Before your next hair color appointment, check out these pictures of black hair with blonde highlights. Black hair with blonde highlights are proven to offer depth and texture to any type of hair and transform your look dramatically. Brightening natural dark hair seems a tedious and impossible process, but I’m glad to tell you that it’s totally not!
You don’t need to go all solid blonde with your deep black hair just to liven it up. With strategically placed coloring, you can achieve a multi-tonal, dimensional hair that can be very flattering on your skin complexion.
One thing about this hair color that makes everyone fall in love with it is the spectacular contrast it provides when warm and cool tones are blended perfectly. Vivid highlights always look stunning on straight, wavy, or curly hair.
Blonde is the perfect shade to use when testing out lighter hair colors on a darker base. Liven up your black hair with blonde streaks without the commitment of fully transforming your hair color.
There is a wide range of blonde hues to choose from like platinum, ash, sun-kissed, bleached, dirty, and a lot more others! Scroll through these gorgeous photos of black hair with blonde highlights to get you started in this exciting transformation!
Long Black Hair With Blonde Highlights
Long black hair with blonde highlights is a classic trend that offers a chic, feminine style. A fusion of long waves and contrasting hues is what creates multi-dimensional tones. This one’s perfect for women who want to brighten up their dark tresses for a change.
Q&A with style creator, Samantha Cheevers
MA Colorist @ The Salon Beau in Andover, MA
How would you describe this?
Long hair that’s black with blonde highlights can be considered a low maintenance balayage. It’s for dark hair types with a long layered haircut and angles in the front.
What’s your best advice?
Research a stylist who works with dark hair types, and more specifically blonde on black hair. Then stick with that stylist for consistent results. It will take more than one appointment to get your desired result of a blonde balayage on dark hair. Use a shampoo and conditioner recommended by your stylist. This will keep your color on tone between appointments. You can achieve this color even if you’ve used box dye or colored your hair yourself. It will just take a little longer.
Shoulder Length Hair with Titanium Blonde Highlights
This black hair with blonde highlights is at least 3 dimensional! Between the natural dark hair at the crown, to the bronze mid-way and sprinkled with titanium highlights, it’s a unique color-combo nonetheless.
Curly Hair with Silver Blonde Highlights
These soft curls appear stylish and when added with grey streaks all over. One of its coolest benefits of silver blonde highlights on black hair is how dimensional and textured it can be from every angle.
Black A-Line Bob with Dirty Blonde Highlights
This black hair with blonde highlights hairstyle is just stunning and has a short and sweet quality to it that makes it look perfect with this bob, adding a soft touch to the look with the smooth waves.
Long Black Hair with Honey Blonde Highlights
The light catching and deep volume feature of this hair color look absolutely marvelous from root to tip. It allows you to keep your natural black hair from the roots, so you can enjoy the summery ribbons of blonde even after it grows out.
Jet Black Hair with Golden Blonde Streaks
The richness of this super dark straight hair provides the perfect base for warm honey colors. The blond highlights on black hair melt with the angled ends creating a mini ombre that makes the hairstyle so light and edgy.
Black Hair with Ash Blonde Highlights
Jazz up black hair with ash blonde highlights to see a lovely salt-and-pepper effect. The best thing about this long ashy blonde shade is its dimension. It’s the light blonde highlights that contrast with the dark tone of black hair.
Q&A with style creator, Glen Hew
Hair Artist / Education Director @ Nekderx Hair Academy in Selangor, Malaysia
How would you describe this?
This black hair with ash blonde highlights is called a foilayage ombre. It’s more contrast and features chunky lights. Blonde ombre highlights have a dimensional effect on straight or wavy hair. Plus, it’s suitable on short, medium or long hair with a dark natural base. These black and blonde highlights are perfect for women who want to keep their natural virgin hair, too.
What’s your best advice?
If you love your dark natural hair color, go for these ash blonde highlights. It still looks good while new roots grow out, and the blonde and black hair color will maintain its uniqueness as it fades. Just ask your colorist to prelighten your hair.
Black Pixie Cut with Blonde Highlights
Here’s a black pixie cut with blonde highlights that offers a dashing style! This is a short sassy haircut that looks great when textured. It has subtle layers, so it’s easy to style with a piecey effect. The fusion of black hair underneath, plus the hints of the blonde hue, creates a nice dimension.
Light Blonde Highlights on Black Hair
Q&A with style creator, Kacy Bunn
Owner / Stylist @ KM Hair Studio in Gulf Shores, AL
How would you describe this?
These light blonde highlights on black hair is on a stacked bob. Women who are very dark naturally can still have healthy, bright, blonde highlights for summer, and it accentuates the layers throughout the cut.
What’s your best advice?
Style your blonde streaks in black hair with a mousse and serum combo, along with a round brush. This is great for the woman who wants a stylish look, but doesn’t want to spend all morning blow drying her hair.
