Beautiful light brown hair color: fashionable shades, choice of colors, photos of results

Hello from the Californian beaches

Naturalness and authenticity have been at the peak of popularity for several seasons in a row. That's why California highlighting, which creates the effect of sun-bleached hair, has become firmly in fashion.

Hair looks like it's been sunburned

Interesting!
This type of highlighting came to us from warm California, whose bright sun left rich light highlights on the hair of local beauties.

The goal of California highlighting is a smooth, imperceptible transition from dark hair roots to light ends. Correctly performed coloring will diversify your curls with a mass of shades - their number can reach up to five - and will create a feeling of fullness and thickness of your hair.

California highlighting technique

California highlighting is considered one of the most gentle procedures. Its main features:

• no foil is used when dyeing, so the dye dries naturally without destroying the hair structure;

• dark hair is lightened before the procedure, otherwise the new shades will not be saturated enough;
• due to the fact that in the root area the hair retains its natural color, you do not have to visit the hairdresser often - re-dying can be done after 3 months;
• “stretching” the color allows you to make the hair shade natural, without a visible transition from light to dark.

This type of coloring is considered difficult: not every master is able to correctly select shades for painting. California highlighting is a delicate job that requires the hairdresser not only to have professional skills, but also to have a creative approach. It is not enough to know the order of the procedure: you need to select an individual coloring option for each client.

Shades

The most popular shades are golden, honey, wheat, beige, caramel and sand. Due to the fact that the strands come into contact with each other during dyeing, the dye spreads with beautiful highlights along the entire length of the hair, creating natural transitions.

Advice!
Dyeing dark hair is associated with a number of difficulties: before highlighting, dark strands will have to be lightened in order to subsequently obtain the desired shades.

The root zone (5–7 cm) is usually not touched. Pre-bleaching can cause significant damage to your hair. Therefore, when performing highlighting on dark hair, specialists use dyes without ammonia.

Video on how to beautifully dye brown hair

Our short video will reveal some professional secrets and subtleties of coloring light brown hair using the shatush technique. Perhaps this type of coloring will become your favorite and will highlight the best aspects of your appearance.

Now you know the most fashionable trends in coloring light brown hair and can apply this knowledge to improve your look. All these techniques are quite complex and require special skills and knowledge, so we recommend that you contact only highly qualified craftsmen. Be beautiful and don't be afraid of change! Share your reviews and comments.

American color option

Until recently, this type of highlighting was considered the most fashionable. This method was used to create the “feathers” beloved by many women on the upper strands of hair.

Initially, American highlighting did not involve bleaching individual strands, but giving them a noble reddish hue: red, brown, burgundy, orange or copper. Nowadays, familiar natural colors are sometimes replaced by a very extravagant green, yellow or purple hue.

Coloring can be either bright, contrasting, with a clearly visible transition from natural color to a new shade, or soft, with smooth tints and barely noticeable highlights. The first option is preferred by young girls: contrasting coloring looks fresh, original and bold. The second option is suitable for ladies who are afraid of looking inelegant with multi-colored hair.

American highlighting technique

Features of American highlighting:

• when dyeing, foil is used: thin plates are wrapped around the dyed strands to obtain a more intense shade;
• usually craftsmen do not use more than 4 colors, so the transition from dark to light shades is not very smooth;
• to create an unusual look with variegated hair, the artist can limit himself to two shades;
• the lower strands retain their natural color - only the upper ones are dyed.

Now a new trend has appeared in American highlighting: individual curls are painted in a lighter color, but closer to the natural one. Usually chestnut shades are used. Thanks to this approach, the hair becomes “alive”: it shines, shines, looks thick and voluminous.

Under the sun of Venice

This type of highlighting is similar to Californian. The difference is only in the choice of shades: with Californian, preference is given to light and golden tones, with Venetian - a combination of sand and wheat strands with noble warm shades of chocolate, coffee and cognac.

Venetian highlighting combines sand and wheat strands with noble warm shades of chocolate, coffee and cognac

Interesting!
The name of the highlighting method is due to the fact that it first appeared in medieval Venice. Of course, local young ladies did not use chemical dyes to give their burning black hair sunny shades. They just sat for hours under the scorching sun, trying to make the curls on top of their heads lighten a couple of shades.

