diff --git a/powerline/renderer.py b/powerline/renderer.py
index fdaf544f..9abe5b8e 100644
--- a/powerline/renderer.py
+++ b/powerline/renderer.py
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ class Renderer(object):
 					rendered_highlighted += segment_hl + segment['contents'] + outer_padding
 			else:
 				raise ValueError('Unknown segment type')
+		rendered_highlighted += self.hl()
 		return rendered_highlighted
 
 	def _total_len(self, segments):