By Sam Escobar, Good Housekeeping
Mastering the art of contouring your face is difficult for many — trying to blend the dark and light shades while avoiding cake face is no easy task. But then came along strobing, a simpler technique where you highlight the tops of different parts of your bone structure, and our makeup prayers were answered.
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there's strobing for your hair. Much like strategically adding
highlighter to your face, it's when you add highlights to your hair with
deliberate, flattering placement. "Hair strobing is an individualized
highlighting that is specific to one's hair color, face shape, and skin tone," Daniel Moon, Matrix SOCOLOR StyleLink celebrity stylist, told Good Housekeeping.
The process differs from typical highlights in that it takes three steps
rather than two. "It's accomplished by applying wider strips of color
for dimension and contrast, using colors that are two shades lighter and
two shades darker than the natural hair color," Moon tells Good Housekeeping. "After you do the toning and highlighting process, you go back again and highlight to accentuate and build dimension."
Unlike dyeing your hair an all-over solid color, or placing highlights and lowlights
at random, strobing caters to your face shape and natural hair
formation, says Moon. "It's meant to accentuate your natural beauty," he
explains. "The placement of the highlights emphasizes your skin tone
and face shape, and when the sunlight hits your hair, it glistens."
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So if you're looking to
make your hair really complement your face — or want that extra "pop" in
your hair color — ask your stylist to try this technique on you.
