Lowlights Are the Opposite of Highlights — Here's What to Know

"Like highlights, your colorist will know how to make them appear natural as opposed to stripe-y or chunky," Devin Toth, a hairstylist at New York City's Salon SCK, says. "I personally like how lowlights look when they are applied as babylights: nice and soft. Less is more."

They can help enhance your hair in different ways, depending on your natural hair texture and type, like "creating a thicker appearance on finer-hair clients or adding dimensional qualities with textured clients," Schaudt says.