Californian Highlights 【+25 Luminous Ideas】

Light up your hair with these beautiful ideas of Californian wicks

The constant change of styles in the hair is something very common, a trend that always remains in force, are the Californian highlights. A technique that favors you if you want to give light to your hair and illuminate your face. Get to know some ideas with the suggestions we have for you.

What are Californian wicks

Despite being very common, very few people really know the name of this technique. These highlights emerged in the 70s, and their name was born from the hair of surfers in California. The idea is to create a degraded effect on the hair, where the ends look lighter than the roots. Showing in this way, an appearance of natural lightening by the sun.

Illuminate your face and give light to your hair

Although sometimes these types of highlights are often confused with balayage, they are actually different techniques. Basically, Californian wicks are generally applied from half or a little less. Leaving the original color of the hair throughout the roots, creating a gradient effect where the ends look much lighter than the roots. This generates luminosity in your hair and your face.

For all tastes and styles

An outstanding aspect of this type of highlights is that it is not only used in blonde tones. You can apply it in a variety of colors, if you wish. You can play with a base in dark tones and apply an intense blonde at the ends. You can also choose other colors such as ash, blue or even red. It all depends on what you want to do to your hair.

Easy to maintain and carry

One of the reasons why Californian wicks are so common is because of their practicality, in addition to giving the hair a natural and luminous effect, their care is simple. Also, an advantage is that by keeping a base at the root, if you want, as you grow your hair, you can cut it from where the highlights are and do something different if you want.