All eyes on you, Baby!

Let’s shine the spotlight on you cause you’ve got a hairdo that deserves some attention.

Since highlights first became popular in North America in the 1980s, they have been a beloved technique to transform hair from dull and plain to bright and unique.

Brown hair with blonde highlights is a versatile look with endless possibilities to elevate the appearance of brunette hair to another dimension.

It’s not just the classic dark brown hair with vibrant light blonde streaks anymore; brown hair with blonde highlights has evolved to include unique colors and patterns that seamlessly blend rich brown color into a beautiful cream and golden-toned tresses.

Brown Hair with Blonde Balayage vs. Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights

Traditional blonde highlights are a type of root-to-tip foil highlighting technique. Blonde balayage is also a highlighting technique, as it partially lightens select areas of the hair. Still, balayage is not the same as traditional highlights, with key differences in their application and results.

The chart below compares brown hair with blonde balayage to brown hair with blonde highlights.

Brown Hair with Blonde Balayage	Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights
Natural or existing brown base color Blonde tones swept onto the mid-shaft to ends Densley colored blonde ends Hand-painted	Natural or existing brown base color Blonde highlights from the roots to end All over thin highlights Applied with aluminum foil

Brown hair with blonde highlights involves three main steps:

1. Section the hair you to plan the highlights.
2. Paint bleach from root to tip and cover them in foil.
3. Apply blonde hair color and toner to the bleached hair.

Are you looking to transform your plain brunette mane into a vibrant, multi-dimensional do? Check out 30 brown hair with blonde highlights ideas trending in 2023!

Light Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights

Want to add some warmth to your locks? Look no further cause this light brown hair with blonde highlights will be your next go-to hairdo. Everyone suits this look, so there’s no need to second guess whether you should or shouldn’t do it. The light brown color of your hair will allow the highlights to melt into your strands beautifully.

Incorporating blonde highlights into your light brown hair will create a beautiful color contrast, giving your hair the appearance of:

• Dimension
• Thickness
• Texture

Dark Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights

We highly suggest adding some blonde highlights if you have dark brown hair and want to give it some life. Dark brown hair with blonde highlights is a duo for the ages. It’s timeless and beautiful and doesn’t require much effort other than sitting your butt down in the salon chair and letting your trusty stylist go to work.

Medium Length Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights

Blonde highlights don’t discriminate!

No matter your hair length, adding blonde highlights to your luscious locks is advice we 100% think you should take. This medium length brown hair with blonde highlights elevates your hair to the next level. It adds some eye-catching shades you won’t be able to resist.

Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights and Low Lights

Want to add some actual dimension to your strands? This brown hair with blonde highlights and low lights takes the cake for beautifully adding dimension to your hair.

You might wonder what the difference between lowlights and highlights is, and it’s pretty simple. Lowlights are the same as highlights, but the color is 2-3 shades darker than your natural or base color. Highlights are usually 2-3 shades lighter than your natural or base color.

Therefore, as you can imagine, when you incorporate the two, you will get the appearance of a crazy dimension.

Caramel Dark Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights

When you think of caramel, we’re sure you imagine its sweet sensation and taste on your tongue. But have you ever thought about its beautiful coloring?

Caramel dark brown hair with blonde highlights is a gorgeous color combo of your typical blonde with a hint of caramel warm and rich coloring. The pair looks similar to a chestnut hair color and is drop-dead gorgeous. With a color like this, it’s hard to go wrong.

Natural Curly Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights

Are you one of the lucky ones with unreal voluminous curls everyone wishes they had? If so, this natural curly brown hair with blonde highlights will be the cherry on top of your already stunning swirls and curls.

The blonde highlights will help accentuate the natural beauty of your swirls and curls.

Short Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights

Don’t be a length-ist!

Short brown hair with blonde highlights is the cutest hairdo of them all. It’s warm, short, and unbeatably cute. If you want to make a drastic change, this may be the style you were looking for. If you already have short hair, you’re halfway there; just a couple of foils and an hour or two, and you’ve got yourself short brown hair with blonde highlights.

Getting your hair cut short is a big decision, and you want to ensure you choose the right haircut.

Check out these four different short haircuts for short brown hair with blonde highlights:

• Layered bob
• Curly bob
• Pixie cut
• Long bob

Shoulder Length Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights

If your hair sits at your shoulders, you are in luck. This shoulder-length brown hair with blonde highlights is an incredible way to elevate your locks. Not only will you look good, but also feel good, and there is nothing better than that.

Long Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights

Guess what? The longer the hair, the more highlights!

The longer your tresses, the more room for playing with highlights and gradual coloring. Starting with fewer highlights higher up, getting more saturated towards the bottom gives a stunning gradient appearance.

Ask your stylist to highlight the two front pieces of hair that frame the face. Highlighting these pieces is excellent at framing the face, countering the face, and making your face appear even more radiant. It also helps create cohesion between your long brown hair with blonde highlights.

