25 Stunning Face Framing Highlights To Transform Your Look
Gungun Prasad
Updated At 04 Oct 26
Add warmth and dimension to your hair without completely transforming your color with face framing highlights. These brightened strands can be as subtle or as striking as you like from beige to red, the right color can completely transform your look.
1. Beige Face Framing Highlights
Adding beige face framing highlights can provide an inner glow without creating a glaring difference. Beige blends well with brunette, dark blonde, and bronde bases. For low maintenance growing-out capabilities, keep the sections thin and blended.
Natalia Romaniuc suggests face framing color as a way to brighten the face while still complementing your natural color.
2. Brown Face Framing Highlights
Brown face framing highlights add subtlety and dimension without making the hair appear dramatically lighter. Applying brown color to a darker base creates an appealing contrast.
3. Bright Blonde Face Framing Highlights
Face framing strands of bright blonde can create an illuminated face framing effect. These highlights can look particularly appealing alongside a brunette, dark blonde, or bronde base when you want a more noticeable difference.
4. Caramel Face Framing Highlights
Caramel highlights can add warmth and dimension to brunette hair. This is an excellent option if you want to achieve warmer looking skin without making a dramatic change to your hair color.
5. High Contrast Halo Face Framing Highlights
High contrast halo highlights place a lighter color around the face, creating the front sections as the main attraction.
Colorist Guy Tang describes a money piece as a light section specifically applied to the front-most strands of the hair.
6. Cream Face Framing Highlights
Adding cream highlights can create a soft version of blonde without the harshness of platinum. This option blends particularly well with neutral and warm blonde bases. Applying a glossy finish to the strands will create richer looking highlights.
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For a striking difference, apply bright money pieces alongside larger blocks of contrasting color.
Phoebe Nathan and Christine Thompson have talked about the versatility of money pieces by varying the width, tone, and placement, creating a much more customizable option than standard.
8. Pink Face Framing Highlights
Pink highlights can bring a playful quality without requiring you to change your entire hair color. If the front sections need to be bleached before applying the pink color, ask the colorist to check the condition of your hair before lightening.
9. Light Golden Brown Highlights
Light golden brown highlights can add dimension and a warm glow while keeping the final result relatively natural looking. This is a great option if you want to brighten medium or dark brown hair without introducing a blonde contrast.
10. Bright Face Framing Foil Blend Highlights
Using foil blending can create a number of dramatic highlights around the face while still incorporating a more subtle transition into the natural hair color.
11. Soft Caramel Highlights
Applying soft caramel is a great option if you want to add dimension without the glaring contrast of a money piece. The more subtle transition also means the strand color is easier to maintain as it grows out.
12. Glossy Face Framing Highlights
A gloss can make the face framing color appear smoother and more put together by refining the tone and increasing the shine. This is a great option if the colorist has lightened your hair and wants to minimize the appearance of warmth.
13. Blonde Face Framing Highlights
Classic blonde face framing highlights can add light and dimension to the hair almost immediately. Honey blonde will create a warm appearance, while ash blonde provides a cooler look.
14. Violet Face Framing Highlights
Adding violet face framing pieces offers an artistic alternative to blonde highlights. Keeping the color concentrated in the front area if you want to achieve a dramatic effect without committing to a vivid overall appearance.
15. Platinum Face Framing Highlights
Platinum highlights can add maximum brightness and contrast. These dramatic strands can look particularly impressive against a dark base, although achieving this light of a shade may require extensive bleaching.
16. Money Piece Face Framing Highlights
Classic money pieces keep the brighter sections concentrated around the face, providing an updated look without having to lighten the entire head of hair.
Natalia Romaniuc describes the technique as a relatively fuss free way of brightening the face and enhancing the facial structure.
17. Cool Brunette Highlights
Cool brunette highlights are a great option to add dimension if you prefer mocha, ash brown, or cool chocolate tones. This will create a noticeable face frame without being dramatic enough to draw too much attention.
18. Silver Blonde Highlights
Silver blonde highlights can create a cool, luminous effect that blends well with naturally gray or ash tones. To keep the color and condition of the lightened sections in good condition, use color safe products and limit the use of thermal styling tools.
19. Bluish Violet Highlights
Bluish violet highlights create a dramatic, creative frame around the face. This is a particularly fun option if you want to transform your overall appearance. Keeping the rest of the hair relatively simple will ensure the unusual color stands out as the main attraction.
20. Light Blonde Highlights
Light blonde highlights can create a refreshed, sun kissed effect around the face. If you're new to the idea of adding highlights, consider asking for fine sections rather than thick panels.
21. Soft Golden Face Framing Highlights
Soft golden highlights can add dimension and a warm glow without creating an overly bright appearance. Adding some loose waves to the hair will create a bolder contrast as the highlighted sections catch the light as you move.
22. Halo Face Framing Highlights
Halo highlights keep the concentration of the brighter sections around the front and sides rather than distributing them throughout the hair.
Natalia Romaniuc recommends strategically intensified highlights around the face as a way of refreshing an existing balayage without having to commit to an entire color service. .
23. Brunette Face Framing Highlights
Adding brunette face framing highlights is a great way of adding dimension without completely transforming your hair color. Depending on your base, you can choose from chocolate, espresso, and mocha options.
24. Soft Blode Highlights
Soft blonde highlights are a great way of adding brightness without creating a glaring appearance. This option is particularly appealing if you're trying highlights for the first time.
Hair colorist Avery Hunt describes money piece color as a technique of accentuating the facial structure through strategically applied sections at the front.
25. Red Face Framing Highlights
Adding red face framing highlights can add warmth and dimension to the overall appearance of your hair. Since the more vivid red shades can require more maintenance, ask the colorist about using a gloss or following a color refreshing routine to keep the shade fresh.
