Hi-Liting Color

Over the ages fashions change-yet stay the same. Keeping up with these trends is a priority for all Goddesses-no matter how busy. In Versailles, Marie Antoniette, in her court, powdered her wigs white to express her own individuality. Today, hi-liting is the modern vehicle to everlasting beauty.

Hi-liting is easy and requires less maintainence than a total hair color change. Minerva offers the following tidbits of wisdom to help insure that you reign as the queen of your court :

• Before you begin to hi-lite your hair, analyze the amount of hair you have. Is your hair thin, medium or thick?
• Remember that hi-liting is not a total color change. It's always easier to lighten fewer strands and add more later.
• Obviously if your hair is thin, pull fewer strands through the hi-liting cap. With thicker hair, pull more-and if desired, heavier strands through the cap.
• Achieving blonde hi-lites in the correct color range can sometimes be a delicate balance. For best results, lighten your hair strands to a pale yellow. Often in an attempt to achieve a light blonde, the lightener is allowed to remain on the hair for too long a time period-removing too much pigment. The result-an unattractive grayish cast.
• The same unattractive cast may occur as a result of pulling the lightener through your hair ends each time you hi-lite your hair. A much nicer hi-liting will be achieved when you simply lighten your new growth...read Maximizing Your Beauty..
• Toning is an ideal solution when the color of your hi-lites is not as desirable as you would like.
• As your hair darkens, the contrast between your dark hair and your hi-lites intensifies-requiring more frequent hi-liting. Slightly lightening the color of your new growth between the times you hi-lite your hair is an easy answer. Slightly is the key here. The objective is simply to allieviate the appearance of the constant need to retouch your hi-lites. Brassiness may occur if the level to which you lighten your hair conflicts with your undertones. A strand test will help you to find the best haircolor to use.
• Over time, the above technique creates multi-tonal haircolor. Beautiful contrast is added to your hair while at the same time lessening your maintenaince.