Highlights & Lowlights in Chicago’s Gold Coast

Highlight & Lowlight Services | Chicago, IL

Brighten, Soften, or Add Depth with Expertly Blended Color

At House22 Chicago Salon, we offer expert highlight and lowlight services designed to enhance your natural color and add personalized dimension. Whether you’re looking to brighten your overall tone, soften your look with subtle contrast, or add richness with deeper shades, our colorists create custom results that blend seamlessly and grow out beautifully.

For clients seeking flawless highlights or lowlights in Chicago, House22 is your trusted destination for dimensional color done right.

Why Choose House22 for Highlights & Lowlights in Chicago?

Expert colorists trained in placement, tone-matching, and blending
Hand-painted or foil techniques customized to your desired result
Bond-protecting color to maintain hair health and shine
Seamless grow-out for lower maintenance between visits
Personalized consultation to ensure tone, contrast, and style align with your vision

Popular Highlight & Lowlight Services at House22

Looking to lighten, deepen, or add soft contrast? Here are some of our most requested highlight and lowlight styles in Chicago, customized by our expert hair salon team at House22.

Face-Framing Highlights

Also known as the “money piece,” face-framing highlights are strategically placed around the hairline to brighten your features and soften your overall look. Often paired with curtain bangs or layered cuts, this style lifts and softens your overall look.

Babylights

Delicate and ultra-fine, babylights mimic the soft, subtle lightening created by the sun. These micro-highlights add shimmer and movement without drastic contrast, creating a soft shimmer effect that grows out gracefully and adds movement to any base color.

Peekaboo Highlights

Add a pop of personality with peekaboo highlights—hidden sections of color placed underneath the top layers of your hair. This playful style gives you the option to show it off or keep it tucked away. It’s a great way to experiment with color while keeping your overall look polished.

Partial Highlights

Add brightness and lift around the face and crown without committing to full coverage. This service gives a soft, sun-kissed effect with lower maintenance and a more subtle grow-out. A perfect option for first-timers or clients maintaining an existing highlight.

Chunky Highlights (Chunking)

For those who love bold, statement color, chunky highlights deliver. This look features wider, defined sections of lighter or brighter color placed throughout the hair for a striking, high-impact effect. Great for channeling an early 2000s style.

Full Highlights

Full highlights create consistent, all-over brightness from root to tip for a seamless, dimensional effect. This technique lightens the entire head, ideal for achieving a soft, blended blonde or a bold, high-impact look. Perfect for clients seeking noticeable lightness with a polished finish.

Lowlights for Depth

Lowlights add richness and contrast by blending deeper tones into lighter hair. They soften overly blonde color, enhance brunettes and reds, and restore natural-looking dimension. A great option for adding depth and fullness to flat or one-tone hair.

Dimensional Blends (Highlights + Lowlights)

For a multi-tonal, salon-quality finish, dimensional blends combine both highlights and lowlights in one service. Dimensional blends add depth, texture, and movement to any base color, creating a naturally enhanced appearance—perfect for that lived-in, effortlessly blended look.

A Personalized Color Experience in the Heart of Chicago

From subtle babylights to bold contrast, House22 Hair Salon is a trusted name for professional highlights and lowlights in Chicago. Whether you’re refreshing your existing color or ready for something new, your highlights or lowlights will be crafted to complement your cut, complexion, and lifestyle.