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50 Chocolate Brown Hair Color Ideas for the New Season

by
Serena Piper

3. Cocoa Base with Caramel Highlights. One of the easiest ideas for brunettes is caramel highlights. It’s simple, elegant, and low-maintenance, as it only requires one trip to a salon every three to four months.

Who doesn’t need a change once in a while? Chocolate brown hair is very trendy, and celebs all over the world have developed a new passion for this delicious color scheme. Sounds so tasty, doesn’t it? Imagine you’ll be wearing one of these marvelous colors every day.

By the end of this article, you’ll get both hungry for some dessert and eager to get a shiny brunette color for your mane!

1. Invigorating Espresso with Added Shine. If you have olive skin or dark skin, you should definitely pick a glossy coffee shade. It provides a refreshing frame to your face and highlights your features.

2. Long Wavy Brunette Locks. Amazing, stunning, perfect – these are just several words to describe this dark and light brunette hairstyle. You will get the same compliments in real life!

3. Cocoa Base with Caramel Highlights. One of the easiest ideas for brunettes is caramel highlights. It’s simple, elegant, and low-maintenance, as it only requires one trip to a salon every three to four months.

4. Glossy Toffee Balayage with Lows. Subtle highlights have that magic power to make a sweet brunette mane look even yummier. Check this mind-blowing color. Opt for full highlights – they are flaunting and easy to maintain!

5. Mushroom Shag with Highs. A few highlights here, a few there, and you have a unique coif that your friends will die for.

6. Glazed Dark Cocoa. You can say whatever you want about Kim Kardashian but her coifs are always perfect. If you go for a dark cocoa shade, you’ll have that textured, shiny and glossy mane. To add volume, you can style your locks with a curling iron and get some bouncy waves.

7. Dark ‘Mocha’ Shade. Brunette in a deep rich shade of mocha is something we crave to try, especially during colder months. The transformation is stunning! That moment when you tried a lighter shade and came back to the brunette army!

8. Copper Balayage for Dark Base. A dark color with warm balayage highlights is among the tastiest and cutest choices for such seasons as Fall and Winter, but this hairstyle will definitely look equally appropriate on the beach and with your Spring looks. So stunning!

9. Luminous Desert Sand. If your mane never gets lighter under the sun, don’t despair! Achieve a sun-kissed effect with highlights. Shadow roots add up to such styling perfectly, creating a smooth gradient.

10. Full Dark Caramel Highlights. Dark locks and caramel color in highlights create a harmonious scheme that equally fits straight, wavy, and curly strands. You can also mix in some other reddish hues for an even more textured look.

11. Cocoa Base with Auburn Ribbons. These waves look totally natural and a bit sun-kissed, but, in fact, the colorist has managed to incorporate a bunch of auburn hues seamlessly blended with the base color.

12. Midnight Brunette with Copper Pieces. A red head is traditionally a sign of a passionate personality. If this resonates with who you are, why not try a combination of midnight shades and copper in one style? Look what an intriguing and mysterious vibe the red locks ooze!

13. Rosewood with Highs and Lows. Dark shades in an inverted lob cut create a beautiful style. But when you add mixed highlights of caramel, toffee, and chestnut to it, expect feeling like a Hollywood star!

14. Partial Umber Highlights. Umber is a hot trend when it comes to highlights for brunettes. If you want your natural color to be dominant, go for partial highlights to create thin strands.

15. Bronzed Earthy Tones. Although it may look like one color at first sight, this light, warm brunette version has a seamlessly blended depth at the roots and a fun dusty accent throughout the ends.

16. Low-Maintenance Hazelnut Balayage. Mixing a dark mocha base with some hazelnut shades is a thing that yells GLAM! These combinations are perfect for most skin tones.

17. Midshaft Porcini Highlights. Those highlights do a lot more than just adding colors and making your lob fun. They can also accentuate your cheekbones and make the eyes sparkle. Highlights are particularly flattering on dark-colored locks as they create shine, contrast, depth, and volume.

18. Candlelit Brunette Waves. Here, the “expensive” color is used to give a bit of warmth to the olive skin and enrich the dark base with tons of dimension maximized by luscious waves.

19. Glowing Toasted Blonde for Brunettes. This girl shows how you can go much lighter while sticking to the dark scheme. Ask for plenty of highlights throughout the length, and don’t forget about face-framing pieces.

20. Dimensional Bronzed Waves. A rich brunette color is what you might have seen in commercials. However, it doesn’t have to stay a marketing trick and can become your reality with masterfully styled highlights just a few tones lighter than your natural shade.

21. Delicate Rosewood Blend. If you are aiming for an attractive color scheme, you can’t go wrong with a soft balayage. Deep chestnut and burgundy are good shade options to consider, depending on your skin tone.

22. Cappuccino Highlights with Depth. Now it’s time for sombre! If you don’t know what that is, find out that sombre is a much softer and natural ombre. It looks amazing both with curled and straight strands and does an awesome job when it comes to mixing a brunette base with cappuccino highlights.

23. From Blonde to Black. The way this new blonde tonality is added to the dark base makes this look perfect for olive skin. Give it a try!

