Honey Blonde Highlights

Honey blonde is a great shade of blonde hair, that merges nicely as highlights, with almost any base hair color. One can go with hair color ideas of honey blonde on lighter blonde hair, darker hair colors like brown or black or even auburn hair. Honey blonde is a shiny hair color, that is not very eye-catching as golden blonde or platinum blonde hair color, also it is not very subtle as ash blonde or yellow blonde hair color. Hence, honey blonde is a great color to get highlights of. As it will stand out nicely and give a great textured look, that will be noticeable but not loud. Given below, are some important tips you should remember while coloring and caring your highlighed hair.

Honey Blonde Color Suits On...
Honey blonde hair highlights suits people who have facial complexion that is either dark brown, medium complexion with golden undertones, medium complexion with light pink color in the cheeks or no color, pale complexion with pink undertones or no color, olive complexion seen in Asians and Latinos, or bronze or brown complexion after tanning. It can go with people who have eye color dark blue, dark brown, grayish blue, blackish brown or hazel colored with light flecks in them. Such people can go with a medium or dark shade of honey blonde.

People who fall in the warm skin tones category and eye tones, should go with lighter shades of honey blonde highlights. Because, such people generally have warmer hair colors, on which bright shade of highlight colors will look good. People that fall in this category can have skin tone that can be a freckled complexion, pale complexion with peach or golden undertones, brown skin with pink or golden undertones or a ruddy complexion. The eye color can be hazel with brown or golden flecks, greenish blue eyes, green eyes or golden brown eyes.

Accompanying a Haircut with This Style
The most flattering haircut for highlighted hair color is layers. You can cut your hair in a number of layers. You go with the standard side layered haircut, and accompany it with 12 or more streaks. Or you can go with more layers near the crown and less at the end. This way you can work in layers of highlights too, you can add more streaks at the crown and bangs, and less below the hair under the crown.

Additional Styling with Honey Blonde Color
To add more uniqueness to your honey blonde highlights on dark brown hair or black hair, you can consider going for a multi tonal effect. This is especially a good idea if you have honey blonde highlights on black hair, as it will help to blend the highlights even nicely. You can add few highlights of brown and dark blonde along with the honey blonde highlights.

Caring for Your Colored Hair
To maintain your colored hair for longer, try to prevent exposing it too much to sunlight. Also, use shampoos and conditioner which are mild or especially made for colored hair care. To maintain your haircut, you might also need to visit the stylist every 3-4 weeks, depending upon the growth of your hair.

So, select the right shade of the highlight colors, so that it matches with your complexion and doesn't make your face look pale or too bright. Also, accompany a good layered honey blonde hairstyle and enjoy your new look!