Hairstreaks are small pieces of color designed to add dimension and vibrance to your locks. Use them for creating natural sun-kissed looks or make a bold statement! For optimal results, follow the instructions for your at-home highlighting kit carefully. Always apply a heat protectant and condition your locks after coloring to maintain healthy results.
Balayage
Balayage is a hair color technique that adds dimension and creates an effortless, sun-kissed look in just one step. Your stylist will apply paint-on highlights on individual strands of hair rather than applying strips, as traditional foil highlights do. Once blended into existing strands of hair for an inconspicuous finish, balayage makes an excellent option for blondes as it makes their highlights appear less harsh-looking than blunt highlights would. Brunettes can use balayage to add lightness to their locks, as it looks stunning in all lengths. In particular, this ashy brown blend with platinum blonde highlights gives off an easygoing California girl vibe, which matches well with this loose and wavy texture. To maintain its fresh and vibrant appearance, avoid overprocessing or using heat styling tools too frequently. Furthermore, consider washing with shampoo and conditioner specifically formulated for color-treated hair to minimize fade.
Babylights
Babylights offer an easy, natural-looking option when it comes to highlighting techniques. Babylights, like balayage, are an alternative highlighting technique that uses bleach to lighten your locks while leaving some of your natural colors visible between each streak of highlights. It works well on various hair lengths, textures, and colors. Children often have lighter-colored locks, making these techniques perfect for creating subtle sun-kissed looks without showing regrowth lines as quickly. They fade naturally over time as well. Attaining your desired goals during the highlighting process requires communication between yourself and your stylist, who should understand precisely what you want from them. If you are new to color, bringing photos helps them know what you want and how best to achieve it.
Ombre
Ombre hair looks beautiful when executed correctly – whether its transition from brown to blonde is natural-looking or something bolder like turquoise or lavender is involved, professional colorists should take great care in wrapping foils around your locks and lightening with permanent dye or semi-permanent highlighter products for optimal results. Sombre is a more subtle take on ombre, in which your stylist merely shades your roots darker and then paints lighter highlights throughout your mane. For this mushroom-inspired style, they would use Shinefinity 06/71 Frosted Chestnut shade for seeds before applying face-framing highlights with BlondorPlex. As Kendall Jenner, Hailee Steinfeld, and Ana de Armas all sport this popular hair color style, distinguishing between balayage and ombre can sometimes seem complicated. According to professional colorists like Justin Toves-Vincilione, Cody Renegar, and Harry Josh, there’s a distinct difference between them both techniques.
Highlighting Kits
Highlighting is an increasingly popular technique that uses subtle gradients of color through your hair to frame your face and make your eyes pop, but it can be as subtle or bold as desired. Home highlight kits offer everything you need for gorgeous highlights at home, including color, tools, and instructions to achieve this stunning look. When making your decision, be sure to read customer reviews to gain a thorough understanding of how each product performs. The Madison Reed Highlighting Kit is an exceptional solution for at-home hair color that mimics the salon experience. Designed with a pull-through cap with holes, you can use hooks to pull thin sections of hair through and apply color where desired. Plus, it includes a toner to maintain natural-looking results after color application – this is ideal for dark hair!
