Preparing Your Hair For Highlights

A few days before you go to your hairdresses for your colouring session, we recommend that you clarify your hair. Use a mixture of shampoo and baking soda, clarifying shampoo by itself or even apple cider and vinegar. After your clarifying treatment, condition your hair as normal.

Deep conditioning is also vital for restoring moisture before your highlight treatment. This will help restore the pH of your hair, whilst also making sure that your ends are moisturised. All of this means that the colour and hair will mix evenly. Hair dye usually dries out hair, so by conditioning beforehand, you are bound to fight against the dull version of the colour you desire.

How To Dye Only Your Bangs

Dyeing only certain parts of your hair has become a popular trend in recent years. Many people avoid dyeing only their bangs at home, as it’s seen as a complicated procedure.  Well we’re here to help and have broken down the process into 3 easy steps.

1. Use a comb to separate your bangs from the rest of your hair. Pull the rest of your hair back with an elastic band.
2. Apply your favoured dye colour to your bangs, then place a later of aluminium foil under and over your bangs. Aluminium foil is there to prevent dye from getting on your forehead. Let the dye sit in your hair for the manufacturers recommended amount of time.
3. Rinse out bangs thoroughly.

How to Dip Dye Your Hair

Dip-dying is definitely on the list of trends at the moment currently worn by celebrities like Katy Perry and Jessie J. Here is a step-by-step guide on how to successfully achieve dip dying your hair yourself without the need of visiting a salon and paying high sums of money to get it done professionally. The best thing about dip dyed hair is that you never have to worry about touching up your roots so it takes very little maintenance, and if you change your look often then it’s not too much trouble to do it all over again.

1. First,  you’ll need to decide whether you’re going to bleach your hair. If you want really vibrant colours, you’ll need to bleach your hair first especially if you already have dark hair. If you have light coloured hair (e.g blonde) or you are looking to dip dye your hair a subtle colour skip this step.
2. Next, put an hair band on your hair a few centimetres above the area where you want the dip dye colour to start and begin applying the bleach with a tint brush. If you fan your hair out and do a small strand at a time you’ll get more even coverage, also try and feather where the bleach stops a little if you don’t want a straight line, this will make it look more professional.
3. Wash out the bleach and shampoo but do not condition your hair. Conditioning your hair before colouring can prevent the dye from sticking.
4. Blow dry your hair. Once your hair is dry you can add the dye. Again, put an hair band on your hair just above the area you which do dye. Use a tint brush to apply the dye everywhere that the bleach has lightened your hair. It’s best to go a little bit over the line and get some dye on the unbleached hair too to make sure the colour blends in.
5. Leave the dye on for the given time (it should state on the packaging of the dye.) Then rinse , shampoo and condition.
6. Blow dry for a perfect finish.

Natural Red for a Trendy Hair Colour

There are many different colours to choose form when you’re dyeing your hair, and the fact is you can pretty much opt for any colour you like, and we’re recommending a natural red.

If you’re naturally a brunette, then you may want to opt for chocolate Auburn hair, and this will contain a nice natural amount of red, while it will look suitable, especially if you have a light skin tone.

Many natural red heads are sticking to their own colour now, and many blondes and brunettes may find a reddish look to suit their skin tone. Strawberry blonde hair contains hints of ginger and blond, and occasionally brown, and this hair can suit various different people, and it will definitely be a big look throughout the rest of 2014.