High Lights And Low Lights

Highlights and lowlights at Compton Hair

At Compton Hair we specialise in adding highlights and lowlights to your hair to complement your natural hair colour, to add definition to the hair and to add a gentle shot of colour. They can be blended into hair, striking and making a statement or entirely au natural - whatever suits you and your hair and lifestyle best.

What are highlights and lowlights? Highlights and lowlights are spot colour processes. They can be used separately or together depending on the look you wish to achieve and can be used with a solid hair colour - either your own or a pre-dyed hair colour. Technically speaking highlights lighten sections of the hair by two shades or more and lowlights darken the hair by two shades or more.

Each head of highlights and lowlights will be prescription-blended to suit you, there are no hard and fast rules, although if you are looking for a natural effect its important to bear in mind the following factors:

For blondes with very fair skins, golden and copper lowlights are best as they keep the colour from bleaching colour from the face.

Brunettes and darker hair should not lift the hair more than three shades lighter than their natural colour if they are looking for a natural effect. For low lights these hair shades should blend red with coppers and golds to add interest in a natural way. 

A combination of highlights and lowlights in hair will make re-growth less noticable.

We recommend a consultation with one of our colourist before your appointment. Consultations are free and usually last around 15 minutes. During the consultation we also will preform a skin test to make sure that you are not allergic to the colour and you will then wait 48 hours before you can have the colouring appointment. Your colourist at the consultation will quote as to the cost and length of the time the appointment will take.