- Usually, highlights blend in with the rest of the hair after four or five washes.
- The color finishes settling, and the highlights look even and natural when they blend with the rest of the hair.
- However, if you notice that your highlights don’t blend in with the rest of your hair after a few washes, you should go to the salon for color correction. I’ll tell you what you can ask your stylist to do.
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How to fix overdone highlights? Are your highlights too light or too dark? Too wide or too thin?
The saying goes, “there is honor among thieves.” What does this mean?
For example, you wouldn’t speak ill of hairdressers in front of hairdressers. Alternatively, if you’re a cab driver, you’ll always defend cab drivers even if you know that they may be unfair sometimes.
Still, there are good and bad professionals in any profession.
So, if your highlights don’t blend in with the rest of your hair after a few washes, the colorist made a mistake.
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When the highlights are properly done, they blend in with the rest of the hair after a few washes
So, if your highlights don’t blend in with the rest of your hair after a few washes, you should go to the salon and discuss it with the stylist.
Don’t be afraid or embarrassed.
You have a right to ask for a correction. If the highlights don’t blend in with the rest of your hair, the stylist made a mistake somewhere along the way and should fix it.
Do you know why highlights always blend with the rest of the hair after a few washes?
Because this technique has a professional secret: to maintain a color difference between the highlights and the rest of the hair which is always less than three tones.
That way, the highlights blend in with the rest of the hair, and the effect of the technique is natural and even.
Let’s see what you can do if your highlights don’t blend in with the rest of your hair.
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How to fix highlights so they blend in with the rest of your hair
First, I want to ask you a favor. If you applied the highlights on your own and they don’t blend in with the rest of your hair, go to a salon to have a professional do the color correction.
For your highlights to blend in with the rest of your hair, you’ll need to bleach your hair in other sections.
And this needs to be done by a professional to get it right and not damage the hair.
Anyway, I’ll tell you how you can get the highlights to blend in with the rest of your hair to give you an idea of what you can ask the colorist for when you go to the salon.
You’ll need to be patient. Color correction should be done after five weeks.
If your highlights are very light and don’t blend with your hair, you should look for a minor color difference between the two.
Some perfect combinations are:
- Brown hair 4 with blonde highlights 7.
- Light brown hair 5 with light blonde highlights 8.
- Dark blonde hair 6 with very light blonde highlights 9.
These combinations allow for an even color difference between highlights and the rest of the hair.
You need to bleach some hair strands to highlight them. Your colorist will separate the sections of your hair with a cap or foil to apply the bleach.
If your highlights are too white and don’t blend in with the rest of your hair, your colorist should apply the highlights with a dark blonde 6 or blonde 7 dye
In this case, the highlights look like gray hair, and you’ll probably dislike it.
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What you should do is wait for five weeks. When you touch up your highlights, ask your colorist to use a dark blonde 6 or blonde 7 dye.
This way, you’ll have a range of colors within the blondes. So, the white hair that looks like gray hair will disappear.
Some perfect combinations are:
- Very light blonde hair 9 with dark blonde highlights 6.
- Light blonde hair 8 with dark blonde highlights 6.
- Blonde hair 8 with blonde highlights 7.
When bleached hair goes white, any blonde color you apply will be darker. White is a number 12. If you apply a blonde 7, your highlights will look darker without losing the blonde tone.
You can also apply light brown 5 or brown 4, but you would be going out of the blonde range. And if you regret the dark color of your highlights, you’ll have to bleach again.
The highlighting technique always takes the hair to an extra light blonde 10. This is because your colorist cannot always separate the same highlights.
The colorist will separate some hair strands that were not bleached before, so there will come a time when your entire mane will be blonde.
To solve this, “dark highlights” are applied. How dark? At least two levels darker than the rest of the hair.
Those highlights will be one or two levels darker so that you can show off a range of even colors.
Conclusions
It’s normal for the highlights to blend in with the rest of the hair after four or five washes.
However, if you notice that the color difference between the highlights and the rest of the hair is still very noticeable after some washes, something went wrong during the application of the highlights.
The only way to fix it is to wait for the highlights to be touched up in five weeks.
Remember that if the highlights are not well done, they’ll never blend in with the rest of your hair.