Thanks to Venetian highlighting, you can achieve an original, complex color that will make your hair thicker and fuller. Dark curls interspersed with thin light strands will shine brightly in the sun, giving its owner a fresh and rested look.

Venetian highlighting technique

Features of Venetian highlighting:

• it is performed without the use of foil: colored hair dries naturally;
• shades are selected depending on the main hair color;
• the hair in the root part retains its natural color, and the ends turn out light, sometimes white;
• when applying the paint, the master steps back no more than 3 cm from the roots, and then distributes the composition throughout the curls with light, relaxed strokes;
• Hairdressers use up to five different shades when dyeing.

Typically, light strands are thin and their number is small. To make the hairstyle seem truly “sunny”, hairdressers select warm shades. The most common colors for Venetian highlighting are golden, beige, cognac, coffee, chocolate, and auburn.

Coloring in ombre style

Ombre is a gradient hair coloring that involves a smooth transition from dark roots to light ends (in some cases, vice versa). This coloring option is considered a type of highlighting, although it has certain differences in technique.

To create a beautiful “stretch”, use 2-3 shades in a single color scheme. Just a couple of years ago, ombre coloring was an absolute hit, as it made it possible to achieve a natural transition from one shade to another without sharp boundaries. And now this type of coloring is used quite often, but the methods of coloring have changed significantly. New original ombre options have appeared.

Types of ombre

1. Two-tone ombre
   involves the use of only two colors: dark and light. The boundary between them runs horizontally and can be either explicit or smoothed or blurred. The ratio of the length of the dark and light parts can also be varied. The most extravagant people prefer to use bright blue, red and pink colors.
2. Multi-tone coloring
   is characterized by a multi-stage transition from one color to another using intermediate shades. This type of coloring is more difficult to perform than two-tone ombre: it can only be done by a professional master. The main requirement for multi-tonal coloring is the absence of a sharp transition from one shade to another and the correct selection of colors.
3. Creative multi-tonal coloring
   is suitable for young ladies. If you want to attract the attention of others to your hair, dye it with a rainbow effect: let chestnut roots fade into blue or green tips. In this case, the intermediate color can be any - yellow, pink, burgundy.
4. – another hit of the season. This type of coloring is also called “regrowth bronding.” With this method of highlighting, the root part remains dark, and the ends are painted using the bronding technique in lighter shades. The width of the dark zone may vary.
5. Framing the outline of an ombre haircut
   is suitable for women with layered and cascading hairstyles. With this coloring, the ends of the hair are lightened, framing the hairstyle along the contour, giving the layered haircut a special charm, depth and volume.

Shades

Advice!
Ombre is perfect for medium-length brown, chocolate and dark brown hair. On short hair, this coloring looks less impressive, since the short length does not allow for a smooth “stretch” of the color.

Ombre with purple coloring

Highlighting hair (photo) in a fashionable color 2020 is a popular trend. Women all choose partial coloring, so the hair after the procedure becomes interesting, multifaceted and natural. What colors for highlighting are in fashion today? How to choose them? What technique is used to apply dye to hair? We learn about all the nuances of the procedure from professional stylists and hairdressers.

Fashionable hair colors 2020

Women always take the choice of hair color responsibly, since success depends on the appearance of their hair. By changing your image, you can express your mood, individuality, and emphasize your character. It is also important that the color suits your type of appearance, otherwise you will end up with an awkward, spoiled image. Therefore, even in pursuit of fashion, listen to your common sense.

So what do stylists offer us?

• The main trend of 2020
  is naturalness. Therefore, it is better to choose shades that are as close as possible to your natural hair color.

• Blondes
  are unlikely to ever go out of fashion, so pay attention to light shades of paint. By the way, it is with the help of highlighting that you can quickly and safely switch from dark hair to light hair.

• Brunettes
  should also do highlighting to get a multifaceted color.

• Playing with a variety of shades will give you the contrast that is trendy this season. Pay attention to California highlighting and other types, which we will talk about in more detail a little later.

• If you want to become a red-haired beast, you can easily create a bright sunny look with the help of strands of orange, red and yellow colors.

• Shades that are far from natural can be used as a last resort, for example, to create an interesting look for Halloween
  or another costume party. But for this it is not necessary to do long-lasting salon highlighting. You can use regular tinted shampoo or fashionable hair chalks today.

