Highlights FAQ

1. What are Highlights?

Hair highlighting is changing a person’s hair color, using a lightener to lift the level or brightness of hair strands. There are multiple types of highlights: Foil highlights, Balayage hair painting, and Frosting are a few popular techniques. Highlights can be any color, as long as it’s a lighter level than the surrounding hair.

Hair lightened with bleach or permanent color will be permanent until new growth begins to show. Highlighted hair can make the hair appear fuller. Therefore, it is sometimes recommended for people with thin and fine hair. It is also a recommended service for achieving better color balance with people that have at least 50% gray, and it helps to diminish the line of demarcation once the new growth is showing from permanent hair color.

2. Do highlights require a lot of maintenance?

The amount of maintenance required varies based on the type of dimension or color you want. Bolder brighter colors that are the dominant color for your hair require more regular upkeep, around 6-8 weeks. A softer, more natural and sun kissed effect usually only requires seasonal maintenance 4 times a year, but may have to be re-glossed once in between seasons to maintain tonality and shine

4. What Kérastase Fusio Dose instant treatment can my hairstylist use to care for my Highlighted hair?

Kérastase Fusio Dose is an exclusive in-salon service. It’s fully personalized for your hair only. Your hairdresser has to diagnose and identify the current hair concern.

Kérastase Fusio Dose combines a caring booster and active concentrate for both instant and personalized results, whether you want to reduce frizzy hair, add shine to dull hair, densify thin hair, reduce hair breakage or nourish dry hair.

The Shine-Concentré Pixelist work wonders offering long-lasting brilliance and color protection for Highlighted hair. Combined with the Booster Nutrition, which offers 3x more nourishment and softness.

5. Can you highlight gray hair?

Yes, whether you want to diffuse the grey with some blonde in between or add a little more pepper to your natural salt and pepper, the options are just as numerous for gray haired clients.

6. What Kérastase Fusio Dose instant treatment can my hairstylist use to care for my curly highlighted hair?

You can use the Concentré De Forme for Curly hair and the Booster Discipline, which delivers instant smoothness, provides suppleness and shine and instantly tames unruly hair.

7. How Long Do Highlights Last?

Highlight when done with any sort of Lightener does not go away, it will grow out with your hair and generate a shadow near the roots, often indicating the need to be redone. The color itself might change and fade or get brassy with time. A visit to the salon can remedy all of the above and using the right hair care regimen (cleansing +treatment +primer) in between visits can really help make your highlights stay looking fresh longer.

8. Will Washing My Hair Make My Highlights Fade?

Yes, ​​all lightening services will fade a little overtime, especially if you’re not using the proper hair care regimen recommended by your trusted hairstylist.

9. What Kérastase Fusio Dose instant treatment should I use after getting my pink Highlight? (Or my hair highlighted pink?)

You can use the Shine-Concentré Pixelist which offers long-lasting brilliance and color protection and the Booster Brilliance Radiance which offers 5x more radiance.

10. What Kérastase Fusio Dose instant treatment can I use to care for my Balayage?

Right now, there are up to 36 different mixes possibilities with Kerastase Fusio Dose, one of the many combinations your hairstylist can use would be the the Consentré Ultra-Violet with Cicafibre Booster. This combination is perfect for anti-brass highlight/balayage hair.

11. How Often Should I Retouch My Highlights?

Highlights should be done every 6-8 weeks depending on how much contrast there is between your highlights and your natural color.

13. Are Partial Highlights/Balayage enough to camouflage my few grey hairs?

Yes, using highlights to lighten the surrounding hairs allow for the gray hair to blend with the color. Using balayage allows you to cover a larger area and avoid leaving out a lot of hair.

14. What’s the difference between Highlights vs Lowlights?

Highlights are strands of hair that are lighter than your natural color. Lowlights are used to create depth and/or to add contrast that will look darker than your natural color. Lowlights are done using hair color and like color, will fade over time.

Book your appointment online today to see one of our expert colorist and transform your look with Highlights! We have a special offer of $50 off for for 1st time clients, don’t miss out!

Answers provided by Salon Ziba Hair Experts Tonya, Jeffrey, Bessy, Ilda, & Jeremiah.

1. What are Highlights?

Hair highlighting is changing a person’s hair color, using a lightener to lift the level or brightness of hair strands. There are multiple types of highlights: Foil highlights, Balayage hair painting, and Frosting are a few popular techniques. Highlights can be any color, as long as it’s a lighter level than the surrounding hair.

