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Is there a difference between the two, highlights and streaks?
And if any has done highlights before, did it break/damage your hair? Can that be prevented by conditioning? I would ask my hairdresser, but she doesnt speak English to well

I believe there is a difference, if I'm not mistaken, highlights are to lighten your hair in certain places, using a few different colors, whereas streaks, you can make dark or light and are mainly two shades (your natural color and the color you added). I believe there is a difference in the technique used as well.

http://styles101.homestead.com/haircolor5.html
(I was close, I guess, in my definition!!)

http://beauty.about.com/cs/haircoloring/


I guess it all depends on how you maintain your hair once you've colored/bleached it, because coloring is stripping your hair of it's natural...uh ness, yeah naturalness..okay natural nutrients is better You do have to condition it regularly and go to your hairdresser at least once a month, because half the time we doh know what we really doing at home! A hairdresser can assess your hair properly. If your hair is relaxed and then you apply color, you have to be more careful than if your hair is natural...

yes highlights WILL DEFINITELY damage your hair whoever tells you no is lying to you it really don't matter how well or how much you condition your hair, it's going to get damaged
be careful w/ highlights - they are very addictive, once you start you will find it impossible to stop

amen to that...i have ben dying my whole head since last december...and i've done it 3 times already . But my hair is natural, and its still healthy, I think if I had straightened hair, I would have been more cautious, but natural hair is so carefree.

I have both. I started out with brown streaks. Then I got auburn highlights. Now my hair color is a mixture of brown, red and orange. It looks very good in the sun. I deep condition my hair every other week though. I have to take care of my hair. I find that since I put the color in my hair, it's growing quicker.

*very excited* @ "grow quicker"...i guess i'll see...absolutely loving the highlights! thanks guys. Sorry AmPrincess, I just had too....

tek care.. natural hair ent sooo carfree nah... it damages the same way.. tek dat from ME

A safe alternative is to use weave clips. They are little black clips that you can buy at the beauty supply store. You can sew them on to a strip of colored extension hair and just clip them into your own hair. That's what I do sometimes. Or they have the cheap ready-made ones in some wacky colors like red, blue, blonde, etc.