Should I get highlights?

[Laurathesupermum]

I'm considering getting highlights when the salon open, but I think I'm too old now tbh.
What colours do people have?
Are they acceptable in a professional job?
Do they still look good when your hair is in a ponytail?

Too old? My mum's 80 and still has highlights...

@titchy

Oh ok, perhaps I'm not too old at 32 then.

Are you talking about blonde highlights?

I was thinking something like one of these:
www.google.com/search?q=blonde+highlights&client=ms-android-samsung-gj-rev1&prmd=isvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwilx5qZiJHqAhXFURUIHXVUDvcQ_AUoAXoECA8QAQ#imgrc=C4oS06evPGuDnM

www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/196117758757310148/

@Frownette

Yes

Are they acceptable in a professional job? My companys policy only says no "extreme hairstyles".

Op, highlights aren't an 'extreme' hairstyle!

@MobLife

Good.

What is your profession? Surely there are other women with highlights in a similar role? They are very popular.

It's never occurred to me that you could be too old for highlights...my nearly 80 year old aunt still gets them.

I have highlights and I'm 46 . I actually get highlights and some lowlights. Is there an age limit I wasn't aware of?

@Cuddling57

I work in an in-house legal team for a major UK company.

What colours do people have?
Do they still look good when your hair is in a ponytail?

Love, half the women you work with have highlights. They're hardly extreme, unless you have fluorescent pink ones.

In the nicest possible way, just look around you at people at work to see what's acceptable?

@titchy

Well I'm not having pink ones anyway.

@winterisstillcoming

In my department one person has highlights and another has lowlights.

So you know they're acceptable then...

@titchy

Senior management do tend to frown about it sometimes though. In external meetings.

What colours do people have?
Are they acceptable in a professional job?
Do they still look good when your hair is in a ponytail?

Very acceptable. If you want to wear a ponytail ask your hairdresser to put some foils at the back of your hair on the neckline. You can have a full head of highlights if you like plaiting your hair as these are spread throughout the whole head.

Do you have eyes op? If so, you could use them and LOOK around you

@bluewavescrashing

Yes, I always wear my hair in a ponytail at work.
What is the difference between full head and half or partial?
Sorry I don't know anything about highlights.

Full head means highlights distributed throughout all of the hair. Half head leaves the underneath unhighlighted - highlights taken down to about ear level. T Bar is parting and fringe

I normally alternate between full head and Tbar with some foils put in at the hairline at the sides and back as I wear my hair up for the gym