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Best Balayage Highlights NYC; Highlights vs. Color

Best Balayage Highlights NYC; Highlights, Balayage, Ombre or Color?

When it comes to hair color, you basically have 3 options: highlighting, single-process color or double process. Here are a few tips to help you sort out the best option for your hair.

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To Color or to Highlight, That’s the Question

If you have a great base hair tone, you’re better off with highlights. You don’t want to mess with nature or your natural hair color; what you want to do is enhance it. If your base color washes out your skin tone or is “blah,” consider single-process color.

Highlights look best when the colorist uses at least two different shades. More highlights around the face, usually can brighten your complexion.

With highlights, the colorist would be using more than one color, not just bleach. Great highlights should be layered to produce tonal variations. There should be lights, mediums and darks to create depth and translucence in the hair. Highlighting should be like painting a masterpiece and you can’t do that with just one color.

Keep in mind that due to root growth, all-over coloring will need to be touched up every three to six weeks, while highlights can last up to two or three months. We always, highly recommend a gloss/glaze treatment following your color. Gloss/glaze boosts color and makes hair shinier.

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You’re Going for Highlights, But Which Kind?

There are basically 4 types of highlights: basic foil highlights, balayage or “hair painting,” chunking or “piecing” and lowlighting.

Foil highlights add strands of color to hair. You can get up to 5 different shades in hair for a more natural look.

Balayage, or “hair painting,” allows the stylist to add natural stripes of color to hair in large or smaller swaths. This is best for women with a great base color who want to go just a couple shades lighter.

Lowlighting allows the colorist to add darker shades to hair. This gives color more contrast. A 3D effect.

Should You Do Your Color At Home Yourself?

Absolutely NOT! Especially if you want a drastic change, don’t do it yourself. Definitely go to a professional.

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Best Hair Color Salons in NYC; Shiny & Vibrant Colors

Best Hair Color Salons in NYC; Permanent, Semi & Demi Permanent Colors

Just one hair color? In the age of ombre, highlights, and hair mascara, it sounds crazy, but the look is catching on among a few trendsetting actresses. The phrase “single process hair color” might conjure thoughts of bad home dye jobs or retro beauty icons, but today’s version is a far cry from inky or lackluster color. The most basic and commonly referred to color service is something called a single-process or one-process color. It’s a type of color – permanent, semi-permanent or demi-permanent – that’s applied to the entire head to create a new base color. Single-process color enables us to produce a high-gloss shine and even tone, roots to ends. Being in fall season and going towards winter, more people are moving away from the dip-dye look. If you’re worried that a single color will make your hair lack depth, ask for “hair shading”.

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Of course, with a full head of color you’ll have to have your roots touched up every four to six weeks, but it’s worth it for shiny, vibrant, statement-making color that’s anything but one note. Permanent color is the only type of color capable of covering gray one hundred percent. The other types of color can only partially cover gray, creating what seems to be a translucent stain on those areas. But this staining effect isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Many women who have only a scattering of gray like the look that a non-permanent colors provides: The slightly stained strands can actually look like highlights! Permanent color has another advantage. It’s the only color that contains ammonia – or an ammonia derivative – which is a necessary ingredient (along with hydrogen peroxide) in the lightening of natural hair color (as high as four levels, in some cases). The ammonia works by softening the hair so that the cuticle swells, thus allowing the color to penetrate and deposit into the hair shaft, as opposed to only temporarily coloring the cuticle, or outer layer of the hair.

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Non-permanent colors, on the other hand – such as semi- and demi-permanents – have traditionally been valued for their no-ammonia and, in the case of semi-permanent colors, no-peroxide, content, which makes them more gentle on the hair.  In addition, semi-permanents are true, non-committal colors, since they wash out of the hair after a number of shampoos. Those concerned with ammonia or other additives should consult their colorist.

Lifting Hair Color to a Higher Level of Hair Color

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A double process is necessary to exceed four levels of lift.  In this procedure, a color lightener is used to remove natural color from the hair, and then a toner is applied for color. This is the procedure necessary for turning someone with black hair into a platinum blonde!

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Best Haircut Salons NYC — All New for 2013

Best Haircut Salons NYC — All New for 2013: Hairstyles That Make You Look Younger And More Youthful!

The difference between looking fresh and youthful or older than you are can be as simple as the state of your bangs or the shade of your highlights.

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–Side-swept bangs frame her face, creating a youthful and downright flirty look.

–By maintaining the volume up top yet making hair sleek, the look is still sophisticated without the country-club effect.

–A honey blonde color with sunny highlights brightens up the face and adds dimension.

–Loosening things up with a gentle wave and adding some body at the roots makes hair look natural and softens the face.

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All haircuts and styling at the salon begin with a conversation. A dialogue between you and the stylist.

You let us know something about your lifestyle and what you envision for your hair; we share and exchange our thoughts on whether that’s suited to your hair type, facial contours, and coloring and whether we think it’s a style that will be easy for you to maintain. We are the best haircut salon in NYC! In the end, we come to a meeting of the minds so you know what your haircut will look like before our expertly trained, internationally influenced stylists even pick up the scissors.

And we’ll also let you know how your haircut is progressing as we’re cutting it. Since everyone’s hair is singularly different, we want you to know how quirks like cowlicks affect your haircut. Whether you’re letting your hair grow out, keeping a favorite look, or needing a total makeover with one of the latest styles, we’ll make sure the end result looks fabulous!

But what happens once you get home? You’ll find that your hair is more manageable than you ever dreamed possible. So put the top down on the convertible. Don’t worry about the wind when you’re driving around because your hair will effortlessly fall back into place as soon as you stop. Great haircuts are like that. They not only look good, they’re also easy to care for—leaving you with one less thing to be concerned about.

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