There are usually two reasons why women like to get their hair coloured one being that they would like a change and two in order to hide grey or white hairs.
The most common way of colouring hair is just to choose a colour that you like which could be a chestnut brown, blonde or near black and a whole variation of tones on those three colours. You just have the dye applied to your dry hair for between 30 and 40 minutes, depending on how well your hair copes with hair dyes, after which it is dried and you have been changed from let’s say a brunette into a blonde.
Then there is high lighting or streaking which entails selecting certain strands of hair from around your head and dying these in a lighter colour than the rest of the hair. This, as the word implies, high lights your hair and in turn your face. It is a great lift for hair that is beginning to look a little dull.
A variation on the above is to have some larger streaks of a light colour put in, of about 1 inch in width, at strategic points around your head. There could be one over your right side forehead and another further in on the left hand side. These can be very striking if they are done in a peroxide blonde colour and the rest of the hair is left in a medium brown.
And finally you can opt for what is called high lights and low lights which in effect means that you end up having three different colours put on your head. Your base colour would be a medium brown, the high lights would be streaks in a blonde tone and the low lights would be a brownish red. These bring a lot of warmth to the overall colour of your hair.