Highlights implies discoloration strands. Depending on their amount and thickness can obtain different results. If you want to look a bit bleached hair and twinkling, lighten a lot of very thin strands, just a few hairs. These strands better handle using caps with holes and special hooks that they can be pulled through the holes.
Using this technique, you can paint the strands in a darker color or make them colorful, both in volume and in non-standard colors. Staining "tone on tone" to impart a different shade called toning. Coloring involves the use of several colors.
If you want to make a clear focus, strands should be thicker. Then it is more convenient to use the foil. On long hair can be colored or only the tips of the strands from the middle of the length. To do this, prepare the desired paint, foil, put on protective gloves. Take a strand of the desired thickness, apply paint and wrap a strand in a piece of foil. The thicker and denser areas to be painted, the more effect.
When painting from the roots, you must first put a piece of foil under the strand, then apply the dye and wrap foil.
Creative approach to your image enables you to select non-standard options. Can be colored strands only bang, choose a plot to paint stripes on the bottom layer of hair or only on the tips. Note that the natural color, the stronger should be the focus, otherwise they just will not be seen. A number of bright color depends on your courage.
Some manufacturers produce neon shades of colors, they can make a stunning rainbow effect on the length of a single strand.
Remember that before painting is highly desirable to cause hair in order, otherwise the color will turn out uneven. After staining, use special shampoos for colored hair, they help to keep the paint for a longer time. If your hair has been painted previously, and you decide to try another dye manufacturer, better pre-consult with a specialist, because some paints are not compatible with each other and their imposition may give unexpected effect.