Brown hair with blonde highlights inspiration, from celebrity-loved babylights to rebel streaks looks

Babylights

Babylights are when superfine strands of hair are coloured. It’s a technique that makes the hair appear multi-dimensional because of the gentle wisps of colour that are so micro, they’ll have everyone thinking you were born with it. No need to tell them otherwise. This is perfect if you're a little apprehensive about hair colour changes; it allows you to experiment with a sprinkle colour without committing to anything.

Twilighting

Twilighting has nothing to do with Bella Swan, it's actually a mix of the above. Twilighting relies on a mix of balayage and babylights to create an ultra subtle, dimensional look. It offers up brunette hair with warm golden tones and is perfect for those with darker hair who want to try something trendy but not too drastic.

Ombré

Ombré in this instance isn't like the 2010 colourful trend, don't worry! In 2022, it sees a graduation of colour from darker at the roots, to lighter at the ends. For instance, brunette roots edging into caramel and honey mid-lengths with light blonde ends. Ombré can be as dramatic or subtle as you like.

Sombré

Sombré is essentially soft ombré. Effectively it's a more delicate and subtle version of traditional ombre to make it look more subtle and natural. This is perfect if someone wants hints of a lighter hue without going full blonde.

Spotlight highlights

Particularly beautiful for curly and coily hair, spotlight highlights are kind of like balayage, but your curl pattern is taken into account so that the placement really helps to spotlight all that gorgeous movement. “Essentially, it’s a way of hand-painting natural-looking highlights for a pretty pop of colour that truly shines through on curly and coily hair,” explains Charlotte Mensah, hair artist and founder of Manketti by Charlotte Mensah.

Face framing highlights

Face framing, or moneypiece highlights involves spotlighting the front section of hair around your face. These strands naturally tend to go blonder as they face the sun. It can help to brighten complexions, without committing to an all over colour. This is a perfect highlighting technique if you want to subtly change things up for the summer months.

Rebel streaks

Rebel streaks are an amped up version of face framing. The throwback '90s technique creates a more statement contrast between the bleached sections either side of your face and the rest of your hair.

Chunky highlights

Another 90s reference, chunky highlights are bringing back piece-y statement blonde sections blended more obviously through darker strands. It's a bolder way to add some more defined dimension back into balayaged hair.

Still unsure of what it is you’re after? See which celebrities have gone to the bright side in our round-up…

Miley Cyrus

If you’ve got naturally curly hair, be sure to take this one into the salon for colour inspo. Miley Cyrus’s side-parted mane is giving off seriously chic Goldie Locks vibes.

Tyra Banks

Is there a single hairstyle that Tyra Banks can’t rock? She takes her warm highlights to the next level by styling them into springy curls.

Heidi Klum

Yes, yes, yes to everything about Heidi Klum’s boho locks. The shaggy fringe and summery highlights are giving us all of the summer hair inspo.

Sofia Vergara

At first glance, you might not notice the warm highlights that run through Sofia Vergara’s wavy locks. But trust us, they’re there and they’re gorge.

Jamie Chung

Jamie Chung’s ashy balayage-style highlights create a contrast with her naturally dark hair – this is colour blending at its finest.

This article first appeared in glamourmagazine.co.uk

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