If you’ve got highlights and are wondering if they’re damaging your hair, the answer is a resounding “yes.” But don’t worry! There are ways to protect your beauty once it’s been damaged. Read on to learn more about how highlights impact your mane, plus advice on how to protect it once you’ve gotten them.

Your Highlights Are Damaging Your Hair

Highlighting is a process in which hair is dyed different shades of blonde or brown, depending on whether you want to achieve an all-over color change or just enhance your natural hue. The idea is that by adding darker tones to the ends of your hair, you’ll make them appear fuller and healthier than they would if they were completely lightened.

The problem with this approach is that it’s not always executed well–and even when it is, there are other reasons why highlights may be bad for your hair:

• The chemicals used in highlighting are known to cause damage over time (like permanent color). If you have highlights every few months or so, then this could very well be contributing to the breakage and dryness that leads people toward extensions as their only fix!

Highlights can damage your hair in other ways

You may have heard that highlights can damage your hair. In fact, this is true for any coloring technique. Highlights are particularly damaging because they involve bleaching the ends of your hair–and bleaching can cause breakage and split ends if not done properly.

In addition to the obvious physical effects of lightening your locks (i.e., damage), highlights can also cause color fading over time due to exposure to sunlight or heat styling tools like blow dryers and flat irons. However, there are ways around these issues: You can keep an eye on how much sun hits your tresses throughout the day by wearing hats or staying indoors during peak hours; try using heat protectant products before styling; avoid washing too often; use sulfate-free shampoo; deep condition regularly with moisturizing masks every few weeks (or more often depending on how often you wash); apply oil treatments once per week before bedtime–these will help prevent breakage as well as soften strands so they’re less prone to tangles when brushed out later on in life!

Higherlighting also damages your hair’s cuticle

Highlighting is a process that involves taking small sections of your hair and dyeing them a lighter shade than the rest of your hair. The result is a subtle, natural-looking change in color that can be used to cover gray or add dimension to an otherwise flat hairstyle.

The problem with highlighting is that it damages your hair’s cuticle–the outer layer of each individual strand of hair. This damage may not be immediately noticeable but over time will cause split ends (which look like little jagged tears) or breakage at the ends of each strand as well as breakage along its length if left untreated by products like conditioners and moisturizers designed specifically for this type of damage repair work on human scalps!

The Process May Be Damaging to Your Hair.

The process of having highlights put in your hair can be damaging to your locks. Highlights, in general, are a form of dyeing that uses very small amounts of color–usually less than an eighth of an inch in width–to add dimension to your hair. The most common type of highlight involves using either bleach or peroxide to lighten the natural shade of your strands before applying color pigments; this means that you’re essentially putting two different types of chemicals on top and underneath each strand (one chemical being used to lift the natural color out, another chemical being used as pigment). This double-whammy could leave behind some pretty serious side effects like breakage or frizziness if not done correctly by an experienced stylist who understands how best to treat each client’s individual needs based on their own unique texture/density level combination!

If you are getting highlights, here’s how you can protect your hair from damage during the process.

• Use a heat protectant. Heat is one of the biggest culprits when it comes to breakage and damage in hair. Before applying any color or bleach to your locks, apply a thermal protectant spray to help shield them from the high temperatures used in coloring treatments.
• Use a color-safe shampoo and conditioner. If you’re going for darker hues like red or brown (or even if you just want more depth), try using products that are formulated specifically for colored hair–they contain gentler ingredients that won’t strip away any of those coveted pigments while still getting rid of buildup caused by styling products like hairspray and gel! We recommend Redken Color Extend Magnetics Shampoo & Conditioner ($17 each) because they do both jobs really well without making our strands feel dry afterward (which is great since we don’t want frizziness either).
• Use serum before blow drying after coloring treatments; this will help seal in moisture so less gets lost during drying time which means less breakage risk later down line.

Highlights are good for your hair, but not all of them.

• Highlights are good for your hair.
• Highlights can damage your hair in other ways.
• Higherlighting also damages your hair’s cuticle, which is the outermost layer of each strand of human hair (the part that reflects light). This means that as you age, there will be less sheen in your highlights and more dullness overall as time goes on–and this is something we all want to avoid!

In conclusion, highlights are good for your hair, but not all of them. If you’re getting highlights and want to protect your hair from damage during the process, here are some tips:

-Ask your stylist to use a semi-permanent dye (as opposed to permanent).

-Get highlights that are darker at the root, and gradually get lighter as they move toward the ends. This will help protect your hair from damage.

-Make sure you’re using products that protect your hair from heat styling, like Olaplex.