Full highlights are a big hit nowadays. Highlights make the hair appear shiny, and they accentuate texture and style you’re going for. They’re versatile and serve many other purposes including shaping your face and producing a slimming effect.

Highlights also bring freshness, pop of color, edginess, and drama to your hair. Reasons to get full highlights are numerous, but you don’t have to go for partial kind only. We bring you 11 ideas that show exactly what makes them so awesome.

What Is The Full Highlights?

You’ve probably heard of full head highlights many times but weren’t quite sure what it means. Aren’t highlights just a few colored strands in the hair? Not necessarily. Full hair highlight refers to the method of highlighting hair in every section of the head from the nape of the neck to the hairline on the top of your head.

Highlights on full hair can allow a natural brunette to achieve the blonde beach look. They can lighten a person’s hair, but also more edge into your appearance.

How to Do Full-Length Highlights – Step By Step

You can get the highlight on full hair in two ways, i.e. go to a really great salon where a professional hairstylist will give you amazing highlights, or you can do them on your own. Some people like to try and do something on their own at first, and if you’re one of them, you’ll appreciate the following step by step guide. Here’s how to do full head highlights:

• Step 1: Pre-section your hair using a tail of plastic comb. Take a center parting using the nose as a guide. Continue sectioning from the back of one ear through the top of the head all the way to the other ear. Use clippers to clip hair in order to get it out of the way. Make sure sections you make are no wider than a foil
• Step 2: Take 1cm sections of the hair and weave into the preferred thickness
• Step 3: Hold the woven section in between your fingers and the foil with thumb and finger. Put the tail of the comb at the bottom of the foil and bend the foil over and place it up under woven highlights
• Step 4: Hold the ends of your hair and start painting sticking the hair to the foil. Apply the color to the root area. Fold the ends of your hair so that they fit into the foil. Fold the foil and repeat the same process on every section
• Step 5: Set the timer for appropriate time per instructions provided by the manufacturer. Wash your hair