Are You Into The Uplighting Haircolor Trend?
Posted by: Nina Carbone
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9:30AM, Sunday November 1st 2009
So, what are your feelings on Alexa Chung and Cameron Diaz‘s two-toned hair in these photos? Personally, I’m digging it—I love that Cam rocked the bubble-gum pink Chanel with the un-did hair. She’s not taking her look too seriously, which I love. And, well, Alexa can rock most any look and still come off as seriously cool. Apparently, they didn’t just grow out their blond highlights to achieve the look; they paid money for it—it’s called uplighting. A stylist only places highlights on the bottom bits of your hair. Actually, according to the Daily Mail, sections of hair are backcombed and then bleached at the end. The roots are left dark and the ends are lightened. But, got to say, it’s one thing to like a look on a celeb and quite another to attempt it on yourself. What are we feeling? Yay or nay to uplighting? [Daily Mail]
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ajf78
wrote on November 1 2009 @ 08:52 am: [report]
I’m gonna have to say nay. In real life it would just look lazy.
ootie grl
wrote on November 1 2009 @ 10:04 am: [report]
They paid to have their hair look like it grew out. They could have just had it happen naturally. It does appear lazy.
Rose
wrote on November 1 2009 @ 10:06 am: [report]
I can’t imagine paying to look like that, when I could just let my roots grow out for months and call it a “look”.
dizzy
wrote on November 1 2009 @ 12:59 pm: [report]
A hearty nay.
chipclip
wrote on November 1 2009 @ 01:03 pm: [report]
I say yay, only because when people go blonde and it grows out, they get dark roots. Dark roots/light hair is somehow acceptable for an inch or so, because you see it everywhere. As a lighter haired girl who likes to go darker, my roots look terrible immediately, so more power to those women who rock it.
SaucyBrunette
wrote on November 2 2009 @ 12:55 am: [report]
I’m a hairstylist, and all I have to say is that this “trend” looks like #&@$%.
brandyalexander
wrote on November 2 2009 @ 08:23 am: [report]
I think Cameron’s hair looks pretty natural…
WMassSoprano
wrote on November 2 2009 @ 09:49 am: [report]
Nay! Terrible! The reason I don’t get my hair highlighted in the first place is because I don’t want to have to go through that when I want to stop getting it highlighted! Ugly!
Annika Harris
wrote on November 2 2009 @ 12:01 pm: [report]
Some of the dye rinsed out of my locks, revealing the reddish blonde that I had in the summer, so I’m going to pretend I was intentionally uplighting.
Drea
wrote on November 3 2009 @ 09:05 pm: [report]
I’m growing out some summer sun-in and am about half way there (my hair is fairly short anyway). It was looking pretty bad until I got a haircut. It seems to suit my unintentional uplighting. So I think it all depends on the hair, the color, and the cut.
spatula
wrote on November 10 2009 @ 02:20 pm: [report]
My hair looks remarkably like that right now…on accident, for free…