A complete guide to hair lowlights with 10 stunning examples

A complete guide to hair lowlights with 10 stunning examples

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I'm sure you've heard the term lowlights before, but what are they and what is their function? To achieve lowlights, your stylist will add a color several shades darker than your base color using a foil highlight technique or even a balayage. Lowlights and highlights are therefore achieved with the same techniques, the difference being whether the colored strands are darker or lighter than the base color.

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Combining lowlights and highlights creates contrast and dimension, resulting in a beautiful color transformation. Read on for the in-depth guide to lowlights vs. highlights and the best examples of how to enhance your hair color with lowlights.

There are several reasons why you might want lowlights for your hair. Sometimes you just want to add dimension to your highlighted hair. In this case, adding a darker color will make the lighter highlights more visible. This is very common with the modern dimensional color that is so popular today.

Look at this example of blonde hair without lowlights. It looks sturdier and has less dimension.

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