Shimmer Highlights and Baby Highlights at Oilly Hair Salon Bangkok

Highlights add dimension to the hair, ideal for clients who feel bored with a plain hair color or want their hair to look more dimensional when it moves and falls naturally. At Oilly Hair Salon Bangkok, we focus on Shimmer Highlights and Baby Highlights: fine, soft, diffused strands designed to create movement in the color without looking too chunky or harsh.

Rooted Highlights or Highlights Set Away from the Roots: What Is the Difference?

Highlights can be designed in many ways, especially when it comes to placement: whether the light pieces start close to the scalp or sit slightly away from the roots. Highlights placed close to the roots have the advantage of looking more continuous and blended as the hair grows out.

However, some faces can look sharper or lose facial framing if the brightness is brought too close to the roots. For some clients, leaving a small distance from the roots helps keep the face frame defined while still showing the highlight pattern. The right placement depends on personality, face shape, skin tone, styling habits, and the level of brightness desired.

Why We Focus on Shimmer Highlights and Baby Highlights

At Oilly, we usually focus on Shimmer Highlights or fine-line highlights because as the color gradually fades, the highlighted strands still stay wearable for a long time. They feel easy to maintain and do not turn into large, overly obvious streaks.

Baby Highlights help dark hair and highlighted strands blend more seamlessly, with a softer, more dimensional distribution than thick, blocky sections that stand out too strongly.

Who Are Highlights Suitable For?

Highlights are suitable for clients who love a polished, sweet, cool, or subtly sexy look with dimension. They are also suitable for clients with grey hair, or anyone who wants to soften the appearance of grey hair with lighter strands.

Highlight strands can help mimic the natural distribution of new grey hair, making greys look more blended and helping extend the time between root touch-ups. Some clients may be able to wait around three to four months, while others may let the hair grow longer and refresh it around once every six months, depending on the amount of grey hair and each person’s comfort level.

Hair Conditions That Should Be Assessed Before Highlights

Some hair types should not be rushed into highlights, such as hair that has been repeatedly permanently straightened, hair that has been permed several times, hair that has been darkened for a long time with color shampoo or color-changing cream, and hair that has undergone multiple chemical services.

Very frizzy or highly textured hair also needs careful assessment, as the highlight pattern may scatter visually and make the hair look even more diffuse. Before the actual service, the salon will carefully assess the hair condition, chemical history, and the client’s ability to maintain the hair at home.

Lift Level and Color Design

Highlights using lightener can lift the hair to different levels, such as level 7, 8, or 9, depending on the client’s base color and hair strength. Every client has a different starting point, so the final highlight result will vary from case to case.

In general, the salon will use the client’s reference photo as a guide for the color tone, then customize the design to suit their personality, hair condition, and aftercare routine. The salon uses high-quality nourishing products together with the color service to help prevent the hair from feeling weak or dry immediately after the appointment.

Simple At-Home Care for Highlights

After highlights, it is helpful to have a purple shampoo or a toning shampoo to maintain cool tones and keep the highlighted pieces in a blonde, beige, or muted tone. In general, it can be used once or twice a week, or adjusted according to how the color actually changes.

A treatment or hair mask is also recommended after highlights to support long-term hair condition. Some clients may add a steam treatment or hair spa every two to three months. The frequency can be adjusted depending on convenience and each person’s hair condition.

Can Highlights Be Combined with Keratin or Hair Botox?

For clients with frizzy hair, hair that does not fall smoothly, or mild to moderate puffiness who still want highlighted dimension, designing highlights together with Keratin or Hair Botox can help the hair look smoother, healthier, and easier to style.

Keratin and Hair Botox help coat and care for the hair surface, making the hair look smoother, straighter, silkier, shinier, and more natural, while still keeping the dimension of the highlights. Clients can enjoy a new hair color, softer texture, and a refreshed look that feels more confident.

Key Benefits of This Highlight Style

• Suitable for clients who want dimensional hair color without large, harsh sections
• Shimmer Highlights and Baby Highlights help the color fade softly and stay wearable for longer
• Can help blend grey hair and extend the time between root touch-ups in many cases
• Hair with previous chemical services, straightening, perming, or repeated dark coloring should be assessed before lightening
• Aftercare with toning shampoo and treatments helps maintain both the color and hair quality for longer