15 Gorgeous Ash Brown Balayage Hairstyles For 2025

Balayage is a hand-painted colouring method that seamlessly blends ash-brown highlights into the hair. This technique brightens the hair and adds depth, allowing it to grow out naturally without harsh lines. The blending of blonde tones creates a soft, natural-looking color.

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1. Sunset

Ash brown is a perfect choice for ombre balayage on long, voluminous hair. With more length and dimension to work with, stylists have plenty of space to create a seamless blend. A skillfully done balayage on long hair beautifully highlights the smooth transition of colors.

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2. Ash Balayage

The muted blondes blending with brown, black and grey hair gives a smokey look.

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3. Deep Balayage

These smoky highlights paired with deep brown hair make for a perfect color combination, resulting in a well-balanced ash brown shade.

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4. Keep it Cool

A high-impact ash brown hair color doesn’t require strong contrast. Soft, lighter base shades woven with ecru-toned highlights can be just as stunning, and they’re particularly flattering on warmer skin tones.

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5. Step Hair

Blending a touch of ash brown into the ends of an almost-black base creates a soft, candlelit effect in the darkness. This subtle hint of color gives the hair a beautifully moody feel.

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6. Long Curls

If you have long hair, you can try out this mixture of black with a few strands of blonde.

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7. Sun Kissed

You can achieve this fantastic look by keeping the volume of blondes a bit high among brown stands.

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8. Smoky Brown

With naturally dark roots, ash brown can serve as a softening shade, adding a touch of brightness without looking anything like blonde.

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9. Keep it Warm

 Adding gentle, subtle balayage highlights at the ends can create dimension without altering your untouched natural roots.

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10. Dark Blonde

Highlight some of your hair with blonds and some deep brown, keeping the base black or brown to achieve this look.

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11. Sunny Day

These bottom-heavy streaks with cool undertones offer a low-maintenance way to wear ash brown hair. If you have naturally dark roots, you can embrace the shadowed look to enhance the overall effect.

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12. Ash Brown Curls

Keeping the hair brown with little blonde highlights can give you this look.

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13. Muted Blonde

Adding a few cool-toned highlights or lowlights, from ashy blonde to cool brown, creates a striking, multi-dimensional mix of soft, muted blonds.

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14. Short Balayage

Curls up your hair with sunny blondes and warmer undertones and get this amazing look that goes well both in the office as well as Friday nights.

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15. Step Bob

Step Bob can slightly lift your overall brown shade, and using a cool toner afterward helps neutralize any natural warmth in your hair. It’s a subtle, understated way to brighten your look.