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Full Highlights
Full highlights distribute lighter sections through more of the hair and suit clients looking for a larger change in overall brightness.
Colour Services
Hair Highlights in Vancouver
Full, partial, face-framing, blonde, brunette, and grey-blending highlights with personalized foil placement and toner options at Pink Lime in Yaletown.
Custom Highlights for Brightness and Dimension
Hair highlights in Vancouver add selected lighter pieces through the hair. They can create brightness around the face, contrast through the lengths, softer grey blending, or visible dimension in blonde and brunette hair.
Unlike balayage, traditional foil highlighting gives the colourist greater control over where brightness appears. At Pink Lime, placement is planned around your base shade, colour history, desired contrast, and maintenance routine.
Current starting prices are $275+ for full highlights and $225+ for partial highlights. Toner and the finishing style are priced separately.
Highlight Services Available
A good highlight service is not simply about making the hair lighter. Placement, contrast, tone, and the amount of your base colour left visible all shape the finished result.
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Partial Highlights
Partial highlights refresh selected areas such as the top, front, or crown without repeating a full highlighting service.
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Face-Framing Highlights
Face-framing pieces focus brightness around the hairline and front of the haircut. The contrast can be soft, bright, or bold.
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Blonde Highlights
Blonde highlights can range from soft beige dimension to a brighter result. Previous colour history affects the safest plan.
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Brunette Dimension
Highlights can add movement and tonal variation while keeping the overall result brunette rather than turning the hair blonde.
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Grey-Blending Highlights
Strategic highlights may soften contrast between grey strands and coloured hair. Blending and full grey coverage are different goals.
Brightness Placed with Purpose
Someone wanting soft dimension around the face needs a different plan from someone seeking bright blonde colour throughout the whole head.
Your colourist decides how fine or bold each section should be, where the brightness begins, and how much of your natural or existing base remains visible.
Full Highlights vs Partial Highlights
The right service depends on where you want brightness and what is already present through your hair.
Choose Full Highlights When
You want brightness distributed through more areas of the head, including sections that may not be reached during a partial service.
Full highlights are useful for a larger overall change, but they do not always need to be repeated at every maintenance appointment.
Choose Partial Highlights When
You want selected visible areas refreshed, such as the hairline, part, top, or crown, while leaving other sections untouched.
If older highlights remain through the lengths, strategic partial maintenance may be more appropriate than another full service.
Highlights vs Balayage
Both services create lighter pieces, but their placement and visual finish differ. Foil highlights produce structured brightness and can place lightness closer to the root.
Balayage uses hand-painted placement for softer dimension and a gentler-looking grow-out. If that is your goal, explore hand-painted balayage in Vancouver.
Why Toner May Be Recommended
Lightening controls how much pigment is removed. Toner controls the finished tone after the correct level of lightness has been reached.
A toner can make the result appear cooler, softer, warmer, or more balanced. Pink Lime currently lists toner from $75+, separate from the highlight price.
Important: Pink Lime’s service menu states that toner is an additional service and is not included in the full or partial highlight price.
Your Highlight Consultation
Accurate colour history helps your highlight colourist plan realistic brightness while protecting the condition of your hair.
Define the Goal
Discuss how bright you want to be, where you want the lightness, and how much contrast you prefer.
Review Hair History
Tell your colourist about permanent colour, home colour, bleach, toner, previous highlights, and smoothing services.
Assess Hair Condition
Your colourist reviews strength, dryness, porosity, and what your hair can reasonably handle during the appointment.
Plan Maintenance
Discuss how often you want to return and whether future visits may use partial highlights or toner for maintenance.
Bring reference images showing colours you like and examples of colours you do not want. Both help clarify tone, brightness, placement, and contrast.
Highlights on Previously Coloured Hair
Previously coloured hair can respond differently from natural hair. Permanent colour, box dye, bleach, or uneven old colour may affect how evenly and safely the hair can lighten.
If your goal requires a large change over dark or uneven colour, the service may move into corrective work instead of a standard highlight appointment.
Need to Fix Existing Colour First?What Your Colourist Needs to Know
- Previous salon or permanent colour
- Box dye or other home colour
- Previous bleach or lightener
- Toner, gloss, or colour-depositing products
- Past highlights or balayage
- Keratin or smoothing services
- Current dryness, breakage, or sensitivity
Highlight Pricing and Appointment Planning
Exact cost varies with the amount of work required, your starting colour, hair length, density, condition, and desired result.
Full Highlights
$275+
Partial Highlights
$225+
Toner
$75+
Finishing Style for Colour Services
Additional $45+
Starting prices can change. Confirm your service and expected cost when booking. Appointment length depends on the work required and should be discussed with the salon.
Maintaining Highlighted Hair
A practical home routine helps preserve tone, manageability, and the condition of colour-treated hair between salon visits.
Preserve the Tone
Use products suited to colour-treated hair and schedule toner or colour maintenance when unwanted warmth or fading becomes visible.
Reduce Unnecessary Heat
Limit excessive hot-tool use, choose appropriate temperatures, and follow the heat-protection guidance provided by your stylist.
Support Lightened Hair
If your hair needs conditioning or bond support, consider professional treatments for colour-treated hair.
Book Hair Highlights in Yaletown
Ready to plan full, partial, face-framing, blonde, brunette, or grey-blending highlights? Book a consultation at Pink Lime and bring your colour history, inspiration photos, and maintenance goals.
Visit Pink Lime
Phone: 604-683-7444
Address: 1192 Hamilton Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 2S2
Monday–Wednesday: 9:00 AM–7:00 PM
Thursday–Friday: 9:00 AM–8:00 PM
Saturday: 9:00 AM–6:00 PM
Sunday: 11:00 AM–5:00 PM
Frequently Asked Questions About Highlights
What is the difference between full and partial highlights?
Full highlights add brightness through more areas of the hair. Partial highlights focus on selected sections such as the front, top, or crown.
Are highlights the same as balayage?
No. Traditional highlights usually use woven or sliced sections placed in foils for structured brightness. Balayage is hand-painted for softer placement and grow-out.
Does Pink Lime include toner with highlights?
No. Pink Lime’s current service menu lists toner separately from full and partial highlights.
Can dark hair have highlights?
Yes. The achievable brightness and tone depend on the starting colour, previous colour history, hair condition, and maintenance goal.
Can highlights blend grey?
Highlights may soften the visual contrast of some grey patterns. Grey blending and full grey coverage are different goals and should be discussed during the consultation.
Can I highlight over box colour?
It may be possible, but the previous colour must be assessed first. Some situations require a corrective colour plan rather than a standard highlight service.