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Frosting,
tipping, painting, streaking and highlighting the hair
Frosting, tipping, painting, streaking and highlighting the hair
are all basically the same process but in slightly different variations.
All the techniques involve bleaching the hair, but each approach
gives somewhat different results. Frosting gives and overall salt
and pepper look. It involves bleaching some individual hair strands
while leaving adjacent strands untouched. The overall result is
a blending of the dyed and natural hair. Tipping involves applying
the bleach to just the ends of some or all of the hair. Streaking
gives more pronounced strips or bands of color, this is often used
to "frame" the face. Sometimes it is used in a conscious,
striking display looking like tiger stripes. Highlighting is similar
but using fewer strands of hair in a band as with streaking. Highlighting
results in more subtle variegated hair colors , not entirely blended,
but neither is the result striking bands of hair color as with streaking.
Finally the technique of hair painting involves applying the bleach
with a brush in a pattern. This can be used to create all sorts
of effects such as horizontal bands of color or even making words.
With frosting, highlighting and tipping, two basic methods may
be used. One approach is to put a plastic cap on the head, selected
hairs are pulled through holes in the cap and then bleached while
the hair under the cap is protected from the bleach. The advantage
of this approach is that people with sensitive skin avoid exposing
their skin to the chemicals. In this way, people with eczema, psoriasis,
seborrheic dermatitis and other similar conditions can still have
some form of bleaching and dying process done while avoiding further
exacerbation of their skin condition.
The second method takes longer but is still quite popular. This
approach involves selecting a few strands of hair and placing them
on a square of aluminum foil. Bleach is applied from about two centimeters
away from the scalp down to the tip of the hair fibers (or just
at the tips in tipping). The foil is then wrapped and folded around
the hair until the bleach process is completed. Streaking is done
in much the same way but more strands of hair are selected and bleached
together. This second method can also avoid exposing damaged scalp
skin to irritating chemicals, but the cap approach makes it easier
as there is something physical in the way to protect the skin which
is not the case with the foil approach.
The advantages of all these techniques are that not all the hair
is involved and the procedures do not have to be repeated so frequently
as with all over bleaching and dying.
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