Get high on highlites!

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Summer is fast approaching and whether you are thawing out over there, or baking and sweating over here, I know that this is a time for stretching those adventure muscles and trying new things.

You’ve been good girls – taken care of that hair, made sure it was covered from the biting cold and deep conditioned enough to prevent it snapping in two from being dry and brittle, and now you want to shake those tresses and strut your stuff at the beach right?

You worked out following the sinful gluttony that was the Christmas season, and now have got those abs in tow and purchased that killer bikini, but either way, what about the hair?

A change is needed… but what? Sooo many options, so little time. The best choices are the ones that won’t bust your pockets but will beckon lustily to the nearest hottie in surfshorts to your left.

What about some sexy hi-lights? Surely these will jazz up any winter hat hair.

But before you get too giddy, first the hair strands must be healthy enough to handle it being properly stripped, so be sure to follow a deep conditioning routine at least a couple times before you sit in the colourist’s chair. At the very least, get one a week before the scheduled change.

Then during that one week grab some magazines. Check out what’s hot and what’s oh-so-not. Then narrow it down to what looks good, and more importantly what look good on you. If you aren’t sure (honestly even if you think you are) enlist the help of your stylist in order to best stay true to what flatters your complexion. Nothing is worse than seeing bleached blonde hair on skin that wasn’t born to be that way.

Brassy Hair. Wow. I am telling you I am tired, tired, tired, of beautiful ladies shocking me with a head of frizzed out metallic orange hair that does nothing to uphold their status. *Diva who?* Just makes me want to rip off that rug and attack it with a bottle of dark brown dye, kite paper, koolaid, shoe polish… something. Argh!

But, as usual, I digress…

So we have chosen the look. But since I hit my crystal ball with a sledge hammer after that last incident involving a lotto ticket and a can of peanut butter, I don’t have the use of it anymore and so I am going to bombard you with a wide variety of choices.

The highs and lows of hi-lights

Committment, Baby.

Hi-lights lighten the hair and makes it appear brighter, while a lowlight darkens and deepens it. Incorporating both in various hues of the same family gives tremendous depth, and dimension to an otherwise okay hair style. Blonde, gold and chamomile tones can be  used for highlighting and reds, plums and aubergine shades for lowlighting.

Usually, two or three colours are used for a multifaceted, shimmering effect – any more than that and the hues can lose their contrast and look a bit muddled.

Whatever your natural colour, you shouldn’t go more than three or four shades lighter or darker, as the results can be too harsh for your natural skin tone.

No committment, Baby.

You can incorporate multifaceted colour in this way by clipping in extensions, or of course by weaving or gluing them in depending on how ‘permanent’ you want them.  Yip. So if the urge takes you, why not add a bit of colour with out the commitment?

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