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Dark haired Girls Look Great in Caramel Hair Highlights
“Carmel Hair Highlights”

Being a brunette, I always want beautiful, shiny caramel hair highlights to give my hair some depth and brightness. If you are a brunette, you are probably always on the lookout for the perfect highlights as well. Caramel hair highlights are great for dark haired gals because they are subtle enough to blend well with your natural hair color, but light enough to brighten up tired looking hair. If you are a brunette looking to try something lighter and brighter as far as hair color goes, caramel hair highlights may be just the right fix for you..

Caramel Highlights At-Home How To

Carmel Hair Highlights Kit

Revlon’s Frost & Glow Honey Highlighting Kit for Medium to Dark Brown Hair, has gotten rave reviews from the do-it-yourselfers out there. If you have virgin dark hair (meaning it has never been previously hair colored) and you want caramel hair highlights, this route may be a good one for you. The product promises ‘salon-quality’ results, just keep in mind the application is most important and directions should be followed to the tee!

It contains powder bleach and a bleach cap for you to pull select strands through and highlight. If you have previously colored hair, you may want to avoid this altogether as the product doesn’t come with a toner. Toners allow you to ‘tone down’ an unwanted hair color. A number of reviewers say they ended up with a lot of red tones on their previously colored hair.

In-Salon Caramel Hair Highlights

In Salon Carmel Hair Highlights

Of course, I am going to strongly suggest you going to a professional hair colorist to get your caramel hair highlights because I am a professional and I’ve seen many unhappy campers who have tried this at home. Dark hair is prone to pulling red tones when lightening. If you are looking for auburn highlights this may be ok, but otherwise brunettes are not big fans of red tones in their highlighted hair. A professional hair colorist knows the perfect product to use for your particular hair and has access to a wide variety of toners and colors, giving you choices when it comes to picking perfect color caramel hair highlights.

Maintaining Your Caramel Highlights

There’s nothing worse than brassy hair highlights . . . well, maybe 2” dark re-growth, but we’ll get into that in a minute. Both of these issues can be prevented by maintaining your caramel hair highlights. Maintain your hair color by using a color protecting shampoo and conditioner. I’d suggest Redken’s Color Extend Shampoo and Conditioner , which has won this years, “Stylist Choice Award.”

You can also protect your hair color by using hair care products formulated with sunscreen in them, which will help your caramel hair highlights stay bright. As far as dark re-growth goes, that just isn’t a flattering look for anyone, so maintain your caramel hair highlights by heading back to your hair stylist every six weeks or so for a touch up.

Caramel hair highlights are beautiful and are a great way to brighten your current dark shade. What better time to get hair highlights than in the summer anyway? This may be another style I’ll steal this season!

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Is Hair Highlighting With Lemon Juice an Option for You?

“Hair Highlighting with Lemon Juice Not for Everyone”Hair highlighting with lemon juice has been done for decades. I can remember my friends and I using lemon juice to try and add natural looking highlights to our hair in the summertime. Being a brunette, it never worked for me, but it did leave me with delicious smelling strands!

Hair highlighting with lemon juice works for Mischa Barton’s color

If your natural hair color is like Mischa Barton’s, then hair highlighting with lemon juice would be perfect for you.

If you are trying to avoid costly hair highlighting in the salon, you may be considering hair highlighting with lemon juice. But be forewarned, lemon juice does not work for every hair type. Lemon juice lightens hair because of the high acidity content of lemons. The acid helps to speed up the lightening affects that the sun already has on your hair.

So if your hair is dishwater blonde and lightens up in the summer time, then lemon juice may just help with the process. However, if you have darker hair like me, it probably won’t do much other than dry out your hair. Another thing to  note is that hair highlighting with lemon juice won’t work on previously colored hair. So if there is any hair color leftover on your hair, the lemon juice will not lighten it.

If you have dishwater blonde hair or lighter and want to try some highlighting at home,   here are some how-to’s on  highlighting with lemon juice.

How –To #1:
Mix the lemon juice with water. I’d suggest equal parts water to lemon juice to dilute the juice a bit and help it to spray evenly over hair. Also, use the juice squeezed from fresh lemons instead of bottled lemon juice, it will be a more concentrated and in that way more effective.

How-To #2:
Put the lemon juice mixture in a spray bottle to spray on hair. This will help  to apply the lemon juice more evenly to strands. You can also easily reapply the mixture by periodically spraying your hair after it get’s dry.

How-To #3:
For natural looking highlights, pull hair back into a loose ponytail, then spray the mixture all over hair until damp. Do this sometime when you will be out in the sun for a few hours (don’t forget your sun block) to get your best sun-kissed results.

So why do your hair highlighting with lemon juice instead of heading to the salon? Well, if you have the right hair for this, then it can give you natural looking highlights without the cost. If you don’t have the right hair for hair highlighting with lemon juice, I wouldn’t even bother trying, you may only end up with hair that is more dried out!

Redken’s Color Extend Sun After-Sun Mask is a great choice for deep conditioning your hair after at-home highlighting with lemon juice. The acid in lemon juice will dry your hair, not unlike using other hair coloring techniques to lighten your hair color. So, be sure to follow up with a good deep conditioner that will remoisturize your hair and give it lots of body and shine!

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“Balayage Hair Highlighting is Hot
this Summer”
Balayage hair highlighting is a hot trend this summer.  Instead of the typical foil process to highlight hair, celebrity hair stylists are using this newer technique called Balayage hair highlighting, to give clients a natural sun-kissed look to strands.

Balayage, meaning ‘to sweep’ in French, is a technique that the hair stylist uses a brush to hand paint lightener onto select strands of hair, applying the lightener in a sweeping motion going from thin sections at the root to thicker sections toward the ends of hair. This creates a unique look, giving your hair highlights that look like they were put there naturally by the sun.

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Balayage Hair Highlighting Brightens Jennifer Garner’s Skin Tone

As a hair stylist, I’d much prefer to see natural and subtle highlights on someone rather than unnatural and chunky pieces in the hair. This is why I love the Balayage hair highlighting technique. If you have a one-tone all over color to your hair and want to try something new, this is for you. Jennifer Garner recently had Balayage hair highlighting put into her dark brown hair and the result is a skin brightening style that is unique to her.

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Posing on beautiful beaches isn’t where Gisele Bundchen gets her hair highlighting from!
Don’t be afraid to try something new and break out of the ordinary. If you are always pining for hair highlighting like the Victoria Secret models, then this look is definitely for you. Expect to spend slightly more than you would for foil hair highlights since this is a  newer, more trendy and personalized technique, that isn’t offered everywhere.Here may be another reason to Balayage! The Balayage hair highlighting technique may cost a bit more up front, but since your hair will appear more naturally highlighted, you can go longer in between salon visits!!

Balayage hair highlights are a definite ‘do for the summer. Keep in mind that your hair stylist can also use the Balayage technique to put lowlights into hair as well, but the technique is best used for highlighting.

To find a salon near you that uses that Balayage hair highlighting technique, you can visit this site: Locate Balayage Hair Highlighting

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