Hair Coloring for Asian Hair

Hair coloring for Asian people who have natural black hair is not easy to do. Especially in Indonesia, because any brand in supermarket is dedicated for blonde hair. In other words we must have prelightened hair before coloring our hair, if not the result is to dark. can be see only when sunlight hit our hair. The problem is if we prelighten our hair and then aplly a color it could damage the hair. But don't worry large brand like Loreal, Wella have made a product to solve those problem. Wella with Koleston Perfect, Loreal with Maji Contrast. Here's an example for Maji Contrast.

1. Hair was sectioned as shown.
2. Apply Color to all remaining hair (using Loreal Maji contrast). Allow process for 30 minutes.
3. Finish Look

Asymmetric Redhead Bob from La Biosthetique

Before		1. Hair was sectioned as shown.
2. La Biosthetique Tint & Tone 5/7 light brown violet and 5/6 light brown mahogany was applied at a ratio of 2:1 as the base colour.		3. La Biosthetique Tint & Tone 5/6 light brown mahogany and the base colour were alternated through the crown and top sections.
4. The base colour was applied to the roots of the section at the side of the head. Then Color & Light Soft-Mix with 9% or 12% was applied through the lengths.		5. Diagonal slices with Soft-Mix were created through the front section and the base colour applied between the foils. It was left to process then rinsed out. 7/47 coppery peach (7/43 rich copper and 8/7 cool blonde mixing ratio 1:3) with Tone Lotion was applied to the highlifted sections.
Styling
Hair was blow-dried straight and smoothed with irons		Alternative Styling: Hair was blast-dried and finished with spray

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Highlight with foils VS Balayage

Highlighting often serves to give a summery or edgy appearance to hair, depending on the style used. Chunky highlights (wide, obvious bands of color) is often considered a very edgy choice, while natural, subtle highlights make the wearer appear as if she has been on the beach for too long.
















Highlights typically use bleaching ingredients to achieve a lightening effect, sometimes also mixed with color so the effect isn't quite so harsh. With chunkier highlights, whole sections of hair are bleached together. "Full foil" highlights go throughout the entire head of hair for a very natural effect, with a stylist hand-selecting the strands of hair to be highlighted for even texture and appearance. The technique usually used is slicing technique.






Highlights can offer an update to your whole appearance. They tend to make the rest of the face brighter and it is a very youthful, summery, fun look. It's also a subtle change if you don't want to drastically alter your hair.

















There are many technique of highlighting two of them is using foils.


Foils

Many problem caused by hair highlighting from damage of the hair caused by chemical to the unwanted result highlight (its more like stripe on the head)



















Balayage

Balayage is advance technique of highlighting. You can called it "Hair Hand Painting". The stylist take a strand and then apply the cream here and there. They just know where to put the cream. The result, amazing its more natural then basic hair highlight.









Balayage is evolution in haircolor. From the French word balayage, meaning "to sweep", the technique involves hand painting of the hair with color or lightener to produce an greatest individual result.

















The differences between foils is, with foils the result could be like "stripe", but with balayage technique the result is bold and dramatic. Its more natural...

















Now, time to choose which one is gonna look good on you!!