You’ve Seen The New Milk Tea Hair Color Trend, Right? If Not, Don’t Miss These 25 Stunning Examples

Avery Hunt
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Long-Length Wavy Milky Tea Beige Hair
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#1: Wavy Milky Beige Hair

Try a style with wavy, milky beige hair. Show off a dazzling style this year with a dominant beige tone. Firstly, it’s important to have a full head of color to reach the level of a 7-medium beige blonde. Then, add in balayage highlights to brighten up and create a dimensional color. When you tone your hair with beige colors, it presents a muted gold effect. Adding in some violet can create an intriguing milk tea color. Try it out it can be tailored to your skin tone when deciding options with your stylist.

Milk Tea Ash with Long Face-Framing Cut
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#2: Milk Tea Ash with Face-Framing Cut

You can enhance a face-framing shaggy style using a milk tea shade. It compliments a variety of skin tones. Try lifting your natural color to reach an overall level 7, which is medium blonde. This is the first step towards achieving an all-over color. Next, add some balayage highlights to lighten specific hair pieces. Finally, blend it all to match a level 9 ash or violet gold shade.

Longer Waves with Milk Tea Chunky Highlights
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#3: Milk Tea Chunky Highlights

Spark interest in your hair by adding chunky highlights to your base color. This will bring depth to your hair and prevent any flatness in appearance. If you’re stuck for a color choice, a trendy option right now is the cool beige called milk tea. Also, consider integrating ribbons of various colors to enhance your look.

Shoulder-Length Ash Milk Tea Hair with Thin Bangs
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#4: Shoulder-Length Ash Milk Tea Hair

One way to change your look is with color. A classic face-framing style becomes more interesting with an ashy milk tea tone. Overall, the lightening of the hair is important when starting from a darker level. Once you achieve the desired level, you can tone your hair with a beautiful ashy golden tone in the popular milk tea style.

Light Milk Tea on Long Hair
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#5: Light Milk Tea on Long Hair

The current color trend is milk tea, which includes beige creams with a sheen of iridescence. To achieve this color, the hair may need to be lightened first, requiring healthy and strong hair. I suggest a high-quality home care routine to keep your hair at its best.

Bright Milk Tea with Platinum Highlights
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#6: Bright Milk Tea with Platinum Highlights

A vibrant combination of bright milk tea and platinum highlights adds warmth to fair skin tones while striking a remarkable contrast. You can achieve this contrast between light and dark by weaving in your natural color, which adds depth and dimension to your overall look.

Milk Tea Light Brown with Long Waves
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#7: Milk Tea Light Brown Waves

A darker milk tea produces a level 6 color and deep ash golden blends. The deep ash golden blends are suitable for ladies wanting a change without lightening their hair to a level 8 or 9. These blends look appealing when combined with babylights, which gives light reflection in an overall darker blonde tone.

Milk Tea Blonde Tone for Medium to Long Hair
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#8: Milk Tea Blonde Tone

This is a variation of cream beige blonde hair. Your base color or the result, after you lighten your hair, will suggest the color level to pick. Blend cool, warm, gold, and violet hues for the desired tone. It suits well if you have warm and golden skin tones.

Short Mushroom Milky Tea Bob
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#9: Short Mushroom Tea Bob

The hair color known as the short mushroom tea bob is extremely versatile. Its rich, earthy tones beautifully complement warm skin tones. For a more natural finish, consider adding dimension and depth by leaving bits of your natural color visible. This approach enhances the beauty and makes maintenance easier.

#10: Ashy Light Brown Hue

People with dark hair who want to enhance the color and display reflective highlights will appreciate a light, ashy blonde. Natural level 5 or 6 base colors are the perfect starting point. Ask your stylist for some balayage highlights and to tone these highlights to a level 8 golden violet. This gives your light brown hue a cooler, milk tea-like reflection.

Milk Tea Brown Pixie Hair
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#11: Milk Tea Brown Pixie

Consider a milk tea brown pixie haircut. A darker milk tea tone fits well with warmer golden skin hues. If your hair is at levels 1 to 3, it will typically lighten to a darker-medium blonde color with underlying warmth. Your stylist will diminish this warmth, applying some violet and ash to achieve a darker blonde – a level 6 color. Technically, the resulting color is a shade of blonde, but without reaching a level 9 or 10, some people might perceive it as a brown hue.

Creamy Beige Bronde Milk Tea Hair Color
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#12: Creamy Beige Bronde Hair Color

The popular creamy beige or milk tea bronde hair color is one of the best this year. If you’re blonde and want to change your hue for the coming season, add depth to achieve a creamy beige bronde color. Brunettes wanting to lighten their hair can add beige, ashy hues.

Dark Ashy Milk Tea Blonde for Long Hair
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#13: Dark Ashy Blonde Hair

For a delicious and glamorous hue, ask for dark, ashy blonde hair! This hair tone adjusts between dark and light shades. It changes based on the light effect or the style of your hair.

#14: Milky Ash Blonde Babylights

Try a creamy ash blonde if you’re looking for a modern color option to compliment your skin tone. Creamy ash blonde is the perfect blend of neutral and ash tones. Ask your stylist for a full head of babylights, and then color-melt a darker ash base into the perfect milk tea ends.

