Finding Hair Highlight Styles That Complement Your Features
There are dozens of hair highlight styles to choose from. How do you know the best way to highlight your hair? I personally prefer the guidance of an expert. One of the simplest ways to highlight your hair easily and correctly is to have a professional help you. They can recommend appropriate colors to blend in with your natural hair, and help you change your highlights to match your moods or even the season.
There are many different hair highlight styles popular today. Here are some examples of popular highlight styles:
- Hair Chunking - This technique is sometimes referred to as baliage technique and allows a stylist to apply color to the hair freely to create natural but chunky or fatter looking highlights. This technique originated in France and produces larger strands of color. You can use this technique (hair chunking) to emphasize a style or to highlight only certain sections of the hair.
- Foil highlighting - Foil highlighting is a traditional way to highlight hair naturally. Foil highlights allow you to add texture and body to your hair by adding small sections of color to specific strands of hair.
- Block coloring - Block coloring is less of a highlight technique and more of a means to color large section of hair a single color.
- Low lighting - Low lights are a darker form of highlights; some refer to them as streaks. Usually this involves adding complementary colors to your hair a shade or two darker than your natural hair color. Many opt for lowlights instead of overall color for your hair. Lowlights can help add body and texture as well as deeper dimensions to your hairstyle.
- Slicing - As it sounds using this technique the stylist will add highlights by slicing them into the hair for a dramatic appearance.
- Ribbon coloring - This is also referred to as weaving where the stylist artfully weaves color into the natural base color.
Not sure what technique will best suit your hairstyle? Consult with your stylist. He or she should be able to offer you recommendations based on your hair texture, hair style and personal preferences. Many women opt for low lights during the winter months and highlights during the summer. You can usually easily interchange between the two at any time of year.
Home Hair Highlighting
Of course the least expensive way to highlight your hair is to do it at home. Be forewarned though this can lead to disaster if you aren't properly prepared. The first thing you need to realize is you should never attempt to highlight your hair more than one or two shades lighter than your natural hair color. While you can color your hair a few shades darker than normal, trying to lighten your hair color more than a couple of shades could lead to disaster. Orange, brittle and burnt hair often results, and that will cost more than a salon highlight job to fix in most cases.
If you do decide to highlight your hairstyle at home there are a number of easy to use products available on the market. Just remember to stick with a color similar to your own. If you can, enlist the assistance of a friend or family member who can help ensure you spread the color evenly throughout your hair. Worst case scenario? You can always color over your highlights with a block color if you decide you don't like them.
Not sure what colors will look great on your hair? You could always consult with your stylist during your next haircut and ask them what they think. Mind you they are likely to encourage you to let them highlight your hair. As long as you don't mind a brief sales pitch, there is no harm in asking!
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