40 Trendy Money Piece Hair Ideas for Your Makeover

Money piece hair is in vogue. Fashionistas can’t seem to get enough of their invigorating power. Let’s check out the latest variations of this trend and choose something for your next visit to the salon. Read on!

What is it? These highlights are a type of balayage that involves making the front stripes of hair on both sides of your face brighter than the rest of your hair. The highlighted ribbons do an awesome job of brightening your complexion and accentuating your face.

See our selection of the poshest face-framing highlights to inspire your next salon visit.

1. Dark Brown with Bronde near the Face. A matching, lighter shade of brown highlights could be all your dark mane needs to give it the luminosity and classy feel you desire.

2. Natural-Looking ‘Sun-Kissed’ Locks. Starting off as soft blonde touches and fanning out into more elaborate highlights, this stunning balayage can make even Beyonce go green with envy.

3. Stunning Highlighted Bangs. Is it a trend for you? The answer is a resounding yes. In fact, the burst of color on the bangs framing your face delivers some admirable radiance to your complexion. The coif below is an absolute showstopper, isn’t it?

4. High-Contrast Blonde on Dark Locks. Sometimes all you need is just a touch of color here and there to set your dark mane ablaze. Choose a color two or three shades lighter than the rest of your strands to brighten up your look.

5. Layered Beach-Style Mane. A V-shaped crop is a show-stopper, especially on medium or long locks. Lighten up a small portion of your front strands for some exquisite fringes that will keep people staring in admiration.

6. Luminous Bronde against Deep Brown. Would you like to give your waves a fresh look without any major transformation of your hair color? Try face-framing highlights. You won’t need to dye your entire mane. Just touch up a few strands in the front. Also, a good litmus test if you want to find out how a particular hair color would look on you.

7. Metallic Blonde Strips. The bright blonde ribbons running along the face echo the basic highlights growing in intensity toward the ends and fill the brunette locks with shine and movement.

8. Caramel Highlights for Chocolate Brown Base. This yummy color scheme kills two birds with one stone — it spotlights the face and infuses the locks with beautiful warm tones.

9. Champagne Blonde for Light Brown. This is another image to draw inspo from if you want to brighten up your brown base. Champagne blonde goes well with different shades of brown. Warmer hues of blonde such as golden blonde are a hit on light brown locks. It supplies the vibrance your mane needs to pop.

10. Auburn on Mocha Brown Locks. This long brown mane is a bit spiced up with red-tinted gloss throughout the length, and the light auburn strips near the face add to the glow of the skin.

11. Delicate Bronde Lob. The length of your strands shouldn’t deter you from hopping on the face-framing hair trend. It looks just as cute whether your locks are barely grazing your jaw or sweeping past your hips. You’re good to go as far as you want if you have some fringes contouring your face. The following fantastic bob in a golden shade also confirms this fact.

12. Toffee Brown Contouring. Apart from immediately spotlighting the face with contrasting toffee brown ribbons, this amazing color job works as face sculpting by adding definition to the facial contour and making it slimmer.

13. Blonde Highlights with Face-Framing. As far as current highlights go, blonde face-framing is among the trendiest solutions. Light up your complexion with bright blonde ribbons for an edgy, fashionable look.

14. Side-Parted Coif with Highlights. The face-framing streaks can be placed anywhere in the front. They can go from the middle parting, side parting, or even cover your entire bangs. The effect remains the same – extra dimension, sophisticated glamor, and brightened complexion. Check out this alluring side-parted look.

15. Chunky Blonde Highs. Here is a modern take on the 90s chunky highlights, where the bright platinum bands around the face are combined with more delicate blonde streksa and a depth-adding reverse balayage.

16. Neck-Length Highlighted Brown Crop. Brunette babes with short locks will cherish this amazing type of highlights. Her blonde face-framing strands on a cinnamon brown base are adorable.

17. Purple Face-Framing and Underlights. For a totally revamped look, try high contrast balayage locks. The streaks of hand-painted highlights in a vividly contrasting color add definition to your face. The result is very compelling but not overpowering.

18. Earthy Brunette with Sparkling Ribbons. This dimensional color scheme includes a whole range of natural muted brown shades, except for the front highlights in a light-reflective hazelnut blonde.

