40 Brown Hairstyles with Blonde Highlights That Are Too Pretty To Pass Up

Get the most bang for your hair color buck by focusing largely on the ends and incorporating a whole scheme of colors, from chocolate brown to caramel to honey blonde.

The goal of this look is to make everything mold together seamlessly for a rich finished color. The pure chocolate brown is matched with a neutral beige blonde for a unified palette.

This cool-toned brown bob got some cool-toned blonde to match, making it a perfect sandy color.

Tortoiseshell hair—the blend of chocolate brown, chestnut, caramel, and honey—is one of the trendiest hair colors for brunettes ever. Adding a little extra honey blonde in the look makes for an even more statement-making style. 

If you're interested in giving dark brown hair a zing of very light blonde, less is more. Enhance the face-framing pieces around your face with platinum blonde, and blend the color around the face. Solid brown, instantly refreshed! 

These roots are super dark, making it easy to go bold and striking with caramel blonde balayage around the face and towards the ends.

We never thought such a pretty waterfall of color was possible before setting our eyes on this wavy mane. Starting with a medium cool brown and ending with the perfect golden butter blonde achieves a flawless look.

For the subtlest kick of color that still feels like a statement, request blended baby balayage throughout in a warm golden shade.

Give your complexion an almost metallic-like golden glow with complementary caramel babylights on warm brown hair.

The cool blue-gray tones in this ashy brown hair look even more eye-catching with fine icy blonde highlights throughout the layers. 

This ashy dark-as-coal brown takes well to bold face-framing touches of golden blonde.

If you're stuck between wanting more blonde and more red in your hair tone, choose a tawny toffee blonde and go heavy on the balayage. 

For a super low-maintenance approach, ask to focus around the face on those flattering "money pieces," with subtle and sporadic balayage throughout to tie it all together. 

Ashy brown means that your locks lean towards cool tones, such as blue, rather than warm tones, such as red and gold, like chestnut browns do. This ashy light brown works with these cool honey highlights to create a cohesively cool style.

Adding super subtle platinum highlights gives a subtle, yet intense touch of dimension to dark chocolate brown hair. Tread lightly, as highlights this much lighter than the base color can go too far if done too heavily.

We won't ever get over how absolutely dreamy this multi-dimensional color is, especially when going from dark brown all the way to golden honey. 

Choose golden, honey, and caramel tones to create a color melt from chocolate brown roots. It's guaranteed to light up the whole look.

It's easy to underestimate the cool factor behind ashy tones, but don't be afraid to be a little late to the party. This extremely dark ashy brown shade works well in tandem with cool blondes, like this icy shade.

We love a crop with long side-swept bangs, and this style has the perfect balance of light brown base that's amplified with highlights and lowlights.

Brown curls can get an easy update with subtle blonde balayage that focuses on the ends. It makes ringlets and spirals glow a little extra. 

Darker cool-toned brunettes can keep with the flow of things by adding balayage in other cool tones like ice blonde. Keep the roots dark, and blend down seamlessly. 

If you're naturally brunette (but want to be blonde), this is a great option to keep things low-maintenance. Ask for robust hair color from midway down to the ends in the blonde of your choice, but keep the roots blended and dark to minimize grow-out lines.

This dark brown mane makes a statement with platinum ombré ends, which will still grow out flatteringly and make touch-ups not as frequent.

This mahogany-toned brown hair gets a little boost from face-framing golden highlights that match the warm tones of the hair. 

Nothing revives some dark brown ringlets like golden blonde highlights. Curls are often approached with a free-hand technique, such as balayage, to give dimension without completely transforming your hair color.

The sun-kissed lower half of this hairstyle makes it look silky smooth and buttery soft. The butterscotch tone of the blonde works with the warmer brown shade perfectly.

This most thoughtful style uses very determined touches of lighter blonde to really play up the dark chocolate brown color of this lob-length cut.

Where does the brown start and blonde end? That's the point! This perfectly blended stacked bob is our answer for defining the term: bronde.

It's almost like you're transitioning to full blonde—but without any of the upkeep or harsh grow-out. Keep a shadow root in your natural color and finish with a delicate melt of caramel blonde color.

We can't imagine a better pairing than this sweet cola brown and buttery honey blonde. They come together for a pretty cream soda finish.

This look injects some life into dark chocolate brown locks using thin, very subtle blonde highlights. The touches of blonde catch light in a way flat brown hair lacks.

These sweet-as-sugar, caramel-tinted honey blonde highlights are enough to make us book an appointment at our salon right now. 

This light brown lob gets an icy touch with platinum blonde highlighting that looks more uniform and full coverage. 

This tousled mane of hair makes the most of its natural thickness by placing perfect golden highlights starting at the crown and working down in artful balayage strokes.

If your hair is already blessed with a cool brown base, invest in a few key pieces of icy blonde around the face to lighten things up with little-to-no maintenance needed.

It's hard to go wrong with sandy brown hair, unless you're leaving it flat in color. Inject some personality into the beige tone with blonde highlights that match the neutrality of the sandiness.

This cinnamon brown hair benefits from some copper and blonde highlighting, especially around the face and on any layers. 

If you have neutral brown hair, honey-beige highlights are the way to stick with your tone and lighten things up with balayage done with a heavy hand.

This cohesive look only goes a shade or two lighter than the base color with highlights that mix into the natural brown.

This chunkier balayage starts closer to the dark brown roots, making quite the cherry-cola statement—perfect for the lady who loves a pop of red!