It’s no surprise that brown hair with blonde highlights remains one of the easiest (and prettiest) ways to wear hair in 2024. The best-of-both hair colour brings together the casual feel of brunette with the luminosity of blonde, to deliver a hair colour that feels bright, beautiful and low maintenance.
If you’re looking to intensify your strands, there are endless gorgeous highlighting techniques to choose from. They suit a broad range of aesthetics, too, whether you want something subtle and delicate (like balayage and babylights), or some high-contrast drama (see: rebel streaks and chunky ’90s highlights).
The techniques are getting more specific and tactical, too. Modern highlights have the power to accentuate facial features and brighten complexions – like your own personal golden hour. You can use colour techniques to create the illusion of light across your strands, whether you want a mini glow-up, a low-maintenance look that will grow our seamlessly, or you want to amplify pretty texture. Where you concentrate that spotlight is up to you.
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Before deciding what direction you want to head in, we’ve answered a couple of Google’s most-asked questions when it comes to brown hair with blonde highlights…
Do blonde highlights look good in brown hair?
Of course, there’s as many different shades of brown as there are of blonde and not all combinations will work for your natural colour, your skin tone or your preferred aesthetic. That’s why it’s important to sit down with your colourist to work out what you want to achieve. It’s helpful to take inspo pictures, especially of people with a similar base or natural hair colour to you, and similar colouring. But, blonde highlights can look good across all different brunettes. In general, if you want a softer look, it’s best to keep things low contrast, so if you have dark brunette hair, opt for a darker shade of blonde highlights, or more of a caramel or bronze. If you have mid-light brunette hair, you can push things brighter. That said, high-contrast moneypiece face-framing sections are still popular and nineties chunky highlights have made a return.