Hair lightened with bleach or permanent color will be permanent until new growth begins to show. Highlighted hair can make the hair appear fuller. Therefore, it is sometimes recommended for people with thin and fine hair. It is also a recommended service for achieving better color balance with people that have at least 50% gray, and it helps to diminish the line of demarcation once the new growth is showing from permanent hair color.

2. Do highlights require a lot of maintenance?

The amount of maintenance required varies based on the type of dimension or color you want. Bolder brighter colors that are the dominant color for your hair require more regular upkeep, around 6-8 weeks. A softer, more natural and sun kissed effect usually only requires seasonal maintenance 4 times a year, but may have to be re-glossed once in between seasons to maintain tonality and shine

3. How should I care for my highlighted hair?

Different highlighting effects need different types of care. Lighter and brighter colors will need a routine that incorporates more hydration and protein-like-agents such as those featured in Blonde Absolu and Resistance hair care regimes from Kerastase or Yubi Blonde or Ultimate Reset from Shu Uemura.

Highlights that are more soft natural or sun kissed will need care that is focused more on color protection to keep the gloss lasting as long as possible. The Reflection regime from Kérastase is amazing for this. If you feel like spoiling yourself a little, the Color Lustre from Shu Uemura is unbelievable!

4. What Kérastase Fusio Dose instant treatment can my hairstylist use to care for my Highlighted hair?

Kérastase Fusio Dose is an exclusive in-salon service. It’s fully personalized for your hair only. Your hairdresser has to diagnose and identify the current hair concern.

Kérastase Fusio Dose combines a caring booster and active concentrate for both instant and personalized results, whether you want to reduce frizzy hair, add shine to dull hair, densify thin hair, reduce hair breakage or nourish dry hair.

The Shine-Concentré Pixelist work wonders offering long-lasting brilliance and color protection for Highlighted hair. Combined with the Booster Nutrition, which offers 3x more nourishment and softness.

5. Can you highlight gray hair?

Yes, whether you want to diffuse the grey with some blonde in between or add a little more pepper to your natural salt and pepper, the options are just as numerous for gray haired clients.

6. What Kérastase Fusio Dose instant treatment can my hairstylist use to care for my curly highlighted hair?

You can use the Concentré De Forme for Curly hair and the Booster Discipline, which delivers instant smoothness, provides suppleness and shine and instantly tames unruly hair.

7. How Long Do Highlights Last?

Highlight when done with any sort of Lightener does not go away, it will grow out with your hair and generate a shadow near the roots, often indicating the need to be redone. The color itself might change and fade or get brassy with time. A visit to the salon can remedy all of the above and using the right hair care regimen (cleansing +treatment +primer) in between visits can really help make your highlights stay looking fresh longer.

8. Will Washing My Hair Make My Highlights Fade?

Yes, ​​all lightening services will fade a little overtime, especially if you’re not using the proper hair care regimen recommended by your trusted hairstylist.

9. What Kérastase Fusio Dose instant treatment should I use after getting my pink Highlight? (Or my hair highlighted pink?)

You can use the Shine-Concentré Pixelist which offers long-lasting brilliance and color protection and the Booster Brilliance Radiance which offers 5x more radiance.

10. What Kérastase Fusio Dose instant treatment can I use to care for my Balayage?

Right now, there are up to 36 different mixes possibilities with Kerastase Fusio Dose, one of the many combinations your hairstylist can use would be the the Consentré Ultra-Violet with Cicafibre Booster. This combination is perfect for anti-brass highlight/balayage hair.

11. How Often Should I Retouch My Highlights?

Highlights should be done every 6-8 weeks depending on how much contrast there is between your highlights and your natural color.

12. Partial Highlights vs Full Highlights?

Partial versus Full is a question we often get asked at the salon, the answer really lies on the desired result, the more contrast or the lighter you want to be the more Highlight we would need to put in.

Technically a partial highlight is only in sections, usually placed around the top half and side sections of your head, While a Full highlight involves highlighting hair in every section of your head.

13. Are Partial Highlights/Balayage enough to camouflage my few grey hairs?

Yes, using highlights to lighten the surrounding hairs allow for the gray hair to blend with the color. Using balayage allows you to cover a larger area and avoid leaving out a lot of hair.

14. What’s the difference between Highlights vs Lowlights?

Highlights are strands of hair that are lighter than your natural color. Lowlights are used to create depth and/or to add contrast that will look darker than your natural color. Lowlights are done using hair color and like color, will fade over time.

Book your appointment online today to see one of our expert colorist and transform your look with Highlights! We have a special offer of $50 off for for 1st time clients, don’t miss out!

Answers provided by Salon Ziba Hair Experts Tonya, Jeffrey, Bessy, Ilda, & Jeremiah.