Dark Hair With Caramel Tones
Caramel highlights are an effective way to add dimension to natural brown hues while remaining complimentary with other parts of your hair color. However, you must invest in color-protecting shampoo and conditioner products in order to prevent premature hair color fading.
Caramel balayage looks wonderful on brunettes with warm skin tones, as this technique brings out their features by creating face-framing highlights and functioning like money pieces to draw focus to them.
Gisele Bundchen
Gisele Bundchen is one of the most iconic supermodels from her generation, appearing on numerous fashion magazine covers and walking the runway for some of the top fashion houses and being recognized globally for her efforts in sustainability.
She became a master of beauty chameleoning, often opting for more natural looks while at other times channeling high-octane glamour. One thing she never lost sight of though were her signature beachy waves and radiant skin.
Make like Gisele Bundchen and ask your colorist to add subtle face-framing caramel highlights into the chocolate brown balayage, instantly brightening up your complexion while creating multidimensional depth effects that look natural and multidimensional.
Katie Holmes
Caramel highlights add depth and dimension to her dark locks, as well as complement fair complexions beautifully. To achieve the effect, her colorist used a light blonde shade all over her head before adding soft face-framing caramel highlights for extra definition.
To achieve the same effect, consult with a colorist about applying first a neutralizer, followed by caramel tone over your natural hue, before finishing up with gloss to prevent brassiness.
Dakota Johnson’s warm chestnut shades are ideal for fair complexions with cool undertones (check if your veins show signs of blue tint when observed in natural lighting) and her hair color complements her brown eyes perfectly.
Eva Longoria
Eva Longoria made waves at a recent red carpet event by debuting her short new do and lighter color at once. The former Desperate Housewives actress went for lighter locks but maintained her face-framing highlights intact.
Light caramel brown hair color is a warm and tawny shade perfect for those with golden complexions and brown eyes, and also serves as an effective balayage highlight shade on dark brunettes.
Jennifer Lopez
Lopez once experimented with blonde highlights, but recently she has been gradually moving back toward her brunette roots. Fans may have noticed her highlights gradually diminishing early winter as she experimented with curtain bangs; now, however, she seems fully at peace with her dark brown locks and accepting their full embrace as part of her look.
This look lands somewhere between cappuccino bronde and custom balayage, perfectly framing her face while giving the impression of having been naturally illuminated by sunlight. Additionally, it looks absolutely fab against her skin tone!
To create the look that Lopez wears, ask your stylist for a warm caramel hue with plenty of ashy highlights.
Kate Beckinsale
Kate Beckinsale recently surprised fans by debuting a brand-new blonde bob this winter. Wearing it in a looped and twisted updo at Elle’s Women In Hollywood event on Dec 5, she made quite the statement!
Kener’s layered bronde look features caramel highlights that begin a few inches from her hairline and gradually lighten towards the ends. Kener describes this color scheme as « rooted golden copper balayage, » making it suitable for warm skin tones.
Kiernan Shipka, who plays Sabrina Spellman from The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, sports a striking dark brunette lob with multidimensional chestnut tones that looks natural when she wears it in a center part.
Jillian Hervey
Jillian Hervey, best known as the lead singer of Lion Babe and daughter of Vanessa Williams, has become one of the faces of diversity within beauty. Her signature look involves sun-kissed curls with subtle caramel face-framing highlights for added dimension.
To prevent brassiness, ask your stylist to use a soft caramel shade rather than traditional blonde tones. This creates a warmer look with less orange undertone, perfect for Hervey’s warm complexion.
Add caramel babylights in the front for an eye-catching contrast against dark brown hair, perfect for drawing attention to specific features or working well for all lengths of locks. These lightener highlights work wonders in drawing focus to your favorite features!
Priyanka Chopra Jonas
Once one has won Miss World, written a best-selling memoir, graced two ELLE covers, launched her own beauty line and married one of Nick Jonas’ brothers, it would be reasonable to expect them to slow down – yet Priyanka Chopra Jonas shows no intention of slowing down!
She recently unveiled new blonde highlights on her dark brown locks, designed by celebrity colorist Tracey Cunningham and described as light blonde with caramel tones. Tracey shared video footage on Instagram as proof.
Priyanka’s chocolate-dipped cherry highlights pair beautifully with her darker complexion. These rich hues create dimension while emphasizing her face-framing layers framed by natural wavy texture of her face skin.
