23 Stunning White Highlight Ideas For Different Hair Shades

White highlights are one of the most elegant ways to add colors to your natural hair or colored hair. This is probably because white goes with anything, so there’s something for everyone, man or woman.

Whether it’s for festive occasions, or you feel inclined to add something new to your looks, putting the right highlights can make all the difference. So, here is a guide to making your hair game extraordinary with bold or subtle white highlights.

How Do You Get White Highlights? Step By Step

Putting colors in your hair is a delicate process. So it’s quite advisable that you consult a colorist to help you through the process. If you are just getting started on white highlights, these step by step tips will come handy for you.

Consult your colorist

Consulting your colorist is an important step because you need to be sure that highlights are healthy for your hair. You may also need an expert to recommend the best method and products for your hair texture and volume.

Choose your base color

White highlights can be painted on your natural hair, or any color of your choosing. So, you should decide if you want to add the highlights to your hair as is, or dye your hair with an extra color.

Set up your workstation

If you are coloring your hair on your own, you should get all your tools ready.

You will need:

A mixing bowl
Your bleach or dye
Some foil paper
A rattail comb for sectioning
Latex gloves
Hair clips
A toner and deep-conditioning cream
A towel
Access to a washing sink.

Try out the dye on your hair strands

Before applying the color to your hair, test it out on some of your hair strands. You can trim off a little for this test, and go over the exact routine you would use for bleaching your hair. So, apply the bleach, and wrap it in foil.

This test helps you know how well your hair would take in the dye, how much you need to apply to achieve your desired color, and how safe your product is.

Choose your style

We have 23 ideas for you to choose from in this article. So, pick your look beforehand, so you know what you will be working with.

Section and paint

For best results, you should always work in small sections. You could part your hair in 4-6 parts. Then work on each part one at a time, taking small sections of hair and painting.

If you want to apply the dye to specific sections of your hair, then tie up the rest in a bun, while you work on those areas.

Wash and apply a toner

Once the recommended minutes for your bleach is up, head straight to your washing sink. After a thorough rinse out with shampoo, apply a toner.

Toners help to reduce the harshness of hair bleach. Usually, newly bleached hair has a slightly yellow undertone. So, a toner would help to take that off.

Apply a deep conditioner

You should never skip your conditioning! It’s important to restore moisture to your hair after bleaching. It prevents your hair from getting brittle and breaking off. It also restores shine to your hair.

Blowdry and style as desired

Finally, blow-dry your hair, and brush or comb it out. If you wish to straighten it or add curls, you can also do so at this point.

23 Gorgeous White Highlight Styles

When choosing a style for white highlights, you have to consider the color of your natural hair, or the other colors you want to add along with the white. While it’s fun to experiment, you also want to try styles that would suit you best.

Here are 23 glam-worthy hairstyles with white highlights for you.

1. White Highlights on Brown Hair

How gorgeous would you look with white highlights on brown hair? Styling highlighted hair with deep colors has a way of reflecting the lushness of your dark hair. This works great with black hair, but a brown-white combo is fire!

2. White Blonde Highlights

Blonde highlights are beautiful and even more so when done on medium to long hair. What is even more beautiful is putting in white highlights to fade out the blonde at the tips of your hair. This is a look any day anytime.

3. White Highlights on Black Hair

You can never go wrong with white and black outfit combinations. Do you also know that highlights on black hair work just as well? Our recommendation is to add white highlights to the front edges of your center part or side part.

4. White Blonde Hair with Highlights

Light blonde hair with a mixture of white and blonde highlights is just the thing you need if you are looking to switch up your blonde hair game. This beauty is best appreciated on long curly or wavy hair. It is a must-try for all blondies.

5. White Highlights in Dark Hair

This works great if you do not want to add too many color changes to your hair. You could put in white highlights in streaks around your hair, just enough to show up if you put your hair in a center part. You could stand this with dark brown or black hair.

6. Red Hair with White Highlights

7. Gray Hair White Highlights

Here is a mix of rich gray colors and white highlights. The overall results may not be the same for everyone depending on how tinted your gray hair is. What you are looking to do, is to create a slightly copper tint to add some uniqueness to your hair.

