Highlighting Your Hair Today

By Mai Beauty


Highlights are a simple way of refreshing a look without having going to bold. However, picking the perfect highlights is part science and part art. Hairstylists at Choix Salon Plano can help you get the desired results when you pick the right color and the right method for putting in your hair highlights. Here we share three basic steps useful for highlighting your hair.

1. Recognize your hair. Hair highlights can look great on anyone - guy, girl, light dark, short or long hair. The main element to looking good nevertheless, is knowing your tone and working with it. Usually, hairstylists suggest that the color you select be no more than 3 or 4 shades lighter or darker than your natural hair color. To obtain the greatest results you also need to match the hair color to your skin tone. This will make sure the color does not make you look washed, tired or sickly. Rather, it will flatter your coloring and make you appear more energetic.

Complexions can differ from light to dark but skin tone is normally either cool or warm. A rapid approach to test skin tone is too look at the veins in the arm under natural light. If veins are blue you have a cool appearance, if veins look green you are regarded as a warm skin tone. Some individuals will have a neutral skin tone that looks just as lovely in all shades. Those with a warm skin tone will look great in red, chestnut and other rich colors when choosing hair highlights. If you have a cool coloring talk to your hairstylists about intense shades of blond, brown or honey.

2. Help your hair Every head of hair is unique. After contemplating color choices with your hairstylists, you really need to take into consideration how your hair suits your daily life. Do you work in an office and must look professional, or are you younger and just like funky hair colors that share your personality? Look at the length of your hair, the hairstyles you'd rather wear and your hair texture to get the right look.

For women with curly or kinky hair textures especially highlights done incorrectly can make hair look dull and frizzy. To ensure even application, the highlights may have to be placed the same way that the curls grow. Highlights on this type of hair are also less likely to be done with the basic foil method, instead, the hairstylist may hand paint each curl to help them sparkle and stand out.

3. Mix it up Highlights can usually be done one or two ways, streaking a color or several colors throughout the entire head, or dying the hair to a different base color, then adding in highlights for additional contrast. If you already have a rich base color, hair highlights alone are usually sufficient. If your natural coloring is dull or mousy looking going with a bolder base color and highlights may be recommended by your hairstylists.

A recent trend in highlights is not to multiply highlights similarly through the hair but to highlight just one portion of the hair for contrast, a look that works wonders for those with black hair. As an example, women with short edgy cuts opting for large chunky highlights in the crown of the head, while women with long hair are getting hairstylists to highlight just the tips for dramatic effect.

Highlights are a great way of redefining your look. Ask questions of your hairstylists and look at pictures of celebrities with highlights that you like for inspiration. With a little experimentation, you can easily find hair highlights that bring out your beauty.




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