Can You Color Hair Over Highlights? A Complete Guide
So you’ve upgraded your base color with subtle, sun-kissed curlights, low-maintenance wispy babylights, or a chunky, face-framing balayage. Now what? Although single-process color will always be a serve, adding a new shade unlocks maximum depth, texture, and dimension to your highlighted tresses. Coloring over highlighted hair is an easy way to extend the time between salon visits and experience a new look for half the price. It’s also great when you want a change, but not a drastic one. The vibe is simple, low-maintenance, and effortless, and we have the best tips to amp up your base with color.
Scroll down for a complete guide to adding color to your highlights from home, plus tips on lightening your hair using The Bleach 30 Volume Hair Lightening System, choosing the best shade for your strands, aftercare, and maintenance.
Adding Color to Your Highlights
WHAT YOU NEED:
- Your choice of Coloring Conditioner. Pro Tip: If your hair is extra long and thick, use at least two jars of oVertone to color your whole head of hair.
- Clothes for coloring
LET'S GET COLORING:
STEP 01:
Section off dry hair using Alligator Clips. Clip the top layer of hair and focus on the bottom layer to start working your way up to the crown.
STEP 02:
Apply color to small sections of hair, starting at the roots and working your way to the ends. Make sure hair is completely saturated with conditioner for even color coverage.
STEP 03:
Let it sit for 10-15 minutes. Leave the Coloring Conditioner in longer for bolder color results.
STEP 04:
Wash, style, reveal. And most importantly, enjoy the results.
Why Semi-permanent Hair Color?
oVertone Coloring Conditioner is a semi-permanent solution to changing your hair color. We deliver vibrant color results without commitment. Think of it as a way to try trending shades without the pressure of permanently dying your hair. The duration of time that the color stays in your hair is equivalent to most viral color trends. Easily switch from Rose Gold to Vibrant Purple and back again. It’s a trendspotter’s dream — no wait required. Plus, our Coloring Conditioners are hydrating and deposit only, so you can color right away after bleaching. Again — no wait required.
Choosing a New Shade
Choosing a new shade for your hair should be fun! When you have a light base, it acts as a great starting point for bright hues. Your hair is a canvas primed to take on even the most vivid colors.
Here are our tips for finding the perfect shade! If you wish to soften the contrast between your base color and highlighted hair, we suggest going darker. Choose a shade with warm tones if your lightened hair has orange or yellowish undertones. This can prevent the development of a greenish tint in your hair. If your lightened hair has a purple or blue undertone, go for a cooler ashy shade.
It’s been said the best hair color should be uniquely tailored to your complexion, but we believe you can color your hair whatever color you want regardless of skin tone, undertone, or vein coloration. It’s your hair, your rules — so do you!
Maintaining Your New Shade
To save that bread and a time-consuming trip to the salon by reviving your hair color at home, we recommend reapplying your choice of Coloring Conditioner weekly for a surge of pigment, maintaining that bold effect.
Follow up with our Daily Conditioners after each time you shampoo to fight fade, and your hair will never cease to make an impact wherever you go.
Highlight From Home Using The Bleach
Looking to try a new hair lightener that cares for your hair? The Bleach 30 Volume Hair Lightening System is an all-in-one lightening that helps you to achieve illuminating highlights, global lightening, or a perfect base for your dream color. What sets us apart is that our formula lightens hair while helping to care for it. We added nurturing ingredients such as Bond Complex, plant-based Squalane, and Aloe Leaf Juice so your hair looks shinier, nourished, and noticeably softer after you lighten it.
Plus, unlike most at-home bleach kits, it’s free of parabens, phthalates, synthetic fragrances, mineral oil, or gluten. Use The Bleach to achieve all-over lightening, or use it as a perfect base for our portfolio of Coloring Conditioners for your next look.