Highlights: Obvious, subtle, or non-existant?

[i_<3_chanel]

if you're going to get your hair coloured w/highlights i think it should be natural . . .
at the moment rich chocolate browns are very popular as are creamy white blondes . . no platinum streaks

 

[Girl54]

Peek a boo colour is really great...

Highlights are no so over it is just how they are done...what colours you use...how much highlights do you have and if it woven really fine or chunky....

 

[hollyslookingdry]

Hmmm I have almost platinum blonde hair but we left some of my natural color (light brown and blonde and red from many different layers of previous processes over the years) and then added some even blonder on top of that. Everything should be subtle. One shade of hair color looks really tacky. Definately don't do blonde with dark unless you are going for something really really really chunky and funky. I don't know what your coloring is but I definately think reds are coming back.

 

[urbanamy]

I think highlights are okay if you're just sticking to 2 shades lighter or darker. If any lighter or darker than 2 shades, then it'll look definitely funky. I had blond highlights on light brown dyed base before and they were nice but drying. So I went back to my natural color. Now, I want to go a little lighter, a nice chestnut or golden brown or even chocolate brown from dyed black hair. I've not really decided yet. I'm trying to grow out my hair. It seems that highlights will always be around no matter how outdated they are from my observation.

 

[karen kay]

Highlights

What type/color highlights are in right now? im thinking about getting some. I have dark brown hair-almost black and i would like to keep some black/dark brown in it so what colors would look best with this and still be up to date? thanks

 

[karen kay]

here is a link to some of my pictures...
what do you think would look best on me?
short hair-long hair?
highlights?


my pics:
http://photobucket.com/albums/v243/sweetsassykk/

 

[karen kay]

I really like this do....

 

[karen kay]

another pic....

 

[sasseestefanie]

You are -SO- hot

I personally think... that with your particular skin tone and hair color.... that you should get your hair professionally streaked (blonde)... and then have them go over the blonde with a burgandy color. It would be hawwttt

 

[karen kay]

aw thanks! that sounds good, do you have any pics of the highlights you are talking about? thanks-Karen

 

[Reseneace]

Highlight ideas please!

Hey everyone, i was just hoping some of you would be able to give me some ideas on how i should have my hair highlighted, pictures or whatever just inspiration! I'm so stuck!

I currently have medium dyed brown hair, my natural colour is dark blonde and i was hoping to go back to that colour with medium and lighter blonde highlights. My skin tone is cool, i have very dark blue eyes and fair skin, if that helps at all!

Thanks in advance

 

[SweetLove]

I was just wondering what everyone thinks of obvious highlights and lowlights. Tacky? Cute on the right person? It used to be a trend, and I thought it fell out of the scene...but I still see people with them all the time. Most notably brunettes with really light streaks.

I'm just asking because my somewhat subtle blonde high lights are beginning to drive me insane, and I thought it may be cute to get chunks of my natural color pulled through....lol, I'm just not sure I want to look sooooo mid 1990's.

 

[Trista]

I think obvious ones are tacky. High and low-lights, both. I just think that you should go for something more subtle. I'm young so I can pull off some things like streaks, but obvious highlights are something NOBODY can pull off. I'm lucky that my hair gets very light in the sun, so it's natural. Natural is definitely the way to go.

 

[litchickuk]

i dont like obvious highlights. i think they should be subtle and blend in. microlights are fab! But sometimes no lights are better, just the natural ones youre born with as they definatley fit your face color!

 

[spiegel]

I want highlights like this:

 

[lalablossoms]

i'm black with really dark brown hair and i dye it black with a color gloss and love it, dont think i will ever change this cause it really looks good on my coloring, makes my afro super shiny, and fits my style

 

[HockeyAndChanel]

I want highlights like this:
(Adriana Lima pic)]

I LOVE her hair, as well as Ana Beatriz Barros and Alessandra Ambrosio's highlights. Those Brazilian girls sure do know what to do with their hair!

 

[Ianastar]

Shouldn't be too hard to get color like that ^

Natural looking highlights are best when they are two shades lighter than your natural color. It's about the amount of lightening the sun would do.


The problem I see with most highlights done in salons..........the sylist just uses bleach to lift the natural color to a shade of blonde/yellow/white whatever and then leaves it. No toning.

When I did hair.............I would use the bleach to lift my client's hair to a light enough shade, and then usually tone it to make it more natural. Like a nice honey or caramel blonde shade.

 

[elschic111]

highlights are a YES--as long as they're extremely natural looking.

my hair is highlighted in teeny tiny pieces in three or four colors...it took about 3 1/2 hours the first time; now it takes about two for touch ups. sometimes in allure they have articles about this kind of highlights, the techniques stylists use to get them, and the price of these highlights...the result is "model hair." (my coloring (hair and complexion) = natasha poly...i'm not a blonde)

if you see your stylist painting your hair in chunks, run! i have experienced BAD stylists...so finding a good one is key. you're really, really lucky if you find someone to do decent highlights on you for under $250 a pop...and there are stylists who actually charge more than this and suck. so it pays to have good references...ask people you see out where they got their hair done..and be willing to splurge if you are going to have your hair highlighted.

that is, if you like the natural, "model hair" look..

 

[jjbunny79]

lol mine is like drak brown with funny tone natural highlight like red, shades of brown, copper and even platium blone... of course u can find them individually like one strand of hair but now the only damages i like for my hair is sun dyeing

most of the girl in ma skool have quite pale hair (if they are nothern european/ slavic descent) so u will see them with like crazy highlight and/or lowlight or with totally black with streaks in rainbows of colours as i look at then and look at myself i just think that i nvr wanan look like them O.O

therefore if i ever gonna get highlight it would be somthing like the adriana pix above or the "model hair" elschic111 just said above
and of course i will still be a brunette or mayb more on the coppery side >.<