subject: Choosing Flattering Highlights At A Tampa Beauty And Hair Salon [print this page] If you want to have your hair enhanced without the full commitment of complete hair color, you can ask for highlights from any of the Tampa Beauty and Hair Salons. Whatever your natural hair color is, you can find complementary highlights to suit you. You could get your highlights right after your haircut. If you are getting hair extensions, highlights on your real hair can help blend them in naturally. If you intend to get a keratin hair treatment for straighter hair, though, you should get your highlights first. Ask for advice from the hair professionals at Salon Monaco in Tampa.
Highlights should be chosen based on what is most flattering to your skin tone and your natural hair color. For darker skin, warm highlights are most complementary. These include various warm shades of copper, gold, beige, red and violet.
Most people with darker skin are natural brunettes. If you have brown hair, caramel and copper highlights are most flattering. They are also safer to use since they do not require bleaching. Champagne highlights require the use of peroxide and may damage your hair. If your hair is brittle, you definitely have to avoid bleaching it or else it may break off in chunks. You should also maintain your hairs strength, moisture and shine with aftercare products that are protein enriched.
Natural redheads are flattered by golden blonde, fuchsia or champagne highlights. If your red hair has cool tones, beige blonde highlights are the most complementary. If your red hair has warm tones, copper highlights will complement it best. Sun exposure can make your highlighted hair brittle, though, so make sure you get sun protection always.
Natural blondes can achieve more depth, dimension and texture with strawberry blonde highlights. One of the most popular styles is to add highlights only to the ends of your hair. This is especially attractive with layered hair styles.
The proper placement of the right highlights on your hair can also enhance your best features and downplay your least flattering facial attributes. Of course, you must also ensure that your haircut complements your face shape. Knowing your own facial shape is very important.
A round face is characterized by chubby cheeks. It also looks wide. Your aim is to slim down and elongate the face, or to make it more angular. This can be done by leaving your hairline and crown free of highlights. Your hair should be darker around your face to slim it down. Since long hair is also best for round faces, your highlights should be placed at the ends, starting from below your chin. This will draw the eye downward.
A heart shaped face is characterized by a pointy chin. To distract from this, put your highlights near the chin area and balance it out with highlights on your crown.
For a long and narrow face, your aim is to create the illusion of width. You can do this by highlighting the hair at the sides of your face. It is also best to have hair that does not fall past your chin.
A square face is characterized by a strong angular jaw. To soften this, you should place highlights at the sides of your face, balanced by thin highlights woven through the rest of your hair.
If you know what highlights would be most flattering for your natural hair color, face shape, skin tone and eye color, then you are in the best position to discuss this with your hair stylist at one of the Tampa Beauty and Hair Salons. You will surely get not only the best highlights but also the best haircut, hair color, hair extensions and keratin hair treatment at Salon Monaco in Tampa.
