DIY highlights: all the expert's advice for a perfect result

If your hair is dull or you want to change color without a radical change, highlights are the solution for you.

The highlights not only allow you to lighten your hair obtaining a glamorous and timeless look, but, if applied correctly, they give volume to your cut, making it look full and soft, and enhance the facial features making them younger and more radiant.

How to get all this? Here are the tips for applying highlights based on your hair type.

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Do you have long hair and would like more volume for your hair? Apply L "Oréal Preference Sunstrokes on thin locks, focusing attention on lengths and ends.

If you have brown hair, choose highlights with warm hazelnut or milky tones, so you will get a super natural effect.

If you wear a Bob Cut or a medium length, distribute the subtle highlights throughout the entire hair. This will give you a smooth and full-bodied effect.

Give your brown hair a touch of personality by choosing caramel or amber highlights.

Have you succumbed to the short and masculine hair trend? Enhance it by illuminating the front that contours the face with subtle strokes of light.

Blond hair can also be further illuminated, especially if dull and dull, by choosing honey or golden shades.

To give volume and movement even to straight hair, distribute L "Oréal Preference Sunstrokes creating very subtle touches of light on the entire hair.

If mother nature has given you soft and delicate wavy hair, distribute the highlights over the entire hair following the natural waves of your hair. In this way you will get the same natural effect as sun-bleached hair.

Curly hair is difficult to wear and the messy effect is around the corner.The secret to defining curly hair is to focus the highlights around the face and lengths.

If you have red or auburn hair, go for amber highlights. You will thus obtain a natural and luminous tone-on-tone effect.

If you have chosen a layered cut, apply L "Oréal Preference with the special brush Sunstrokes on the lengths. This way you will enhance all the different lengths of your cut.

Even the bangs and the tuft can be highlighted with the highlights, the secret? Accentuate the lightening precisely on these parts or, on the contrary, create the contrast by distributing the highlights throughout the hair and leaving natural fringe or tuft.

One last tip: the highlights are not only used to illuminate the hair, they are also perfect for covering the first white hair and for lengthening the time between one color and another.