When you want your hairstyle to truly stand out, you may decide to add highlights or lowlights. A highlight, in simple terms, brightens up the hair with a lighter colour, while lowlights darken and deepen the look of your hair through the use of darker colours. Blond is a common highlight colour, while plum and red are two popular lowlight colours.

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.

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