subject: Colouring Hair Using Highlighting Foil [print this page] When colouring your hair try using Highlighting Foilfor a professional salon look. Normal household tin foil will do the trick. It is used to separate the hair better and therefore distinguish different strands of hair for the colour to take. This allows you to concentrate on which areas you want coloured depending on whether you are applying highlights, lowlights, or a full colour. It is also useful for putting multiple colours on to create a different and fashionable look. Make sure you have someone with you who has done this before so you get the right results.
To begin make sure you have clean hair. Colour does not take well on hair that is not clean and could greatly affect the final result. And you could be left very disappointed by what you end up with. Also, remember result is going to be far more vibrant on blond hair dark. So be careful when choosing your colour.
Be sure to perform a colour test by cutting a small piece of hair from your head. Then you need to apply some of the dye to it and leave the dye to take. Not only will this show you what the final colour will look like, but you will also see if will be safe to go ahead with it.
There are different methods for different results, so decide what you want before you start. For a whole hair colour you will want to separate your hair into three sections, bottom, middle and top. And colour it, with foils starting with the bottom section.
The next method is the one that will achieve either highlights or lowlights depending on what colour has been selected. How thick you want the streaks to be is up to you. You must remember that this involves only colouring certain areas of the hair, most the top section of the head as this is where it will show up the most.
This is the most important time for using the foil. Make sure you are wearing gloves as you will be using the dye here as well. Take a 2 inch square and wrap it around a strand of hair. Lay the hair in the foil and put some of the dye on it with the brush provided. Do this until you have finished colouring all the hair you want to.
Then you must leave it for the colour development time as given on the box of dye. When you are ready go and wash your hair completely until you see no dye coming out in the water. Once you this is done you can do style it as you like and be pleased with your professional and stunning look using highlighting foil.
