If you’ve been eyeing a certain hair shade for a while now – go for it. Whether it is red, pink, brown, or black, you can find a way to make it work for you. Hair colors are easy to change if you aren’t feeling it but we’ve got a list of shades you will want to keep forever!

Below you’ll find cute hair color ideas that are believed to become the trendiest this year. How about trying one of them?

1. Chocolate and Caramel Balayage. A perfect example inspired by your favorite desserts – the color melting creates a delicious blend you can’t look away.

Chocolate and Caramel Color MeltingPin

2. Brunette Hair with Highlights. Warm up your dark hair by going for reddish brown highlights. You can have chunkier colored pieces or thinner ones – depending on your style.

Auburn Highlights for Dark HairPin

3. Sun-Kissed Locks. Go for light brown and warm blonde highlights to get that perfect sun-kissed look.

Warm Light Brown Hair with HighlightsPin

4. Dark Locks with Highlights. Looking for awesome ideas to spice up your brunette hair? Try adding some reddish-brown highlights. Feel free to experiment – add thinner colored strands or chunkier ones, or both!

Hair Color Ideas for Brunette HairPin

5. Partial Caramel Highlights. With partial caramel highlights, the hair will appear more textured and glowy. If you are a brunette, you will definitely benefit from this delicious hue, as it is flattering and natural-looking!

Brunette Hair with Caramel HighlightsPin

6. Dark Chocolate Locks. We love this two-tone dark chocolate shade because it adds so much depth and dimension.

Two-Tone Dark Chocolate Hair ColorPin

7. Sandy Blonde Balayage. This year’s trends are all about adding a twist to your regular look. The sandy balayage is a great way to refresh your style and get that summery feel, no matter the season.

2024 Sandy Balayage Hair TrendPin

8. Brown with Face Framing. This stunning brunette totally nails one of the hottest hair shades by switching from a stripy money piece to soft and dimensional lightness around the face.

Candlelit Brown Hair Color TrendPin

9. Bleached Front Strands. This shade is super easy to achieve and maintain. Besides, lighter front strands will create a beautiful combo with partial highlights in a slightly darker tone.

Hair Color Idea with Partial HighlightsPin

10. Honey Bronde Shades. Not exactly brown – but not too blonde either. If you’re looking for something in between, here’s a cute solution. The brown keeps things warm and adds dimension.

Long Honey Bronde Balayage HairPin

11. Auburn Brown Hair. Have auburn painted on your dark chocolate base and enjoy the hot “toasty melt”.

Dark Chocolate Hair with Auburn HighlightsPin

12. Warm Espresso Balayage. After all those super-bright and neon shades we saw a lot last year, calm decadent brunette may be balm to the soul for those of us who like simpler shades and shades that need less maintenance.

Brunette Balayage Hair Color 2024Pin

13. Light Brown with Sandy Blonde. Since it looks great against different skin tones and eye colors, sandy blonde with a neutral undertone is the right choice for a bunch of girls trying to keep up with current trends.

Sandy Blonde Highlights for Brown HairPin

14. Bronze Strands. The choice of hair shade is often a complicated quest. However, if you are looking for a warm-cool dye job to complement your brunette hair and tanned skin, the bronze balayage is the one you are sure to fall in love with.

Brunette Hair with Bronze BalayagePin

15. Caramel Brown Highlights. The ever-romantic caramel brown highlights are still in. Add an extra sparkle to your pretty hair with these lovely cool and warm shades and feel like you’re in your own movie.

Pretty Dark Caramel Brown HairPin

16. Black with Dark Copper. This season is full of ideas that would appeal to any girl. If you think that you haven’t seen anything fresh regarding black hair color solutions in years, well, you may find this one pretty interesting.

Black and Copper Hair Dye IdeasPin

17. Gilded Ash Blonde. This new bronde can become the most wanted shade this year! Prepare to see many girls rocking this coloring. Looks quite irresistible, doesn’t it?

