Add some flair to brunette hair.
Here are 43 brown hair ideas with blonde highlights to find inspiration.
This stunning blend is loaded with personality.
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The strongest highlights will call attention to your beaming face.
The pure chocolate brown is matched with a neutral beige blonde for a unified palette.
Lighter shades on the top tresses give the impression of hours spent basking in the sun.
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Adding a little extra honey blonde in the look makes for an even more statement-making style.
Enhance the face-framing pieces with platinum blonde, and blend the color around the face.
Solid brown gets instant style.
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Then brush out and smooth the hair for extra shine.
Starting with amedium cool brownand ending in a perfect buttery blonde, these tresses almost drip with gold.
The highlights add a gleam of brightness to a mocha hair color.
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Caramel tones are added throughout to bridge the gap between these two striking colors.
This is a great way for people with dark brown hair add dimension around the face.
Hints of bronze add subtle personality to the blend.
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It’s a style you’ll be sure not to grow out of.
This ashy light brown gets a touch of warmth with honey highlights to create a cohesively cool style.
Tread lightly, as highlights this much lighter than the base color can go too far if done heavily.
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The addition of bold highlights adds even more complexity and drama to this look.
It’s guaranteed to light up the whole look.
This very dark ashy brown shade works well in tandem with beigy blondes for a multi-dimensional look.
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Sandy Brown Crop with Blonde Highlights
We love a crop with long side-swept bangs.
This edgy style has the perfect balance of a light brown base that’s amplified with highlights and lowlights.
It makes ringlets and spirals glow a little extra.
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Keep the roots dark, and blend down seamlessly.
Subtle chestnut highlights add extra warmth throughout.
Curly Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights
Nothing revives some dark brown ringlets like golden blonde highlights.
The butterscotch tone of the blonde works with the warmer brown shade perfectly.
The long layers in this wavy cut are certain to ripple on a breezy beach.
Bronde Stacked Bob
Where does the brown start and blonde end?
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That’s the point!
This perfectly blended stacked bob is our answer for defining the term: bronde.
Keep a shadow root in your natural color and finish with a delicate melt of caramel blonde color.
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They come together for a pretty cream soda finish.
The touches of blonde catch light in a way that a solid brown shade lacks.
Keep tantalizing pieces of the dark brown base to peek through.
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Feathering calls attention to the subtle contrast between these well-suited shades.
Inject some personality into the beige tone with blonde highlights that complement the neutral natural color.
The highlights make the spicy brown base look that much yummier.
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This balayage was done with a heavy hand for added flair.
Ask for smudged roots to make this style low-maintenance.
Strawberry blonde highlights make the red in this blend pop.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Match your blonde highlights to your brunette tone.
For example, cool-toned brown hair works well with cool-toned blonde, such as ash blonde.
Warm-toned brunettes, such as chocolate brown, work well with warm-toned blonde, such as caramel-golden blonde.
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Finish with face-framing highlights for extra brightness.
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