8. Light Brown Hair with White Highlights

If you are looking to add some spark to your light brown hair, adding bright colors is not necessarily the best way to go. It is important to note here that having volume in your haircut goes a long way to determine how beautiful white highlights turn out.

9. Short Black Hair with White Highlights

Short black hair and white highlights go just as beautifully as long hair does. The trick is to blend in your white highlights into the black so that it creates a charcoal gray/deep ash look. Any length of short hair would go nicely in this color match.

10. Curly Hair with White Highlights

It doesn’t matter how curly your curls are, you can also explore this beautiful world of white highlights. One of the beautiful things about curly hair with white highlights is that you do not have to do a lot of styling, apart from blending the highlights into your natural color.

11. Silver and White

It doesn’t matter how curly your curls are, you can also explore this beautiful word of white highlights. One of the beautiful things about curly hair with white highlights is that you do not have to do a lot of styling, apart from blending the highlights into your natural color.

12. Platinum White Highlights

Platinum white highlights are quite versatile for long, short, or medium length hair full. You could also rock this as a curly or straight-haired woman. These two colors together create a unique shade of ivory-blonde hair.

13. Ombre White

Unlike a typical ombre, you want to make sure that your black-to-white highlights fade very seamlessly. This highlight style is glorious when the colors blend into one another for me a unique combination of its own. Every ombre lover should give this a try.

14. White Highlights on Bob

Of course, we saved something for bobs! These highlights can also be put into light brown dark brown black or deep red bob haircuts. What you’re looking to do is to add in the highlights in a way that lightens up the original color of your hair.

15. Rainbow with White Highlights

Ready to play with colors? Here is a blend of pink purple orange yellow and white highlights in medium-curly hair. This is a bold and stunning combination. So if you want your hair game to announce your presence, step it up with this.

16. Dark purple Ombre

This isn’t a look to keep in your home or on your everyday grocery runs to the store. You definitely have to hit some dazzling outings with this dark purple ombre. The faded-out white highlights tips make all the difference.

17. White Highlight with Bangs

These white highlights with bangs are a great fit for dark-haired people. The contrast of the white color with dark hair adds some freshness to your bangs.

18. Free Part Bob With White Highlights

Bobs don’t have to stop at your chin to look stunning. So, if you have a slightly longer bob, feel free to curl it in and spice things up with white streaks.

19. Light Pink and Purple Highlight

White highlights don’t have to be plain. You can add in more than one color like this light pink and purple highlight. Be sure to keep the darker shade at the roots so that the pink sits nicely against your skin.

20. Rainbow streaks

Are you ready to own your tresses? These delicate rainbow streaks are not for everyone, but everyone would turn around to give you a second look. For the best outlook, put the rainbows streaks on the darker color in your hair, and keep the white highlights clear.

21. Silver and Peach Highlights

Here is something for you if you want to maintain two distinct hair colors in your hair. Peach and white are soft complementary colors. So you don’t have to worry about having a harsh contrast in your looks.

22. White Highlights And Honey

Honey brown hair is beautiful but have you tried adding some white highlights to top it off? That’s how to transform a great look to pure elegance.

23. Silver pixie

Pixie cuts are face-defining hairstyles. So adding white highlights would tone down the edge of your haircut without taking away from its elegance. Be sure to blend this with dark colors.

FAQ

Can you put white highlights in grey hair?

Yes, you can put white highlights in grey hair. When putting white highlights in grey hair, blending is vital. You could use the white to lighten up your roots or enhance the silver tone in your hair.

A good blend of grey hair and white highlights will give you a salt and pepper-themed finish. It’s a great way to restyle your greys without losing their natural color. It works great on any length of hair.

Conclusion

If you are new to white highlights, feel free to start out softly. They can be used to add distinct color to your hair or to lighten up dark-colored hair. So, you won’t be making drastic color changes at a go.

Here’s a quick tip for using this coloring style: Whether you choose to put white streaks, or blend it in, be sure to pick a style that suits the length of your hair. That way, you can be sure of making the most of your hairstyle.