Highlights
Add Brightness, Dimension, and Shine to Your Hair
At Chic Cuts By Linda, highlights are designed to do more than lighten — they create movement, depth, and radiance that enhance your natural beauty. With over 40 years of professional experience, Linda uses precise placement and expert formulation to deliver highlights that complement your skin tone, haircut, and personal style.
Whether you want soft, sun-kissed strands or bold, high-contrast brightness, each set of highlights is customized to achieve your ideal look while maintaining the health and integrity of your hair.
Types of Highlight Services
Every client’s vision is different, and Linda offers a variety of highlighting techniques to achieve the desired brightness and dimension.
Full Highlights
For those seeking all-over brightness and dimension, full highlights deliver coverage throughout the head — from crown to nape. Perfect for blending gray, enhancing texture, or transitioning between shades.
Partial Highlights
Focused around the top and sides, partial highlights frame the face and add subtle lightness without a full transformation. Ideal for maintenance or a natural, low-commitment refresh.
Face-Framing Highlights
Also known as “money piece” highlights, this technique adds brightness around the face for a luminous, youthful effect.
Lowlights
For depth and contrast, lowlights are interwoven with highlights to add richness and movement, preventing overly light or flat results.
Customized Combinations
Many clients choose a mix of techniques — such as highlights and balayage — to create a multi-dimensional, sunlit finish that looks effortless and natural.
Maintaining Beautiful Highlights
Proper care ensures your highlights stay luminous and healthy between salon visits. Linda provides personalized recommendations for at-home maintenance tailored to your specific shade and texture.
Tips for highlight care:
- Use a sulfate-free, color-safe shampoo to preserve tone and prevent brassiness.
- Wash hair less frequently to maintain vibrancy.
- Use purple or blue toning products as recommended for blonde or cool highlights.
- Protect hair from sun and heat with leave-in conditioners and UV shields.
- Schedule toner and gloss refreshes every 6–8 weeks to keep your color looking salon-fresh.
By following these steps, your highlights will stay bright, soft, and beautifully blended.
Choosing the Right Highlight Shade
Every highlight is customized to your personal features. Linda’s decades of experience help determine the most flattering shades and placement for your skin tone, eye color, and base hair level.
Popular highlight shades include:
- Honey blonde: Warm, golden tones for a sunlit look.
- Ash blonde: Cool, smoky tones that reduce warmth.
- Caramel and toffee: Ideal for brunettes who want soft, warm brightness.
- Champagne and beige: Subtle, neutral tones for effortless dimension.
- Soft copper: For redheads or warm brunettes seeking depth with brightness.
During your consultation, Linda explains how undertones influence the final result so your highlights always look natural and radiant.
Why Choose Professional Highlights
Highlighting is a detailed process that requires a trained eye for tone and placement. Professional highlights ensure even lift, balanced brightness, and a seamless grow-out — without the patchiness or breakage common with at-home kits.
At Chic Cuts By Linda, every highlight service includes:
- A full consultation to discuss goals, maintenance, and tone preferences
- Custom formulation matched to your base color and complexion
- Precise sectioning and foiling for natural flow and balance
- Professional toning and conditioning for a polished, glossy finish
By combining technical skill with artistry, Linda ensures each highlight looks refined, dimensional, and perfectly blended.
The Highlighting Process
Each highlight service is performed with precision and care. Linda tailors every step to your hair’s current condition, texture, and color history.
Consultation
Discuss your inspiration photos, brightness goals, and upkeep preferences.
Formulation
Linda selects a developer and toner that suit your hair type and ensures healthy lift.
Application
Strategic foiling or painting is used to create a balanced, flattering pattern.
Processing
Color develops to the appropriate tone and level of lift, monitored closely for consistency.
Toning and Conditioning
The hair is toned to refine the shade, then treated to restore softness and shine.
Styling and Finishing
Your look is completed with a professional blowout, showcasing the new brightness and dimension.
Frequently Asked Questions
How often should I refresh my highlights?
Most clients schedule touch-ups every 8–12 weeks, though low-maintenance techniques like balayage may allow for longer intervals.
Can I add highlights to dark hair?
Yes. Highlights can be applied to any hair color. For darker tones, subtle caramel or warm brown highlights often provide a natural glow.
Will highlights damage my hair?
When applied by a professional and followed with proper aftercare, highlights can be achieved safely. Linda uses bond-protecting formulas to keep hair healthy.
What is the difference between highlights and balayage?
Highlights are placed using foils for controlled lift, while balayage is a hand-painted technique for a softer, more diffused effect.
Can I combine highlights with other color services?
Yes. Many clients combine highlights with a gloss, lowlights, or root color for a cohesive, dimensional look.
Book Your Highlight Appointment in Amarillo TX
Ready to brighten your look with expertly crafted highlights? Schedule your appointment today with Chic Cuts By Linda. Every set of highlights is applied with precision and care to enhance your natural beauty and confidence.
