How to Use Blonde Highlights to Look Slimmer

Everyone knows the usual routes of diet and exercise to help you lose weight, but there may come a time when you need to drop a few pounds right away because you've got a hot date. It isn't completely impossible. Though you won't actually be losing the weight, you'll certainly look like you've dropped some pounds since you can actually use blonde highlights to look slimmer in a matter of hours.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Identify your strongest facial feature and target it to be accentuated, taking the attention off the roundness of your face. For example, if you have spectacular eyes, then concentrate the highlights around your face in the eye area and at your temples. A cute nose should be accentuate by highlights around the cheekbone area.

2. Use a highlighting shade about two or three shades lighter than the base color of your hair. Going lighter than three shades will make the highlights stand out and look more like stripes.

3. Concentrate your highlights on the top of your head and on the forehead. This technique helps to elongate the face, creating an illusion of a slimmer outline.

4. Use blonde highlights in combination with darker lowlights, especially around the frame of the face. Called a tri-color technique, highlights and lowlights create a deep, layered look that can be surprisingly natural looking. Using the darker shade of the lowlights not only creates shadows around the face to help to make your jaw and cheeks appear slimmer, but they also create the illusion of your highlights and middle shade being brighter, which makes the face look slimmer still.

5. Select thinner, more subtle blonde highlights as opposed to wider, chunky ones. Chunky highlights can ruin the slimming effect even when placed in areas that would normally be slimming.

Tips & Warnings

• Allow a hair care professional to put in your slimming highlights. They will be much more adept at choosing the places that will slim your face the most as they work, and they will be able to provide the tri-color treatment much more efficiently than you can at home.
• Be sure to use a shampoo and conditioner that warm your blonde highlights instead of making them brassy or dull looking. Dull hair will actually have the opposite effect of any slimming highlights, no matter how well you place them.

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