Straight Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights

If you want to show off your new highlights, running your hair through a hair straightener to get your stands to stick straight will help you show off your new hairdo. Straight brown hair with blonde highlights makes it much easier to see the individual highlighted sections.

Golden Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights

Do you want to become the 2020s version of goldilocks?

Golden brown hair with blonde highlights is the perfect way to lighten your golden hair even more. These sunkissed highlights will give you and your hair an irresistible glowing complexion.

Golden brown hair with blonde highlights is ideal for warm-toned people worldwide. The warmth in your locks will compliment the warmth of your skin and its undertones.

Chocolate Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights

If you want that ooey gooey goodness that is chocolate brown hair with blonde highlights, then keep reading. With a base color of wonderful chocolate interwoven with creamy blonde highlights, you can have a beautiful mane. Stay clear of any mirrors, tho, cause you won’t be able to avert your gaze once you have this beautiful brown hair with blonde highlights.

Chocolate brown hair is medium brown with three primary undertones:

1. Red
2. Gold
3. Bronze

Warm Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights

Want to look extra warm? Try warm brown hair with blonde highlights for a natural sunkissed look. The warmth from your base color and the blonde from the highlights will leave your strands and complexion glowing.

We recommend this brown hair with blonde highlights style for the warm-toned to great a concise existence of warmth between your skin and hair. You will be lighting up any room you walk into with this hairdo.

Warm brown hair colors have three primary undertones:

1. Copper red
2. Golden brown
3. Honey

Typically, colorists will recommend pairing warm brown hair colors with warm blonde highlights and cool brown hair colors with cool blonde highlights.

The chart below compares warm-toned to cool-toned brown hair with blonde highlights.

Warm Toned Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights	Cool Toned Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights
Chocolate, honey, auburn browns Red, orange, and yellow undertones Caramel, golden, or buttery blonde highlights Suit people with golden skin undertones	Mushroom, espresso, or ash browns Blue, green and violet undertones Icy, platinum, or ash blonde highlights Suit people with pink skin undertones

Ash Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights

Don’t worry, cool-toned people; we haven’t forgotten about you.

The cool silvery and ashy tones integrated into this ash brown hair with blonde highlights are what will bring your hair to life.

Ash brown is a brunette and silver hair color with three cool undertones:

1. Blue
2. Violet
3. Green

The cool undertones in your hair and complexion will compliant each other graciously. With this brown hair and blonde highlight, you will be the cool-toned goddess everyone wishes they were.

Reddish Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights

Are you torn between the allure of a beautiful brunette or a ravishing redhead? If so, reddish brown hair color is for you. Reddish brown hair colors look more natural on most people than firey or bright red hair colors.

Reddish brown hair colors include:

• Copper brown
• Mahogany
• Auburn
• Cinnamon
• Ginger brown

If you want a trio of hair colors, throw blonde bombshell into the mix for reddish brown hair with blonde highlights.

Honey Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights

Oh, honey, your hair looks scrumptious! Honey brown hair is a warm mix of light caramel, amber browns, golden blondes, and a hint of red undertones. Honey brown hair with blonde highlights is a multidimensional mix of luminous brown tones with buttery blonde highlights.

Bob Short Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights

Lots of us envy those with long, thick tresses, but let’s be real; it takes a lot of time to grow and a lot more money to color long hair. Short hairstyles look awesome with blonde highlights, and bobs are cuts that compliment every face shape.

Bob short brown hair with blonde highlights is a gorgeous way to create the illusion of longer, thicker hair. We love face-framing light blonde money pieces to accentuate a heart-shaped face.

Sun Kissed Caramel Brown Hair With Blonde Highlights

If your natural or dyed hair lightens in the summertime or from extended periods exposed to the sun, you’ll know that as it grows out, the base color transitions into the lighter color. This is known as ‘sun-kissed hair‘ because the sun’s rays naturally bleach melanin from the hair.

Sun-kissed caramel brown hair fades from light caramel brown to a warm caramel blonde for a melted sun-kissed color. Additional root-to-tip highlights create a stunning multidimensional design for sun-kissed caramel brown hair with blonde highlights.

For DIY sun-kissed caramel brown hair with blonde highlights at home, we love L’Oreal Paris Frost & Design in Caramel.

Two Tone Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights

The term ‘two tone brown hair’ is a broad term meaning any brown hair with lighter brown highlights or darker brown lowlights. It could also mean a split half-and-half hair color. Our preference for two-tone brown hair with blonde highlights is dark brown balayage with caramel blonde highlights for a stunning contrast between dark and light warm colors.

Chestnut Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights

Chestnut brown is an earthy, rich brown color with warm red undertones. Part of the brunette family, it has slightly more copper and golden tones than milk chocolate hair. Chestnut brown hair with blonde highlights paints buttery blonde accents onto a multidimensional reddish-brown base.

