Two-tone Sunkissed Hair

The bright summer sun lightens up the hair of girls everywhere especially in California where the surf waves beckon all year round.
A little drop of lemon helps brighten up what the sun started.
As the natural and often darker roots grow in, the ultimate sunkissed hair appears two-tone.

This classic low-maintenance look is sported by LA hipsters and Brazilian Victoria's Secret models roaming the streets of NYC. 

So how you can achieve this look?

If you're a natural brunette like Lily Aldridge or Alexis and wanting to brighten up your ends... 

get your butt to a colorist and ask for foils on top and bayalage on the ends.  Reason for this is that you want darker hair on top and the colorist can choose how much hair is lightened at the roots.  With this technique, you can blend the bayalage (painted) ends into the sunkissed roots.  This way your hair looks natural and not as if you've been dipping your hair in peroxide.

And if you're a natural blonde a la Drew Barrymore? 

This is a bit trickier and messier and definitely requires a colorist who has done this look.  Entire strands of hair will be foiled including roots, midshafts and ends and each section gets painted a different shade of color to create the multifaceted darker-to-lighter effect.

Where one hair color can often fall flat, the sunkissed two-tone look brightens up your eyes, frames your face with appropriately placed highlights and just screams youth and vibrancy.  Ultimate It-Girl Carrie Bradshaw wears it, many actresses and models request it and here's my fellow Californian, client and friend Alexis rocking her newly sunkissed waves.