As we can see, with the help of highlighting you can improve your natural hair color, making it deep and multifaceted. But what if you want to completely transform your hair? In this case, pay attention to the favorite colors of 2020:

• all shades of light brown;
• burgundy or wine;
• ashen;
• honey, nutty;
• copper or copper-red;
• beige, wheat and golden;
• sand;
• cappuccino, coffee, coffee with milk;
• brass, blond;
• black with glitter;
• shades of red.

Advice!
To make highlighting really look good on your hair, contact a master colorist rather than an ordinary hairdresser. He knows how to combine shades and combine them harmoniously with each other.

Caring for colored hair

Cold light brown hair tone, despite its beauty, is quite capricious to use and requires high-quality care. Otherwise, on bleached hair, such shades, instead of pearly tints, will appear as a yellowish tint that spoils the appearance or an unpleasant greenish-earthy tint.

Yellow hair after dyeing

Experts recommend updating the shade no more than once every 4-6 weeks, and once every 14 days you should adjust the tone with a tinted shampoo or hair mask containing purple pigments that actively combat yellowness.

A tinted balm will also help add brightness to your hair, restoring shine and radiance, as well as significantly facilitating subsequent care.

Not recommended:

• Wash your hair with hot water and regular shampoo, which helps quickly wash out color pigments. For cleansing, you should use only sulfate-free shampoos that have a gentle and mild effect.
• Cleanse your hair every day. Experts advise completely washing colored hair 1-2 times a week, and if necessary, use dry shampoo.
• Use a large number of styling products that injure the strands during styling.

To protect and maintain color saturation, it is necessary to protect hair from the aggressive effects of sunlight, and also, if possible, reduce the amount of use of thermal devices for styling and drying strands.

Cool light brown hair color is a rich range of natural, graceful and feminine shades that create a luxurious, fashionable and perfect feminine look.

Emphasizing beauty and grace, shimmering in photographs with cold, precious reflections, the shades are quite complex in execution and are not suitable for all girls, but with the right selection of dyes they create an image of mesmerizing beauty and grace, worthy of the cover of a glossy magazine.

Choosing a fashionable hair color based on your appearance type

Unfortunately, it is not enough to just choose the color you like and paint yourself in it. If the shade does not suit your color type, it can play a cruel joke, for example, make you look older or highlight facial skin defects. Therefore, it is important to choose shades of strands that suit your color type. Let's find out together how it is.

• For brown-eyed girls of the winter color type
  , that is, those with dark hair, stylists recommend paying attention to deep brown shades, coffee or chocolate.

• For girls of a warm color type with brown eyes
  , that is, owners of light natural hair, hairdressers advise creating a playful image using red tones. A striking example of such highlighting is the hair of TV presenter Ksenia Borodina.

• Green-eyed girls
  need to choose the brightness of the shade in accordance with the brightness of their eyes. Linking to skin type is optional.

• Beauties with blue eyes
  should pay attention to ashy, milky, chocolate and silver shades.

From the above we can conclude that you can emphasize the natural beauty of your eyes and skin with the help of correctly selected shades for highlighting your hair.

What shades exist

Cool light brown hair color (photos of stars choosing such shades make it possible to observe a rich play of pearlescent or ashy tints that instantly transform the image) emphasizes the brightness and femininity of the image, but is only suitable for girls with perfectly clear skin.

In such undertones, gray and blue color pigments are clearly visible, but there are absolutely no warm, golden notes in it.

Current types of highlighting 2020

Everyone knows that highlighting helps transform your appearance without drastic color interventions. But few people understand the difference between the types of this coloring technique. You will get a completely different effect depending on the width of the dyed strands, the number of shades used and the frequency of dye application.

Let's consider each type of highlighting separately.

• The classical technique
  is considered the most natural. It has remained at the peak of popularity since its invention. Suitable for women of any age. The strands are evenly lightened along the entire length using dyes until the desired shade is obtained. The thickness and width of the strands depends on the desired end result. Hair with strands colored thinly and often looks more natural and elegant.

