If you have your highlights done at a professional hair salon, they may use more than one colour for your highlights to help your hair shimmer and give it more facets of colour. Your stylist won’t use too many colours, though, or the effect can be a muddying of the base hair colour.

Highlights and lowlights give you a great chance to update your hairstyle without actually changing the shape with a hair cut. Highlights are quite handy for hiding those “middle” stages, when you’re trying to grow your hair out.

Highlights also brighten your hair, which is a welcome change especially during wintertime. Many women also love summer highlights, to show off the tan they have from being outside.

There is not a set style or length of hair style that looks better with highlights or lowlights. Regardless of your natural colour, don’t try to go more than two or three shades darker or lighter, since the results otherwise will be unnatural, and may look too harsh.

Highlighting and lowlighting may be accomplished with vegetable dyes that are semi-permanent, and not as damaging to hair as bleaching. Always remember to use a conditioner after you highlight or lowlight your hair, to help it maintain the proper texture and colour

The cost of highlighting or lowlighting your hair will depend on several variables, including how much colour you want added, whether it be closer to a half-head of colour or a full-head. Your hair’s length and the experience level of your hair stylist may also affect the price. This is your look we’re talking about, so don’t be afraid to spend a bit more to get a hairstylist with more experience.

For colour ideas, you can check pictures online or even take a picture of a friend whose highlights you like. Take these pictures with you to the salon so that your hairstylist will know exactly what you want. She may have other ideas about the shades of colour that will work best with your natural hair colour, as well.

If hair highlights are properly done, they can make your style quite eye-catching and appealing. You and your hairstylist will also want to discuss how much hair highlighting you would like done – from just a few subtle highlights to a near change of hair colour. Remember though, the extent to which your hair can be highlighted is affected by the health and texture of your hair.

The most appealing hair colour highlights may be done in one of three ways. In the first method, bleaching agents are applied to strands of hair and then they are wrapped in foil. Also called “foiling”, this method gives good results and colours almost down to the roots.

Another technique is known as hair painting. This method can be done either at home or in a hair salon. In this method, hair colour or a bleaching agent is applied to strands of hair with a brush, which creates a pleasing overall effect.

The third method is the most tedious. A plastic head cap is used, and strands are pulled through the cap. These strands are bleached, and then in the most traditional method, you may sit under a salon hair dryer for the maximum effect.

A professional hairstylist can tell you what colour highlights will go best with your base colour. You can select from many various colours that will have you looking younger and more vibrant.