Highlights for Hair
Coloring your hair is a cool attractive way, to make your hair look unique. You can go with skinny streaks for a subtle look, go for a punk look with chunky highlights, or use lowlights to create a fall look. There is so much you can do, when it comes to hair highlights and lowlights. However, the first thing you need to do is pick the right color which suits your skin tone and eye color, so that you can understand which side of the hair color wheel you belong to.
Once you have decided the right hair color or hair colors for you it is time to put your thoughts into action. Well you can buy a hair coloring kit, select the types of highlights for the hair you want to get, and color your hair at home. The cap method is good to add streaks to your hair. However, if you want excellent results then going to a salon is the right way. Also, if you wish to go for lowlights then seeking a professional stylist's help is must. The stylist itself will give you a good idea of where the highlights should be placed, and thus you will get a fair idea. However, if you have run out of hair color highlights and lowlights ideas, then here is a list of hair color ideas, out of which you can select an idea or combine the ideas to create a unique look for yourself.
Ideas on Highlights & Lowlights
Here are different ideas on highlights and lowlights for hair, for different types of base hair colors. Select one idea or combine 2-3 ideas and use it for hair coloring and highlighting ideas.
- No matter what you do, at least get 8 streaks in your hair, despite wherever they are placed.
- How about a blond faux Mohawk, with black streaks at the top?
- If you wish to get skinny highlights for a sober look, then take a hair section, and with the tip of a hair dyeing brush, pick up skinny strands of hair, and then color them.
- On a good layered haircut, with the crown hair also cut short, try these. Get 2 skinny highlights on each side, 2 skinny highlights on the back and one skinny highlight on the bangs. And for a cool effect get skinny highlights on the hair section above, this way when you tie your hair behind, these highlights will get displayed.
- Dark blond hair with black lowlights in hair.
- If you have a typical layered haircut, which has middle parting and equal layered hair on both sides, then get some popular highlights for hair like copper or blond chunky highlights.
- Try on blond hair, red colored chunky streaks for a unique look.
- On a bob cut, with blond hair base color, get hot pink color at the tips of the hair ends.
- On a bob cut, with a black or dark base color, get bright purple at the tips of the hair ends.
- Blonds for a fall look, can go with brown lowlights and get them done by a professional.
- If you have brown or dark brown hair then go with an extra dark shade to almost black shade of hair color for low lighting.
- A scene haircut with green highlights in front, near the bangs and front hair strands.
- If you have base black hair, then go with many multiple highlights, so that only few black hair are visible.
- If you want a textured subtle look, then take your base color, and take 2-3 hair colors which are minimum 2 shades darker than your base color. With these colors, get skinny hair highlights all over your hair.
- If you have blonde hair, then add some black lowlights and add golden highlights.
- Looking for hair color ideas for brunettes with highlights, then try platinum blond highlights on dark brown hair.
