Coloring short hair with highlights is the easiest way to make it edgy and interesting. Whether you love your pixie cut or can’t wait for your short crop to grow out, you can add highlights and lowlights to give your new ‘do some depth, tone, and texture. There are endless options, from traditional blonde highlights to hot pink or platinum. If you don’t like them, you can color over them easily enough, but odds are you’ll want to experiment with a different color every few months.
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Short Hair with Highlights Ideas
Blonde ‘lights on brown base have already become classics but you can also go less traditional ways, like trying blonde and red, brown and blue or teal, rose gold and golden blonde combos, to name a few. More ideas with pictures are listed below.
#1: A Subtle Take on Chunky Highlights
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Chunky highlights like these were super popular in the ’90s – remember the look of starkly defined highlights? You can see that here as well, but it’s much subtler and, thus, softer. Remember, ’90s looks are back with a vengeance, so this could be your next hairstyle.
#2: Shaggy Bob with Caramel Highlights
Don’t ever mistake brown for boring, especially when it comes to hair. Here, copper and caramel highlights brighten up brown hair. These highlight colors would look good on black hair as well, but they’d stand out even more than they do here.
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#3: Punk Rock Perfection
If you’ve ever wanted hardcore rocker hair, this is the look to emulate. The style is its own work of art, but the mix of platinum highlights, chunky blue streaks, and stark roots is sizzling.
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#4: Blonde on Blonde
You almost can’t tell that there are any highlights here, that’s how perfect the hair color is. A close peek reveals some darker hair, very deeply buried and well blended, but mostly this stunning woman has blonde highlights in various shades.
