Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

As hairstyling professionals, we must always be aware of the latest trends, but also know how and when to create the perfect highlight or balayage for each person. One key moment is when you want to lighten brown or dark hair. It’s common to have doubts about whether it will look good because this is typically done on lighter, blond hair, where these highlights do not contrast so much. But let’s eliminate taboos on this subject once and for all! Brunettes can wear blonde highlights. We just have to know how to choose the right shades for each hair type and color.

 

 

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Why Are Blonde Highlights on Brown Hair So Popular?

Highlights bring light and vibrancy to the mane. We love multidimensional hair and it’s a trend you see everywhere and with all hair types. To achieve this, let’s take a look at three of the most commonly used techniques that will enhance brunette hair in a natural looking way.

Babylights

These are the finest and most natural looking highlights. They are made by taking very small sections of hair from the roots to the ends and using foils to apply the bleach or dye. In order not to raise the shade too much, use Magnet™ Blondes Oil Developer at low volumes. Babylights are one or two shades above the base compared to classic highlights. They are ideal for brown hair where you want to give more dimension but avoid very strong contrasts. You should take care of them with Re/start™ Color Anti-Brassiness Purple Drops mixed in the mask or shampoo to make the color shiny.

 

 

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Air Touch Highlights 

This is a new technique to lighten brown hair in a natural, low-maintenance way, which uses air from a blow dryer. You take the sections of hair that you want to lighten and pull them tightly towards the end of the strand. Then blow-dry (with cold air) the shortest hairs of each section and apply the bleach Magnet™ Blondes Ultimate Powder 7. Ammonia-Free* at 10 volumes on the remaining hair (of the same length). When the necessary time has elapsed, you should use a shade that is one or two shades higher than the base so that the result is harmonious. Tip: this is a laborious process but with spectacular results.

Balayage

Since the seventies, stylists have opted to use balayage for brown hair. Balayage is all about sweeping the color through sections of hair, giving more importance to the face framing area and the crown of the head. It’s versatile and has as many possibilities as there are stylists with ingenuity in the world. For example, lighten only the nape of the neck and side sections, so that when the hair is pulled back, it creates a luminous and dimensional effect. Don’t forget that for brunettes, the color should only be one or two shades above their base so that the effect is natural looking. We advise using Magnet™ Blondes Ultimate Soft Lightener Cream.

 

 

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Celebrity Inspiration

Celebrities with brunette manes have taken up this trend that naturally enhances their look. Hailey Bieber softly lightens her tresses with neutral-toned babylights. Then there’s Winnie Harllow whose fabulous curly hair delights us with a balayage so subtle that it looks like her hair has been kissed by the sun. And if you want a more dramatic look, see how Selena Gomez elevates her color with highlights that look luminous yet natural.

Brown hair with natural blonde highlights (and the invaluable help of the MAGNET range) is a trend where professional hairdressers can really work their magic and turn dull hair into a macro trend this season.

Stop by and learn more about how to nourish and shade the colors of your creations and learn with us on our #AlwaysOn educational platform. If you want to start recreating these shades, don’t hesitate to enter the Revlon Pro Shop where you can find our full range of products for all hair types. Don’t wait any longer to start giving light to your clients’ brown hair!

If you are a lady with brown hair, switching to lighter hair colors may scare you a bit. But what if you really want to try something new this season? Try to enrich your light brown hair with highlights! There are so many shades of light brown that you will find your perfect color no sweat! You can add highlights for depth to create a style that flatters your skin tone if you don’t want to dye your whole head.

Here’s a list of light brown hairstyles that will have you thinking about going lighter this season.

1. Light Brown Hair Color with Blonde Highlights. Here we see a perfect combination consisting of face-framing highlights, chocolate lowlights, and soft feminine waves.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

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If you are a lady with brown hair, switching to lighter hair colors may scare you a bit. But what if you really want to try something new this season? Try to enrich your light brown hair with highlights! There are so many shades of light brown that you will find your perfect color no sweat! You can add highlights for depth to create a style that flatters your skin tone if you don’t want to dye your whole head.

Here’s a list of light brown hairstyles that will have you thinking about going lighter this season.

1. Light Brown Hair Color with Blonde Highlights. Here we see a perfect combination consisting of face-framing highlights, chocolate lowlights, and soft feminine waves.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Casey

2. Beige Blonde Highlights. Having light brown hair with highlights of a slightly paler shade will result in a natural-looking style, such as this one. Delivering a minimalist look, the beige bronde hair color is truly a feast for the eyes.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Emily Grangaard

3. Light Brown Hair with Honey Highlights. We love a good wavy, textured look, and with some honey highlights, it’s super chic!

