If you feel like your hair color has become dull or flat, face-framing highlights can give you a quick refresh.
Strategically placing lighter pieces of hair around your face can liven up your look and help you make a subtle yet impactful change.
What Are Face-Framing Highlights?
Money Pieces
Face-framing highlights, also known as ‘money pieces‘, are delicate strands of lighter hues strategically placed at the front of your hair. They create a luminous effect that beautifully accentuates your face.
Illuminated Effect
These highlights are designed to follow the natural parting of the hair, with subsections chosen based on the desired thickness of the highlights. The result is a radiant and illuminated effect that draws attention to your facial contours, creating a youthful and vibrant appearance.
Easy to Apply
Face-framing highlights are considered partial highlights since they focus only on certain strands, making them less expensive, quicker to apply, and requiring less maintenance compared to full highlights. They can be bold or natural, depending on the technique used, such as freehand painting or weaving and teasing.
Combining Balayage and Face-Framing Highlights
For those looking to combine the benefits of both techniques, balayage and face-framing highlights can work together harmoniously.
Balayage provides a soft, sun-kissed base, while face-framing highlights add a touch of brightness and dimension around the face. This combination can be tailored to suit individual style preferences and desired outcomes, whether you’re seeking a bold or subtle effect.
Maintenance Tips
One of the best aspects of face-framing highlights is that they grow out beautifully. As your highlights soften and melt together with your base color, you’ll love how the lived-in look flatters your skin tone and cuts years off your face.
To maintain a seamless grow out, schedule touch-ups every 8-12 weeks. Ask your colorist to focus on re-brightening the pieces around your hairline and face while subtly pulling some lighter pieces through the rest. This will keep your color looking fresh without the harsh grow-out line.
Refresh Your Look at Colair Beauty Lounge
If you’re ready to refresh your look for the new season, let the skilled colorists at Colair Beauty Lounge in Gilbert, AZ give your hair a new lease on life. Schedule a free consultation to discuss the perfect face-framing highlights for your hair color and skin tone.
Call (480) 923-6138 or book your appointment online today!
Dallas Sloan and Rich Ganley
Dallas Sloan and Rich Ganley are the co-owners of Colair Beauty Lounge & Med Spa. They are both passionate entrepreneurs and have extensive experience in the beauty, medical and service industries. They are blessed to lead a team of amazing professionals who are “obsessed with service” and love to “Pamper, Inspire, and Educate”! Colair was honored to be voted best mid-size business by the Gilbert Arizona Chamber of Commerce.
