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Hair Highlight Ideas: Find the Best Types of Highlights for Your Look

Highlighting is a popular coloring technique that involves lightening strategic strands to create light, dimension, and contrast. Hair highlights are also the perfect solution if you’re looking to lift or transform your current color without committing to a new all-over shade. No matter what your base hair color is or whether your type is straight, curly or coily, check out our hair highlight ideas, and learn how to easily highlight your hair at home.

Types of Highlights: Ideas to Inspire Your Next Look

When it comes to choosing the best hair highlights for you, it can be a little confusing with so many options out there. Below are the different types of highlights you’ll want to be familiar with as you decide what look you want to achieve. We also included pro tips on the best low-maintenance routines, hair highlighting tips for beginners, and hair highlights ideas for creating natural, subtle contrast.

Best At-Home Highlighting Kits

When it comes to coloring techniques and at-home hair highlights, Garnier has everything you need to customize your looks from face-framing highlights to a stunning ombré effect. To create lighter highlights on hair that’s light to dark blonde, try our 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 choose any color and apply it only to the sections you want, for example, to create lowlights, flamboyage, or peek-a-boo highlights. Garnier Olia Highlights boosted with flower power can help you achieve a glowing, healthy, highlighted look by lifting your hair up to four levels without bleach, ammonia, parabens or silicones. Take the Garnier Virtual Shade Selector quiz to help find your perfect color!
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Consider Your Base Color

Now that you’ve swoon-scrolled over honey, caramel, and champagne color highlights, let’s get down to the base. Have you considered that when it comes to a genuinely stunning head of highlighted hair, your base color should be as flattering as your highlights? In fact, the importance of the undertone or base color is key when it comes to choosing between warm and cool highlights. The colors should enhance one another, as well as complement your skin tone and cut.

Sound complicated? Choose the perfect base color with our Hair Color Virtual Try-On Tool. Simply upload a selfie or virtually try on any shade of hair color. That way, you’ll be certain of what base color will go best with whatever types of hair highlights you choose.
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Hair Color Virtual Try-On

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Hair Highlights Ideas for Different Hair Lengths

Whether you’ve got short, medium, or long hair, read on for hair highlights ideas that will enhance and flatter your style.
Hair Highlights Ideas FAQ
  • If you’re wondering what kind of hair highlights are on trend, we have a few to recommend. Although hair highlights never go out of fashion, the prime choices right now from the catwalk to the sidewalk are chunky highlights, the money piece, and dimensional highlights. But there are so many choices, so go with whatever suits you best!
  • It’s better not to wash your locks before getting hair highlights, or any type of dye job for that matter. Hair that hasn’t been washed for two or three days contains more natural oils than hair that’s freshly washed. That sebum build-up acts as a protective barrier against potential irritation and helps absorb the hair color better.
  • Hair highlights generally last 6-8 weeks, just like regular all-over hair dye. Depending on the highlighting technique you choose and the level of contrast it creates, you might need to touch up your highlights more often, especially on shorter cuts. But highlights like balayage, for example, can go for months without losing their look.
  • Highlights are not as damaging to hair as all-over color because they are only applied to sections or narrow strands. In addition, modern hair color formulas like Garnier Olia with flower oils are more gentle and contain nourishing ingredients. Coupled with a deep-conditioning routine you can keep any damage from highlights to a minimum.
  • The simple answer is yes, you can highlight color-treated hair. Your best option is to wait 6-8 weeks after the base color dye job to avoid overtaxing your hair. In all cases, we highly recommend either consulting a stylist or doing a strand test at home to see how the highlight color reacts with the other dye.

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