Chocolate brown hair makes an excellent base color for highlights. By mixing warm and cool tones, this look flatters all skin tones beautifully.
As part of your look, adding chocolate brown highlights is an easy and low maintenance way to elevate any look. Just be sure to use products without sulfates or silicones so as to maintain its vibrant hue.
Chestnut and Chocolate
Chocolate brown balayage looks beautiful on all hair types, but especially complements cool-toned skin tones. This look transforms dark brunette to warm hazelnut shades while strategically placing highlights to frame the face – ideal for anyone seeking an easy long bob with plenty of dimension!
Add a pop of copper to your rich chocolate brown balayage for an intriguing and dynamic style! Sue Tyrrell created an excellent example that complimented this client with cooler skintone. Their hint of red made their hair stand out beautifully.
Soft and natural-looking balayage on brown hair is the key to creating a gorgeous chocolate ombre shade that won’t fade too quickly. Here, the base shade is warm mahogany that approaches black; while chestnut highlights and painted honey-blonde babylights add subtle sun-kissed strands. The result is an appealing gradient of tone suitable for all skin tones.
Cappuccino Balayage
Brunettes will find that adding light coffee brown balayage provides rich tones that complement most skin tones, from natural dark to lighter skin tones. With this face-framing color they can look their best during summer beach walks under a loose beach hat or autumn with a pulled back ponytail!
Keke Palmer achieved her warm cappuccino balayage using Koleston Perfect Special Blonde 4/0 at her roots and Blondor Freelights Opens in a new window for mid-lengths and ends, for long-lasting caramel highlights that don’t fade or smudge over time.
For a dramatic balayage effect, combine chocolate brown with chunky blonde highlights for maximum visual impact. This contrast will highlight your client’s best features if they possess cool-toned complexions and jewel-toned eyes, and milk chocolate-to-blonde balayage is the ideal way to blend with lighter hair colors like blonde. Furthermore, darker balayages add depth and dimension.
Long Chestnut Balayage
When it comes to highlighting brunettes, bold is always best. Caramel balayage can be an eye-catching way to add some zest into your mane and blends effortlessly into its natural shade. For this luxurious look, choose a rich chestnut brown as the base and mix golden honey through a balayage technique for an eye-catching warm highlight that suits all skin tones.
Dark chocolate may dull down one’s complexion, but when blended with warm chestnut tones it looks absolutely breathtaking. Colorist @slim_color created this stunning wavy mane featuring chestnut highlights at the roots that transition seamlessly to strawberry blonde highlights at the tips – framing the face perfectly and adding drama.
This technique of balayage uses freehand painting, and requires the appropriate pre-lightener for your desired shade. We suggest the Magnet(tm) Blondes Ultimate Powder 7, available to lighter hues but also suitable for chestnut hues.
Hazelnut Balayage
If you are a brunette with cool skin tones, balayage with rich chestnut and auburn browns is a fantastic way to enhance your look and make you more vibrant all year long. These vibrant shades help balance out your complexion so your locks appear healthier and radiant all year round.
Curly or wavy locks tend to make highlights stand out more, making your natural brunette tone stand out more starkly against them. A subtle sombre technique whereby your strands gradually fade from their darker brown shade into one lighter brown tone may provide more gradual transition and is suitable for most texturised brunettes.
Brunettes with long, curly locks can showcase their balayage best by adding braids to their look. Braids draw out the color while waterfall or French braids also draw attention to your stunning locks.
