How To Highlight Your Hair At Home

Have you finally decided to tread the fun path of coloring your hair at home? Coloring hair at home isn’t as scary as it's considered to be. You do not have to be a professional to color your hair on your own. If you’re a beginner then you can start by coloring smaller sections of your hair. All you need is an all-in-one hair highlighting kit, that has blonder powder and a developer for pre-lightening, a hair dye, gloves, brushes, and shampoo and conditioner for post-coloring hair care.

Follow these 10 simple steps to highlight your hair at home

1. Read the instruction manual provided in the highlight kit that you use.
2. Put on the gloves and divide your hair into manageable sections.
3. Mix the blonder powder and developer in the mentioned ratio and ensure that the mixture is smooth
4. Apply the bleach using the brush on the desired portions of your hair post performing a patch test to check for allergies.
5. Cover the bleached sections with aluminum foil so that the chemicals process faster to pre-lighten your hair.
6. After keeping it for 30-45 minutes, check to see if you have the desired results.
7. Then wash it thoroughly with shampoo and dry your hair.
8. Now choose the hair color of your choice and apply the color evenly on your sectioned hair.
9. Keep the semi-permanent hair color for 30 minutes and rinse it off with a color care conditioner.
10. Dry your hair and style them as you like them!

Here are some styles that you can experiment with if you are just starting out with your hair coloring journey:

Underlights

This peek-a-boo look ensures that your hair is colored and not-colored at the same time. Confused how? You only color the layer of hair under the top layer of your hair and behind the ears. So when your hair is open, the colored strands won’t stand out. But as soon as you tie them up, you’ll have a beautiful pop of color above the nape of your neck. If you want to be a color ninja, with hidden dyed locks this is the look for you.

Moneypiece

This look forms an accentuating frame around your face. This technique lifts your complexion and will grow out very softly with minimal upkeep or maintenance. Money-pieces as the name suggests are budget-friendly, easy to do, and require low maintenance.

Ombre

The two-toned hair color effect of an ombre is typically darker at the top and lighter on the bottom. Often the dark, top section is your natural hair color shade and the bottom section is lightened with a hair lightener. This can be done in a tip-dyed look or sported on short hair as well. The name originates from the various tones that you see in the sky. So you can literally have sunset hues, sunrise hues, and all kinds of blends on your hair!

Chunky Highlights

Chunky highlights are normally styled to create a stark contrast with your natural hair color and are done on large sections of hair. It's done using many highlighting techniques to give you that chunky look. A semi-minimal pop look is what it’ll give you.

Feel free to explore more on which look to go for. Once the look is fixed, it'll be color-picking time!!!! You can choose as many colors as you want, but for your first time, we'd recommend selecting a single warm tone as that deposits easily. Go for colors like red, pink, or purple. If needed, you can also visit a salon to get your desired hair color look.

Pooja is a highly proficient content writer with 6+ years of experience writing engaging articles about natural haircare topics. Pooja holds a Master's degree in journalism from Mumbai University.