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

Get the most bang for your buck by focusing largely on the ends and incorporating a whole scheme of hair colors, from chocolate brown to caramel to honey blonde. This stunning blend is loaded with personality.

These roots are super dark, contrasting with bold and striking caramel blonde balayage around the face and towards the ends. The strongest highlights will call attention to your beaming face.

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. Lighter shades on the top tresses give the impression of hours spent basking in the sun.

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 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.

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

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 in a perfect buttery blonde, these tresses almost drip with gold.

For the subtlest kick of color that still feels like a statement, request blended baby balayage throughout in a warm golden shade. The highlights add a gleam of brightness to a mocha hair color.

Give your complexion an almost metallic golden glow with complementary caramel babylights on warm brown hair. Then brush out and smooth the hair for extra shine.

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. Caramel tones are added throughout to bridge the gap between these two striking colors.

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. Hints of bronze add subtle personality to the blend.

For a super low-maintenance approach, ask to focus around the face on those flattering "money pieces," with subtle touches of balayage throughout to tie it all together. It's a style you'll be sure not to grow out of.

Ashy brown locks lean towards cool tones, such as silver, rather than warm tones, such as the reds and golds in chestnut browns. This ashy light brown gets a touch of warmth with honey highlights to create a cohesively cool style.

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

We won't ever get over how absolutely dreamy this multi-dimensional color is, especially how it melts from dark brown all the way to golden honey.  The addition of bold highlights adds even more complexity and drama to this look.

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 very dark ashy brown shade works well in tandem with beigy blondes for a multi-dimensional look.

We love a crop with long side-swept bangs. This edgy style has the perfect balance of a 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 blending with the dark roots 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 dark chocolate hair color gets a boost from face-framing golden highlights. Subtle chestnut highlights add extra warmth throughout.

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 playful style uses very determined touches of lighter blonde to really play up the dark chocolate brown color of the lob-length cut. The long layers in this wavy cut are certain to ripple on a breezy beach.

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 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 that a solid brown shade lacks.

These sweet-as-sugar, caramel-tinted honey blonde highlights are enough to make us book an appointment at our salon right now. Keep tantalizing pieces of the dark brown base to peek through.

This light brown lob gets an icy touch with platinum blonde highlighting from roots to ends. Feathering calls attention to the subtle contrast between these well-suited shades.

This tousled mane of hair makes the most of its natural thickness. The stylist added a touch of golden highlights starting at the crown, working down to a brilliant blonde with artful balayage strokes.

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 complement the neutral natural color.

This cinnamon brown hair benefits from some copper and blonde highlighting, especially around the face. The highlights make the spicy brown base look that much yummier.

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

This cohesive look uses a shade or two lighter than the base color with highlights that blend into the natural brown. Ask for smudged roots to make this style low-maintenance.

This chunkier balayage starts closer to the dark brown roots, making quite the cherry-cola statement. Strawberry blonde highlights make the red in this blend pop.