Highlights for Dark Hair

Highlights that accentaute her beauty

If you have very dark hair, you probably don’t need to be told that incorporating soft, natural looking highlights into your style can present quite the challenge. Too many highlights or highlights that are the wrong color for your complexion can make your hair look odd and unrealistic. Too few highlights or highlights in shades that are too subtle won’t show up well enough to really make a difference. Then there’s the challenge involved in taking care of your highlights once they’re just right!
As daunting as the concept may seem if you’ve never highlighted your dark hair before, it’s important to note that it’s far from impossible. Simply keep the following in mind to ensure that you’ll get the very best dark hair highlights for your hair.

Less Is More
The cardinal rule when it comes to highlights for dark hair really is “less is more”. Adding tons of highlights to very dark hair can make it seem skunk-like or overly streaky. Your naturally dark hair provides a very nice backdrop for highlights and will set them off very well even if there are fewer, so start small. You can always add more at a later date if you decide you want a more dramatic look, but it’s not possible to take them out once they’re already there.
If you’re having a stylist do your highlights, ask them to help brighten up your face by focusing their attention on your bangs and in the sections around your face. You can also ask them for suggestions as to what they feel would look good on you. If you’re doing your own highlights at home, take great care to work with very thin sections of hair to avoid the skunk effect. Highlighted sections of hair will look very pale yellow when done. Be sure to let the bleach sit until this effect has been achieved.

Following Up
Most dark hair highlights can really benefit from the addition of a toner or glaze to help avoid brassiness, so make sure to have some on hand. Apply the product to your towel-dried dark hair, taking care to saturate your hair completely. Allow the toner to sit on your hair for approximately 10-20 minutes before rinsing thoroughly. If you find there’s still a bit of brassiness to your new highlights, you can repeat this process to achieve better results.
Once you’ve gotten your highlights looking just the way you want them, it’s important to take care of them with shampoos, conditioners, and styling products made especially for dark hair that has been highlighted. There is a wealth of choices on the market today, so check and see what your favorite brands and manufacturers have available in this regard. Using these products consistently will help to keep your highlights from going brassy on you in the future.
As you can see, dark hair can be challenging to highlight, but far from impossible. It’s actually quite a simple process when you take the time to understand your hair and keep a few simple directives in mind throughout the process.

One of my goals for this site is to gather as much including how to’s so that my readers do not have to search for information. Youtube is a wonderful resource. It can be a pain to search so on this page and other articles I will provide video’s from there and hope to add a few more article. One thing highlights do is provide a quick easy way to change your looks. Without investing a ton of cash. This video is on how to Highlight your dark hair at home using a product called Jolene.