19. Honey Blonde for Brunettes. If you want to stay on the warmer side of brown without going too red or yellow, the ‘caramel meets honey’ palette sported by this girl is what you need.

20. High-Contrast Face-Framing. Although it may seem counterintuitive, cooler blonde shades placed around the face can work fine for warm and olive complexions, neutralizing yellow undertones and making the skin look creamier.

21. Striking White Face Framing. This combination of auburn gloss and snow-white highlights is totally out of the ordinary, yet the statement-making shade chimes really well with the icy blue eyes and makes them pop.

22. Lived-In Blonde with Chunky Front Ribbons. Here we can see a lovely, seamless blend of face-framing and highlights — as the front streaks get wider, they are better blended with the blonde balayage of the mid-shaft.

23. Highlighted Layered Straight Dark Brown Locks. This coif retains depth created by the dark base color and doesn’t wash out the face thanks to the illuminating effect of the caramel highlights adjusted to the warm skin tone.

24. Bronde Highs and Lows. Lighter shades of brown can also play out in fresh colors if paired with a subtle balayage and complemented with golden touches around the face.

25. Platinum Blonde Face Framing for Bronde. This style takes quite a different approach to front highlights since it features a kind of color fade that gets darker and softer as it moves away from the face.

26. Discreet Caramel Ribbons. These soft caramel highlights give a touch of warmth to the cool complexion while the toned-down shade fits with both the dark brown base and the chocolaty hue on the bottom.

27. Muted Gold Against Dark Locks. Here is a stunning example illustrating how an ashy brunette balayage can be masterfully illuminated by some splashes of muted gold painted along the face.

28. Taupe Bronde with Pops of Silver. Although white blonde is not the most frequent face-framing color, it is fairly wearable when paired with deep smokey root melt and fancy greige highlights.

29. A Bar of Copper Chocolate. Adding red tones to your brunette locks is a good move if you want to arrive at a richer color, and warm caramel highlights will create soft lightness around the face.

30. Cool and Warm Blonde Perfection. The secret to great-looking highlights is choosing the right placement (from the roots or lower), the proper thickness of streaks, and the hair shade to complement your skin tone. Cooler shades are better for cooler skin tones and vice versa.

31. Dramatic Micro Streaks. Unlike other color schemes that use face-framing accents to support a balayage or ombre, these tiny front highlights are done to make a strong statement of their own.

32. Blended Blonde with Shadow Roots. Angelic in appearance and adorable in every aspect, her fascinating shoulder-length highlights are everything a girl can dream of. The diagonal arrangement of the strips doesn’t escape our notice.

33. High-Contrast Face-Framing Balayage. Although blended with the surrounding highlights, the near-face ribbons are bright enough to pop against the rich dark base while keeping the whole palette cool-toned.

34. Barely-There Face-Framing Balayage. This girl has the front of her locks dyed just one or two tones lighter than her base color to arrive at a naturally sun-kissed look with extra glow added to her face.

35. Amber Streaks on Deep Brown. This warm shade doesn’t require much bleaching to lift the color yet invokes dimension, adds energy, and creates a stunning autumnal look.

36. Light Red Spice for Dark Auburn Locks. Redheads are also encouraged to don face-framing highlights, following the example of this ginger hair queen who spiced up her look with a bit of orange.

37. Wispy Bright Blonde Frame. The beauty of her vivid blonde on blonde hair is ethereal. The streaks of blonde highlights are completed with soft and wispy blonde face-framing.

38. Streak Dyed Front of Hair. You must have heard about peek-a-boo highlights. One of the advantages of this color techniques is that you can rock your highlights like it’s nobody’s business and tuck it hidden away from the view if necessary.

39. Beige Blonde Balayage. Following current trends, this gorgeous color job delivers loads of dimension with slightly intensified brightness near the face and sticks to the neutral beige color family, which looks natural and suits different skin tones.

40. Subtle Bronze and Raven. While the black base of this lob creates a striking contrast with the light eyes, the metallic shine of the face-framing bits highlights the girl’s features and flatters her peachy complexion.

We believe you have ticked down one or twocolor ideas. Go on, show them to your hair colorist and enjoy your new smashing look.