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[soslychic]

What exactly are the "foiling" method and the "cap" method for highlighting your hair? Is their anyone here who does it at home? Also, how do the "touch ups" work? With one color I understand, but when your hair grows, how do you highlite it to look right on the new growth?

 

[Karonica]

I've had highlights done via cap method. What the stylist does is pull pieces of hair through the cap. This is the easiest method, I would say. And it can help you distribute the highlights better, without much interference to the hair that you don't want highlighted. And it makes washing out the color a breeze as well, since the colored hair is over the cap, and your uncolored hair is protected underneath the cap.

Foiling is when they apply color to chunks of hair and then cover them with the foil. I think stylists mainly do this method when they are applying more than one color so as not to cause any color bleeding and to create a more culti-colored effect. It's also great for chunking highlights.

I gave up on plain highlights for the touch-up reason. It is just too crazy, because it is hard to actually touch-up the previously highlighted hair, particularly if you highlighted small sections all over your head. My hair is still highlighted, but I have my hair completely dyed as well, so that helps alot.

 

[Karonica]

Oh, here's an interesting link I found.

http://styles101.homestead.com/haircolor.html

 

[Lindy]

I've had both.

The foil highlights were beautiful!! And my hair didn't break off from them at all. Then about 9 months later I got it done again, and they used the cap method. Well, I dont know if they used too much peroxide or if it was because the previously highlighted hair was being bathed in peroxide again, or what, but my hair broke off terribly from it!! Three months later, my hairline was all broken off, and I had (& still have!!) a patch of hair on my crown that's shorter than all my other hair.

Also, if you have highlights, you have to be SO careful when you do your relaxer touch-ups that you don't overlap onto the highlighted strands, cuz they will break right off.

After they did the cap method, that's exactly what happened cuz pretty soon you couldn't even tell my hair had been highlighted cuz all those pieces were GONE!! I'm staying away from highlights from now on!!

I don't mean to scare you; just be aware... if you're going to do it, I'd recommend you don't go too light. The less peroxide, the better. I would imagine that the home highlighting kits probably don't contain the same amount of peroxide as what they would use in the salon.

 

[GinuwinesBoo]

the cap is only supposed to be done on shorter hair. i prefer the foil because you can see exactly where the highlights are going to lay and also the cap causes breakage when you pull the strands through it. with the foil you have to be watching it constantly though to make sure its evenly procesed