• Venetian highlighting
  involves coloring the middle and ends of the strands with a smooth transition. In this case, the strands are colored randomly, and not consistently. Thanks to this, they become visually thicker and more magnificent. The technique is most suitable for black and brown hair, but fair-haired ladies also use it. The advantage is that there is no need to regularly adjust the coloring, since the artist immediately retreats a few centimeters from the roots. When they grow back, it looks natural and harmonious. You can dye short and long strands.

• California highlighting
  has become popular recently. After the procedure, the hair is created with the effect of bleached hair in the sun of Californian beaches. Sun glare has become a characteristic feature of the technology.

• American technology
  involves the use of several shades of paint. To get spectacular hair, stylists recommend using as many similar shades as possible. This way you will make your haircut as natural as possible. It will look rich and interesting.

• French highlighting
  is a real trend of the season. It is considered the most gentle way to dye strands, since the dyes do not contain ammonia, but do contain beeswax, which restores the structure of curls. Beige, walnut, light brown, honey, milk, wheat, golden and light brown shades are ideal for technology.

• Zonal highlighting
  is distinguished by highlighting only the upper strands in order to emphasize the crown or other individual curls.

• Avant-garde and creative highlighting
  is suitable for bold girls who use bright, unusual colors to highlight individual strands. It is acceptable to dye hair with horizontal stripes or in the form of geometric shapes and animal prints. Extraordinary individuals who want to stand out from the crowd use this technique.

• Balayage
  - the technique of coloring the ends emphasizes the silhouette of a haircut and looks great on hair of different lengths. The most popular this season is two-tone coloring, which uses natural shades of coffee, light brown, chocolate, beige, honey, nut, wheat, and amber. These shades combine harmoniously with each other and create an original composition on the haircut. The “flame effect” looks impressive and fashionable when strokes of red, red, golden or copper-honey color are made on the ends of dark hair.

• The Peek-a-Boo technique
  involves using bright and dark shades at the bottom of the haircut. Brave girls choose bright colors. But even the usual shades should contrast with the top layer of hair.

All proposed types of highlighting are suitable for transforming dark and light hair. The main thing is to apply the paint correctly and let it sit for a certain time. A professional hairdresser can easily handle this.

Root highlighting should be highlighted separately. Masters resort to it to correct already grown hair. In Californian and Venetian dyeing of individual strands, regrown hair is not as noticeable as in the classic one. The defect must be corrected in a timely manner so as not to look sloppy.

Advice!
For highlighting correction, go to the same specialist who initially performed the procedure. Because every hairdresser has his own unique style.

Popular paints

Cool light brown hair color (photos of beauty bloggers published on Instagram make it possible to appreciate the advantage of natural, pearl and ashy tones for creating a bright, memorable image) is represented by a fairly wide palette of coloring products, allowing you to choose cosmetics that not only create an interesting and fashionable look. tone, but also carefully cares for hair during the dyeing process.

Socolor.Beauty by Matrix

This cream-dye, created in accordance with modern innovative technologies, allows you to create a bright, seductive hair shade with minimal effort.
In addition to color pigments, the dye contains the conditioned component Cera-Oil, the restoring polymer Hexa-Force, as well as nourishing oils that allow not only coloring, but also protecting the hair structure from the aggressive effects of color pigments.

The palette of cool, light brown shades is represented by shades:

• 7AV - ash-pearl;
• 7A - ash-blond;
• 6SP - silver pearl dye;
• 505NA - natural light brown.

The cost of the dye is 460 rubles.

Garnier Olia and Color Naturals

Filled with natural caring ingredients, the cream-dye not only creates a bright, rich shade, but also minimizes trauma to the strands during the dyeing process. The caring balm also deserves special attention, increasing smoothness and creating shimmering, precious shimmers.

Hair coloring shade 8.1 from Garnier

The palette of cool, light brown shades is presented here:

• 8.1 - northern blond;
• 7.12 - pearly ash blonde;
• 7.132 - beige-smoky;
• 8.0 - iridescent light brown;
• 8.0 - light brown.

The cost of cream paint is about 200 rubles.

CASTING CRÈME GLOSS

Ammonia-free cosmetics turn the coloring process into a cosmetic treatment that helps not only decorate, but also improve the health of strands.
Carefully selected dye components protect the strands from damage and nourish them along the entire length, and the pigments are instantly absorbed, providing a rich and natural color. The “Maximum Shine” conditioner also helps to achieve the effect of silky and shiny hair, which helps preserve precious shimmer for up to 4 weeks.

