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Dark Blonde
The deepest blonde before brown starts, a level six carrying soft golden warmth rather than any brightness.
Try Dark Blonde 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.
It reads as brown indoors and as blonde in sunlight, which is precisely why it suits people who want to change level without announcing it. At this depth there is still plenty of natural pigment in the hair, so very little lifting is needed and the condition survives intact. Regrowth comes in without a hard line, and as the color ages it warms up slightly rather than fading pale the way lighter blondes do.
- Undertonewarm, neutral. The muted gold sits comfortably on neutral and warm skin, and because the shade is deep rather than bright it does not drain fair complexions the way a pale blonde can.
- Starting pointMost natural mid to light brown hair gets here on permanent color alone with nothing lifted; only hair darker than a level four needs a lightener first.
- UpkeepA gloss twice a season stops it going flat, and the regrowth is forgiving enough that three months between full color appointments is realistic.
Try it before the bleach
Color is the expensive mistake to get wrong. Put Dark Blonde against your own skin tone first.
Related shades
Copper Blonde
Strawberry Blonde
Honey BlondeSee it on your own face first
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.