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Baby Steps To Blond Highlights

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Baby Steps To Blond Highlights

Blond highlights will always hold a special place in our heart. These light hued highlights have always been a go to for women who want to lighten up their hair color. There are so many ways to incorporate blond highlights into your look, it’s really dependent upon your personal style and preferences. That being said it can be a big change to add blond highlights to your hair color, even when you feel the pull to try it out. Luckily there are some baby steps to blond highlights to help you transition your hair color at a pace that feels good to you.

Get Inspiration
Before you do anything related to blond highlights we suggest getting some inspiration. Building up some inspirational images that you’re really drawn to for your blond highlights is a great way to well…get inspiration. Since there are countless ways to add blond highlights to your hair, getting out there and referencing some pictures will help you to really hone in on the blond highlight looks you like for yourself. While you may like certain types of blond highlights you may not necessarily want it for your own hair, building some inspiration using sites like Pinterest is a great way to learn the differences and create confidence in the look you want for your hair.

Take Extra Care of Your Hair
This one may seem odd but we suggest using your time leading up to getting highlights as an opportunity to take extra care of your hair. Hopefully you’re already in the habit of practice safe and healthy hair routines but since blond highlights do include chemically treating your hair you want to ensure that your hair is as healthy as possible before heading into the salon. Taking to applying deep conditioning treatments to your hair consistently is a great way to take your hair’s health to the next level.

Bring Pictures to a Consultation
Even if you have a hair stylist you’ve been going to for years, that doesn’t necessarily mean you have to go to them for your blond highlights. Blond highlights are just like any other hair treatment, you should be choosing the best professional for you and your desired outcome. Shop around and set up consultations with a variety of different colorists in your area to determine the best fit for you. We suggest bringing your inspirational images to the consultations to help you and the colorist have a good idea of the outcome that will happen after the initial appointment. Ask a lot of questions during the consultation, too. This isn’t a time to sit back and be shy! Remember that this is your hair and the more questions you ask and the more dialogue you have with the colorist the better you can both understand each other.

After you’ve selected the colorist you’re confident in and feel good about the look he/she can create based on your inspirational images next up is setting up the appointment!

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There Is An App For That Hairdo

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There Is An App For That Hairdo

There is an app for that hairdo! Did you ever think you would hear that statement? Ok, to be fair it seems like there’s an app for almost everything in our lives today but HAIR?! Using an app for your hairdo is a great way to gain some inspiration and really broaden your horizons with your hair. Most of us tend to get stuck in a rut with our hair, wearing it the same ways and having it cut with little variety. If you’re ready for a change or just need some inspiration we’ve rounded up a few of our favorite hair specific apps to try out for yourself.

InStyle Hairstyle Try-On
InStyle magazine obviously knows about beauty and hair, so we’re not all THAT surprised to find their hair app. The Instyle app is catered to helping you virtually try on different hair styles. If you’ve ever wondered what you would look like with a haircut or style but you’re afraid to take the plunge, this is the perfect way to see how you would like it on yourself. After uploading a picture of your face the app detects your face shape to give you some insight on that, along with recommendations on hairstyles that you may enjoy and flatter your face shape. They even include celebrity reference photos that you can try on so if there’s a celeb who’s hairstyle you’ve been obsessed over, you can try it on yourself to see if you like it before heading into the salon.

Hair Color Booth
The Instyle app provides you with the chance to gain inspiration and see how you look with different hairstyles, but what about colors? Bold, bright colors are everywhere these days and we don’t see the trend dying down anytime soon. If you’ve been eyeing those bright hair colors but you’ve been holding back because you’re not quite sure how they will look on you the Hair Color Booth app is the one for you. Similar to the InStyle app this one allows you to upload a picture of yourself and ‘try on’ different hair colors. The options are limitless with hair color, too. You can add different colors to different sections of your hair, play around with the vibrancy, and even mix different colors together. It’s a great way to see how the colors look with your complexion before making the big jump to the salon.

Hair Tutorial
Do you see gorgeous hair styles on social media and feel like you could NEVER recreate that yourself? The Hair Tutorial app by IPHRACK INC. was designed to help you with that. The app is filled with an abundance of hair tutorial videos. In the app you’ll find video tutorials created by experts in the industry to walk you through step by step to creating a range of different hair styles in the comfort of your own home. It’s like having a hair tutor right on your phone!