The palette of cool, light brown shades is presented:

• 810 - pearly blonde;
• 1010 - light light ash brown;
• 1021 - light light brown pearlescent;
• 910 - very light ash brown.

The cost of cream paint is about 500 rubles.

Estel Princess Essex

The palette of colors provides durable, uniform coloring for tinted, natural, bleached and gray hair, and also allows you to carefully take care of your hair during a traumatic procedure for your curls. In addition to the dye, to create a spectacular, rich color you will need an oxygenating agent added to the cream paint in a 1:1 ratio.

Estelle’s palette of cold, light brown tones:

• 8/0 - light brown;
• 8/1 - light blond ash/Metallic;
• 8/65 - light blond violet-red;
• 8/66 - light brown intense violet;
• 8/76 - smoky topaz.

The cost of cream paint starts from 150 rubles.

Palette Fitoliniya

Cream paint in shade 9-1, filled with liquid honey and perfectly matched color pigments, makes it possible to create the most natural cold tints, as well as achieve a lasting, rich shade.

The additional use of conditioner, which is part of the dye, filled with argan oil, also allows you to deeply nourish the strands, while simultaneously making them more manageable.

The cost of cream paint is 250 rubles.

Cies Mixing Colors

In addition to the caring components included in the cosmetics, the unique cream-color contains 2 tubes per package, allowing each girl to independently decide what light or rich shade she wants. The coloring intensity also allows you to vary the beauty of the cold pearlescent shine.

Cool, light brown shades are represented here by the following paints:

• 8-15 - champagne cocktail;
• 7-58 - smoky mix.

The cost of cream paint is 400 rubles.

Features of coloring short hair

Women with short hair often complain that they cannot create an original hairstyle that will help them stand out from the crowd due to the length of their curls. But in fact, only insecure people who are afraid of various experiments with their appearance say this. Every short haircut can be radically transformed with the help of fashionable highlights. This coloring technique not only makes the image interesting and original, but also improves the appearance of the hair, visually adding additional volume to it.

The most suitable techniques for highlighting short hair are Californian, French and balayage. Let's consider options for different short haircuts:

• for a cap-shaped bob,
  classic highlighting is suitable, with lightening of the strands;

• 
  Classic technique also looks good on an elongated bob
• an asymmetrical bob
  looks interesting with contrasting bright strands, for example, red;
• the pixie haircut
  is chosen by bold, extraordinary individuals, so it is decorated with unusual green, lilac or red colors;

• You can add volume to a bob haircut using the Peek-a-Boo
  ;

The two-tone highlighting technique is designed especially for short strands. During its reproduction, the master uses two shades of the same range, which contrast with the main color of the hair. The color purple looks bold and daring.

Advice!
We remind you that this year the demand for naturalness and naturalness is growing, so strong contrast on curls is not relevant now.

How to choose colors for highlighting?

Before you do highlighting, discuss with the artist what colors you want to use. He can recommend the best option or use your idea.

• On light hair,
  highlighting looks feminine and beautiful. Avoid intense shades to avoid creating a vulgar look. Choose a paint that is several shades lighter than your natural color. Ash blondes are better off choosing shades from a cool palette, while golden locks will be enlivened by honey color. Natural blondes should pay attention to nutty and caramel tones.

• 
  Blonde strands also look good on brown hair They enliven and refresh the image, making a mature woman visually younger. But since light brown is an intermediate color, dark paint also looks great on it. You will be transformed by red, honey, red and golden shades.

• On dark hair
  , usually brown, light and dark strands look harmonious. It all depends on what image you want to create.

• Highlighting black hair
  looks unusual and extravagant. Stylists do not recommend using this technique on your own if you do not have experience in color. Most often, on black hair, light is achieved using an oxidizing agent, so an unexpected result may result.

• highlight the beauty of red hair
  with highlights. The technique of burning out in the sun also looks quite original and unusual.

Advice!
If during the procedure you feel a burning sensation on your scalp, interrupt the process immediately.
This means that the dyes are too concentrated and can cause damage to the hair. Many women and girls want to update their image, but do not want to resort to drastic changes.

In this case, coloring will help them - color highlighting. It consists of dyeing individual strands in different colors and shades.