#15: Light Bronze Milk Tea Hair

The perfect bronze blonde suits golden skin tones. Level 8 blonde base color and added balayage highlights create a perfect dimensional effect. This hair color will grow out seamlessly with the blend and will require level 8 root touch-ups every 4-6 weeks. You can redo the highlights to maintain a soft root every two touch-ups. Using a chocolate-toned level 9 for toning helps tie the colors together beautifully.

Pastel Caramel Brown Milk Tea Color for Long Tresses
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#16: Pastel Caramel Brown

This pastel caramel brown color is giving major summer vibes! Slightly warm and milky, this hue is perfect for long-haired ladies and looks great with wand waves or romantic curls.

Milk Tea Color with Subtle Silver for Medium-Length Hair
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#17: Milk Tea Color with Subtle Silver

Everyone is trying the soft and sweet trend of the milk tea color with subtle silver. A milk tea hue is a great choice for a deep but light hair color.

Cool-Toned Milk Tea Brown Balayage Ombre with Medium Haircut
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#18: Cool-Toned Brown Balayage Ombre

If you are a brunette, a cool-toned brown balayage is a great choice to change your hair color subtly. Instead of opting for warm tones, consider cooling your hair color.

Milky Tea Medium Brown Hair
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#19: Milky Medium Brown Hair

Milky medium brown hair has a gorgeous, ashen tone that mimics the sweetness of milk tea. This hue looks stunning when paired with a mid-length or long-layered haircut.

Mushroom Milk Tea Long Hair with Wispy Bangs
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#20: Mushroom Milk Tea Hair with Wispy Bangs

The mushroom milk tea hair color combined with wispy bangs is now trendy. This hair color is especially popular with women who prefer a playful and flirtatious style.

#21: Soft Melted Milk Tea Brunette

Women with cool undertones will love this brunette hue. It resembles melted milk tea and enhances their skin. It brings about an amazing glow.

Ash Beige Milk Tea with Long Straight Hair
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#22: Ash Beige Straight Hair

Ash beige straight hair resembles blonde hair but has some superior qualities! The extra depth subtly alters the ash-beige color, giving your hair a healthier and more full-bodied appearance.

Milk Tea Beige Brown on Long Wavy Hair
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#23: Milk Tea Beige Brown

Need some inspiration? The milk tea beige-brown trend is a favorite recent color idea. The combination of cool hues and rich depth gives a luxurious feel, uplifting any daily look.

Soft Cool Milk Tea Brown Ombre Long Hair
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#24: Soft Cool Brown Ombre

A soft, cool brown ombre is an approach to the milk tea color trend that brings out a bit more richness. Requesting a slightly darker shade at the roots will make the color easier to maintain between salon visits.

Milk Tea Silver Blonde with Dark Roots for Medium Hair
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#25: Milk Tea Silver Blonde with Dark Roots

Ask your stylist for a full head of babylights to achieve this look. It has very thin sections throughout the whole head for more of a natural look. Then your stylist will tone the highlights with the perfect silvery cool with a pinch of gold color. Adding in a root smudge over level 5 or 6 will bring this into a beautiful melt of tones.

Ever thought about changing your hair to a cool, creamy milk tea color? This unique shade is making waves for its ability to blend with various skin tones while offering a fresh, modern look. Here’s what you need to know, straight from expert hairstylist Julianna Nitti.

Meet The Expert

Julianna Nitti
Julianna Nitti
Julianna is a hairstylist with over 5 years of experience.
You can find her at Authentic Hair Studio in Long Island, NY

Choosing the Right Shade for You

Nitti emphasizes the importance of starting with your “natural canvas.” She says, “Think about your hair’s natural color and its history.” If your hair is dark or has been dyed before, getting that milk tea color means lightening your hair just past gold. Then, a custom semi-color toner brings out the best milk tea hue for your skin tone.

“Milk Tea Hair leans cool but has a warm hint to avoid making any skin tone look washed out,” Nitti explains. She adds that various tones can be adjusted to match your natural color and complexion. Darker skin or hair? Aim for a brown-beige with lilac undertones. Lighter? Go for creamy, cool white blondes with a beige root melt.

Keeping Your Milk Tea Hair Beautiful

Nitti’s top tip for maintaining that gorgeous milk tea color is investing in good home care. “Use a color-safe shampoo and a bond-building treatment like Uberliss Bond Sustainer,” she advises. Protecting your hair from heat damage is also crucial. Nitti loves Pureology Color Fanatic leave-in treatment and Moroccan oil perfect defense spray to keep those cool tones vibrant.

Talking to Your Stylist

Before diving in, find a colorist who specializes in blonding. The process can be delicate, and expertise is key. “The darker your hair, the more sessions you’ll need,” Nitti warns. She suggests discussing a plan with your stylist to achieve those cooler tones while keeping your hair healthy. Remember, maintaining milk tea hair can be a commitment both in time and money.

Photos of the Most Trending Milk Tea Hair Color Ideas