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Keary Bladel

4. Brown Hair with Blonde and Platinum Highlights. Blending a few shades of blonde and brown into your hair can give an unexpectedly cool effect!

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Salon Couture

5. Light Brown Hair with Blonde and Beige Highlights. Women always ask, what color highlights look good with light brown hair. Of course, blonde! But for a bolder look, we recommend having different shades of blonde. This trick adds depth to your hairstyle.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

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6. Light Brown Hair with Beige Highlights. Brunettes, if you are trying to go a bit lighter but still want that summer/beachy look, check this style!

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Raquell

7. Brown Bob with Caramel Blonde Highlights. Effortlessly chic highlights for a straight choppy style!

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Keary Bladel

8. Light Chestnut Brown Hair with Balayage Highlights. For a seamless transition between your natural hair color and your highlight color, try the balayage approach!

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Maxwell Mathson

9. Short Light Brown Hair with Highlights and Lowlights. Lowlights are the darker pieces of hair, and they can be useful when you want to add extra depth to your short style. Especially if combined with dimensional highlights.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Shonda Broadus

10. Sunny Blonde Highlights for Brown Hair. The light brown hair with blonde highlights looks chic and romantic. Besides, it is perfect for those who want to feel like a Hollywood diva, even on a regular day. Add subtle waves for your hair to flow beautifully and have amplified glow.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

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11. Ashy Brown Hair with Honey Highlights. Having highlights more intense through the lower half of your hair is a great way to test out if lighter hair is for you. Add waves or curls for texture and volume.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Romeu Felipe

12. Chunky Cool Blonde Highlights. Having cooler blonde highlights in the front really sets the tone for the whole look. You can have lighter highlights all over or stick only with face-framing pieces.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

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13. Toasted Waves. A perfect example of highlights and lowlights working together to create a beautiful style. The best highlight colors for light brown hair are blonder/bronze colors. They bring out the undertone of your natural hair color while giving you the depth in shades.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Greta Wagner

14. Light Brown Waves with Thick Blonde Highlights. People might think that you’ve got a blonde ombre, but it’s actually thick highlights they see. The waves with the thicker highlights add a bunch of texture.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Eunice Kim

15. Light Brown Hair with Caramel Highlights. Adding highlights to the front will instantly frame your cheekbones and jawline.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By circlesofhair

16. Auburn Hair with Peek-a-Boo Highlights. Barely there highlights are so fun and effortless to style!

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Sal Salcedo

17. Rose Pearl Highlights. Combine your gorgeous light brown hair with a luxurious pastel pink tone. This style is not only unusual and fit for a creative lady but also allows you to spare the worries about your roots growing out – after all, the crown of your head stays with your natural color.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Peach Stockholm

18. Straight Light Brown Hair with Highlights. The beautiful transition between her darker color and bronde balayage highlights is perfect!

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Cristiano Cobucci

19. Light Chocolate Brown Hair with Highlights. In terms of chocolate, this is milk chocolate with caramel inside. We can’t get enough!

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Romeu Felipe

20. Chestnut Brown Hair with Light Auburn Highlights. Not all balayage highlights are blonde, you can go for a darker shade to bring out your natural color.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Jamie Sea

21. Light Brown Balayage. Light brown highlights give you space to experiment and find what fits your personality best, which is amazing! After all, there are so many hues to choose from: caramel, ash, sandy, honey, cinnamon, gold, copper – the list goes on.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Paulina Barbara

22. Light Blonde Ombre with Dark Roots. You can have the best of both shades with this caramel blonde hairstyle!

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By circlesofhair

23. Warm Light Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights. The warm brown base color with soft face-framing blonde highlights is summery – refreshing and delicious!

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Johnny Ramirez

24. Ash Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights. Mixing ash brown hair with a cool blonde gives you a surfer, beachy texture.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Jamie Sea

25. Long Brown Hair with Balayage Highlights. Add texture to this look by curling the bottom half of your hair – the longer you curl your hair, the tighter the curls will be.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Cristiano Cobucci

26. Blonde Highlights All Over. Lighter hair can be hard to manage when it comes to your roots, so an easy way is to leave your roots with your natural color and do highlights all over your head.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Maxwell Mathson

27. Brown Hair with Thin Blonde Highlights. If you are nervous about changing your color, try super thin highlights first to see if you like the look!

