HIGHLIGHT YOUR HAIR FOR SUMMER

Want to brighten up your look for summer? Light up your hair with beautiful, sun-kissed highlights!

Check out Myjellybean.com tips for Perfectly Placed Highlights.

You don't need to go to a salon to get happening highlights. There are lots of fabulous products at the drugstore and hair salons to help you achieve the lightened strands of your dreams.

Plus, Jellybean will give you a do-it-yourself, homemade formula for creating brightening highlights.

STORE-BOUGHT PRODUCTS

John Frieda Beachblonde Sun Streaks

This (along with the John Frieda products below) is Myjellybean.com favorite highlighting product ever! It's a heat-accelerated highlighter that works with your blow-dryer or the heat of the sun to create shimmery blonde highlights. You can play with the product to create sexy bold streaks and chunks. It's super easy to use too. Sun Streaks lets you highlight specific hair sections and is recommended for blonde to medium brown hair.

John Frieda Lemon Lights

So fabulous! Lemon Lights is ideal for gentle, all-over lightening on all shades of blonde, as well as lighter shades of brunette hair. Smooth the product all over the surface of your hair to naturally lighten it. Whether you're on the beach or a city street, this fresh lemon "aid" accelerates the sun's natural lightening effects on hair. You can also apply it in streaks to create subtle highlights.

John Freida Sheer Blonde Highlight Activating Shampoo

Can you tell we love John Frieda products? They really do make the best highlighting products, in our opinion. The Highlight Activating Shampoo is made for those of us who already have blonde hair, but want to brighten it up. It restores shine and glow to your blonde hair by removing residues left by styling products and tap water - major causes of drab and dull locks. This shampoo also contains natural extracts to help darker blonde tones appear exceptionally clear and bright. Choose the formula that best suits your hair colour - there's one for honey To caramel Tones, another for platinum To champagne tones.

A Touch of Sun Highlighting Subtle Highlights For Blonde To Medium Brown Hair

A Touch of Sun is like spray-on sunshine for your hair.The product's super-lightening ingredients work with your blow-dryer or the sun to bring out your hair's natural highlights. It also contains supershine conditioners to leave your hair soft. To use, you just spray it on and blow-dry, or go outside and let the sun work its magic. Blondes get blonder and brighter. Brunettes get sun-bronzed and burnished. Not recommended for dark brown to black hair.

Jerome Russell Blonde Temporary Highlighting Spray

When you want truly "instant" highlights, spray them on with this product! The highlight spray creates instant blonde highlights that wash out with your next shampoo. It's suitable for any hair type or colour. It's especially greate for disguising dark re-growth on dyed blonde hair - just spray your roots and nobody will know you're overdue for a salon visit!

Salon Selectives Lighten Up Subtle Highlighting Foam Blonde

This easy-to-use styling foam gradually brings out your hair's natural highlights and shine, without drying it out. Lighten Up continues to lighten your hair every time you use it (it's applied just like styling mousse), so results should appear within 1-2 weeks. It's a nice way to control how light your hair gets, by gradually changing its colour. People will know you look better, but they won't know exactly why! You can re-use it whenever you want to refresh your new highlights. Aloe and other conditioning agents in the foam leave your hair shiny and soft.

DO-IT-YOURSELF HIGHLIGHTING

Save money by trying this do-it-yourself formula for highlighting your hair:

Boil 3 cups of spring water (like Evian), then remove from heat. Add 3 chamomile tea bags and 3 teaspoons of lemon juice. Stir, cover and allow to steep for 30 minutes. Remove tea bags and store in the refrigerator.

To use, shampoo hair and rinse as usual. Squeeze out excess water and towel-dry hair a bit. Generously pour on herbal rinse until hair is saturated. Squeeze out excess and then style as usual. When you spend time in the sun, the ingredients in your hair rinse will help to bring out your hair's natural highlights. You can make and use the mixture as many times as you want until you achieve your desired level of highlighting.