Brooke Moinet

Now I know it’s not my imagination, letting your color/highlight grow out inches past there retouch phase is a total trend today. I am seeing it everywhere! From Mary-Kate Olsen, to the girls on  MTV’s The City, to stylists in the salon, it’s regrowth central. I admit to a certain subtle point it looks ok. But if your regrowth and previously colored hair is so dramatically different that you have an obvious LINE going around your head, you need to go to the salon. ASAP!

To try this look ask your stylist to give you “hidden highlights”. Keep the brighter highlights around the face, under the top layers of hair. Ask the stylist not to bring the highlight to the root, and to use a zig-zag approach on painting on the highlight to help the highlight look more natural. Make sure your highlights are toned to seal the cuticle for a smoother finish and to tone down the contrast of highlight to base color.

With this technique you can stretch out the time between retouches in the salon, up to six months for the bohimian “grown out look”.