Natural hair highlights - Homemade hair treatments

May 13, 2008 12:00 AM by Kori Ellis

Posted in Beauty & Style / Hairstyles & Hair Care / Hair tips

Summer Beauty
Natural Highlights

This summer, instead of heading to the salon to get hair highlights, do it yourself at home naturally. Using ingredients you can find in your own kitchen, you can have beautiful sun-highlighted hair in no time.

Woman with naturally highlighted hair

Lemon

The best known of the natural hair highlighters is lemon. Mix 1/4 cup of fresh squeezed lemon juice and 3/4 cup of water in spray bottle. Spritz lemon water onto your hair but do not saturate scalp. Leave mixture on your hair for 2 hours, spending at least 30 minutes of that time in the sun. Be sure not to get lemon juice on your skin before going in the sunlight. It could cause blistering. Condition your hair before and after using lemon because it can dry your hair.

Olive oil

You may know that olive oil is a fabulous hair conditioner but many people don't realize it can be used as a natural hair lightener too. Comb a generous amount of olive oil through your hair. Spend about an hour in the sun and then wash out the oil. Your hair will not only be naturally highlighted, it will be moisturized too! Repeat three days a week until you achieve the desired highlights.

Chamomile tea

Believe it or not, brunettes can get natural golden highlights this summer with chamomile tea. Boil a pot of chamomile tea and allow it to cool completely. Wash and condition your hair normally, then rinse your hair with the tea. Relax outside in the sun with your tea-drenched hair for 30-60 minutes. Repeat every other day until your hair has beautiful natural highlights.

Honey

Honey, though very sticky, can actually highlight your hair. You can apply honey straight to your wet hair and leave on for two hours. An alternative method is to mix equal parts of honey, lemon and water in a spray bottle. Apply to damp hair and spend an hour in the sun. You will need to wash your hair twice to get out all the honey. Honey gives hair a lot of bounce and natural highlights.

Beer

Light colored beer, such as Corona, is great for adding natural sun-kissed highlights to your hair. Get a six-pack of beer and empty four of the bottles into a basin. Saturate you hair in the beer and then head outside. Drink the other two beers while you wait for the beer to do its magic. About an hour later, rinse out your hair with cool water. Follow up with a moisturizing conditioner and style as usual. Repeat 2-3 times a week.

Summer haircare

The Jim Wayne Salon in Beverly Hills is one of the top salons in the country. Celebrity clients include Heidi Klum, Mischa Barton, Jonathan Knight, Keyshia Cold and several others.

We had the opportunity to talk with Jim Wayne and get these expert tips on summer haircare.

What trends in color do you see this season?
Blonde, Blonde, Blonde! Blonde goes really well with the primary color trends in fashion right now especially since fashion dictates hair color, and blonde goes with everything. Colors like the reds are beginning to fade out.

What are easy ways to make your hair look good at the beach and pool?
Use hair powder and surf spray by Bumble and Bumble. It gives a lot of lift. You can jump in the pool, get it wet and just comb it out. After you get out of the pool, you can just put more in and it'll pump it right back up.

What hair care products to do you recommend to keep hair healthy in the summertime?
Davines buffer gel is an absolute must for the pool and beach. The line also comes with shampoo and conditioner, but is the buffer gel is an absolute must have. It's not oily or greasy.

Any tips for quick summer hair styles?
Ellis bands (hair bands) are going to continue to be big this summer. The great thing about Ellis bands now is that they come assorted colors to match your outfit. Tape-on and add-on extensions are going to be big, but clip-ons are on the way out because they're too much of a hassle.

More fab summer beauty Tips

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Comments

Comments on "Natural hair highlights - Homemade hair treatments"

i would say you should use honey its sticky but it works for me i use it 3 times spo far and i see good results in my hair and i am only 13 what you do is add honey to a container that has a lid with it put about 4 small spoon fulls in it and about 3 times more conditioner and mix it let it sit in the bowl with the lid on for 10 to 15 min and put it on your hair what ever you want changed put a plastic bag or hair cap on it let it sit for 30 to 40min and rinse after it sits and your good to go.

they are enough and pretty good hair highlights but the only best red hair highlight what i can say is to pour clove tea on hairs, whil u pour the content of the tea sit in the bathtub and close the drain to make sure that stain does not catches,then rinse the hair with the clove tea 15 times and after u rinse let the content of the tea sit on ur hairs for 15 minutes.well or if u cant do this u can try this with carrot jucie and beet juice mix togather

Lemon is my favorite! Only problem is that since my hair got a little bit darker, i tried to put lemon the other day and it turned too orange!

I tried the lemon juice trick before,but I don't know how well it works because I couldn't finish.I went outside to get sun like instructed and had to run back inside right away because a bumble bee was after me!Seriously.

Well Regina... Nobody knows actually...

I lied it rox

Omg it didn't work

Thanx for the lemon recipe. I used to actually buy highlight spray in a bottle until I looked at the ingredients on the back of the bottle and realized it was just lemon juice and water! I just needed to know the right amount of juice to put in the water, thank you so much!

Hi i have very dark black hair naturally and was wondering which method works best for black hair?

The sister of my best friend from Brazil, who has brown hair, used to use lime juice in her hair when sunbathing--making sure no juice touched her skin! It did work.

how long does these usually last

Debbi, lemon could dry out your hair but after your daughter washed it out when done in the sun she could use cOndiyioner. I tried honey and it lightened my hair whichblooked like I had highlights

My sister did a science fair project last year to see which natural household product lightens hair most and the top one was chamomille tea. It had the greatest effect on the medium/light brown hair she used. It gave a beautiful tint but you have to sit in the sun ( a pretty long time) to get a big result if youre going to do it for only one day. It causes no damaga and I suggest using it :)

does this actually work?? and what would be best for brown hair???

my daughter has honey colored hair, very long and with a straightener. we dont wont chemical highlights because of the chemicals already applied so what is the best natural highlights can you suggest? i like the lemon but dont like that it dries it out, so im unsure which to use.