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By Best Hairdresser in Brisbane, August 30, 2011

If you want to brighten your hair while giving it a natural look, hair highlights are the way to go. Highlights get people’s attention, no matter what your style of cut or basic colour.

Highlights are not the same as a full head colour dye. Highlights refer only to colouring strands of hair. Uusally highlights are lighter in colour than the rest of the hair. They can be darker, though, to give depth to the look.

The main three techniques used by the hairdresser to apply highlights are foils, painting and chinking.

With the foil technique, the hairdresser separates a row of strands and lays them on a square of foil. The strands are painted with the highlighting colour, and foil folded over them. Foils can be used on a quarter head of hair, a half head or a full head.

In the second method the colourist separates fine strands of hair and paints them using a brush. This is sometimes done by covering the hair with a plastic cap that has tiny holes in it. The hairdresser uses a tiny hook to pull the strands through. Once all the desired strands have been pulled through they are painted with a flat brush.

Lastly, with chunking the hair is painted in chunks of different sizes.

Hair highlights are enjoying popularity today by celebrities and regular women alike. They can be done at home or in a salon by a professional. Professionals tend to achieve a better, more natural and vibrant result, as they are trained to know how to place them around the head. They also have the skill and techniques to get the look you want.