The best highlights for brunettes

If you want to experiment with your hair, sign up for the highlights. Its benefits are endless: they illuminate the hair and face, provide extra volume and movement, rejuvenate the hair … But, as we all know, not all highlights are the same. Here we explain all the differences. If you have dark hair, this interests you!

Copper lights

Copper lights are the perfect solution if you have dark hair. It is a coppery balayage, where the color is concentrated from the middle to the ends to achieve extra volume and movement. We love them because the progression of the change in tone between the chestnut at the roots and the copper tone at the ends is very natural.

Californian Wicks

The Californian highlights, that is to say, the gradient from the roots, with the lighter ends, continues to be a safe bet season after season. They enliven the look and give the hair more luminosity. But best of all, they don't need to be touched up very often. If you have very dark hair, we recommend that the color cut is not too abrupt, so that the effect does not seem too artificial.

Balayage highlights

The key to balayage highlights is that the line of the wick does not start at the root, but a few inches lower and it becomes lighter until it reaches the tip, hence its name (balayage means 'sweep' in French). Unlike Californian highlights, the cut between the colors is much more subtle.

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Babylight highlights

Babylight highlights mimic the effect that the sun leaves, especially on children's hair, during the summer. They are fine wicks, lighter than the base tone and distributed throughout the hair. The front locks, being always the most exposed, are lighter. They illuminate the face and rejuvenate the hair but without transforming it radically.

Ombré highlights

The word 'ombré' in French means 'two-tone', which means that it is a gradual lightening of one color. The dark color of the roots fades to the lightest at the tips. These highlights stand out for the contrast between a dark root and light mid-lengths and ends.

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Hair contouring

Hair contouring imitates facial contouring, that is, relief is created and the hair is given volume. The highlights are applied from the temple to the tips to enhance the facial contour. In the case of Erin Holland, highlights have been chosen in copper tone for a soft contrast.

Subtle highlights

If you don't dare to make a drastic change, get inspired by this photo of Alicia Vikander. The actress wears the highlights in a very subtle way, only at the ends, creating a slightly worn effect.

Bronze-tone highlights

If you don't want to get too artificial an effect, you have to remember one thing: the darker your base color, the darker the shade you apply to the tips. If you have hair as dark as Olivia Wilde, the best option is a few highlights in a bronze tone. They will provide extra movement to the mane and soften the features.

Caramel highlights

Specially designed for brunettes, caramel highlights instantly brighten hair and provide more movement. If your base is very dark, it is not advisable to add excessively blonde highlights, so join this trend.

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Woodlight highlights

The essence of the woodlight highlights is the alternation of colors without gradient that illuminates the hair, lightening it in a subtle but evident way, with a type of organic and PPD-free coloring that takes care of the hair, but leaves a long-lasting and shiny pigment. They are hitting it on Instagram and promise to banish balayage.

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