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Caramel Highlights
Golden brown strands woven through a dark base only a couple of levels lighter, so the contrast stays low and warm.
Try Caramel Highlights on your own photo. Free to download, iPhone, iOS 15.1 or later.
Both renders are HairGlam output. In the app the shade lands on your photo instead.
Sitting only a couple of levels above the base, caramel reads as depth and movement rather than as visible separate strands. Under a lamp it can look like one warm brown; in sunlight the woven pieces come up as golden brown streaks through the dark. The low lift means the hair keeps most of its condition. It fades toward copper, which still sits inside the intended color rather than turning muddy.
- Undertonewarm. This is warmth added to warmth, so it belongs on golden, olive and deeper complexions where a cool ash tone would look drained against the skin.
- Starting pointTwo to three levels of lift is all it takes, so on virgin dark brown it can sometimes be done with a high-lift color rather than bleach.
- UpkeepA gloss every ten to twelve weeks is enough, the grow out is soft because the contrast is small, and condition holds up better than any blonde option.
Try it before the bleach
Color is the expensive mistake to get wrong. Put Caramel Highlights against your own skin tone first.
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Every style in this catalog renders onto a photo of you, so you are judging your own face shape and coloring rather than a model's.
Free to download. iPhone, iOS 15.1 or later.