Venetian hair highlighting

All women dream of beautiful and healthy hair, as well as a beautiful shade that will refresh and give a new look to the hairstyle.

There is an opinion that hair has the ability to accumulate information about a person. That is why women, as more emotional natures, seek to change the hairstyle: hair length, bangs, color of hair or individual strands. If you are not ready for cardinal changes yet and you don’t want to dye your hair in a different color so as not to worsen their condition, try the Venetian highlighting - the methodology that we got from the 18th century from Italian beauties.

This type of highlighting will feel like Venetian Signorina, while this approach to its own hairstyle is a find for those young ladies that cannot visit the hairdresser monthly, but at the same time want to look fresh and young.

What is Venetian highlighting

Venetian highlighting began to be called so because of the homeland of its origin. Having thick dark shades of hair, Italian beauties also longed for changes, and there were no clarifying colors at that time.  The alternative was natural remedies, namely: the sun's rays, under which the patient Italians sat for hours to make their curls, burned out in the sun, received new glare: from light brown to a thick wheat shade. Most often, such a transformation technology is used mainly for dark hair, which stormly paint in 4-6 shades: from the darkest to light.

To date, there is no need for a sitting procedure under the scorching sun, you can become the owner of the Venetian highlighting using a hairdresser or at home, subject to a certain sequence of actions.

A feature of Venetian highlighting is the relief design of dark curls with light strands so that the whole image as a whole looks harmonious and natural, and the hairstyle visually looks voluminous and magnificent. No screaming tones or coloring from the very roots in such a tinting method is welcome: Venetian highlighting should look natural and the “burnt” tips should be correctly designed. Venetian highlighting will give the hair of brunettes and the brown -haired man the natural effect of overflow of strands, as from burnout in the sun.

Coloring only some strands helps the hairstyle look well -groomed and voluminous even after a long time.

Advantages of Venetian highlighting

The main advantages of Venetian highlighting are:

• natural type of dyed hair;
• long time preserving the aesthetic type of tinted hair;
• maintaining the basic natural color of the hair - since only individual strands are highlighted;
• the preservation of the follicle of the root part of the hair - the lightened strands are usually made, starting from the middle of the length of the hair;
• this type of staining creates the effect of the natural color of the hair;
• frequent care and tinting of overgrown strands is not required;
• this type of staining is suitable for any age: both teenage and mature women;
• in Venetian highlighting, not only long -haired beauties can flaunt, such a coloring technique miraculously refreshes any hair length: from maxi to mini.

Venetian highlighting at home

The main feature of this method of staining is a step -by -step smooth transition of colors, creating a natural effect.

Venetian highlighting took a worthy place in hairdressers precisely because it does not require radical methods of influencing the structure of curls. Selected strands are painted without affecting the roots of the hair, so the harmful effect on the scalp is minimized.

The youthful of the image for women who have chosen this type of highlighting is confirmed by the example of Cameron Diaz. In his 43 years, the Hollywood beauty looks a maximum of 30.

In order to create your own unique image and get the effect of natural color cascading hair, you need to know some features to obtain uniform Venetian highlighting at home. So you will need:

1. The use of foil, as with ordinary highlighting, is replaced with a special hat with slots for stretching strands.
2. Several brushes should be prepared: 2 wider and one thinner. It is recommended to purchase such brushes in specialized stores for hairdressers. The technique of Venetian highlighting allows us to be artists and the work of brushes will help out very much.
3. It is recommended to mix staining compounds in plastic or wooden dishes, since aluminum or other metal containers can enter into a chemical reaction with paint.
4. If before Venetian highlighting the hair was dyed in different shades, it is necessary to tint it in a monophonic color to obtain a uniform result. After complete hair dyeing, it is recommended to withstand 10-12 days and only then proceed to the procedure of Venetian highlighting.
5. If you are the owner of a saturated dark shade of hair, the natural type of “burnt” hair will be given with 4 warm shades of paint. You will need tones: chestnut, copper, milk chocolate, cognac.
6. If you have blond hair, then the following shades of colors will become your assistants in the receipt of Venetian highlighting: blond, honey, wheat and light linen. You can use the Super: different time of holding this chemical reagent on the hair gives a wide range of light shades. In any case, the choice of colors is recommended to be carried out very carefully. If you don’t know how to decide on the color scheme, you can contact the Internet resource and see how other women do Venetian highlighting at home. Below, your attention seems to be a similar video that may help you avoid the main mistakes in the technique of Venetian highlighting.
7. You will need a couple of hair clamps, gloves, massage combing and spiculum for pulling strands from a hat for highlighting.
8. Before the implementation of Venetian highlighting, in order not to make a mistake with the choice of color scheme of paints, it is recommended to pre -make a full cycle of staining procedures on one of the strands on the back of the head. Even if the result is not the one you expected, such a strand is easy to hide in a magnificent hairstyle. At the same time, check your tolerance for selected chemical paints. If the result is pleased, you can grind the entire surface of the hair fearlessly.
9. Venetian highlighting is usually done on dry washed hair. Since such a technique does not affect the scalp, it is not necessary to prepare for this procedure in a few days so that the skin manages to develop a certain amount of skin fat to mitigate the effects of chemical oxidizing agents.

