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Best Highlights for Your Hair Color

From highlights to lowlights, find out which shades complement your hair color

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Choosing the right highlights for you

Before you find out what your best highlights are, read the following tips to avoid a hair coloring disaster:

• Go to a professional. While there isn't much risk with doing an allover color at home, there's a lot more room for error with highlights -- from the thickness of the streaks to the tones and shades. Getting highlights should definitely be reserved for the salon.

• Know if you look better in cool or warm tones. A simple way to figure this out is to hold a swatch of silver (cool tone) and a swatch of gold (warm tone) against your face. Whichever looks best against your skin tone tells what type of color family you should stay in. Just make sure you do this test without makeup and with sunlight.

• Decide if you're getting highlights, lowlights, or both. Pelusi says highlights are shades that are lighter than the allover hair color, while lowlights are dark colors applied to lighter hair. Lowlights tend to soften a dark color while highlights bring depth.

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by TBjunkie Monday, April 30, 2012 at 01:40AM Report as inappropriate

My hair has been damaged from highlighting and I was growing tired of the time it took to comb out the tangled mess it became after shampooing and conditioning. It was stressful. I was seriously thinking of cutting my hair short to get rid of all the damage. Then my stylist recommended the Shielo Color Protect Shampoo & Conditioner. The Shielo Color Protect shampoo left my hair in such great condition that I went back to their website and bout their Antioxidant Hair Protectant. Last night I used the Shielo Antioxidant Protectant for the first time and just after shampooing it out, the comb ran right through the damaged strands. Plus, it smells great. I can not believe how much of an improvement I have seen already and I have not even had these products for a whole week.

by melissa_locks Saturday, April 21, 2012 at 02:16PM Report as inappropriate

I am worried about about getting brassy with dark brown hair.

by beautybody Wednesday, April 4, 2012 at 10:33PM Report as inappropriate

interesting atrticle...confirmed that i was doing the right type of highlights : )

by olkrav319 Wednesday, April 4, 2012 at 10:13PM Report as inappropriate

Great tips, I especially liked the one with Blake Lively's current color! I am also a natural blonde, trying to get back to it from red, so this was a great help to me!

by queeniemeanie Monday, March 26, 2012 at 04:57AM Report as inappropriate

Solid advice for someone who hasn't highlighted their hair before or is trying a completely new hair color. The article definitely confirmed what I already knew about high/low lights for my hair color. Wish they included some alternative options though. Either way, it wasn't bad.

by maic Friday, March 23, 2012 at 01:05PM Report as inappropriate