Best Salon for Highlights in NYC; Highlights/Lowlights

A bit of extra light in your hair? Whether you want to restore radiance to dull hair or you just fancy changing color, lowlights and highlights are the easiest way to transform your shade to something altogether much more interesting. If you dream of having multiple honied shades running through your hair like Jennifer Lopez or five shades of chocolate a la Kristen Stewart then highlights or lowlights are what you need to ask your stylist for.

Technique of lowlights and highlights:

Lowlights and highlights are essentially partial coloring techniques, adding a different shade to certain strands of hair so your hair ends up having depth, texture and various complementary hues. The technique used differs from block color hair dyeing and involves sectioning off the hair to target the parts you want transformed.

Celebs like Jennifer Aniston and Jennifer Lawrence are great ambassadors for highlights and lowlights as their hair is always full of light and dark accents.

The hairdresser uses a paste usually containing a bleaching agent and peroxide. We then apply it to the hair using a special brush and either foils (strips of foil or plastic used to separate strands of hair from the rest) or a cap (where hair is pulled through little holes – although this technique is more rare).

Unlike a full hair color (usually called permenant or semi-permenant dyeing) you can choose to have a full-head or half-head of highlights. This means you can simply have the top of your hair dyed leaving the underneath natural – if it’s half head and although if you wear your hair up a lot, then this doesn’t look great. So we recommend full-head of highlights. You can also have a T-section or infills done to maintain the look as your roots begin to show. This means only a small section of the roots on the top of your head are re-dyed. This makes maintaining your look a little cheaper.

Why have highlights or lowlights?

Highlights or lowlights are perfect if you want to give your hair a bit of a color boost, they’re also a great way to start off dyeing your hair for the first time as you retain your natural shade too. They allow you to have a sun-kissed effect with lighter strands running through your hair in a just-back-from-vacation hue. They’re also great for lighting up the face; illuminating and injecting life into your hair’s color can work wonders for your skin tone!

Note that lowlights and highlights aren’t the same as streaks, which can be also done with a special cap or foil. Streaks have a larger, more blocky effect on the hair than lowlights and highlights and are much more noticeable – the benefit of highlights and lowlights is that they have a really natural finish.

Lowlights versus highlights

Lowlights involve darkening strands of hair by using colors that are darker than your natural color. In contrast, highlights use colors that are lighter than your natural shade.

What’s the difference between lowlights/highlights and classic hair dyeing?

Lowlights and highlights produce a more subtle result than would be achieved through dyeing hair a block color or adding streaks.They’re less radical, damage hair less and give your hair a more natural finish.

Who can consider lowlights and highlights?

People with all hair types can have lowlights and highlights, whether it’s straight, curly or frizzy. On curls, this technique gives more depth and on the straightest of hair, it gives the illusion of more volume. It’s true that blonde lowlights and highlights are a big trend but more chocolaty tones are also very popular – think Kristen Stewart or Mila Kunis. As well as the classic lowlight/highlight technique, there are variations to play with too. “Dip-dye” hair color, which involves lowlights on the roots and highlights on the ends, is one trend that keeps on going – and is a fun way to play with color – just check out Olivia Palermo!

What to avoid

– Lowlights/highlights don’t work that well on very short hair. If hair’s too short, it won’t create the effect of depth and volume you want, rather it can end up looking messy and disconnected.

– Avoid going over the top with lowlights/highlights. An average of 4 treatments per year is reasonable. Any more than that and you risk damaging your hair.

Fine Artistik Salon is the Best Salon for Highlights in NYC!

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