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The honey-brown highlight is the hair equivalent of a subtly sun-kissed (spray) tan when you're feeling kind of blah: an instant mood booster. If you're a natural brunette, the golden-bronze lift says I just spent a restful ten days in St. Barths — even if the only traveling you've done is the long trek to Trader Joe's.
According to L.A.-based colorist Tabitha Dueñas, the ideal tone is a warm medium brown, not the lifted blonde you typically see with highlights. "Honey brown is not a bright, cool-toned blonde highlight," she says. "It's much warmer and looks best infused subtly via babylight foils or blended balayage focused through the ends, leaving the root tone natural to give sparkly dimension between the honey lift and dark-brown base shade."
Ahead, the best examples of how the honey-brown color reads on a range of hair textures — so you can get in on the seasonal pick-me-up.
One particularly great thing about honey-brown highlights is that they're pretty low-maintenance when compared to a single-process color. Dueñas says that the time between touch-ups can be up to two or three months, if need be.According to Atlanta-based colorist Kristal Kaiser, honey is synonymous with a warm gold tone, and it really pops when applied in ribbons of balayage or Pintura highlights.Colorist Chad Kenyon shows how the lightest iteration of a honey-blonde tone, teetering on golden blonde, blends seamlessly over a darker brown base.In this example from L.A.-based hair salon Mèche, the golden-brown lift around the face frame acts like a soft halo of natural light.If you ask for your lightest honey-brown highlight on just the ends of your hair — like this dimensional color on influencer Jordan Rebello — you'll get the same illuminating effect while further extending the time you can afford to wait between appointments.Colorist Gaby Bowen of NYC's Cutler Salon shows how a warm bronze balayage on curls reads as shiny and healthy — think sun-kissed, not sun-bleached.
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