Ombre Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights

Let’s get faded!

Ombre hair is a beautiful and chic technique that gradually fades a darker color into a lighter one. From the French word ‘to shade,’ ombre hair designs create a gradient effect between two or more colors of the same color group.

To get ombre brown hair with blonde highlights, start with a color in mind, like honey brown ombre, and ask your colorist to add highlights to compliment the color, such as warm caramel blonde.

For DIY ombre brown hair at home, use an ombre hair kit like L’Oreal Paris Superior Preference Ombre Touch for Medium Brown Hair.

Layered Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights

Choppy bobs, whispy shags, feathered hair, and other types of layered haircuts are so in style in 2023. Layers are appealing because they add dimension and volume to hair, giving the illusion of naturally voluptuous locks.

To accentuate your choppy haircut, go for layered brown hair with blonde highlights. Cool or warm blonde highlights texturize and accentuate multi-dimensional haircuts.

Wavy Brown Hair With Blonde Highlights

Wave after wave. What’s not to love about wavy hair? The volume, the bounce, and the way it accentuates highlights into mesmerizing spiral patterns.

If you’re blessed with naturally wavy brown hair, why not try a few highlights to brighten your do? There are endless color combinations for wavy brown hair with blonde highlights.

Mushroom Brown Hair With Blonde Highlights

New Year’s resolution; live a healthy life. Mushroom brown hair with blonde highlights gives some serious farm-to-table vibes. Infused with creamy browns and dusty greys, mushroom brown hair resembles a portobello mushroom cap.

Accentuate your mushroom hairdo with some cool-toned blonde highlights for fresh hair that looks healthy!

Dirty Brown Hair With Blonde Highlights

“Let’s get dirty; that’s our jam.” – Christina Aguilera.

Everyone’s familiar with dirty blonde hair, natural-looking dark blonde hair with brunette lowlights. But have you heard of dirty brown hair? It’s similar to, yet the opposite of, dirty blonde, with a brown base and warm golden baby lights.

Take this natural-looking sun-kissed shade to the next level; add brighter blonde streaks to get beautiful dirty brown hair with blonde highlights.

Copper Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights

Spice up your life with a hot new hair color. Copper hair color is a vibrant shade of reddish brown. Ranging from light copper blonde to rich chocolate copper, there’s a gingery-brown shade to compliment every skin tone.

Lighten up your locks with a multi-dimensional trio of hues, and go for copper brown hair with blonde highlights.

Cinnamon Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights

Sugar and spice and all things nice; that’s what cinnamon brown hair is made of. Cinnamon brown hair blends rich brown and deep red hues with gingery undertones. It’s a natural-looking reddish brown ranging from light cinnamon gold to dark chocolate cinnamon. We love accentuating the blend of spicy tones with golden streaks for cinnamon brown hair with blonde highlights.

Pixie Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights

Hey there, Tinkerbell.

We love, love, love pixie hairstyles! Short, chic, low maintenance and the choppy layers look fantastic with highlights. If you’re looking for a short, fuss-free hairstyle that makes you look dolled up without effort, go for pixie brown hair with blonde highlights.

Natural Brown Hair With Blonde Highlights

Oh, how we envy those with natural brown hair. It’s a versatile hair color that’s easy to dye and looks impressive with just a few tasteful highlights. Natural brown hair with blonde highlights is a low-key way to completely transform dull or mousy brown hair into a vibrant multi-dimensional blend of blonde and brunette hues.

Brown Hair with Partial Blonde Highlights

Looking for a subtle way to incorporate blonde highlights into your brunette mane? Brown hair with partial blonde highlights is an attractive way to weave tasteful accents throughout your hair.

The types of partial blonde highlights include:

1. Partial balayage highlights
2. Classic partial highlights
3. Money pieces
4. Babylights
5. Teasylights
6. Peekaboos

The chart below compares the types of partial blonde highlights for brown hair.

Type of Highlights	Descriptions
Partial Balayage Highlights	Hand-painted highlights Swept onto sections of the hair Specific sections of hair
Classic Partial Highlights	Foil highlights On one layer of hair or around the face
Money Pieces	Foil highlights Chunky single highlights Face-framing pieces of hair
Babylights	Foil highlights Fine highlights All-over or one layer of hair
Teasylights	Hair is teased before highlighting Softer highlights Specific sections of hair
Peekaboos	Foil highlights Single chunky highlight Hidden on under layer of hair

Highlight-Up Your Life with Brown Hair with Blonde Highlights!

Everyone wants the spotlight on them at some point or another. Brown hair with blonde highlights allows you to transform your plain mane into a glamorous hairdo!

There are so many combinations of brunette hair with blonde highlights that you might need to try a few to know which one is for you!