Find out what the Venetian hair highlighting procedure is all about. The subtleties and features of its implementation. Every woman dreams of having beautiful and well-groomed hair, but sometimes she wants to make small changes to her own appearance. As a rule, hair coloring is used for this purpose. It is believed that hair has the ability to accumulate information and can tell a lot about its owner. Therefore, it is not surprising that women tend to change their hairstyle - to make adjustments to the shape of the bangs, the length of the hair, their color, or to dye only individual strands.
If you do not want to make any drastic changes or completely change the color of your hair so as not to spoil their condition, you can carry out the Venetian highlighting procedure - this is a technique that dates back to the 18th century from Italian beauties.
This type of highlighting makes it possible to feel like a real Venetian beauty. This dyeing method allows you not to visit the hairdresser every month, but at the same time look young and fresh.
What is Venetian highlighting?
The Venetian highlighting got its name thanks to the homeland. Italian beauties were famous for their thick and dark shades of hair, but they always strived for change. However, there were no modern brightening paints in those days. That is why, as an alternative, natural remedies were used, which included bright sunlight, under which they had to sit for hours on end.
But the result was worth the effort - the curls burned out in the sun and acquired lighter shades from light chestnut to a delicate wheat shade.
As a rule, this technique is today used specifically for dark hair, which can be dyed in 5-6 cascading shades, ranging from dark to light.
Today, there is no need to sit for many hours under the rays of the scorching sun, because an experienced hairdresser will help to make Venetian highlighting using modern coloring agents. Also, if you know all the features of this procedure, you can do it yourself at home. But in the latter case, it is important to strictly adhere to a certain sequence of actions, since the final result will depend on this.
The main feature of Venetian highlighting is precisely the embossed design of dark strands with light curls. At the same time, it is important that the whole image looks as natural and harmonious as possible, and the hairstyle does not lose its volume. When using this technique, there cannot be too bright and causing shades of paint or the application of a tinting agent to the hair roots. It is important that the highlighting resembles strands burnt out in the sun, and it is also necessary to correctly form the ends of the hair.
Venetian highlighting will help brown-haired women and brunettes get the effect of a natural overflow of strands. This result appears after prolonged exposure to the sun.
Even after a long time, when using coloring of only a few strands, the hairstyle will look voluminous and well-groomed.
Advantages of Venetian highlighting
Such a procedure for dyeing dark hair, like Venetian highlighting, has a lot of advantages and benefits:
- Dyed hair looks as natural and natural as possible.
- Over a fairly long period of time, tinted strands retain their attractive appearance.
- It becomes possible to maintain the basic natural color of the hair, since only a few individual strands are dyed.
- The root part of the hair is preserved - the lightening of the strands occurs in a gentle way, starting from the middle of the strand.
- Venetian highlighting makes it possible to obtain the most natural shade of the strands.
- There is no need for permanent dyeing of the regrown hair at the roots.
- You can use this type of staining at any age.
- Venetian highlighting can be used not only by owners of long, but also short hair.
How to make Venetian highlights at home?
The main feature of this type of staining is obtaining a smooth step-by-step color transition, thereby creating the most natural and natural transition.
Today, Venetian highlighting takes pride of place in the art of hairdressing, because during its implementation no cardinal methods of influencing the structure of the strands are used. When dyeing a certain curl, the hair roots will not be affected, which is why the likelihood of a negative impact on the condition of the scalp is minimized. This coloring technique helps women look much younger. In addition, Venetian highlighting is very popular among Hollywood stars.
To get a truly unique look and achieve the smoothest possible color transition, hair cascading is used. But to perform Venetian highlighting at home, you must adhere to several rules and features of its implementation:
- During simple highlighting, foil is used, but in this case, a special cap is used. It has small holes through which strands are pulled.
- It is necessary to prepare several brushes in advance - two wide enough and one thinner. These brushes can be found in a specialist store. When creating Venetian highlights, you need to become a real artist and brushes will come in handy for work.
- Coloring compounds should only be mixed in a wooden or plastic container, as metal dishes can chemically react with paint and the result can be unpredictable.
- In the event that, before the Venetian highlighting, the strands were painted in different shades, they must first be tinted in one color in order to get a uniform result at the end.
- If the hair is completely dyed first, you need to wait about 12-14 days before the start of highlighting so as not to harm the strands.
- If the hair has a rich dark shade, in order to give it the effect of strands burnt out in the sun, it is necessary to use 4-5 warm colors of paint - cognac, milk chocolate, copper, chestnut.
- For fair-haired girls, the Venetian highlighting procedure is carried out using such shades of paint - light linen, wheat, honey and light brown.
You can also use the supra. As a result of different exposure times of this chemical reagent, you can get a wide range of light hair shades. When choosing paints for home Venetian highlighting, you need to be very careful and do not forget to take into account the natural shade of the strands.
Also, for work, you need to prepare in advance several hair clips, a massage comb, gloves, spikul, with which individual strands will be pulled out of the highlighting cap.
Before proceeding directly to the Venetian highlighting procedure, in order to choose the right color scheme, it is necessary to carry out a full cycle of staining on the back of the head of one strand in advance. Even if the result obtained is far from what was expected, an unsuccessful strand can be easily hidden in a hairstyle.
It is necessary to check in advance for the tolerance to the paint, since some chemicals can provoke a rather strong allergic reaction.
As a rule, you need to do Venetian highlighting on washed and dry hair. During this staining procedure, the scalp will not be affected, so there is no need to prepare for staining for several days.
Scheme of performing Venetian highlighting
The technique of Venetian highlighting is carried out in several main stages:
- a special hat with slots is put on the head, through which several strands are evenly pulled out, which will be dyed;
- with the help of brushes of different thicknesses, the strands are cascaded in pre-selected colors;
- to speed up the dyeing process, it is recommended to wrap the strands in a layer of cellophane and leave for about 25-30 minutes (the exposure time of the paint is determined taking into account the result that should be obtained);
- using a mild shampoo and warm water, the remains of the coloring composition are washed off from the strands;
- a balm or mask is applied to the hair, designed to restore the injured hair structure;
- the strands are dried.
If the hair is dyed separately in layers, this highlighting procedure can take several hours.
Contraindications for Venetian highlighting
Despite the fact that this staining technique has a lot of advantages, there are certain contraindications, which include:
- a recent hair perm procedure;
- hair coloring with a natural toner - for example, basma or henna.
The procedures listed above are not compatible with Venetian highlighting and after staining, the result obtained may not be what you would like to see. Therefore, you should not risk it, because it is almost impossible to predict the consequences and there is a risk of causing serious damage to the hair structure, and the recovery process will take a lot of time and effort.
Features of hair care after highlighting
The procedure for highlighting hair is one of the sparing ones, but, nevertheless, colored curls need constant and careful care in order to avoid increased dryness and fragility of the curls.
After completing the staining procedure, it is necessary to apply a regenerating mask or balm to the strands. The systematic hair care is based on the correct diet.
To minimize the negative effects of paint chemicals, you need to add to your diet:
- foods that contain calcium - for example, fermented milk and dairy products, nuts and cottage cheese;
- foods rich in vitamin C - legumes, citrus fruits, melons;
- products that contain valuable fatty amino acids - seafood, fish, vegetable oils, but only cold pressed (castor, flaxseed, almond, olive).
Venetian highlighting helps to refresh the hair color, while the resulting shade will look as natural and natural as possible. However, in order to maintain the beauty and health of your hair, it is imperative to regularly use regenerating and caring masks and balms.
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