30 Brown Hair With Highlights That Are Trending This Year
Hey, all you brown-haired bombshells! Looking to give your wonderful dark hair some flavor?
Whoever said that blondes have more fun has obviously never watched the elegance that comes with highlighted brown hair.
We have compiled a wonderful collection of highlight ideas that will make your brunette hair pop like never before. We’ve got you covered whether you are after a bit of sparkle or flashy lines.
Let’s get into these incredible styles and find that perfect highlight to match your skin tone and vibe. Fasten up, it’s show time!
1. Milk Chocolate with Caramel Highlights
Experience the richness of milk chocolate hair beautifully highlighted with caramel streaks. This blend gives your tresses a luxurious depth and warmth, giving them a sun-kissed look that adds dimension and shine.
The caramel lowlights are placed strategically blending into the base, as the light areas blend into each other creating a multiple-shaded appearance of naturalness.
2. Chestnut Brown with Auburn Streaks
Give yourself an entirely new look by introducing fiery red highlights on chestnut hair.
Thus, this striking combination introduces bright red shades into the natural chestnut background, which creates vibrant contrast impressions inserted in between strands of natural brown hue.
3. Mocha Brown with Maple Highlights
Enjoy having mocha brown tresses sprinkled with maple highlights. This combination brings out soft warm notes reflecting over our heads when we think about fall.
Maple lowlights delicately applied blend with the mocha hair base to give this look a natural sun-kissed look.
4. Brunette Waves with Honey Accents
Let sweet honey accents cover your brunette waves. This color mix gives you beautiful dimension without overshadowing your own shade of brown.
The honey streaks discreetly catch light on wavy hair giving them a glimmering, sunlit impression.
5. Espresso Brown with Walnut Contours
Upgrade yourself from espresso brown hair to one that combines earthy walnut shades. In addition, such kind of color mixture will make your braids appear thicker and fuller since they will be multi-tonal.
The contours of the black walnut subtly penetrate into the darker tone creating more dimensions that improve the general richness of our hairdo.
6. Earthy Brown with Olive Highlights
Earth brown mixed with olive highlights would make you feel as if you are walking in natural beauty.
This combination is one of its kind that gives your hair a fresh lively look that appears to be completely different from the modernity and earthness as well.
7. Smoky Brown with Silver Highlights
The shimmers of silver highlight will give your smoky brown hair an air of mystery.
This amazing contrast between cool and warm shades is stylishly put together by mixing them up to create a sophisticated yet edgy appeal that’s bound to capture someone’s attention at first glance.
8. Dark Brown with Cherry Cola Undertones
Ginger dark brown strands lend depth and intensity creating a perfect match between the dark hue of the base color mixture with flashes of rich red shades that give women an opportunity to get transformed into cherry cola girls right away!
9. Romantic Brunette with Rosy Highlights
Add soft rosy tones to the brunette style which would get an instant transformation into a romantic masterpiece.
This is the most beautiful combination that makes hair appear so soft and delicate, while at the same time bringing out a rather subdued difference between different parts of it.
10. Dark Brown with Copper Lowlights
Dark chocolate hair can be made more beautiful by including copper lowlights in it.
This sophisticated contrast between depth and dimensionality, which may seem to be very modest at times but still strikingly contrasting nevertheless could perfectly describe another alternative in our list – dark brown mixed with copper strands!
11. Matte Brown with Platinum Highlights
Enhance your matte brown hair with a striking contrast of platinum highlights that would raise it up to the next level.
This combination brings an unprecedented blend of sophistication and edge to your look. The shiny highlights are seamlessly woven throughout the dull brown underbelly, providing a multi-dimensional effect that is marvelously reflective in the light.
12. Dark Brunette with Cinnamon Highlights
Spice up your dark brunette hair with warm and inviting tones coming from cinnamon highlights.
These colors create richness as well as warmth for a perfectly blended look that matches any season perfectly where there’s no line separating the two.
13. Sun-Kissed Brunette Highlights
Transform your own lovely brunette strands into something vividly bright like sun-kissed ones!
This color composition imitates sunlight reflections on people’s heads thus giving them natural appearances irrespective of which part of year one finds themselves recuperating from harsh cold days on earth’s surface.
14. Chocolate Brown with Almond Notes
Perfect your chocolate brown hair by adding the subtle richness of almond notes.
This combination adds a touch of warmth and depth to it such that once again it looks as if you woke up from natural sleep rather than visiting a salon.
