A little light in the right place can change the way your entire color reads. At HBI, highlights are used to create brightness, depth, and dimension around your existing hair, from subtle pieces around the face to a more noticeable shift throughout.
Bring Light and Movement
Through Your Color
Hair highlights selectively lighten sections of your hair rather than changing its base color. By varying the placement, width, and amount of lightened hair, highlights can create anything from subtle brightness around the face to noticeable dimension throughout the hair. Your natural or existing hair color remains part of the finished look, creating contrast and allowing the lighter pieces to add depth and movement.
What Hair Highlights Do
Highlights can subtly refine your existing color or create a much more noticeable shift, depending on where and how the lighter pieces are placed. They can:
- Brighten your overall color without changing the entire base
- Frame your face with strategically placed lighter pieces
- Create dimension by introducing contrast throughout the hair
- Add visual movement to cuts, layers, and natural texture
- Soften the transition between lighter and darker tones
- Blend gray into a more dimensional overall color
- Enhance your natural shade while keeping some depth intact
Our Hair Highlights Services
Face Frame Foils/Balayage
A few strategically placed lighter pieces can shift the entire impression of your color. Face-framing foils or balayage concentrate brightness around the features, creating contrast and dimension without lightening the whole head, ideal for a subtle refresh or a brighter effect.
Partial Foils
Partial foils introduce highlights through selected areas of the hair where brightness and dimension will have the most impact. Your hair color specialist adjusts the placement, density, and tone to work with your existing color while preserving depth throughout the look.
Full Highlight
A full highlight distributes lighter pieces throughout the hair for more comprehensive brightness. Placement can be adjusted to create anything from finely blended contrast to a lighter result, while maintaining enough variation between shades to give the color depth and movement.
Balayage/Ombré
Balayage and ombré create dimension through more graduated approaches to lightness. Balayage uses strategically painted pieces for a softer, dimensional effect, while ombré transitions from deeper roots into lighter lengths and ends.
Our Menu
Hair Color
*Price is an estimate only. Please book a consultation to learn more about your options.
Why Choose HBI for Hair Highlights?
Before Balayage Was Everywhere
HBI was bringing balayage, ombré, and hair painting to Chattanooga more than a decade ago, before these techniques became daily requests on social media. Our history with dimensional color comes from years of learning, practicing, and refining the techniques behind it.
Certified in Redken Color
HBI is a Redken Black Elite member, and our team includes Redken Color Certified hair color specialists. That color education informs the technical decisions behind highlighting, from lightening and formulation to toning the finished result and working with your existing color.
Trained Beyond Chattanooga
HBI’s color education has taken our team to Paris, Milan, London, New York, and Miami. As Chattanooga’s only Intercoiffure salon, we have spent decades exchanging techniques and ideas internationally, then translating what we learn into wearable color for our clients here.
Placement Starts With You
Every HBI color service begins with a consultation. Before deciding where a foil or painted piece belongs, your hair color specialist considers your existing color, cut, features, hair condition, previous services, and maintenance preferences. The highlighting plan follows from there.
Book Your Highlights in Chattanooga
Ready to add brightness or dimension? Book your highlights at HBI East Brainerd in Gunbarrel or HBI Northshore in North Chattanooga, or contact your preferred location or stylist to start with a consultation about the color you have in mind.
