Best Brown Hair With Blonde Highlights
Below, we are sharing a gallery of some inspiring hues to try and some of our go-to hair color maintenance tips for your new highlights.
1. Chunky Highlights
In the mood for a dramatic change this season? Pile on the blonde on your light to dark brown hair. Focus the highlights toward the front of your hair to recreate this high-contrast style.
2. Face-Framing Blonde Highlights
A true minimalist at heart knows a little goes a very long way as seen on light brown hair with blonde highlights. If you’re looking for a way to give your natural hair color and facial features a bit of a boost in an ever-so-subtle way, opt for face-framing blonde highlights. Some color-safe dry shampoos, such as Suave Professionals Keratin Infusion Color Care Dry Shampoo, can give you a break from washing in order to prolong your highlights’ integrity as well.
3. Hair Waves with Bold Highlights
Nowadays, everyone is wearing a wavy hairstyle of some sort. Stand out from the crowd and add more personality to your look by updating your waves with blonde highlights, and finish off with a bounce-enhancing foam.
4. Blonde Highlights for Curly Girls
You can rock dark hair with blonde highlights, which we especially love on this bronde and curly hair combination. This ombré style looks so beautiful on curly hair. Highlight your gorgeous texture with lighter ends!
5. Curly Lob With Straight Bangs
The curly lob is such a fun hairstyle to try out that can be paired beautifully with striking blonde highlights and a full set of blunt bangs. Thick and full bangs are trending this spring, and we love how they contrast with delicately curled hair.
6. Perfectly Beachy Hair
Beachy bedhead is back in action this spring. These easygoing curls have us all daydreaming about soaking up the sun in the sand. If you’re going for an all-over blonde highlight look like this, you’re basically required to try beach waves.
7. Medium Length Afro
These curly highlights have us in all sorts of love. We love how they add extra dimension to a rounded halo Afro. Let this be a lesson that you can totally bleach natural curly hair! Bleaching very dark hair to blonde can take a while, but is so worth it for this gorgeous effect.
8. Sleek Blowout and Muted Blonde Tones
Every season is a good excuse to get a silky blowout. Going for this lustrous and sleek version is actually pretty easy to recreate at home. Blow-dry damp hair at a downward angle, using a paddle brush to help straighten things out. Swish your hair around your shoulders like you just paid $50 for your swanky locks.
9. Blonde Highlights and a Halo Braid
Want to really show off those blonde highlights? Opt for a cool halo-like braid! Braided hairstyles are prime real estate for highlights. They easily show the contrast between your natural hair color and the highlighted pieces. We especially love this swooping French braid. All you need to do is braid, following along your hairline to recreate this cool-girl look.
10. Light Blonde Tones
An easy style that shows off your highlights (no knot-inducing braids necessary) is this fun half-updo. It’s casual and relaxed, which feels just like the beginning of spring! All you need to do is create a half-up bun, but make sure you’re not being too perfect. A few face-framing strands, a messy part, and a roughed-up texture is perfection.
11. Warm Blonde and Bombshell Waves
It wouldn’t be spring without at least one event that gets you all dressed up. Whether it’s Easter, a wedding, or a work event, these bombshell waves have your back. The silky smooth texture shows off your highlights and helps to break up a too-perfect style. We suggest achieving this look by using a curling iron and brushing down the style with a boar bristle brush. This helps you achieve that smooth look! Don’t forget to lock in your style with hairsprays like Dove Style+Care Strength and Shine Flexible Hold Hairspray.
12. All-Over Coverage
Like your Holy Grail foundation, these all-over blonde highlights provide full coverage for your classic brown strands. Highlights that start at the roots and extend to the ends of your hair make the same statement you would by going blonde, while still maintaining some of the chocolatey colors underneath.
13. Golden Ombré
Ombré hair is the choice for those girls who need an easy transition. The only way to rock brown and blonde hair at the same time is with a smooth shift from brown to blonde. Enhance your natural (now blonde!) curls with TRESemmé Flawless Curls Defining Gel, or fake some volume with our easy tutorial for natural-looking curls.
14. Glistening Strands
Strategic subtle highlighting works wonders when it comes to adding dimension to your hair. This style preserves the integrity of your classic brown locks while still adding a little something extra in the form of glossy streaks.
15. Classic Ombré
For blonde highlights that enhance your natural color, try a classic ombré style. The contrast of two opposing colors somehow works together for a look that boasts a little bit of personality without going overboard.
16. Subtle Copper Highlights
There’s nothing worse than putting the time (and money!) into a dramatic hair transformation only to be let down when your roots inevitably grow in. These rooty bleached curls are the perfect example of a dye job done right and allow for every stage of blonde hair: from full-on blonde to rooted curls to the eventual ombré. Just don’t forget to deep condition after all that bleaching! We suggest trying out the Suave Professionals Coconut Milk Infusion Intense Moisture Mask. Looking for more hair inspiration? Be sure to check us out over @AllThingsHairUS!