Advantages

• brightness of the image;
• safety;
• ease of execution;
• large selection of shades and techniques.

With the help of coloring, you can create bright strokes and accents without much harm to your hair. This technique does not imply complete dyeing of the curls, contact of the dye with the roots and scalp, which means that the risk of causing harm is very small.

Turquoise highlights on dark hair

Color highlighting is performed in exactly the same way as classic highlighting.

It is performed in 1-1.5 hours both in the salon and at home. Due to the fact that only individual strands are dyed, it does not require large amounts of paint.

A significant advantage of this highlighting is its great variability. You can choose from a variety of performance techniques to suit your needs. This can be dyeing with feathers, thin or thick strands, ombre... The color palette is also very diverse.

If you don’t want to dye your curls a permanent color, but you like bright colored strands, then your option is, methods of application and rinsing, as well as cost and reviews of use - you will find all this on our website.

Let's consider technologies for highlighting dark hair. Coloring, light brown, Venetian highlighting and other options.

Surely, every girl has faced the problem of unsuccessful dyeing. In this topic we will look at ways to correct unsuccessful highlighting.

Advantages and disadvantages of dyeing a cool light brown color

The main advantage of cool light brown shades is their fashionable naturalness, which allows a woman to refresh her look without radically changing it. Fascinating with their cold, graceful tints, such shades will emphasize femininity and add aristocracy and grace to the appearance, and will also make it possible to hide a woman’s true age.

In addition to the advantages, creating such a shade also has a number of disadvantages, including:

• relative difficulty in creating on dark hair, requiring additional lightening;
• the need for perfectly smooth skin, since cold tints will instantly highlight all the imperfections of the face;
• undesirable use for girls with warm, dark skin, who instantly acquire an earthy complexion with such hair.

Cool ash, smoky or platinum shades look perfect only on milky white or porcelain skin, highlighting its beauty and giving the eyes a rich, mesmerizing shine.

For girls with a light color type and brown eyes, such shades of hair are contraindicated due to their complete incompatibility with warm, tanned skin.

Flaws

• May cause damage to hair.
• It is difficult to find paints in bright colors.
• May not be compatible with the dress code at work, school, etc.

Color highlighting is a safe coloring technology. However, to achieve brighter color, owners of dark hair will have to bleach some strands. This can harm the condition of their hair.

If you decide to colorize using unusual shades (blue, green, purple, etc.), then you may encounter a lack of these colors in stores and beauty salons.

Violet highlights on short hair

Due to the fact that few women use similar colors when dyeing their hair, they are trying to limit their purchase. In this case, you can order paint of the color you need on the Internet.

Before you do color highlighting, you should make sure that your place of work or study allows the use of bright colors in clothing or hairstyle. In this case, you can dye the strands in calmer and more classic tones, or highlight the inner strands that will appear in individual hairstyles.

Who is it suitable for?

Cool light blond hair color (photos of shades are given below in the article) are natural, as close to natural as possible, slightly reminiscent of ash, a tone that is considered universal and suitable for a woman at any age.

Beautiful, silvery tints can not only hide emerging gray hair, but also even out the complexion, slightly refreshing the usual feminine look.

You should choose your light brown shade strictly following the color type, because despite the relative, “Slavic” universality, this tone is considered very capricious, capable of instantly ruining even the brightest image, giving the skin an unpleasant, earthy tint.

To correctly determine the color type, a girl is recommended to remove all makeup from her face, put her hair in a ponytail, and then hold a clean white sheet of paper to her face. If blue and gray notes are visible on the skin against the whiteness of the leaf, then the color type is considered cold. The yellow tint of the skin along with greenish blood vessels is characteristic only of the warm color type.

The following are considered suitable for cool light brown hair:

Girls should not choose a cold light brown hair color:

Color highlights for dark hair

Dark hair has a stronger structure than light hair. They are more difficult to paint, as they require preliminary bleaching or lightening. They also need more hydration. In this regard, it is better for owners of dark curls not to do coloring at home, but to go to a salon.

Strands of the following colors go well with dark hair:

• copper or walnut;
• wheat or honey;
• golden;
• all shades of red;
• all shades of pink and purple;
• blue or light blue.

After coloring, hair may lose moisture and become dry and brittle. To restore their condition, it is recommended to use restorative balms and shampoos for colored hair.