All About Highlights: What Are Face Frame Highlights?

Highlights never seem to fall out of style. Indeed, highlights are an excellent way to give your hair color more dimension. But you might be wondering if you have other options if you want just a partial head of highlights. Try face-framing highlights. This could be your ideal highlight to add some contrast to your hair without a high-maintenance routine!

What are Face Frame Highlights?

A face frame highlight is a highlighting technique that adds a pop of lightness and dimension while leaving a contouring effect. Including a brighter pop around the face can brighten up your color around the face. This technique is customized and personalized to each client. From copying sun-kissed highlights to creating a bold pop, this trend is versatile for everyone at any age. But before we start with which face frame highlights would suit you best, we need to figure out first what face frame you have.

Determining which face-framing style will look best on you can be tricky because they come in various shades and sizes. For first-timers, we always recommend dipping your toes first. What you see in images and how it appears on you can be so different. We advise deepening the root to soften the brightness directly on the face. First-timers might often feel “too bright” or “too light” when they first get a face frame. It’s the first thing your eyes notice because it is close to your hairline and face. If you adore the lightness, let’s enhance it on your next visit.

If you decide to change your mind after your service, there will be a charge if the face frame you picked doesn’t suit you.

Where To Place Hair Highlights For Your Face Shape

Oval Face And Long Face

Oval faces are lucky because their face shapes are considered to be very balanced. They can wear any kind of hairstyle and glasses. For those with an especially narrow or long face, add volume and highlights to the side of your face near your ears to add width to your frame.

Square Face

Faces with a square shape have broad features and a prominent jawline. You can frame your face with multiple highlights and lowlights near the corners, creating many dimensions and layers. You can make your body appear longer by adding brightness above the head and using shading on the sides to soften the bold edge, creating a slimmer look for your face shape.

Round Face

Like a square-shaped face, you can make your face look longer by using lighter shades near your hairline. Also, apply darker colors under your ears towards the hair ends to add shadow to the sides of your face.

Heart-Shaped Face

Heart-shaped faces feature a larger forehead and a narrower chin. To balance this shape, apply highlights to brighten the lower part of the face while keeping the upper head slightly darker.

Consider balayage, a technique where highlights begin further down from the roots to achieve a soft and gradual appearance. This would also provide a smooth transition from shade to lightness, which will balance the outline of a heart-shaped face.

Pear-Shaped Face

These individuals have faces opposite to heart-shaped ones, characterized by a narrower forehead or a more pronounced and broader jawline. To soften this appearance, adding brightness around the upper part of the head and increasing volume at the crown can be effective.

A reversed ombre or sun-kissed highlight at the top, where the color at the top is lighter than that at the ends, will soften and balance the look of the wider jaw.

Diamond-Shaped Face

People with diamond-shaped faces have fantastic cheekbones and a slightly narrower forehead and chin. To enhance this appearance, you can create balance by adding softness and fullness below the cheekbones.

Face Frame Highlight Ideas

Sun-Kissed Face Frame Highlights

This face frame is perfect for the natural babe who wants a “dust” of highlights to mimic that natural sun-kissed look.

Dimensional Blonde With Bright Face-Framing Highlights

This is for the babes who want some more contrast and pop. It’s a soft mix of lowlighting and highlighting, leaving that bright pop around your face to complement that look.

Blonde Face Frame Highlights

Are you already blonde? Do you need to be more blonde? This technique is great for girls who are already blonde but want to add that little extra oomph to their look. Adding a face pop around the hairline, just a shade lighter, can brighten your color. It gives you a lighter feel without harming the rest of your hair.

Level Up A Brunette Face Frame

We’re all aware that brunettes can get a little bored with their hair. This is excellent for several reasons:

1: For those babes who’ve never gone lighter and maybe a bit scared, this technique is a great way to “feel how it looks” on your skin while keeping your old faithful color throughout.

2: For those babes who want to brighten up, the brunette customizes the shades and tones to have as much or as little contrast as the client wants.

Coppers & Reds Must Have

Bringing back Geri Halliwell’s Spice Girl era, this is a great way to customize any red or copper color. Add a pop of red or bright blonde to a soft peach blonde—anything goes with this one.

Fashion Pops

Last, face frames can also be customized using a bright or pastel color. You can have much fun changing your color scheme with a cute temporary color. Again, this can be as dramatic or soft as you like.

Key Takeaway

Face framing highlights is a coloring technique that brings out your features. This hair contouring is a coloring technique that combines free-hand application and highlighting paired with carefully positioning different depths and tones around the face to highlight and shadow targeted areas. Deeper shades create shadows, making the face look shorter or narrower.

On the other hand, lighter shades reflect light and make the face appear longer and more stretched out. This strategic use of color and the thoughtful choice of matching tones create a visual trick that enhances the definition of your face and highlights its features. Face framing is a 100% bespoke coloring service that is designed to suit your facial structure, features, and skin tone. The colors are selected based on your skin tone and positioned based on your features and structure.

If you want to try face frame highlights, going to professional hairstylists would be the best option. Please reach out to us today to learn more!