35 Ash Brown Hair Looks

With a gorgeous smokey blonde balayage over an ashy brown base color, this is the coolest take on the bronde hair trend we’ve seen. Perfect for ladies who like the trendy in-between shade but don’t love the way warm hair colors look against their skin.

Give your natural ash brown hair a new season update with a slightly lighter ombre color applied over the ends. Between the natural-looking shades and very little difference between the two colors, this is one of the most easygoing ways to wear dimensional hair color.

Cool, ashy brown hair provides the perfect backdrop for dark gray highlights. Give this style a try if you want to wear your hair in a dark color that’s more muted than a jet black or rich espresso shade.

This medium chestnut brown hair is the perfect neutral shade and will go with just about any skin tone.

This medium ash brown style looks simple and natural without being flat or boring. If you’ve been wearing your brown hair with warm caramel highlights for a few seasons now, this is a great way to cool things down for a change.

Whether you wear hair plain and straight or in a casual fishtail, these dimensional colors play against each other beautifully without looking too in-your-face.

This style lets you brighten up your face without completely abandoning the ash brown hair that you were born with (or paid for at the salon). Because these shades of brown and blonde aren’t too far apart on the color spectrum, these face-framing highlights come across as sun-kissed and natural looking.

Highlighting dark brown hair offers the opportunity to be very bold or super subtle, and this ashy brown balayage lands nicely in between the two extremes. A dark brown base color looks thick and dimensional thanks to these balayage highlights. Being applied with a fine technique, they blend effortlessly in and out of darker strands.

This perfect lob actually features a nice mixture of warm and cool tones of ash brown hair color, making it a great choice for women with neutral complexions, or anyone who just can’t make up her mind.

If this is your natural hair color, lucky you! Everyone else will have to hit up the salon to get this perfectly cool dark brown shade. Despite the general rule that cool colors go with cool skin tones, this look is a great example of how a natural-looking ashy brown hair shade can play against warmer complexions.

If you grew up in the age when your hair was only cool if it was full of chunky warm blonde highlights, you might have grown up thinking ash brown hair was for plain hair. We’re here from the future to tell you that cool, smokey ash browns make up some of the most incredibly chic looks this season.

An ultra subtle blonde balayage helps to brighten this cool brown style up without bringing in any warmer shades. Fair-skinned beauties with cool pink tones in their skin will love how this dimensional shade makes their faces come alive.

Isn’t this highlighted smokey ash brown hair color just lovely!! This all-over highlighted style uses the balayage technique but in a less trend-obsessed way.

The blue tinge in this medium ash brown hair makes it a contender for the coolest hairstyle on our list. This is a beautiful example of how unnatural colors can be used to subtly enhance a hairstyle without overpowering the look.

The brown base color in this mid-length cut is a fairly neutral shade of brown, but ashy gray babylights help to give it a smokey appearance in both color and texture. If you’ve always wanted to try out a greyish hairstyle, this is one of the most natural-looking ways to pull it off.

Fair-skinned women with cool undertones and blue eyes can look incredibly dramatic in this shade of dark natural ash. Between the azure eyes and dusty pink lips, this hair color is the perfect canvas to enhance a chilly, muted look.

We tend to think of ash brown as needing to be paired with colors that are muted or very cool, but this balayage style is a nice example of how a neutral blonde can balance well against an ash brown base. This style works well because neither of these two colors are too far on the warm-cool spectrum.

From dark ash brown hair color from the roots to cool dirty blonde ends, this color melted hair is smokey ash brown hair color perfection. Give this look a go if you’ve been dying to try ash brown hair but want something more dimensional than a single tone style.

This ash brown bob looks bright thanks to some cool purple undertones. Although this isn’t exactly an everyday color, it’s a versatile shade that fits well with both warm and cool skin tones.

A dusty lavender ombre makes the perfect accent for this medium ash brown hair color, creating a purple-tinged style that will make all of your friends jealous.

Dishwater hair may not sound appealing, but it comes out as this gorgeous medium-brown hair that’s super toned down. We love this look for women with very fair or porcelain complexions, and it works well with both warm and cool undertones.

This color melted style incorporates a slight touch of violet that shines nicely in the light and helps enhance its transition from black-brown roots to medium ashy brown ends.

With some yellowy tones throughout the middle of hair strands and smokey greyish tips, this brown bob presents an impressive range of colors.

So dark it’s almost black, this ash brown hair is exquisitely accented with gray babylights, making for a cool smokey hairstyle that looks great on women with medium-dark complexions.

Layer lighter colors over darker ones if you want your bob haircut to look dimensional and endlessly thick. With light grey highlights dancing over dark ash brown hair color, this cool bob is a moody masterpiece.

This dark ash brown hairstyle almost sparkles thanks to expertly applied highlights in lighter brown and dove gray colors.

Frame your face and make your dark brown hair look brighter without going brassy.

Yet another gorgeous entry from the world of bronde, this particular style does a great job of mixing blonde highlights with a dark brown base.

Try a cool blonde ombre over your natural ash brown base if you’re looking to switch up your hair color without going for a brand new shade from roots to ends.

Still one of the trendiest haircuts around, textured bobs and lobs mix the styling ease of longer looks with the chic precision of a shorter cut. Try a dark ash brown hair color if you’re looking for a color that’s versatile and chic enough to match this cut.

This medium-colored smokey ash brown hair style uses darker roots to help balance out highlights and makes for a great everyday ash brown look.

This bluish-gray smokey ash brown balayage offers a subtle hint of smokey ash color to bring an even bigger cool factor to your ash brown hair.

With ash brown and blonde expertly weaved together, it’s hard to tell where one shade ends and another begins.

Some ash brown styles have a subtle green undertone, but this cool color look makes liberal use of a muddy seaweed shade. Forget pastel aqua and lavender hairstyles, this is what real mermaid hair looks like.

These platinum highlights with rich light brown lowlights are so subtle and give a beautiful natural and effortless look.

Medium ash brown or mushroom brown hair is a new trend that’s taking over! This shade with ashy brown hair tones is a great choice if you like warmer shades.

Whether you choose to go for a subtle or bold look, light blonde highlights will give your ashy brown hair warmth and dimension. The curls also add so much texture and depth to the overall look.

A full on ash brown balayage style with cool shades of blonde highlights. This ashy brown hair base is layered with strong highlights and lowlights creating so much dimension and depth.

This light ashy lob appears almost matt and very cool. It starts with dark roots fading into beautiful ash highlights.

This greyish shade of medium brown hair reminds us of old photographs in sepia tone and will give your hair an antique look that’s not quite as intense as fully grey color.

This look features warm ash highlights and lowlight creating a light grey-brownish tone.

This ash brown balayage ombre color is super chic and will look great on both short and long hair.

Brown color is beautifully blended with cooler tones like purples and greens! These metallic lilac highlights blend perfectly with the silvery ash brown shade.

If you want to spice up your ash brown hair and give it extra edge, all you need to do is turn up the silver levels, going subtle from the roots and gradually getting thicker through the ends.

What a gorgeous dark ash brown hair color base with highlights! We love this wavy lob cut with subtle highlights lending beautifully with the dark brown shade.

If you’d like to get a warmer tone and update your classic brown color,  this warm chocolate ashy brown hue is so flattering and refreshing.

Shades like chestnut and mocha would look great with your skin, in case you have warm undertones. So consider adding warmth to your ash brown with chestnut highlights and lowlights.

This style features a dark ash brown hair color base with warm bronde and cool grey balayage highlights.

Another gorgeous example of dark ash brown hair color with super subtle highlights.