Choosing the best highlights for your hair

A wildly popular technique of freehand brushing blond highlights directly onto your hair for a sun-kissed look. The low-maintenance effects keep looking natural as your hair grows out, and they’re super easy to do yourself. For great balayage highlights at home, try Garnier’s Icing Swirl Balayage Kit.

This technique is a mash-up for “subtle or soft ombré.” If ombré highlights seem a bit too drastic, soften the transition between colors and/or choose shades closer to your base hair color.

What are babylights, you ask? This is when you highlight much thinner sections of hair in foil. Babylights for dark hair or brown hair are a natural-looking way to go slightly lighter while keeping your original color.

Garnier has two kits for doing your highlights at home, allowing you to customize your looks, especially if you want face-framing highlights, babylights or an ombré effect. To create lighter highlights on hair that’s light to dark blonde, try the Warm Bronze Multi-Lights kit or our new ammonia-free Olia Highlights H02 for Blondes. If your base color is light to medium brown, go for the Olia Highlights H03 for Brunettes. Or you could also choose any color and apply it only to the sections you want, for example to do lowlights, flamboyage or peek-a-boo highlights.