How to Choose Highlights That Complement Your Coloring?

Hair Highlights offer hair a sun-kissed glow and shimmery radiance. Vary the shade of blond depending on your skin color and the effect you'd like to achieve.

Steps:

Consider your natural hair color and the contrast you desire. All blondes, as well as light to medium brunettes, can highlight their hair. Results will vary depending on your original hair color and the formula you choose.
Complement cool skin tones with shades of ash or beige. Enhance warm skin tones with golden, caramel and straw hues.
Choose a treatment that gives you the intensity you're after: subtle or dramatic. Select a process that suits the effort you wish to extend. Your options include combing the solution through your hair, pulling select strands through a hair cap and actually painting the color on select strands.
Seek the advice of a professional colorist, your stylist or a company representative from a well-known company specializing in at-home coloring.
Always follow directions exactly to avoid any color mishaps.

Tips:

Enhance dark brown, red and auburn hair by rinsing with a hair color kit that matches your base color and adds varying shades of caramel, copper, cinnamon or mahogany.

Deep-condition your hair a few days prior to your color treatment. Just before your process, wash your hair with a clarifying shampoo or a mix of vinegar and baking soda. The former will strengthen your hair, while the latter will remove any buildup or deposits.

Warnings:

Pregnant? Get your doctor's OK before proceeding with any hair color treatment.
If you have applied henna to your hair in the last year, remember that you cannot perm it or use a chemical color over it.
Avoid chlorine and salt water for a few days after coloring your hair, as contact may cause adverse reactions to your new color.

Hair Highlight Products

Got2b SoBlonde Wanna Be Blonde Highlight Gel	Jerome Russell's Temporary Spray-in Natural Color Highlights	Spilo Professional Hair Coloring Foil Roll
Luxor Highlighting Tool	Hask Stay Blonde Revitalizing Glosser	Luxor 3-in-1 Color Tool

Hair Highlight Tips

Hair Highlights at Home
Highlights consist of selecting small or thick strands of hair that are then lightened at least 2 shades lighter than the rest of your hair. Highlights should compliment your natural or artificial color. You should never go more than 3 shades lighter then the rest of your hair color. The object of highlighting is to give you a sun-kissed look and to bring depth and light to your overall color.

Step by Step to Get Great Hair Highlights on Short Hair
Planning to create a new hair highlight all by yourself? Don't start it until you read through this article.

Step by Step to Get Great Hair Highlights on Long Hair
If you have long hair, and thinking about get the hair highlight job done all by yourself, good idea! It is fun and creative, but make sure you read our step by step instructions first before you start it.

How to Give Yourself Highlights?
Colorists say they look more natural than allover color but are a bit trickier. Good results are worth a little extra effort.

Step-by-Step at Home Color
Whether you choose a semipermanent or permanent formula, it’s easy to add color, enhance you hue, or cover gray.