6 Hair Highlight Tips And 24 Trendiest Ideas

hair highlight tips and 24 trendiest ideas

Hair highlights can do wonders to bring out your hair’s most attractive shades, as well as complement your eyes and complexion, if done correctly. Adding highlights to your stands will create hair texture and add dimension to your look.

Maintenance

For highlights that will look good when growing out, use a darker hair color at your roots that blends to a lighter tone at the tips of your hair. Good highlights last for three months. It’s always a bad idea to over-highlight you hair — less is more!

When you don’t have the time or the cash for highlights, ask for a color-refreshing rinse. It takes just five minutes and is a fraction of the cost of highlighting. So you can look great on-the-go without breaking the bank.

If you’re adding highlights to your hair for a big event, such as your wedding hairstyle, get the highlights done at least 2 weeks beforehand to allow time for your hair and the highlight color to settle.

Ashy brunette ombre highlights.

Ashy brunette ombre highlights.

Black hair with caramel and brown highlights.

Black hair with caramel and brown highlights.

Brond hair color with balayage highlights.

Brond hair color with balayage highlights.

Brown and caramel hair with blonde highlights.

Brown and caramel hair with blonde highlights.

Brown hair with blonde highlights.

Brown hair with blonde highlights.

Brown hair with caramel and light highlights.

Brown hair with caramel and light highlights.

Brown hair with caramel highlights.

Brown hair with caramel highlights.

Brown highlights and lowlights on a blonde base.

Brown highlights and lowlights on a blonde base.

Brunette hair with sun-kissed highlights.

Brunette hair with sun-kissed highlights.

Caramel blonde highlights on brown hair.

Caramel blonde highlights on brown hair.

Curly brown hair with blonde highlights.

Curly brown hair with blonde highlights.

Colors

Brunettes don’t need a full head of highlights. Have your colorist paint lighter pieces into your hair before rinsing out your color. This creates depth and dimension that enhances the natural tone of your hair. To give your hair a brighter look, opt for highlights in a blonde or gold tone. For a dark, deeper effect, try lowlights in plum, auburn or chestnut. For blondes, using lowlights will help you get a darker look without drastically changing all of your hair.

Highlights can be used to cover up or break up the look of grey hair and is especially effective on blonde hair colors.

For natural, sun-kissed looking highlights use natural hair colors in thin strands around your face or sparingly through any bangs.

Dark blonde hair with blonde highlights.

Dark blonde hair with blonde highlights.

Dark brown and caramel balayage highlights.

Dark brown and caramel balayage highlights.

Dark brown hair with honey and light brown highlights.

Dark brown hair with honey and light brown highlights.

Dark brown hair with subtle highlights.

Dark brown hair with subtle highlights.

Dark brown with chestnut highlights.

Dark brown with chestnut highlights.

Dirty blonde hair with highlights.

Dirty blonde hair with highlights.

Light brown base with graduated blonde highlights.

Light brown base with graduated blonde highlights.

Light brown hair with caramel highlights.

Light brown hair with caramel highlights.

Light brunette balayage highlights.

Light brunette balayage highlights.

Multi-colored highlights on a brown base.

Multi-colored highlights on a brown base.

Naturally sunkissed bronde highlights.

Naturally sunkissed bronde highlights.

Neutral pale blonde highlights and lowlights.

Neutral pale blonde highlights and lowlights.

Warm chocolate brown base with golden blonde highlights.

Warm chocolate brown base with golden blonde highlights.