Are You Ready for Hair Highlights? Using color in your hair is a great way to stand out from the crowd and give yourself a whole new look quickly and easily. Hair highlights are such a popular option here in our Santa Monica studio because they don’t require the same level of commitment that you have to put into changing your entire hair color, yet they can have nearly the same effect. Just by adding a streak or two of a new shade into part of your hairstyle could be all you need in order to radically change your appearance.