Hair highlighting is a popular and preferred trend in the beauty world; in fact it is quite trendy in normal life too. Hair highlights help you to experiment with your looks, try versatile styles, add depth to your hair and make you look different, adding something new to your personality. This is the reason that these days more and more women are opting for highlights. While some like to keep it subtle, others like it chunky. Hairstylists have fun (and earn a lot) by highlighting your hair. But, there are things that a hairstylist wonât tell you about highlights, and at times you may end up dissatisfied. Check out the list to know what your hairstylist might not tell you.
1. You don’t need to get highlights every time you visit the salon
Many hairstylists would ask you to get hair highlights every time you visit them to get your hair done. They may ask you to try something new, or would prompt you to touch up your highlights, saying that you need to get highlights every time you get your hair done. But, this is only a myth. You really don’t need to get a highlight every time you trim your hair or every time you get a new hair color. If you visit your salon like once in a month or two, then chances are that getting a highlight every time might just be too costly for your pocket. Moreover, you don’t need new highlights or touch ups in such short duration. In fact, getting a highlight after a few weeks will only increase your chances of overlapping and over processing your hair. What your hairstylist doesn’t tell is that you need highlights or touch ups only once in 4-6 months. This way your hair gets a small break, you save money and after highlights your color looks more fresh and radiant.
2. Highlights don’t color grey
If you are young and have a few grey strands, you might just want to have some highlights to hide them. Your hairstylist would do that on your demand. But, your hairstylist wouldn’t tell you that highlights aren’t an option to color your grey hair. They can’t completely hide strands. What your hairstylist might do is blend the highlighting color with your grey color. S/he will deliberately select a color that might blend well with those grey strands, giving an illusion that they are covered. So, think about getting a hair color overall, rather than getting highlights to cover your greys.
3. Maintenance
If you aren’t a pro in getting your hair highlighted, then chances are that your hairstylist won’t tell you about how difficult it is to maintain hair highlights. S/he might just say that it is easy to maintain highlights, but it isn’t as easy as it may sound. Highlights need care so that they don’t look dull. You will have to use special products to make sure that the color doesn’t make your hair look weak, dull or lifeless. Moreover, you will have to take care that you get your hair retouched and redone. This depends upon how fast your hair grows. Ideally you need a touch up every 4-6 months. So, make sure that you discuss about hair maintenance in detail.
4. Lowlights
When you ask your hairstylist to highlight your hair in a natural look, your hairstylist might not tell you that you can also get lowlights for natural and different look. Most of the hairstylists don’t tell you about lowlights which intensify the richness of your hair and make you look naturally beautiful. In lowlights you can use any color on the roots and then pull the streaks down. The darker tone on the top and a lighter tone underneath, or a mixture of two different tones from same color can make your hair look incredibly sexy. So, go in for tonal variation.
5. Choosing the color
Some hairstylists might just highlight your hair in the way you want, without even thinking if the color would complement your skin tone or whether you can maintain those highlights. Some hairstylists might fail to tell you that an ash colored highlight may look trendy but it isn’t natural. And you might end up looking absurd or weird. Hairstylists won’t tell you that you need to think about sun before you get a highlight done. This is because sun warms up your skin and lightens your hair. So, if you are going on a vacation, your highlights might go lighter within a few days. So, if you have dark hair, you might want to reconsider your options and choose a tone and shade that would look great during vacations. Talk with your hairstylist about tones in gold or shades in red for the highlights.
Sexy colours for hair highlights this Fall
It isn’t easy finding the right brand at the right hair colour. A whole lot of effort goes into the whole thing. Even after you have found it, you need to know if it will suit you or it will be a disaster. Here are a few colours that are just right for fall.
Blonde
Doesn’t fall itself look blonde? With all the golden flurry surrounded everywhere, why not add to it and colour your hair golden. You are bound to look more beautiful as a blonde when its fall.
Pitch Black
Sometimes, one needs to stand out instead of fitting in. Hence, when everything around you is orange and red, you go out and colour your hair black. Black highlights are just the distraction that everyone needs from the fall. Go ahead, do it and enjoy the attention that is soon going to be showered on you.
Bright Red
This is the best thing to do during fall. Bright red highlights for your hair during fall are just what you need. However, go for it only if you are a wall flower. If you like standing out then do so with grace and élan. Ditch the bright red highlights in fall and keep them for when it’s snowy. Black might be more of your thing if you aren’t a wall flower. Otherwise, a red head is a perfect head.
Grey
No, the trick isn’t to look old but to add a certain kind of demureness to the atmosphere. Grey will go perfectly well with warm people. However, you are not to shy away from the colour. Feel proud and show it off. Go grey only if you can carry it off. If not, choose from other colours.
Other options
There are a zillion other highlights one can do during fall. From pitch brown to orange, the list is endless. At the end of the day, it is the choice of the girl. For all you know, she may not want to highlight her hair at all and for all you know, she may go as wild as pink and purple.
Summary –
Hair highlights are fun and awesome. However, sometimes they look entirely out of place with the season. Here are a few things you can do to get your hair right. Most importantly, your hairstylist might not tell you that you can highlight your hair at home. If you or your friend has a good hand and can work without being messy, then you can experiment with your hair at home. Although, it is better if you could get salon highlights. But if you decide to do highlights at home, make sure that you do an allergy test first. If you go to a salon, always insist on having the same stylist, as the same stylist would know about what you want and what will look good on you. Stay trendy!
