50 Chic Ideas of Light Brown Hair with Highlights

Take a step to the lighter side and try light brown hair with highlights – look through this beautiful list of styles to get inspiration.

If you are a lady with brown hair, switching to lighter hair colors may scare you a bit. But what if you really want to try something new this season? Try to enrich your brown locks with trendy highlights! There are so many shades of brown that you will find your perfect color no sweat! You can add highlights for depth to create a style that flatters your skin tone if you don’t want to dye your whole head.

Here’s a list of hairstyles that will have you thinking about going lighter this season.

1. Blonde Highlights. Here we see a perfect combination consisting of face-framing highlights, chocolate lowlights, and soft feminine waves.

2. Beige Blonde Streaks. Having highlights of a slightly paler shade will result in a natural-looking style, such as this one. Delivering a minimalist look, the beige bronde hair color is truly a feast for the eyes.

3. Honey Ombre Balayage. We love a good wavy, textured look, and with some honey highlights, it’s super chic!

4. Blonde and Platinum Ribbons. Blending a few shades of blonde and brown into your hair can give an unexpectedly cool effect!

5. Blonde and Beige Highlights. Women always ask, what color highlights look good with lighter shades of brown color. Of course, blonde! But for a bolder look, we recommend having different shades of blonde. This trick adds depth to your hairstyle.

6. Face-Framing and Babylights. Brunettes, if you are trying to go a bit lighter but still want that summer/beachy look, check this style!

7. Brown Bob with Caramel Blonde. Effortlessly chic highlights for a straight choppy style!

8. Chestnut Brown with Balayage. For a seamless transition between your natural hair color and your highlight color, try the balayage approach!

9. Bob with Highlights and Lowlights. Lowlights are the darker pieces of hair, and they can be useful when you want to add extra depth to your short style. Especially if combined with dimensional highlights.

10. Sunny Blonde Highlights. The lighter tone of brown hair enhanced with blonde highlights looks chic and romantic. Besides, it is perfect for those who want to feel like a Hollywood diva, even on a regular day. Add subtle waves for your hair to flow beautifully and have amplified glow.

11. Ashy Brown with Honey Highlights. Having highlights more intense through the lower half of your hair is a great way to test out if lighter hair is for you. Add waves or curls for texture and volume.

12. Neutral Brown with Highlights. You can’t go wrong with neutral browns since these shades have a little bit of ash and gold to suit various complexions, and adding several streaks of beige blonde around the face and throughout the perimeter won’t spoil the fun.

13. Toasted Waves. A perfect example of highlights and lowlights working together to create a beautiful style. Blonder/bronze colors are the top colors for highlights if we are talking about lighter brown base shade. They bring out the undertone of your natural hair color while giving you the depth in shades.

14. Thick Blonde Highlights. People might think that you’ve got a blonde ombre, but it’s actually thick highlights they see. The waves with the thicker highlights add a bunch of texture.

15. Chocolate Brown with Copper Highlights. Girls with fair skin can create a beautiful contrast to spotlight the face by asking for deeper and more coppery shades, especially if they have golden tones in their complexion.

16. Auburn with Peek-a-Boo Highlights. Barely there highlights are so fun and effortless to style!

17. Nutty Balayage. This seamless color job infuses the natural brown tresses with a bunch of light-reflecting pieces which enhance shine and movement in the locks while giving some warmth to the face.

18. Straight Highlighted Brown Hair. The beautiful transition between her darker color and bronde balayage highlights is perfect!

19. Chocolate Brown and Highlights. In terms of chocolate, this is milk chocolate with caramel inside. We can’t get enough!

20. Barely-There Highlights. This chestnut brown style comes with almost invisible lighter brown bits of hair scattered here and there to fill the look with subtle dimension, and it will be a great pick for ladies with pale skin and peachy undertones.

21. Golden Brown Balayage. Highlights in lighter brown shades give you space to experiment and find what fits your personality best, which is amazing! After all, there are so many hues to choose from: caramel, ash, sandy, honey, cinnamon, gold, copper – the list goes on.

22. Blonde Highlights and Root Melt. This color palette includes muted golden shades throughout the mid-shaft to land a naturally sun-kissed feel and neutral brown lowlights around the roots to create depth and provide low maintenance as the hair grows out.

23.Highlighted Cappuccino Hair. If you have a medium complexion with warm undertones, cappuccino brown hair with a rich yummy base and creamy golden highlights all around will flatter your skin tone really handsomely.

