‘Halo Highlights’ Are the ‘Glowiest’ Hair Color of the Season

Within the case of hair traits, grasp colorist Tiffanie Richards of New York’s Louise O’Conner Salon sees a large shift in shade requests come the cooler months.

“Halo highlights on no account fail inside the cooler seasons. A ‘halo’ is inserting highlights all through the hairline, along with the once more beneath, to create a hoop of sunshine spherical your face,” Richards explains. “The secret is to concentrate on the once more hairline for the affect. The once more hairline is the strands that lay in your shoulders that embody your face.”

Regardless that the highlights hit beneath, Richards says the lock location performs an infinite half in creating the halo affect. “It connects the brightness of the hairline to the ends of the hair, creating the ‘halo.’”

Schwarzkopf Expert U.S. Hair Color Growth Ambassador Jacob Schwartz says it’s best to take a look at halo highlights as being focused on together with mild and dimension. “The highlights are strategically positioned to frame the face and create a clean, luminous ‘halo’ affect, which truly enhances a client’s pure choices. This technique permits the rest of the hair to stay nearer to its pure shade, so that you simply get this gorgeous, sunlit affect that’s every refined and hanging.”

Featured Specialists

• Tiffanie Richards is the grasp colorist at New York’s Louise O’Conner Salon
• Jacob Schwartz is the Schwarzkopf Expert U.S. Hair Color Growth Ambassador

Who Are Halo Highlights Good For?

What’s further, Richards says, these highlights are literally for anyone. “Any pores and pores and skin tone or hair shade can have this improvement in any shade they choose. This low-maintenance shade permits anyone with highlights to current their complete hair a break from lightener whereas nonetheless attaining the brightness they’re craving.”

It’s the low-maintenance switch that Schwartz says buyers want. “Halo highlights are excellent for buyers who need a low-maintenance technique in order so as to add brightness and never utilizing a full head of highlights or important repairs. It’s a unimaginable seek for these with medium to prolonged hair and enhances a wide range of tones, from brunettes to blondes. This mannequin is right for buyers in the hunt for a gentle glow throughout the face and a further relaxed, pure actually really feel.”

Strategies to Ask for Halo Highlights

Richards admits that not everyone who sits in her chair requests “halo highlights” by title.

“Purchasers will ask for a ‘hairline highlight’ or a ponytail highlight.’ Often, a ponytail highlight means they’d similar to the once more highlighted as soon as they placed on ponytails, which is analogous issue as a halo. This is usually a extremely regarded request.”

Schwartz simplifies it even extra: “Halo highlights are a very customary time interval correct now, nonetheless everyone has on a regular basis requested for what they indicate,” he says. “They’re primarily face-framing highlights, which might be essentially the most well-liked of any hair shade, as you may even see it most easily.”