In order to create that multi tonal effect that comes with highlights your colourist uses foils to section off parts of the hair leaving out a certain number of strands from the foils to keep it looking natural.

How to highlight with foils. You can leave the hair for now as you continue to apply foilsdye. There is no difference between the two. The best way to get a seamless blend is to highlight and lowlight.

If you want natural looking highlights there is going to be nothing natural about your color if you see your hair stylist coming at you with a hand full of foils. Foil highlights for beginners. Dip your brush in a small amount of the highlight dye.

Balayage is a surface highlighting technique that creates beautiful natural highlights with lots of dimension. Dye most of the hair and leave a few bits natural sort of like the opposite of highlighting protect sections of hair from becoming over-processed. For long hair place a strip of foil under the part of your hair you are highlighting while you paint bleach onto the strand of hair.

When doing a half head highlights on my first day the other new girl said shed help me and foil at the same time i didnt feel comfortable but didnt say anything. In addition to highlighting you can use foils to do the following. Place a piece of foil under the hair you want to highlight.

Youll probably end up with highlights that look like stripes orin the worst caseslike someone accidentally spilled some bleach on your head. Brush the highlighting color over the strands with a flat hair-coloring brush. As you brush the hair should become plastered to your foil.

Use the back of the rat-tail comb to tuck the edge of the foil as close as possible to your scalp. This other new girl is a lot more experienced than me and has managed a salon before on the left side of the head where i was working there was a colour bleed at the roots the foils werent back to back so it showed them up more. This course is ideal for those at the beginning of their hairdressing career and taking the first steps or an experienced hairdresser returning to the industry in learning the art of highlighting which is still one of the most popular colouring techniques carried out in the salon.