Money Piece Highlights: Hair Extension Trends

Framing Your Face Using Extensions: The Money Piece Highlight Trend

Changing your hair can be a big commitment, so if you’re looking for a natural and subtle way to switch things up, then money piece highlight might be your next look.

What can we define ‘money piece highlights’ as? In short, this refreshing hair trend is a face-framing hair colour technique where the front strands of your hair are lighter than the other parts of your hair. It’s a technique used to emphasize and brighten the face giving a healthy illuminous glow.

You can create this trend by simply dying or bleaching the front strands at a salon that does hair colour, we often recommend Andrew Jose to our clients for hair colour services. This London based salon is a speedy 3-minute walk away from our very own Vixen and Blush. Perfect for anyone wanting to get everything done on the same day. Just pop around the corner for your colour and come right on back to Rathbone Square to see us for your extensions!

It’s super easy to create with extensions which is why it’s so popular with our clients; a temporary and flexible style for those who want to try something new.

Expert Opinion

What Do the Experts Say?

Want some real and professional opinions? We asked 3 of our expert stylists for their honest thoughts on the money piece highlight trend. Senior stylist Olivia, who started at Vixen & Blush as an apprentice, has seen all the trends over the years and loves a versatile trend “with hair colour trends, I feel like they come and go relatively quickly, I think the reason the money piece highlight trend is still so popular is because of how adaptable it is, and how it works well on so many different hair colours.”

You can create super bright and defined looks or more subtle and blended outcome without having to change your entire hair colour!

Maintenance

How to maintain the glow?

This trend is adaptable and versatile our senior stylist Brodie explains “A lot of my clients with Micro Rings have them for a long time, so having some lighter bits around the front can grow out to look quite nice, giving a natural and seamless look. It’s a lot less maintenance than a whole head colour change.”

Having hair extensions alongside this style can really aid the natural look when your hair starts to grow. “It’s so important that you get the best quality hair services to avoid the highlights looking chunky and brassy” comments our senior stylist Chrissy.

Our 3 steps to make sure you get the most out of this trend:

• Get colour maintenance done every 8 weeks or so to keep your hair looking fresh.
• Go to experts for your colour and extensions.
• Use a good quality shampoo that will protect the colour and the extensions. (The Redken Acidic Bonding Concentrate Shampoo is our stylists’ recommendation!)

Client Spotlight

Flossie’s Money Piece Highlights

The lovely Flossie, who you may know for either her fun fashionable Tik-Tok’s or her vlog-like YouTube videos showcasing her life adventures, recently tested the waters with the trend, going from blonde to brunette with a money piece that extenuates her face. Her new look compliments her natural tones and helps add dimension to her hair. Flossie had 22″ tape hair extensions in a blend of colours 5 Cindy and C1 Brunette to create a natural but dimensional brunette look.

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Get the look

Your hair goals are a simple click away! All our appointments start with a free consultation which allows us to see which method would be best suited to you and your hair type. We offer consultations either in the salon or via Facetime. Find out more about what to expect at a video consultation on our recent blog post.

If you can’t make it into our central London salon, you can also order our Tape Extensions online and have them delivered straight to your door. C1 is our classic dark brown shade and is available in 12″, 18″ and 22″. Colour 5 is our flat light brown also available in 12″, 18″ and 22″ shade that blends perfectly together.

Money pieces are a lower maintenance way to change up your look that adds face framing and contouring to your hair. The 90’s brought the money piece trend to life and has since circled back. The modern take on this trend has been a lot more refined with a softer look achieved.

Sarah Mckenna

Sarah McKenna is the founder of Vixen & Blush and The London Hair Lab. Sarah graduated as a research biochemist in 2005 and started a career within the pharmaceutical industry, before becoming a hair extensions expert. In 2010, Sarah gained insight into the hair extensions industry and could see that clients had a very poor value/quality proposition. At that time, poor-quality hair extensions were available, at prohibitively high prices. Sarah left her initial career and set out on a mission to improve the hair extensions industry in the UK, using her research and development skills.

Spending 3 years securing a high-quality and sustainable supply of human hair, Sarah then developed new products and fitting techniques to allow long-term refits of the same hair. In this way, Sarah was able to offer hair extensions services at a more affordable price to clients, while improving the quality of the service for her clients.

With Vixen & Blush starting in 2012 as a 1 chair salon in London, Sarah quickly grew the business to what it is today, a team of more than 20 hair professionals working together as London’s leading hair extensions specialists.