New Bronde Hair Color 2024Pin

18. Short Chocolate Balayage. Refreshing your hair with a soft warm balayage is a fantastic idea for short hair. A smooth transition between brown shades on black hair adds tons of dimension to your hairstyle.

Chocolate Lob Balayage Hair Color IdeaPin

19. Chestnut Highlights and Lowlights. This hair masterpiece is a gentle mix of brunette locks and slightly lighter hues, such as chestnut and chocolate brown. It is an amazing option for ladies who want a fresher look and prefer keeping it natural.

Trendy Brunette Hair ColorPin

20. Contrasting Platinum Highlights. Your style and hair shade have the power to make a fashion statement and reveal a bit of your personality to the world. These light and dark tones will show that you are classy and creative.

Dark Hair Color with Platinum HighlightsPin

21. Beige Brunette with Highlights. This creamy style gets on our list because its highlights work to delicately accentuate the layers instead of stealing the whole show, just in line with the low contrast trend.

Brown Hair with Low Contrast HighlightsPin

22. Caramel and Bronze Highlights. Caramel highlights on a medium brown or blonde base offer soft flows of a few congenial tones. This perfect shade creates a deep and dimensional look, making any girl even more stunning.

Caramel Balayage Hair Color for WomenPin

23. Bronze Brown with Caramel. The caramel ribbons rippling along the dark chocolate strands are among the subtle, natural-looking ideas. This balayage stands out from other cute hair shades, as it’s soft but eye-catching and glamorous.

Cute Brown Balayage Hair ColorPin

24. Shadow Roots and Highlights. Here’s a combo of cool shades that requires minimum effort to maintain! The shadow root technique will not force you to visit a beauty salon often. The dark roots create a stunning transition from your natural color to the highlighted strands.

Dark Roots and Highlights Hair IdeasPin

25. Hazelnut Brunette. Admit it, the brown hair with caramel and light brown highlights looks absolutely gorgeous! Not too edgy, yet vivid, elegant, graceful, and cute. An ideal option for a stylish businesswoman.

Cute Hair Color Idea for Brown HairPin

26. Brown Balayage with Lowlights. Adding subtle highlights is an excellent way to revive your look without going to extremes. The dark brown balayage provides extra dimension and pop, while the sun-kissed pieces make you look younger.

Sun-Kissed Dark Brown BalayagePin

27. Warm Dimensional Highlights. Another solution perfect for women with long brunette hair. These soft caramel highlights bring the basic dark shade to a whole different level. You can easily become someone’s muse with this shade.

Hair Color Idea for Women with Dark HairPin

28. Money Pieces for Brunettes. Tired of the same look day after day? It’s time to hit the reset button and get a new color. Ideas like money piece highlights give a glamorous touch without detracting from the glory of the natural color of your locks.

Trendy Brunette Money Piece HairPin

29. Honey Blonde Balayage. The sun-kissed effect is achievable for ladies with different base hair tones, but it is the warm honey blonde that’s among the hottest ideas this year. Choose full or partial highlights – you will be the star of the show either way!

Brown and Blonde Balayage Hair ColorsPin

30. Rosewood Highlights. This dreamy shade won’t leave anyone indifferent. If you want some sunset-inspired highlights in your hair, here’s your inspiration. So natural-looking and fun!

Natural-Looking Rosewood HighlightsPin

31. Black Locks with Highlights. This season’s dark hair popularity is all about rich, glossy radiance with much volume and movement. If you look carefully, you’ll notice the sun-kissed pieces that are a little lighter. That’s what gives the hair so much dimension and makes it look healthier.

Dark Hair Highlights Color TrendPin

32. Caramel Highlights. Dark long and voluminous hair tends to look somehow overpowering. Don’t allow all that gorgeous volume and length to be swallowed up. Use caramel brown highlights to brighten up your dark hair and lighten up the weighty appearance of your thick hair.

