1. Highlights – Foil Technique
Pros Cons
• Painless. • Takes longer to do.
• Can use many different colors. • More expensive.
• The skill of the hairdresser is very
• Gets the lights closer to the scalp important, as they can look shocking if
and the hairline. they are not done well.
• Can get the pieces of color exactly • Not available in all salons.
where you want them.
• Can create differing sizes of light
more easily e.g. thick swooshes of
colour or fine strands.
• Does not stress the hair as there is
no pulling of strands through tiny
holes.
2. Highlights – Cap Technique
Pros Cons
• Cheaper than the foil method. • Only suitable for short hair as the
• Done in all but the most exclusive salons. process can put unnecessary stress
on mid to longer hair.
• Quick.
• Can be painful as a hook is used to
pull strands of hair through the cap.
• Only one color at a time can be used.
• Not suitable for curly hair as it
tangles as it is pulled through the
cap.
• Not good at getting close to the scalp
when the hair is very thick.
• Hard to place lights in nape area
close to the scalp.
• Hard to control highlight placement
to get them exactly where you want.
3. Color Melting Technique
• Color melting involves taking two or more colors and applying
them in such a way that the colors gradually change from one
to the other or “melt” into each other.
5. Chunking Technique
• Takes large, random sections of hair and infuses them with new color.
Chunking is a hair coloring technique that gives dramatic impact to your
hairstyle, often by adding bright, trendy colors to natural hair color.