24. Peek-a-Boo Bronze Highlights. Dark mane with metallic highlights that appear here and there as the hair bounces when you walk is a beauty beyond compare! It is especially flattering for ladies with long wavy manes, as it moves a lot, revealing the lighter strands.

25. Partial Mahogany Balayage. Looking for a perfect mix of light and dark hues? Mahogany delivers red shades that look irresistible on a dark base. Styling tip: partial highlights look terrific with bouncy curls!

26. Glossy Auburn with Dark Underlayer. Luscious locks in deep hues are a joy to see. This combination reminds of sunny autumn days with a fiesta of warm and bright shades.

27. Cocoa Mane with Blonde Contouring. This beautiful color job illuminates the edges of the brunette mane with medium blonde highlights but keeps the whole color palette perfectly neutral and suitable for different skin tones.

28. Fume Color Scheme for Shorter Hair. A smooth transition from brunette to gray blonde is one of the trends for this year.

29. Bronzed Black with Glaze. Such a mane makes heads turn. To enhance the impression you make with your hairstyle, add dimensional highlights and lowlights. With such styling, your locks will look even shinier!

30. Metallic Mahogany Midshaft-to-Ends Highlights. Try this soft gradient of brunette and red shades for an eye-catching, romantic, and dreamy style. This type of highlights is amazing, easy-to-maintain and makes the hair color look freshly done at all times, adding depth and texture to it.

31. Black Base with Espresso Streaks. Dark on dark? A great idea! Take a look at how alluring this balayage appears on the dark hair. Mocha, coffee, and cocoa shades are the ingredients that create a perfect blend for beautiful highlights.

32. Almost Black Mane with Layers. Black earth tones in your hair…hmmm…..not bad! And the result is glamorous and rich. You should try this amazing color if you have a cool skin tone.

33. Red Ochre Balayage with Dark Underlayer. Although brunette shades are often warm, you can adjust them to your skin tone by choosing light neutral tones for your highlights.

34. Black Cherry Whisky Blend. The deep base of this lavish mane is made even richer with some mahogany hues fading into a lighter caramel toward the ends and delivering plenty of light reflection.

35. Aubergine and Burgundy. This amazingly rich color combines a deep aubergine shade with flares of copper to arrive at better shine and saturation without going too red or burgundy.

36. Black Base with Mushroom Highlights. This matte color scheme activates cooler earthy shades to tone down the yellow in the skin and make the hair more dimensional with the help of highlights.

37. Sandy Blonde on Short Brunette Locks. There’s an old good mix of a brunette base with chunky highlights in copper blonde tones which stand out more on the ends of the hair. If you have olive or tanned skin, this might be the real deal for you.

38. Sun-Kissed Expensive Brunette. Start adding some ashy tones to your brunette color, and the result will be more than satisfying!

39. Cocoa Lob with Peach Blonde Highlights. The contrasting ribbons of toned-down blonde look especially flattering on textured hair since they work to emphasize the pattern perfectly. This style does the trick and adds depth to the formula.

40. Dark Velvet with Highs and Lows. Actually, brunette shades may come in the bitter form too, which sit on the neutral end of the spectrum and suit girls with cooler complexions, especially when glossed with some ash.

41. Midshaft and face-Framing Toffee Highlights. We are thrilled with the peekaboo effect created by these tiny toffee streaks placed around the crown and, of course, with the striking contrast setting off the almost black base.

42. Exquisite Caramel Highlights with Dark Underneath. Here is a seamless balayage that fills the brunette base with molten caramel hues and brings in warmth especially flattering for girls with golden undertones in their complexions.

43. Beige Strawberry Balayage with Dark Roots. Your mane will look richer, healthier and shine just the way you want. A lob haircut brings a lot of volume and perfectly suits your dark roots.

44. Midnight Brunette with Bronze Streaks. While a dark hair dye may look flat and lackluster on straight hair, these low-contrast hazel streaks break the blandness and produce the desired movement and gloss.

45. Espresso Bob with Purple Undertone. This color perfectly suits any type of skin tone. A wavy lob and a dark cool-tone hair color are what you need if you are an active woman who doesn’t want to pay too much attention to her hair.

46. Rich Roasted Brunette. This dark roasted coffee color is made extremely deep with just a touch of artistically performed balayage that lifts a shade or two here and there to get a delicious toasted feel.

47. Sun-Kissed Two-Tone Brunette. Here, masterfully done foilayage creates a feel of naturally faded color while adding dimension to an otherwise flat coif.

48. Rosewood with a Pinch of Blonde on Black. This illuminated bronde color embraces the warmth of darker shades but softens the red with pearly and ash blonde highlights to make it more adaptable to various skin tones.

49. Dark Base with Golden Nut Highlights. Having a mane like that shouldn’t be legal, and it’s ideal for brunettes! Add small mahogany highlights, create some lazy waves, and people won’t stop staring at you.

50. Luxurious Bronzed Rosewood Balayage. Decadent brunette tones, mixed with dark roots and some easy curls make this downdo totally unforgettable.

When you’re looking at these pictures, you can nearly smell your favorite dessert, see it in all its shades and shapes, can’t you? A great stylist should be able to help you pick the perfect color, and you’ll get your dreamy mane in no time. Why waiting?