15. Brunette with Butterscotch Hints
Give your brunette locks more flavor via butterscotch hints therefore making them a bit sweeter!
Such colors give a beautifully blended look that suits any weather at any point because there can be no demarcation line between these two seasons since they are just alike in terms of appearance.
16. Ash Brown Hair with a Money Piece of Blue
Make your ash brown hair look bold by incorporating a cool blue money piece. Combining these two elements adds some modern edge to the style, blending beautifully and making it unique and you can easily notice this.
The blue money piece does not just add color but also helps to bring out the depth in your ash brown hair as well as dimension while still providing an air of sophistication and playfulness.
17. Brunettes with Toasted Coconut
If you want to bring out beach vibes on your brunette head try toasted coconut highlights!
When combined together such colours blend so well that they seem quite natural but at the same time stunning as they are represented here, considering Sierra’s project though it is only an example.
18. Caramel Ribbons on Toffee Brown Hair
This kind of style is perfect for anyone who wants her hair warm and bright at once.
For this purpose, the caramel should be warmer than toffee chocolate in order to get a polished image just like seen above.
19. Lavender Shimmer on Velvet Brown Hair
Give your velvet brown hair a touch of gentle lavender shimmer.
These two elements help create such complementary effects that can be observed as natural or artificial but still harmonize together at any given time depending on how they are put forward as it is evident with Sierra’s project though it is not what one must do in real life.
20. Gold Flecks in Deep Brown Hair
Illuminate your deep brown tresses with some hint of golden flecks.
Such combinations make up more dimensionality thus resulting in gently blurred images suitable for all seasons no matter what kind of weather it may bring even if there should be bright colors such as red, orange, pink, yellow, brown, etc.
21. Vintage Brunette in Sepia Tones
This combination is nostalgic, giving you a tastefully mixed effect that is classy and different.
The sepia-toned highlights are subtly woven into the brunette base, underlining its natural depth and giving it a soft warm light.
22. Mahogany Dipped Brunette
Add a touch of mahogany to your brunette during that next salon visit to get that radiant look back on track again.
This combination adds depth and dimension, creating a beautifully blended look that’s perfect for any season.
23. Fall Leaves Accent Brown Hair
Embrace the beauty of autumn with highlights inspired by the rich, warm colors of falling leaves.
This combination adds depth and dimension to your brown hair, creating a beautifully blended look that’s perfect for any season.
24. Mystic Brown Highlighting Pearlescence
Sprinkle some iridescent over your magic maroon locks! This combination brings a unique blend of sophistication and whimsy to your look, creating a beautifully blended effect that’s both natural and eye-catching.
The iridescent highlights are subtly interspersed throughout the mystic brown base, adding dimension and a soft, glowing effect.
25. French Roast Brown with Chocolate Streaks
Indulge in the rich, warm tones of French roast brown hair enhanced with chocolate streaks. This combination adds depth and dimension, creating a beautifully blended look that’s perfect for any season.
The chocolate streaks are subtly woven into the French roast brown base, enhancing its natural richness while giving it a gentle glow.
26. Glum Brown with Platinum Edges
The shaggy brown base has been carefully laced with platinum highlights to enhance natural depth and give a subtle glossy shine.
It is great for someone who wants to have some contrasts on their hair in any season; hence it is meant for all-season use.
27. Whiskey Brown with Blonde Blasts
For your whiskey brown hair, you can also make bold blonde highlights.
Such a combination adds some lightness and contrast, thus creating a perfectly blendable look that suits any seasonality.
28. Midnight Brunette with Blue Accents
These blue highlights gently spread out from its darkened brunette background to bring out a clear contrast between them enhancing the richness in color and making them look cooler due to the contrasting colors used on her head specifically these deep shades of blue against her chestnut strands.
29. Nutmeg Brown with Orange Tips
Add orange-dipped tips or bright-colored ends for your nutmeg-brown hairdo. What do we see as a result of the above combination? Fierce contrasting effect that adds pizzazz and depth to your look.
The placement of orange tips in nutmeg brown base also brings out more warmth into the hair making it lively and hot.
30. Matte Brown with Teal Highlights
The cool, refreshing tones of teal highlights will infuse your matte brown hair giving them a fresh vibe.
This marriage brings about a youthful twist in your look which is seamlessly blended up leaving one looking sophisticated and at the same time peculiar among all others around her/him.