One simple rule when it comes to getting highlights is to just pick a hair color shade for highlights, which is 2-3 times lighter than your base dark hair. With this simple tip you can never go wrong, when it comes to highlights ideas. However, if you want to try some other ideas, then here are some more tips and tricks that will help you explore other hair color ideas.
Understanding Warm & Cool Colors
Before, you pick up any hair color shade, it is important that you understand if you belong to the cool or warm category. This means figuring out if you have cool or warm skin tone and eye color. Because, when picking up hair color shades these two features of a person are considered. If you go for wrong hair color, then your skin might look dull or washed out. Here are the two categories explained.
Cool Category
People who belong to the cool category can have skin tones that are dark brown, medium complexion with golden undertones, medium complexion with light pink color in the cheeks or no color, olive complexion, pale complexion with pink undertones or no color, or bronze or brown complexion after tanning. The eye color can be dark brown, blackish brown, grayish blue, dark blue or hazel colored with light flecks. Such people need to go for cool hair highlights, and avoid warm hair color shades.
Warm Category
People who belong to the warm category can have brown skin tone with pink or golden undertones, ruddy complexion, pale complexion with peach or golden undertones or freckled complexion. The eye color can be hazel eyes with brown or golden colored flecks, green eyes, greenish blue eyes or golden brown colored eyes. Such people should avoid any cool or neutral color hair shades. Given below are various ideas of highlights for dark hair for the cool and warm category.
Dark Hair with Highlights and Lowlights
Cool Dark Hair Ideas
People who have cool dark hair colors like shiny raven black or deep brown cool shades, can go with highlights which are honey colored or wheat colored. Such highlights look great, and merge very nicely with such hair color shades. Other shade to consider is ash for highlights. If you want to go for blonde hair color shades, then go for cool blonde shades like mink or icy white. For an unusual look, just get some chunky dark hair and highlights in front of blonde shade. If you have black or brown hair color then avoid getting lowlights for hair. Instead, if you are looking for a textured look then, get lots of skinny highlights all over the hair to get a subtle textured color look.
Warm Dark Hair Ideas
Dark hair shades which belong to the warm category are golden brown, dark brunette, auburn red, dark auburn and chestnut brown. You can consider dyeing your current dark hair into any of these base hair colors, if you want to entirely change the way your hair look. So, from a blonde you can consider going redhead or brunette. Hair coloring ideas for dark hair like highlights of shiny blonde look great, other shades like reddish orange also look great. These hair highlights can be used as skinny streaks to add texture. If you want a flattering colored hair look, then consider getting chunky hair highlight of copper, or dark brown hair color or honey blonde. You can also pick a hair color which is 2-3 times darker than your base color, and use it for getting lowlights to get a fall look.
These were the various dark hair with lowlights and highlights ideas, and tips on choosing the right hair color shades. So, use the above tips and enjoy gorgeous looking highlights on dark hair color.
