30 Current Ideas of Gray Blending for Dark Hair
Choosing gray blending for dark hair is a smart move for those who want to disguise their colorless hairs and those willing to enhance silver in their manes — both ways are appropriate and doable with this technique.
Instead of trying to overlap your color loss with a permanent hair dye, try a color scheme that includes growing-out roots and allows a smooth transition to natural silver. Done with balayage, ombre, foliage, babylights, and even lowlights, this approach is extremely versatile, and you can see it for yourself.
1. Chunky Silver Strips for Brunettes. It may seem that a subtle balayage is the best way for coverage on brunettes but this 90’s throwback, which is in vogue again, proves otherwise.
Choosing gray blending for dark hair is a smart move for those who want to disguise their colorless hairs and those willing to enhance silver in their manes — both ways are appropriate and doable with this technique.
Instead of trying to overlap your color loss with a permanent hair dye, try a color scheme that includes growing-out roots and allows a smooth transition to natural silver. Done with balayage, ombre, foliage, babylights, and even lowlights, this approach is extremely versatile, and you can see it for yourself.
1. Chunky Silver Strips for Brunettes. It may seem that a subtle balayage is the best way for coverage on brunettes but this 90’s throwback, which is in vogue again, proves otherwise.
2. Modern Streaky Lob. The polished long bob serves as a great canvas for showing off some neat strips of blond which are muted here for a better camouflage and a more modern look.
3. Subtle Smokey Balayage. This amazing balayage art melts different shades scrupulously to deliver a natural-looking ashy color that will embrace new silver strands quietly.
4. Metallic Silver Highlights on Brown Locks. There are so many shades out there, and the steel-colored pieces of this lovely bob make it dramatically different while still perfect for our goal.
5. Brown to Silver Fox Transition. This is just the color palette for those ladies who prefer accentuating their silver in a beautiful way rather than keeping it secret.
6. Iridescent Gold and Silver Mix. This color scheme is a marvelous blend of lowlights and highlights, warm and cool tones, flaxen blonde and icy silver hues.
7. Charcoal Bob with Face Framing. This admirable idea places a glimpse of light violet blonde throughout the black lob and adds a couple of bright silver streaks to the front.
8. Striped Multi-Tone Scheme. While ashy and golden tones are our obvious choices, we can see rose-blonde hues in this cute color job which is definitely a fancy twist.
9. Dirty Blonde on Light Brown Base. This cool-toned blonde balayage matches the base color nicely and hides pale strands breezily while feeling absolutely natural.
10. Silver Meets Golden Blonde. If an ashy feel all over is not your cup of tea, you can get silver pieces mixed with some bits of light blonde and arrive at a more sophisticated style with a golden flair.
11. Cool-Tone Brown with Money Piece. This deliberate color job brings together high- and low-contrast schemes by introducing tiny highlights across the perimeter and illuminating the face with several platinum touches.
12. Icy Blonde and Creamy Brown Combo. This dreamy color palette celebrates silver instead of camouflaging it, with the pattern built on accentuated silver, which is beautifully coupled with creamy brown streaks.
13. Shimmering Iced Brunette. This style pairs an ashy money piece with the finest all-over highlights on the brown locks and create a shimmering effect.
14. Salt-and-Pepper Shag with Lowlights. Highlighting is not the only answer to our problem, as you can get more depth and a crisper contrast by blending lowlights into your natural silver.
15. Misty Rose Brown Scheme. This wavy lob also plays with highlights and money pieces yet packs them into a quite unexpected color combination.
16. Natural Brown with Enhanced Silver. This soft style proves that you don’t need to deviate from your natural color since subtle highlights can perfectly fit your natural hair shade, especially if masterfully glossed with the right toner.
17. Seamless Pearly Balayage. Those looking for a shimmering effect should snatch this dimensional multi-tone balayage with no visible color transitions as their hair inspo.
18. Silver and Blonde Ribbons. The Y2K nostalgia has brought streaky looks back, so you can safely rock such a contrasting pattern, which will breezily accommodate ashy strands as they grow out.
19. Fun Colorful Bob. Although not exactly rainbow-colored, this blunt bob gleams with funky bluish and pinkish shades which make the loss of pigment completely invisible.
20. Smooth Greige High and Lows. This lady has a whole bunch of shades handsomely incorporated into a dimensional and face-refreshing style without harsh lines and bold pops of color.
21. Low-Maintenance Brunette Lob with Crisp Money Piece. This style gets the face spotlighted with two strips of bright blonde in the front, infusing the rest of the locks with petite highlights.
22. Dirty Blonde Balayage with Shadow Roots. If your locks are not only dull but also become thinner, adding shadow roots to your highlights is a good idea, as the black peeking out from the blonde creates depth and volume.
23. Golden Blonde Balayage with Hints of Ice. Besides hiding a smart coverage, this balayage contributes to the fullness and dimension of the neat bob.
24. Lavender Gray with Highlights. While you can opt for lavender gray all-over to reliably hide the treacherous depigmented strands, your mane will gain better movement, dimension, and sparkle with a few slightly lighter pieces.
25. Mushroom Brown with Soft Accents. A dirty beige combination results in a dreamy mushroom brown scheme that is still in vogue and can be tailored to set off or balance your complexion with cooler or warmer bits around the face.
26. Soft Salt-and-Pepper Bob. Although this bob is kept cool-toned in general, it brings earthy shades together to add some warmth and interest to the salt-and-pepper cover-up.
27. Smokey Brown Balayage with Splashes of Platinum. This delicate version blends brown and blonde shades and spices up the muted color palette with some splashes of bright silver.
28. Iced Chocolate Brown for Golden Undertones. If you wonder how to blend silver with brown locks when having a warm undertone in your complexion, here is the answer — by pairing chocolate brown with silver babylights.
29. Salt & Pepper-Ready Balayage. This color job keeps the look on the ashy side of brown to easily transition to a timeless salt-and-pepper style as the silver hairs grow in number.
30. Bronzed Smoky Brunette. Not only does this whimsical color scheme camouflages dullness but also accentuates the wave pattern.
Your choices really endless, and each idea borrowed from our collection can be customized to suit your complexion, style, and preferred maintenance level. We wish you good luck in your future transformations and a happy transition to a comfortable color!
