Hair highlighting and lowlighting is a technique that involves adding subtle color accents to hair, typically in lighter and darker shades. Think Reese Witherspoon's signature blonde hair with golden highlights and caramel lowlights, or Keira Knightley's dark chocolate hair with auburn highlights and honey lowlights.
Hair highlights and lowlights give hair a more dimensional, textured look, and can be tailored to complement any base hair color and skin tone. It can hide grays, boost volume, and add movement and shine. Hair highlighting and lowlighting has been popular since the 1970s when it was used to create a sun-kissed, beachy look.





