Hair Colour

These 30 brunette hair color ideas are ranked by real upkeep — from six-month set-and-forget shades to toner-dependent reds, with honest costs for each tier.

Hair color banding shows up as horizontal lines where old dye overlaps with new growth. Each box dye application deepens the problem. Here is why and how to stop it.

Hair color levels run 1 to 10 and directly control how well gray gets covered. Learn the scale, what each level deposits, and which one suits your hair.

Ombre hair color is the gradient with the softest grow-out in color — 25 modern ideas grouped by starting level, with sessions and honest costs for each.

Gray coverage at home often fails because regrowth reacts differently than previously colored hair. Learn why your roots look different and what to change.

Caramel highlights on dark hair work from jet black to light brunette — 25 sunlit shades with session counts, grow-out clocks, and honest cost bands.

Brown hair with blonde highlights lives or dies on contrast — these 30 blended looks are grouped by starting level, with sessions and honest costs for each.

Highlights vs. balayage comes down to the grow-out line, the yearly cost, and how much contrast you want. See how each one behaves on your actual base level.

Blonde balayage sits at levels 8 to 10 and takes one to three sessions by starting base — 30 shades from buttery to icy, with costs and toner clocks.

Hair color levels run 1 to 10, black to lightest blonde — learn to find your own number and why it decides every shade, session, and cost that follows.