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  4. Greige Hair Is Trending—And You’ll Actually Want to Try This Cool Neutral

Greige Hair Is Trending—And You’ll Actually Want to Try This Cool Neutral

By Kaitlyn Yarborough
May 08, 2018
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If you’re a lover of the recent cool-toned hair color movement— Mushroom brown, anyone?—then it’s time to hop on the new multi-dimensional neutral known as greige. (Read: gray + beige = greige) And if greige isn’t already your favorite neutral, it definitely should be. Beige and gray are those catch-all colors you can always rely on: Relaxing, uncomplicated, and universally flattering when it comes to most things, now including hair color. By combining the two shades, you create an ashy neutral that blends the best qualities of each, resulting in a striking, yet incredibly wearable shade. It works on cool and warm skin tones alike to create dynamic blends, whether you’re into sandy beige with subtle touches of ash gray or ash gray with rich strokes of biscuit blonde. Layering hair shades ranging only from cool to neutral browns, blondes, and grays is the secret to getting the perfect tint. We’ve rounded up the most versatile greige hair color inspirations to show why this neutral needs to be your next pick. 
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Vanilla Cream

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This ash gray gets a creamy ecru-vanilla touch with strokes of balayage. It creates a rich blend of icy tones that we’re loving for fall and winter.

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Latte

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We love the smooth, creamy finish of this deep beige-gray with shadow roots. When paired with warm skin tones, the contrast is striking.

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Mocha Balayage

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This rich greige shade looks like a sun-kissed mermaid gone edgy—with subtle icy beige balayage on a cool mocha base.

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Shadow Roots

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Shadow roots let you embrace your dark base color, creating a low maintenance transition that won’t need constant touch-ups. Biscuit beige-gray balayage blends into the cool mocha roots for an ombré look.

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Silver Blonde

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This sheen-filled style looks like you added a metallic finish on top of the trendy cream soda blonde shade. With dusty gray and lighter blonde balayage, this greige is perfect for summer.

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Sandy Highlights

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This greige blend sits farther onto the sandy side of the spectrum, with cool-toned gray-blonde blended into a fawn base color.

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Ash Bronde

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This shade veers more into the mushroom brown territory, but tinges of dusty violet gray makes it a little less ash brown, a little more greige.

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Fawn Balayage

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A deep fawn beige lets brunettes get in on the action while still keeping it low maintenance and wearable. Silver and dusty gray balayage offers a dynamic blend of color.

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Beige Face Framing

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Heavy beige blonde and ash brown face-framing catches the light on this dark base with notes of ash gray. The overall look is kept minimal and monochromatic.

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Biscuit Biege

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For ladies who don’t want to go all in with the silver and gray, this rich biscuit beige base gets brought to life with subtle strokes of silver and dusty gray, coating heavier on the ends. Bonus points for the trendy baby bangs!

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Icy Beige

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This smoky beige lets blondes embrace their own light rendition of greige using cool purple and silver shades.

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Dusty Silver

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This ash gray hue lets natural dusty violet notes come out, and the dusty greige finish keeps the overall color light and cool-toned. A straight blunt lob makes the hair color stand out even more.

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