Shine Line Hair Is the New Rainbow Color Trend on Instagram

Remember Splashlights? There's back and more colorful than ever. Thanks to the millions of rainbow hair color trends, the 2014 trend has reemerged with a popular hashtag on Instagram: #shineline. A couple years ago, New York-based colorist Aura Friedman posted a picture on her Tumblr of a client with a horizontal band of bleached hair that went from ear to ear, and it was later dubbed splashlights. She told Allure at the time, "I wanted to create the effect that a laser beam is hitting your hair at a certain spot."

The same laser beam vibe rings true with a shine line. However, colorists are combining it with the more recent colorful hair trends. Instead of blending rainbow-hued dyes together to create an ombre effect, colorists are painting on horizontal or diagonal stripes of color — the same targeted area as splashlights — to create a shine line. The finished product looks like a rainbow prism hitting the hair 24/7. Typically, the roots and ends are the same color, so the rainbow sits in the middle of long locks, which is the element that separates shine lines from the rest of the colorful hair trends out there right now.

Some of the most popular examples of a shine line on Instagram were created by New Hampshire-based colorist Stephanie Lawrence. All of them are the type of technicolor dream hair that makes us wish we wouldn't have to sit in a chair for hours to achieve it.