologist in NYC, suggests keeping your expectation to "natural highlighted tones" when doing at home highlights to keep hair at its healthiest.
The only difference between tinfoil and the foils you see the pros using is that the in-salon ones are typically pre-cut, making the colorist's work much speedier. In fact, Reynold's Wrap makes professional foils that are sold at beauty supply stores. Then, place a foil against your forehead or cheek, and lay the finely sliced hair on top of the foil.
If your application isn't saturated, you'll have a splotchy, spotty-looking bleach job. While Carhart thinks that the hairline is the easiest to do yourself, she warns that it still requires some serious hand-eye coordination. The most important part of applying your bleach is to ensure it does not touch the scalp. Any hard to reach areas, Carhart simply says, "Don't do them. The toner's job is to neutralize the intense yellow shade that appears from bleaching and make it look more natural.
This is the secret sauce that eliminates brassiness and other unwanted tones to help you reach your desired outcome. When it comes to your toner, "keep it simple," says Carhart. If your hair is blonde, this is much easier. You wait until the highlights are a pretty color and then you take the foils off. Carhart tell us that the "sweet spot" for darker brunettes is shades lighter than their natural color. The safer, low volume peroxide that we're working with for these at-home touch ups will only lift you shades lighter.
So if you've been highlighting for a while and working with your colorist to go blonder from a super dark natural base color, you're better off resorting to throwing on a baseball cap and hiding those roots. If you're a dark brunette that only needs a light touch-up at the roots, just be sure not to overlap the bleach onto your previous color job as Carhart warned before.
The overlap could cause a funky color spot, or potential breakage. The potential of leaving the bleach on too long could also create a problem for your toning approach. The color you want to see before you remove the foils to rinse is yellow. After the bleach has been thoroughly rinsed out, you'll apply your toner. After any color treatment or chemical treatment that heightens the hair's porosity levels, you want to be sure you're upping the conditioner and getting extra moisture back into the hair.
You'll notice, especially after using bleach, that your hair feels straw-like, brittle, and extremely dried out, so a good conditioning treatment is crucial.
Turn to your conditioner after your toner is completely rinsed out and you've shampooed your hair. That way, you don't have to put yourself at risk of pulling the foils off too late. Blue conditioners will help neutralize the warmth if your hair pulls more orange or yellow. Otherwise, any deep conditioning treatment will work. You don't want to skip this step!
It'll add a boost of shine and softness to your strands that will help you feel like you just left the salon. Keep up this treatment until you lose that straw-like feeling when shampooing. Now it's time to see your best efforts in action. Blow dry around the hairline and parting first, even if you didn't do a bleach-and-tone. Once you're percent dry, grab a round brush or flat brush to help you smooth out the hair. Using a smoothing nozzle or concentrator will also help you get the hair to a place where you can see things clearly.
If you notice any trouble areas, get your hair fully dried and smoothed out before contacting your colorist in a panic. You'll want to provide another photo in good natural lighting and the blow dry will help display things clearly. Worst case scenario, you'll be back to square one, waiting for a pro, only this time it will be for a color correction. But if you're extremely cautious and vigilant in following the steps above, you might just pass with flying color.
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Bonus point? If you're highlighting your hair at home for the first time, it's best to grab a kit that comes with all the essentials the Madison ReedLight Works Balayage Highlighting Kit is one of my personal favorites, since it has an applicator, gloves, clean-up wipes, and even a toning glaze. No matter which formula you choose, you'll want to kick things off by reading and then re-reading the instructions closel y. At-home highlighting kits all work a little differently, so follow the directions to a T to make sure you're getting the best results possible.
These picks are a great place to get started:. And because I know you're thinking it: No, you can't use regular hair dye for highlights. Well, kinda. Although you should definitely stay away from DIYs that are spiked with harsh and drying ingredients like baking soda, hydrogen peroxide, or white vinegar, you can experiment with natural ingredients that also help the overall health of your hair , like honey or cinnamon.
And if you're trying to enhance your hair's overall shine—not necessary lighten it—you can't go wrong with an at-home gloss, which can help tone down brass with minimal risk. These are some of my favorites:. Instead, rip up a few cotton balls or squares to place on top of your highlights. But undoing any hair-dye mistakes you make along the way will be a lot more difficult without access to a colorist. For that reason, Ferrara urges you to keep highlights minimal — for now.
But at the end of the day, you should be OK as long as you take this colorist advice and use common sense. Bleach is no joke, and you don't want to end up spending hundreds of dollars for a professional to fix it. Don't forget to follow Allure on Instagram and Twitter. Celebrity Fashion Video. Your go-to colorist might offer a helping hand. A bleach kit can help prevent unpredictable results. Always have two types of brushes at the ready.
Begin the process with your go-to hairstyle. Work from the bottom-up and from the front-backward. Keep one eye on the clock while your highlights develop. Stock up on toner, especially if you have dark hair. Start small and stay simple.
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