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By rlvxhair

28. Light Brown Hair with a Lot of Blonde Highlights. An alternative to dyeing your whole head a different color is to have a bunch of highlights all over your head.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Joanne Chung

29. Light Mocha Waves with Honey Highlights. Honey and mocha? A match made in hair heaven.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Yunus Karat

30. Short Light Brown Hair with Auburn Highlights. Upgrade your brown bob with auburn highlights as a seasonal change to your look.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By arrojonyc

31. Walnut Brown Highlights. Refresh your brunette hair drawing inspiration from the nature and its gifts.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Greta Wagner

32. Chunky Ash Bronde Balayage Highlights. To keep your cooler tone throughout your hair, go for an ashy shade of blonde during your next trip to the salon.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Megan Naylor

33. Mocha Waves with Beige Highlights. Go for this color if you want an effortless cool-toned color update for your mocha locks.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By hairbymarissasue

34. Bronze and Beige Highlights with Ash Brown Hair Underneath. Layering highlights on top of your natural color is a different approach to highlights! Curl your hair loosely in order to see bits of your natural hair through the highlights.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Jess

35. Sleek Caramel Highlights. Having different shades of caramel throughout your light brown hair will add depth and make your hair look super thick and full.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Raquell

36. Cool Light Brown Hair with Highlights. If your natural hair is on the lighter brown side, weaving lighter blonde pieces throughout will work well and bring out the beautiful depth of your locks.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Jessica Spalding

37. Rich Brunette Waves with Light Brown Highlights. Keeping the highlights subtle and thin show off an effortless color transition.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Kendall

38. Cool Balayage. Don’t be scared about going lighter with your highlights if your hair is already light brown. To add visual interest you can create loose waves by holding your hair around the curling iron for about 10 seconds.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Eunice Kim

39. Mid-Length Light Brown Hair with Honey Highlights. Just because you don’t have a ton of length doesn’t mean you can’t play around with balayage highlights. Flipped ends here look gorgeous!

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Paulinho Silvestre

40. Beachy Waves with Bright Blonde Highlights. Talk about TEXTURE – the curls combined with the bright blonde color at the bottom of your hair will turn heads.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Jessica

41. Wavy Bronze Highlights. Whether you keep highlights in the front or have them all over, bronze is such a pretty color for all shades of brown hair.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Meche Salon

42. Brown Hair with Light Caramel Highlights. Style smooth midshaft waves so you can show off your length and color better.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Salon Camaj

43. Shoulder-Length Beachy Blonde Waves. Achieve the ultimate beachy look with this cool blonde highlight color. The key is to make sure the transition between your natural color and the highlight color is smooth.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Amber

44. Toasted Blonde Balayage. A side fringe can instantly frame your cheekbones and jawline, while the toasted blonde highlights add a fresh take to your brown hair.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Paulinho Silvestre

45. Caramel Blonde Highlights. A perfect mix between blonde and brown gives a gorgeous caramel blonde look.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Jessica

46. Wavy Babylights. Shorter layers make it a bit harder to show the transition between a highlight color and your natural color, but babylights can work fine in this case! It’s a specific technique where a color is delicately painted on to create a subtle change in hair color.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By rlvxhair

47. Light Ash Brown Hair with Platinum Highlights. Having platinum blonde pieces towards the face immediately brightens up your entire look. A super-trendy example of non-banal highlights.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Gina

48. Glazed Waves. The light brown waves set off by darker roots and brightened by a shiny finish are a feast to the eyes!

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Habit Salon

49. Short Brown Hair with Thin Highlights. If your work life has restrictions on hair colors, try peek-a-boo highlights for a subtle change.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Said Henrique

50. Shiny Honey Highlights. Try a warm, darker shade of blonde to get a toasty effect.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

By Modern Salon & Spa

To refresh your current look, consider going for a light brown hair color with highlights. A customized solution will brighten your complexion while giving you a new reason to share tons of pictures! Try different shades of blonde to get your perfect shade.

Light brown hair with natural blonde highlights

by Victoria Morales

Victoria is a freelance writer living in NYC. She loves writing about lifestyle, skin care and all things hair. She's always open to sharing ideas on new trendy hair colors, haircuts and hairstyles.

What is brown hair with blonde highlights called?

And the hair color is…brown with blonde highlights, also known as bronde. "Bronde is essentially a perfect balance of blonde and brunette, creating a great mixture of colors," explains master colorist Tiffanie Richards.

What highlights go with light brown hair?

The best highlight colors for light brown hair are blonder/bronze colors. They bring out the undertone of your natural hair color while giving you the depth in shades.

Do blonde highlights look good in brown hair?

Adding blonde dimensional highlights can spice up your brown locks. They add texture and show off your natural hair color. The subtle winter blonde babylights add some oomph to the look.

What is dirty dishwater blonde?

used to describe a hair color that is a mixture of brown and dark yellow or silver, or someone whose hair is this color: I was looking at my dishwater blonde hair in the mirror and thinking how much darker it is than when I was younger. They called over the dishwater blonde waitress. Synonym. dirty blonde.