For those with light brown or dark blonde hair, you're in luck—these shades are the perfect color to build off of when it comes to highlights. First, you need to choose whether you want to be ...

Very dark hair can be more difficult to blend with highlights and lowlights and may fare better with full coverage through a single process dye treatment, depending on how much gray is present.

The light brown (or dark blonde) color is “achieved with strategic placement of highlighting techniques to deliver a seamless blend between blonde and brunette hair,” says Hazan.