Hair Highlights Gallery

Types of Highlights

Highlights are blended patches of color added to a base color to make it brighter and more vibrant, but there are many types of highlights to choose from, including:

• Chunks: These bold highlights often form very visible stripes or patches in the hair.
• Face Frames: This type of highlighting accentuates the face and eyes.
• Shocking: Using high contrast colors, unnatural colors, or bold streaks adds instant drama and daring to any look.
• Sun Kissed: This type of natural coloring adds warm accents to a style to give it the appearance of sun-brightened hair.
• Natural: For the most natural looks, highlights should be carefully blended into the entire style.
• Lowlights: Hair lowlights shades are actually darker than the hair’s base color and add subtlety for a more understated look.

Choosing Your Shade

For the ideal highlights, the shade of accents should be no more than two or three shades lighter (or darker) than the base color, though more distinction is necessary for a more dramatic look. Other factors that can affect the final color of the highlights include:

• Set Time: How long the color is left on the hair to set will influence how noticeable the change is.
• Formula Strength: A stronger formula will create more dramatic highlights.
• Size: Wider patches of highlighted hair will be more noticeable, while smaller, narrower bands can be blended more naturally into the hair.
• Hair Texture: Finer hair may not adjust as well to highlighting techniques.
• Hair Health: Healthy hair can absorb highlights more effectively than hair that is damaged, dry, or coarse.

Hair Highlights Gallery

Click on the pictures below for more information about related styles and highlighting ideas. For more details about highlighting, check out these LoveToKnow Hair articles: Hair Highlighting Ideas, Hair Lowlights Shades, Blonde Hair Highlights, Highlighting Your Hair, and Red Hair Highlights.

Sandy Blonde Highlights	Warm Blonde Highlights	Chunky Wave Highlights
Long Natural Highlights	African American Highlights	Subtle Blonde Highlights
Flip with Dramatic Highlights	Pink Punk Highlights	Red and Brunette Highlights
Highlighted Bridal Updo	Preteen Highlights	Auburn Lowlights