Blonde highlights, foil highlights, hair painting, highlights for brown hair, highlights for blonde hair, highlights and lowlights.

There are four ways to highlight your hair and they are known as Foil Highlights, Hair Painting, Chunking and Lowlights, with each of these methods you are only dying parts of your hair, foil highlighting is where you wrap foil around the hair that you don't want dyed and then use a brush to apply dye to the rest, hairpainting is used a lot in salons and involves using a brush or comb to paint the dye onto your hair, chunking is where you take a large chunk of hair and dye it and last of all lowlights is as the name implies where you dye parts of your hair a darker colour than it is at the moment.

If you have never had highlights before then a good tip is to go to a reputable salon the first time and let them tell you which shade best compliments your hair and watch carefully as they apply the highlights (take notes if you need to) and then the next time you want highlights you have a firm base to work from.

Hair colours are either warm tones or cool tones, cool tones include, deep coffee brown, dishwater blonde, golden blonde, medium ash brown, medium golden brown, blue-black, and white. This will look best if highlighted in one of the following tones, raven blacks, cool blondes, ash browns, burgundy & bright red.

Warm tones are, red, strawberry blonde, deep brown and gray. This will be best highlighted with golden blonde, red, golden brown, deep chocolate and orange.

When highlighting your hair be sure to use only a semi permanent dye so that it can be washed out easily if you don't like the effect or just fancy a change, remember that if you dye or highlight your hair too much you could end up with split ends, hair loss, dandruff, dryness and lots of frizz.