Didn’t you hear?
Highlights are so last season.
What’s the easiest way to embrace your dark side?
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Look to brunette lowlights.
These streaks can be done free-hand, as with thebalayage method, or more traditionally, with foils.
The key is selecting a shade specific to you.
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Find your match among these 18 brunette looks with gorgeous lowlights.
Cool Brunette
These Joanna Gaines-esque waves are calling our name.
Flowy locks look flawless with a combination of dark ash brown and cool brown-black.
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If you’re a middle-of-the-road chocolate brown, request mocha lowlights to temper the honey highlights.
Gradient Lowlighting
This is a clash we can get behind.
Cool dark brown and warm chestnut meet halfway, and somehow look better for it.
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Lowlighted Shag
How can you make a modern shag even cooler?
Add cool-toned dark mocha lowlights.
Tousled styling will flaunt your enviable dimension.
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Hazelnut Blending
Keep the oldandusher in the new.
Blend existing hazelnut or caramel balayage with dark brown lowlights for a layered look that’ll transition seasons seamlessly.
Think moody monotone is a touch too dark?
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Break things up with a few subtle babylights around the face.
Chocolate Brown
Dimensional and warm, this mane begs for bonfires and cozy hay rides.
To fight fading and add shine, she added clear gloss from midpoint to tips.
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Blended Bob
Blend dark with darker to imitate this gorgeous bang-laden bob byhairstylist Riawna Capri.
The cool-toned take on cacao hair color looks striking against all skin tones.
Low-key waves flaunt the twists and turns of your color.
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Ashy Lowlights
Lean into those cooler hues.
Autumn is all about earth tones, andmushroom brownmingled with dark ash brown lowlights falls firmly into that category.
The end result is both elegant and impervious to trends.
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Subtle Lowlighting
It’s okay if your friends can’t figure out why you look different.
Translation: you could wear it to parent-teacher night and then a fancy dinner, no problem.
Dark Caramel Lowlights
Let those summer caramel highlights go, sister.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, combining lowlights and highlights creates varying tones for caramel-colored hair.
This combination creates a natural, subtle change in hair color.
Adding lowlightsand highlightsto brown hair can help it appear thicker when strategically placed throughout.
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Dyeing your hair can damage the strands, which might have an unintended effect on fragile hair.
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