Highlights are meant to accent a pretty color, they are not meant to be your color. The example I use is if you read a book you only highlight the important parts, if you highlight the whole book it doesn’t make sense… If you are just looking to keep your natural color but want to liven it up a little, you should put a few highlights in around your hairline and crown area. If you find that you have to highlight every 6 weeks, you now need a base color. Your natural color changes over time and your hair might be getting darker, so you would have to start to lighten up your natural color a shade or two, and then add highlights. The good thing about coloring your base is that you can highlight less often and it ends up being much healthier for your hair. So you can do your base 2x, which will be almost 3 months and then you highlight. The less bleach you use, the better your hair will feel. You can always try doing your base and if you don’t like it you can always go back to just highlighting.

xx, Rita Hazan