Highlights on dark hair

As a suggestion, and depending on your skintone, you could probably get highlights in either an auburn, caramel brown, golden brown,or bronze, medium in tone. If you go too light with your highlights, it won`t look good; it could look like either the dreaded skunk stripes or the equally dreaded "frosted" look! See your haircutter/colorist for a consultation about this - this procedure is best left to professionals.

Maybe she wants to change her hair color for herself, not everyone cares what men think. Sometimes if you have really dark hair and light skin you look sort of scary like Elvira, so I understand why she wants to change. I would recommend a one process rather than highlights. I find highlights on dark hair to be too streaky. With the bleach used in highlights it is hard to control the color and it often gets too light and there is too much of a contrast with the base. Also one process color is less drying than the bleach. I would recommend a one process in golden brown or light auburn. The only problem is that roots will tend to show, so you have to get it retouched every five to six weeks, but to me that is preferable to the streaky highlight look.

I`ve seen FANTASTIC hi-lights in dark brown hair! Depending upon the tone of your brown, you can take the hi-lights quite pale and put an ash toner on them -- wowee they look good!

I put hi-lights in my neice`s hair just last weekend and her hair is very dark. It looks really good.

~~Kate, the hair student