24. Ashy Hair with Blonde Highlights. Mixing ash brown hair with a cool blonde gives you a surfer, beachy texture.

25. Long Brown Hair with Balayage. Add texture to this look by curling the bottom half of your hair – the longer you curl your hair, the tighter the curls will be.

26. Blonde Highlights All Over. Lighter hair can be hard to manage when it comes to your roots, so an easy way is to leave your roots with your natural color and do highlights all over your head.

27. Thin Blonde Highlights. If you are nervous about changing your color, try super thin highlights first to see if you like the look!

28. Streaky Blonde Highlights. Although this lovely bronde is made with ribbons of high-contrast blonde, it doesn’t appear overly dramatic, thanks to the finest sections of hair used for highlighting.

29. Mocha Color with Honey Highlights. Honey and mocha? A match made in hair heaven.

30. Caramel Highlights. Dimensional and creamy gold or honey-toned highlights set against a warm or neutral brown base is a go-to option for brunettes with brown or hazel eyes and warm or neutral undertones in their complexion.

31. Walnut Brown Balayage. Refresh your brunette hair drawing inspiration from the nature and its gifts.

32. Sandy Brown with Face Framing. Cool skin undertones go well with ashy shades, but it doesn’t mean that platinum highlights are your only option, as this sandy blonde color scheme can complement pink tones and balance out redness.

33. Mocha Waves with Beige Highlights. Go for this color if you want an effortless cool-toned color update for your mocha locks.

34. Ash Brown Hair Underneath. Layering highlights on top of your natural color is a different approach to highlights! Curl your hair loosely in order to see bits of your natural hair through the highlights.

35. Sleek Caramel Highlights. Having different shades of caramel throughout your lighter brown base will add depth and make your hair look super thick and full.

36. Deep Brunette Hair with Highlights. This catchy combination of a rich chocolate brown base and soft golden blonde highlights creates stunning depth and oozes delicate warmth without leaning toward red at all.

37. Shoulder-Length Highlighted Waves. Keeping the highlights subtle and thin shows off an effortless color transition.

38. Cool-Toned Balayage. Don’t be scared about going lighter with your highlights if your hair is already light brown. To add visual interest you can create loose waves by holding your hair around the curling iron for about 10 seconds.

39. Medium Length with Honey Highlights. Just because you don’t have a ton of length doesn’t mean you can’t play around with balayage highlights. Flipped ends here look gorgeous!

40. Bright Blonde Highlights. Talk about TEXTURE – the curls combined with the bright blonde color at the bottom of your hair will turn heads.

41. Muted Golden Balayage. This delicate color job adds just a few brighter touches to the brown base for some face illumination and better light reflection across the waves.

42. Honey-Tinted Babylights. Babylights are your prime technique if you want to have lighter pieces infused into your base truly seamlessly, as this method implies using very thin sections of hair for totally invisible transitions.

43. Shoulder-Length Beachy Waves. Achieve the ultimate beachy look with this cool blonde highlight color. The key is to make sure the transition between your natural color and the highlight color is smooth.

44. Toasted Blonde Balayage. A side fringe can instantly frame your cheekbones and jawline, while the toasted blonde highlights add a fresh take to your brown hair.

45. Cool-Tone Locks with Highlighting. High-contrast color palettes are giving way to soft dimensional highlights this year, so if you are a true fashionista with a cool complexion, switch to walnut brown hair with several strands 1-2 tones lighter ASAP.

46. Wavy Babylights. Shorter layers make it a bit harder to show the transition between a highlight color and your natural color, but babylights can work fine in this case! It’s a specific technique where a color is delicately painted on to create a subtle change in hair color.

47. Ash Brown with Platinum. Having platinum blonde pieces towards the face immediately brightens up your entire look. A super-trendy example of non-banal highlights.

48. Glazed Waves. The soft brown waves set off by darker roots and brightened by a shiny finish are a feast to the eyes!

49. Bob with Thin Highlights. If your work life has restrictions on hair colors, try peek-a-boo highlights for a subtle change.

50. Shiny Honey Highlights. Try a warm, darker shade of blonde to get a toasty effect.

To refresh your current look, consider going for trendy highlights. A customized solution will brighten your complexion while giving you a new reason to share tons of pictures! Try different shades of blonde to get your perfect shade.