Scruples Illusionist Brilliant Creme Highlights - 8N Spotlight / 2.05 oz.

Create luminous, dimensional highlights with Scruples Illusionist Brilliant Creme Highlights in 8N Spotlight, a low-ammonia creme highlighting color designed to lift and deposit in a single step. This professional highlighting system gives colorists flexibility when working with natural or color-treated hair, offering controlled lift from 1 to 7 levels and beyond. Whether you're creating subtle brightness, more noticeable highlights, or a softer transition between the natural base and highlighted sections, Illusionist provides creative formulation options for customized salon color services.

At a Glance

• Shade: 8N Spotlight
• Size: 2.05 oz. (60 ml)
• Formula: Low-ammonia creme highlighting color
• Single-step process: Designed to lift and deposit color in one step
• Controlled lift: Offers lift from 1 to 7 levels and beyond
• Versatile applications: Formulation options for natural and color-treated hair, plus base-breaking services

Creative Highlighting With Controlled Lift

Professional highlighting is all about choosing the right amount of brightness, dimension, and contrast for each client's desired look. Scruples Illusionist Brilliant Creme Highlights gives stylists the flexibility to formulate for a wide range of highlighting goals, from restrained tonal changes to more dramatic lift.

The system combines lifting and color depositing in a single step, making it a practical choice for colorists who want to create highlights while introducing the selected shade. With controlled lift ranging from 1 to 7 levels and beyond, stylists have formulation options for different starting levels and desired highlighting effects.

8N Spotlight for Brilliant Highlighting

8N Spotlight is part of the Illusionist collection of eight brilliant highlight selections, a shade range extending from intense reds to luminous blondes. This shade gives professional colorists another option when planning customized highlighting services and coordinating the finished look with a client's existing hair color.

The creme highlighting system supports creative placement and formulation choices, allowing stylists to tailor the highlighting service to the client's starting color, existing highlights, and overall color objectives.

Professional Applications

Illusionist is designed for professional color services where controlled lifting and color deposition are part of the desired result. Its versatility makes it relevant for several common salon color techniques.

• Highlights on natural hair: Create dimension and brightness using formulation options developed for natural hair.
• Highlights on color-treated hair: Work with the system's available formulation options for previously colored hair.
• Customized dimensional color: Adjust highlighting goals to complement the client's starting shade and desired contrast.
• Base breaking: Use the system to soften the visual contrast between the natural hair color and highlighted sections.
• Color refresh planning: Incorporate the shade into professional highlighting services when additional dimension is desired.

Base Breaking for Softer Color Transitions

One particularly useful feature of Scruples Illusionist is its ability to serve as a base break. In highlighting services, a strong difference between the natural base color and lighter sections can create a more pronounced contrast than the client wants.

Using Illusionist for base breaking provides colorists with an additional option for softening that contrast. This makes the system worth considering when planning a more blended appearance between natural hair and existing highlights.

Specifications & Details

• Brand: Scruples
• Collection: Illusionist Brilliant Creme Highlights
• Shade name: 8N Spotlight
• Product type: Professional creme highlighting hair color
• Net contents: 2.05 oz. / 60 ml
• Formula characteristic: Low ammonia
• Color system: Single-step lift and deposit
• Shade collection: Eight brilliant highlighting selections

Professional Colorist Considerations

When choosing a highlighting formula, consider the client's natural level, existing artificial color, hair condition, and desired degree of lift. The flexibility of the Illusionist system allows stylists to select an approach that corresponds with the individual color service rather than relying on a single highlighting objective.

For mixing, developer selection, processing, and application procedures, follow the current Scruples manufacturer instructions for Illusionist Brilliant Creme Highlights. These technical details are particularly important when working with previously color-treated hair or planning substantial levels of lift.