What toner should I use for highlights?

What toner should I use for highlights?

The best toner for highlights when you don't wish to lift a darker base or lowlights would be a non-lifting toner.

We would recommend you consider using Blondify toners. They are non-lifting toners without ammonia.

At the same time they are enriched with Bond Protect.

They can be used with mild developer strength (as low as 7 Vol) and they process in just 10 minutes.

Most importantly, they are non-lifting toners.

Which means that you can tone your highlights fast, without touching your darker hair underneath.

Will this toner lift my roots?

So the answer to that is no, provided you do it correctly.

Use only a low strength developer (20 Vol or under), and leave on for no more than 10 minutes.

In any case, the toner's processing time is 10 minutes, so that is all that your highlights will need.

Do I put Blondify toner on whole head or just highlights?

You can put it on the whole head. It will only tone the highlighted areas.

Here is what one of our customers explained:

"A few months ago I had done all over highlights using Brilliant Blondexx Bond Protect Bleach with 20 Volume Developer and toned with Intense Pearl Blonde Toner.

Which turned out great, but I since this was a high lift toner I needed to protect my base by pulling the hair through a frosting cap, bleaching only the roots, leaving the frosting cap on while rinsing, so I could apply the toner only to the highlighted hair.

I’ve used this method a few times and it turns out great, but it is a time consuming process, and using the cap, the highlights don’t reach the underneath hair layers.

So this time I decided to try the Natural Ash blonde liquid toner, because it only tones lightened parts.

This way I was able to apply the toner to my entire head of hair, and was able to do true all over foil highlights to touch up my dark and graying roots.

The result is a beautiful blend of varying shades of blonde mixed my natural dark and graying hair. I highly recommend this product."

Is Blondify a deposit-only toner?

Blondify is a regular toner. Which means that you mix it with developer, and it will open up your hair cuticle and alter the color from the inside of the hair.

As such, to call it a deposit-only toner would be a misnomer.

The only deposit-only toners would be a purple shampoo or mask.

Which Blondify toner should I use on my highlights?

Use level 10 toners if your highlights are truly pale, very light yellow.

Otherwise, use level 9 toners. These are a little darker and more pigmented.

So in other words, they will neutralize yellow more.

Level 10 toners

Ugly Duckling has 2 such toners:

Natural Ash Blonde 010A and Natural Violet Blonde 010V.

Use the ash toner if your highlights are a very bright yellow.

And use the violet toner if your highlights are more of a pale yellow.

Blondify level 10 toner - Natural Violet Blonde 010V

Hair toned with Natural Violet Blonde 010V

Hair toned with Natural Ash Blonde - 010A

Level 9 toners

If your highlights are really bright yellow bordering on orange, then you should use level 9 toners.

They will act to tone down the hair and make the whole head consistent.

There are 2 toners you should consider using here:

Blue Ash Blonde 09B and Violet Blonde 09V.

Blue Ash Blonde 09B 

Hair toned down with 09B

Can purple shampoo or mask tone highlights?

Yes they can. They are, as we just explained, the true deposit only toners.

As such, they don't lighten the hair.

What they do is to deposit purple pigments onto the hair.

These purple pigments will fight any yellow in the hair and make the hair whiter and more blonde.

Ugly Duckling has an excellent purple shampoo and mask.