Thick Brown Hair with HighlightsPin

33. Chocolate Latte Hair. Keep your ombre simple with face-framing highlights to brighten your complexion.

Chocolate Latte OmbrePin

34. Brunette with Metallic Highlights. Do you like that fabulous shine in the brown? Try a metallic blonde balayage during your next trip to the salon.

Dimensional Blonde Balayage HighlightsPin

35. Sun-Kissed Honey Blonde. The most popular blonde shades of this season must be loaded with dimension and lean into natural gold or beige rather than icy platinum, and this sweet sun-kissed look checks all the boxes.

2024 Honey Blonde Hair ColorPin

36. Cinnamon Blonde Balayage. This spicy color can mix all your favorite bronde shades and draw many admiring glances.

Cinnamon Highlights for Bronde HairPin

37. Bright Highlights. What does the girl who loves drama gonna do? Stay true to yourself and go for bright highlights. This blend of light caramel brown and espresso is giving us lots of ideas.

Espresso Brown Hair with Caramel HighlightsPin

38. Cherry Cola Melt. Cherry cola is definitely one of the top ideas for fashion-forward brunettes with warm or dark complexions, but they don’t need to limit themselves to monochrome looks and can safely opt for red-tinged highlights.

Caramel and Cherry Highlights for BrunettesPin

39. Brown with Blonde Highlights. A pop of color in a suitable shade of blonde adds some alluring warmth to brunette hair. Although there are other different shades that look good on dark locks, blonde highlights exceptionally draw fascinating dimension and warmth out of brown hair.

Brunette Hair with Blonde HighlightsPin

40. Sandy Blonde. Shadow roots are super chic and flattering when you have sandy blonde lengths.

Sandy Blonde Hair with Shadow RootsPin

41. Sparkly Blonde. If you want to have the best of both worlds try adding blonde in balayage highlights woven through a dark base.

Blonde Balayage Hair ColorPin

42. Cinnamon and Ash Brow. A combination of warm and cool brown highlights on black hair yields the most fascinating black-brown shade. It has just the right amount of depth and glow.

2024 Brown Hair Color TrendPin

43. Full Light Brown Highlights. The subtle and sophisticated are still taking the leads! Soft shades of brown such as caramel or auburn on brunette hair are so cool and sexy. Create large, loose waves on your silky-smooth hair to achieve those celebrity hair vibes.

Subtle Light Brown Highlights on Brunette HairPin

44. Warm Blonde Balayage. A perfect idea if you want your hair to give you an “expensive” look. Of course, chic and classy don’t come easy you know. You’ll need to make regular visits to your colorist to keep your highlights shiny and new always.

Chic Blonde Highlights Hair Color IdeaPin

45. Bronde with Gray Blonde. Spice up your sun-kissed hair with cool-toned pieces. Ash blonde, platinum, or silver blonde. This one is icy but not too white and we love it!

Silver Blonde Balayage HighlightsPin

46. Blonde Balayage with Lowlights. Although reverse balayage isn’t among the latest ideas, adding depth to blonde or light brown styles with strategically placed lowlights is still a popular way of refreshing your look.

Blonde Balayage Lob Hair Color IdeaPin

47. Icy Blonde Highlights. Some shades make us want to spin around on our seats and whistle in amazement. Icy blonde on jet-black hair is undeniably one of the hottest hair ideas of this year.

Black Hair with Cool Blonde HighlightsPin

48. Deep Brown with Copper. This shiny style is perfectly in sync with the current race for warm hair shades and ultra gloss since it has a built-in metallic sheen and seriously spices up the dark base.

Dark Hair with Warm Brown HighlightsPin

49. Espresso Brunette. Forget what we’ve said about soft contrasts, as this amazingly saturated brown sparkling with blonde mids and ends sets a trend of its own.

Dramatic Brunette Hair with Blonde EndsPin

50. Sandstone Hair. Going from a cool shade of dirty blonde to a warmer buttery hue, this look demonstrates a flawless transition!

Sandstone Balayage HairPin

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