30 Brown Hair With Blonde Highlights Ideas
Experimenting with our look is always a fun way to bring change into our lives or celebrate what has already changed. Whether you just experienced a break up, started a new job or want to experiment with color during college or in your rocker phase, hair has always been the ultimate look changer for many. There are an infinite number of ways to style our hair from changing up the color, the style, the cut to give you a whole new look and vibe that is fresh and cool. Read on to find the most iconic color combo, the brown hair with blonde highlights look, for your hair color and skin tone, to give you the perfect golden, sun-kissed color all summer long.
Long Blond Ombre Bob
This cut is perfect for women who want to sport a medium length haircut and want to have the effect of blond highlights in blond hair. The color starts as a dark brown at the root, then transitions to a medium brown in the middle and then a bleached/honey blond at the tip.
Ashy Blond and Honey Streaks
These highlights combine all shades of blond hair dye from honey, to caramel, to an ashy blond. This color is great for girls with naturally dark hair that want to slowly transition to a lighter shade.
Ashy and Honey Highlights
These highlights offer a subtle but textured color to your light brown hair that is just enough to switch up the shades and is the perfect transition shade from light brown to blond.
Classic Light Ombre
This look is a classic ombre look that does not look too over processed. The color compliments her naturally dark shade perfectly and is the perfect combination of platinum and honey blond shades.
Golden Blond Highlights
This look is the perfect representation of a well-processed golden blonde highlights that are a great complement to the natural dark brown root color. These highlights are perfect for the summertime and make you look like you have a healthy, sun-kissed glow.
Platinum and Honey Blond Highlights
These highlights are a great combination for naturally light to medium brown hair and have both honey and platinum blond hues to them. These highlights give the hair a soft blond color and texture.
Toned Balayage
This look is what I like to call the professional-looking balayage because you can clearly see the golden blond and honey blond highlights peeking through a toner that has softened the look just a bit. You still get the effect of a balayage dye but are not looking too crazy with colors at your job.
Caramel Balayage
This dye job is also very professional-looking for girls with longer, naturally dark brown hair and want to add some sunshine and texture without going too overboard with the golden streaks.
Honey and Caramel Blond Highlights
This dye job is perfect for transitioning from a natural medium brown color to something lighter and more caramel. This look is a full head of highlights and is a combination of honey and caramel blond tones.
Ashy Balayage
This ashy look is perfect for a grungy feel and style and is a great way to add texture to your hair without going too overboard with color. Try out this look on long hair or with some extensions for endless textured waves.
Ashy Extensions
If you love the look above but have a bit shorter hair, try out some ashy highlighted extensions that will give you the soft, textured waves you have alway dreamed of.
Ashy Highlights on Dark Brown Hair
For women with darker hair, this is your go-to look for achieving a soft blond color. Stick to more of an ashy color to begin with so your hair does not look too over processed with lighter shades on a darker on. This look is perfect for thick layered hair that will blend in well with your natural color.
Honey Face Framing Highlights
These honey highlights are the perfect look to frame your face and bring out your face shape and bone structure. This shade of highlights also works well on naturally dark brown hair.
Bronde Balayage
If you want to bring texture to your hair or do not want to stray too far away from your natural color, experiment with a bronde look that has different shades of brown, the lighter being closest to a dark brown shade.
Ultra Light Full Head Highlights
This is the perfect look for light brown-haired girls that want a full head of platinum hair. Work with ashy and light tones to get this ultra light hair style.
Golden Full Head Highlights
This blond highlights look is inspired by Rachel’s hair from the show Friends. These are full head golden highlights and are perfect for a sun-kissed look.
Soft Caramel Ombre
This is a very subtle ombre color and works well on dark brown hair to add some color and texture for the summertime.
Ashy Ombre
This ashy ombre look is for women with naturally ashy brown hair and is a subtle way to pull off the ashy ombre look by incorporating greys and platinum streaks.
Honey Balayage
This look is an all over honey balayage with no other blond colors to bring a sun-kissed and beachy color to dark brown hair.
Honey Face-framing Highlights Wig
If going all out with your hair color is not something you want to take the plunge for yet, consider investing in a wig to try out a different wig. This one is face framing and ashy for a subtle blond highlights look.
Grey Full Head Highlights
If you are leaning toward the more platinum color but do not want something super striking and light, consider trying out full head grey highlights for a muted look.
Muted Full Head Highlights
This look is perfect for women who want an overall blond look but are not committed to going platinum or have naturally darker hair. Ask for a full head of honey highlights.
Ashy Blond Streaks
These ashy blond streaks go from root to tip and compliment medium brown hair perfectly. The streaks add both texture and color.
Ashy Full Head Highlights
This ashy look works well on dark brown hair for a light summery look. This dye job needs to be completed over time so work your way up from a honey blond to a more honey, ashy blond.
Honey Highlights With Bangs
This is a brown hair with blond highlights look that can be achieved on bangs. Ask your hair colorist to highlight your hair and bangs from root to tip with a honey blond shade.
Platinum Full Head Highlights on Dark Hair
For a look that is more on the edgy side, you can choose to go all out with platinum blond on your dark brown to black hair for a wow factor. Use bleach from root to tip or ask your hair colorist to give you platinum highlights.
Platinum Balayage
If you want a true light blond loo but are not ready to fully commit to dyeing your full head, try out this platinum balayage hair that will lighten up your look instantly. If after some time you like the color or it starts to grow out, you can dye your full head.
Full Head Caramel Highlights
This look is a beautiful full head of caramel highlights that will give you the perfect sun kissed glow for summertime.
Full Head Honey Highlights on Light Brown Hair
If you already have pretty light natural brown hair, this honey blond full head of highlights is the perfect color for you.
Full Head Golden Highlights
If you are looking for a bit of a deeper blond, try out this full head of golden highlights to bring some color and sunshine to your overall look.