How to Do Rainbow Highlights With Markers
Assemble your supplies., Decide the area where you want your colour and tie back excess hair around the area (this is obviously optional, but it prevents the marker slipping and spotting on areas that you don't want coloured.), Start with pink, not...
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Assemble your supplies.
The only supplies you "need" on the things you'll need list is the light hair and markers, though it is highly recommended that you at least have the comb or brush. , Section the hair you want to be coloured.
You don't need to tie it back or pin it up, but get a basic idea of how much hair is going to receive a part of each colour you have.
Flat-iron the whole section of hair before you colour it (optional, but convenient.),, If you are worried about the colour getting on your face/head, fold up a paper towel and put it under the hair you are colouring.
This also makes colouring the ends more convenient for you., It will not remove the colour, but your hair may get sticky and slightly matted, and the combing helps to remove the stickiness as you go., For most of the colours, you can just blend with what is next to it, but the pink and the yellow are exceptions.
Grab a small section of hair that is half part of red and half part of pink, and simply colour with the pink until the colours look blended.,, The orange will only mask the colour, make your sections uneven, and not blend anyway.,,, (If you have any more colours than are described here, use the same pattern of blending with the lighter colour.),, -
Step 2: Decide the area where you want your colour and tie back excess hair around the area (this is obviously optional
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Step 3: but it prevents the marker slipping and spotting on areas that you don't want coloured.)
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Step 4: Start with pink
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Step 5: not red
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Step 6: but only colour a SMALL section pink
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Step 7: unless you want a bigger section pink (it just helps the red to not look so "bluntly" red.)
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Step 8: Continue adding the different colours to the sectioned hair (don't worry about the stark lines between colours just yet.)
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Step 9: Every two or so colours you add
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Step 10: stop to "comb out" the colour.
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Step 11: When you have finished with your colours in the sectioned hair
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Step 12: now it's time to blend them.
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Step 13: For blending between red and orange
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Step 14: blend with orange.
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Step 15: For blending between orange and yellow
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Step 16: BLEND WITH YELLOW.
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Step 17: For blending between yellow and green
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Step 18: also blend with YELLOW.
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Step 19: For blending between green and blue
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Step 20: blend with green.
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Step 21: For blending between blue and purple
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Step 22: blend with blue.
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Step 23: There will be spots you missed or gaps in the colour--fill in these with the appropriate colour.
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Step 24: Flat-iron the coloured spot again (if needed)
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Step 25: and then you're done and can enjoy your rainbow hair!
Detailed Guide
The only supplies you "need" on the things you'll need list is the light hair and markers, though it is highly recommended that you at least have the comb or brush. , Section the hair you want to be coloured.
You don't need to tie it back or pin it up, but get a basic idea of how much hair is going to receive a part of each colour you have.
Flat-iron the whole section of hair before you colour it (optional, but convenient.),, If you are worried about the colour getting on your face/head, fold up a paper towel and put it under the hair you are colouring.
This also makes colouring the ends more convenient for you., It will not remove the colour, but your hair may get sticky and slightly matted, and the combing helps to remove the stickiness as you go., For most of the colours, you can just blend with what is next to it, but the pink and the yellow are exceptions.
Grab a small section of hair that is half part of red and half part of pink, and simply colour with the pink until the colours look blended.,, The orange will only mask the colour, make your sections uneven, and not blend anyway.,,, (If you have any more colours than are described here, use the same pattern of blending with the lighter colour.),,
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