The technique of the implementation of Venetian highlighting suggests:

• the choice with the help of a special hat with slots of hair strands evenly over the entire surface of the hair;
• starting with the help of brushes of various thicknesses (depending on the type of hair) we tint the strands in the selected color shades;
• to accelerate dyeing, carefully wrap the hair with cellophane for 20-30 minutes;
• rinse from the strands using a small amount of shampoo the coloring composition;
• we apply a mask or balm to the hair to restore hair structure after dyeing;
• dry the hair. Ready!

If you paint the hair separately in layers, then such highlighting can drag on for 2-2.5 hours.

The most important contraindications for Venetian highlighting are the recent chemical curl or staining of hair with a natural toner: henna or basma. Such types of cosmetic procedures will not be friends with Venetian highlighting and the result may not turn out at all the one you expected.

California Venetian highlighting

For fair -haired young ladies, Venetian highlighting is done according to the same algorithm as for dark hair, however, the colors are not lightened, but stormly obscures. Most often, the roots use darker shades, which are stepped stepped from a nut or honey shade to a light wheat.

The technique of coloring strands by the type of Venetian highlighting for fair -haired girls is called California. California is the birthplace of a hot climate and scorching sunlight, where the hair of local beauties is burned out from frequent stay on the beaches and skiing on a surfing board. The darkening of the hair roots contributes to the fact that the hairstyle looks natural, voluminous and vividly even a couple of months after the highlighting procedure.  In the hands of a skilled master who has the knowledge of the technique of California highlighting, truly futuristic images are born: due to the soft st cascading coloring of the strands, the hairstyle looks voluminous, and the owner of such hair in the image has mischief and youth. That is why many Hollywood actresses, even in old age, prefer not complete hair dyeing, but California highlighting.

In order to transform and make California highlighting at home, your desire is enough. Observing the same sequence of actions as with Venetian highlighting, one can achieve the effect no worse than that of eminent masters.

Care for highlighted hair

Hair highlighting is a fairly gentle hair dyeing technique, however, after such a procedure, increased brittleness and dry ends of the strands are observed.

In order for the whole hairstyle to look harmonious, it is recommended to conduct systematic care of brittle hair.

The application after the procedure for staining restoring balms and masks contributes only to the instant effect. Systematic hair care provides primarily a revision of the diet.  To soften the harmful effects of constant cosmetic procedures with hair that women love to do so, it is recommended to include in the diet:

• products with a high content of calcium: dairy and dairy products, cottage cheese, nuts;
• products with vitamin C: citrus fruits, legumes, melons;
• products with the content of fat amino acids: fish, seafood, vegetable oils of cold squeezing: olive, almond, linseed, castor.

The following masks are recommended to strengthen the hair structure:

• Fruit. Mark 100 g of apricots, currants or blueberries to the state of mashed potatoes, add 1/3 lemon juice, 1 tbsp. l. Contained balm. Apply to clean hair for 30-40 minutes, then wash off a large amount of clean water.
• Vegetables. Grate 100 g of carrots, 100 g of beets, add 1 tbsp. l. fat cream, mix everything. Apply to clean hair for 20-30 minutes, then rinse under running water.
• Bread.Cut half the loaf of black bread into small bars, pour 200 ml of boiling water. Let the mixture stand for half an hour. Then apply the mask to clean hair for 30 minutes. Rinse under running water.
• Calcium-honey.Mix 100 g of cottage cheese from 1 tbsp. l. fat cream and 1 tbsp. l. honey. Keep on the hair for 20-30 minutes, then rinse with a large amount of running water.
• Oil -containing. Mix 1 tsp. burdock, castor and olive oil. After each washing, apply to brittle ends using a special dispenser or spray. You can not wash off.
• Egg. Egg yolk is very useful for hair follicles. If you rub it into the hair, starting from the roots, after a month of such procedures, your hair will pleasantly surprise you with softness, ease of combing and a significantly strengthened structure of the ended ends.
• Herbal rinsing.  4 tbsp. l. Dry grass: daisies, calendulas, plantain pour 1 liter of boiling water. Let it brew 30 minutes. Such a decoction should be rinsed with already washed hair.

The hair also has a beneficial effect of rinsing with kefir, ash. In addition to restoring action, sour -milk drinks save the hair from excessive fat content.

Photo. Venetian highlighting on dark and blond hair before and after

Venetian highlighting is a wonderful alternative to complete staining of hair. This approach to its own hairstyle will allow you to get a whole cascade of new shades, where your natural color will still remain basic.