Hair Highlights and Lowlights
People try different hair color ideas to look glamorous and unique. Amongst various hair coloring techniques, combination of hair highlights and lowlights is considered to be the most attractive and stunning. Both adding highlights and lowlights are techniques of streaking the hair, that can be added with the solid hair colors to achieve a dramatic as well as a subdued look.
What are Hair Highlights?
Hair highlights is a well-known concept which emphasizes the existing hair color by coloring thick or thin hair strands with a 2 shades lighter color than the original. No matter whether the hair color you bear is natural or artificial (dyed), the color of hair highlights MUST complement it with utmost grace. You can have hair highlights from any hues of dark to light, provided that it is lighter than the existing hair color. For instance, get dark brown highlights for black hair and caramel tones and light brown tones for brown hair or brunettes. Dark brown hair look stunning with medium brown highlights. Always remember the fact that the hair highlights should never be more than 3 hues lighter than the existing hair color.
Placement and thickness of highlights also plays a huge role in making the wearer look attractive. To make the hair highlights look more natural, they are generally placed on top of the head and on the face framing fringes. Too thick and chunky highlights make them to appear really unnatural. Always look for contrasting highlights and lowlights rather than the chunky ones. Thin strands highlighted with naturally suitable color shades, is the best thing which you can have to flaunt that luscious mane of yours.
What are Hair Lowlights?
Adding lowlights is a relatively alien concept for many people. Hair lowlights is a wonderful thing which adds glamor and poise into one's personality. There are many people who like hair highlights but hate the dramatic look that they offer. Hair lowlights add warmth and depth into your hair and enhance the existing color tone as well. Lowlights is an excellent option for the people with graying hair problem too. Hair lowlights is a concept which emphasizes on darkening a few hair strands with two shades darker color, than the existing hair color.
Similar to the hair highlights, hair lowlights can also be added with any type and color of the hair, as long as they are two shades darker than the original hair color. Consider placing the lowlights on the lower hair strands and the lower layers of your hair. Adding darker hues of the same hair color looks really attractive. Also, always refrain from the hair colors that can make your skin to appear pale. Many people and hairstylists recommend to add hair lowlights during colder seasons when the hair gets exposed to less amount of sunlight. You can add hair lowlights to cover overly highlighted hair too.
Useful Ideas
One of the popular hair coloring techniques is adding both highlights and lowlights together! This techniques is also referred as hair 'tricolor' service. Adding both highlights and lowlights together is a great alternative to have classy and dramatic look at the same time. Heavy highlights at the top of the head and heavy lowlights underneath, is the best way to provide your hair a dimension and charm. Hair lowlights are mostly added on every third time one gets the highlights. In short, the ratio of highlights and lowlights should be 3:1. When trying them both, I would suggest you to get it done by a professional to avoid any color mishaps! For instance, adding chunky highlights and lowlights to red hair can look a bit outrageous and unnatural.
While adding highlights and lowlights for blonde hair, always consider adding soft blonde highlights and dark blonde hues for lowlights. You can also try golden blonde tones for highlighting the hair because they require less maintenance. On the other hand, if you are aiming to do this for brown hair or darker hair shades, make sure that the color tones that you choose are not too overwhelming. In order to look natural, always consider adding heavy lowlights and thin and less highlights. Choose warm brown shades, red and dark blonde as highlights for brown hair, while, choose subtle shades and copper infused colors as the best option for brown and darker hair colors.
Once you achieve the desired look, then its maintenance also becomes your prime duty. For best results and utmost hair care, use the color preserving hair care products.
