Hair Color Trends: Three Ways to Go Lighter and Brighter for Spring

Winter can leave your hair looking dry, unhealthy and basically blah.  Spring is the perfect time to freshen up your look and brighten up your hair color.  Three of my favorite hair color trends for spring do just that by adding natural looking dimension to your basic hair color.  I asked colorist Briley Foster for some examples of three color trends for spring using real life clients (including my daughter and me!) that she’s recently transformed from blah to beautiful.

 1. Balayage

When our 17 year old daughter Aubrey was little she had the most beautiful baby blonde hair.  As she’s gotten older, it’s naturally transitioned to a dirty dishwater blonde.  When she asked me for highlights to freshen it up,  I was a little bit hesitant about processing her natural hair.  But I gave in and the results are gorgeous.

Briley used the balayage process on Aubrey to get a natural look.  If you’re not familiar with balayage, it’s a French word meaning “to sweep or paint”and refers to the process of painting on the highlights.   The roots of the hair stay their original color to give it a natural grown out look.  It creates a natural sun-kissed look similar to what you had as a child but with a much softer, less noticeable regrowth line.

Here’s Aubrey’s finished product.

This process also works great on brunettes.  Your colorist can help you determine what tone of balayage will work best with your natural hair color.

2.  Subtle Highlights

My favorite way to brighten up my hair in the spring is with some subtle sun-kissed natural looking highlights. Chunky obvious looking highlights are a thing of the past.  This season’s highlights are meant to look like they did when you were a child playing outside in the sun.

Here are my subtle highlights.

A few face framing highlights are a great way to brighten up your whole look.

3.  Dimensional Color

Dimensional color typically combines highlights, lowlights, twilights or multi-dimensional hair color.  It’s less dramatic and can be a great way to brighten up, deepen your color or add movement to layers.  It’s an anti-flat hair color that’s anything but dull and boring.

This dimensional blonde was created by adding lowlights taking the client from bleach blonde to this beautiful, completely natural looking shade.

Photo Credits:  Foster Hair Design

It’s Your Turn:  What hair color trend are you keen to try this spring?  Share it with us in the comments!

Refresh Your Spring Style

If your style could use a little freshening up for spring, check out the Spring 2016 GYPO Style Challenge.  Registration is now open.  Get your spring trends shopping list plus 21 days of mix and match outfit ideas.  It’s the affordable way to have your very own personal stylist.  Get more info and sign up HERE.

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