Pair blonde hair with highlights and lowlights together for one of the season’s most beautiful combinations of highlighted styles. Mixing darker and lighter colors adds depth and dimension to your look for an on-trend and intentional style you can wear with confidence. Learn about lowlights and highlights and get inspired by 10 ways to wear blonde hair with lowlights to show off your color and celebrate your style:

Highlights and Lowlights: FAQ
How to Wear Blonde Hair with Lowlights?
Lowlights are a hair coloring technique that involves dyeing strands of hair darker to add depth and dimension. Because they emulate the different tones that naturally occur in our hair, they’re perfect for breaking up block colors and making those with dyed blonde hair look more natural. They’re also a really great way to test out a darker hue without committing to it all over (kind of like try-before-you-buy!).

What’s the Difference Between Highlights and Lowlights?
In many ways, highlights and lowlights are very similar, including the methods used to achieve them. They’re both applied either in the traditional way using foils or painted on freehand. The one key difference between highlights and lowlights though is that highlights use bleach to lift and lighten, while lowlights take your base color down a few shades darker to add extra dimension.

Who Should Get Lowlights?
Lowlights work well on all hair types, from curly to straight, and depending on your base color, they can be either super subtle or have a bolder effect. For example, lowlights are especially popular with those with blonde hair looking to transition to dark and even brunettes who want to add depth and movement to their look.

Are Lowlights Damaging?
The truth is, lowlights aren’t any more damaging for your hair than highlights. In fact, the process is pretty much identical, except one applies lighter hues, and the other applies darker hues. Simple, right?

It’s also a common misconception that you can only exclusively work highlights or lowlights at one time. Because to create a more natural-looking finish, you really need to employ both of these techniques, so do ask your colorist to combine these two hair coloring processes to achieve your desired look.

Highlights and Lowlights: Stylish Combos to Try
Here are 10 stylist combinations to consider: