The checkered hair look involves splitting your hair into sections and dying them, usually just two different colors. This technique gives the hair a stripe effect on opposite ends of the head, resembling a checkerboard when viewed from the top of the head.

If you're aiming to try this look at home, PureWow says to create four sections in the hair and color them in whichever shades you want. They also recommended using a hair mask to make your hair stronger and more vibrant. While many people have opted for four sections, some salon artists have gone for even more, with TikTok user @nyc.hairgoddess creating six sections in her black and white checkerboard hair video, which thousands of times. In her video, she called sectioning "the most important thing" to get right during the coloring process.

Other TikTok users like @xmeowclopsx have opted to make checkerboard hair extensions, using hair dye to paint the checkerboard print onto blond extensions to fit with whatever hair dye they are rocking, be it green and purple or even rainbow.