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50 Trendy Ideas of Gray Highlights for the New You

40. Gray Highlights on Brown Hair. Run currents of gray strands through your hair for a picturesque look. Bring out your curling iron and add in curls for a truly electrifying hairstyle.

Gray highlights work to elevate women’s hair in their golden years. However, you don’t have to wait until you reach a certain age – now you could try this amazing color, as it’s a hot trend for all ages.

It is also suitable for all hair lengths and textures. If you seem to be lacking inspiration, check out the following styling ideas and find the best gray hair highlights variation that’ll work for you.

1. Bronde Hair with Gray Highlights. Who says you can’t have three colors in your hair at the same time? Don’t hesitate to mix your blonde, brown, and gray in a vibrant balayage!

2. Uneven Gray Streaks in Hair. Let the world know about your creativity with hand-painted gray streaks around your face. They are unconventional, fashion-forward, and alluring!

3. Marvelous Gray Balayage. Don’t worry about your original hair color growing out! With a balayage, your crown’s natural hue will transition to the dyed tone harmoniously.

4. Thin Ashy Highlights. The barely-there babylights reflect the light just right to give more dimension to your beautiful brunette hair. Just look at that smooth gradient of colors!

5. Silver Gray Highlights. Pair the stunning silver-gray highlights with a shattered cut to give your locks a bouncy, flowy feel. A perfect idea for all hair lengths, even the shorter ones.

6. Silver Gray Highlights on Medium Hair. Mix and match silver white and ash gray strands to upgrade dark tones such as chocolate or dark brown.

7. Ash Gray Highlights. Mix different tones of gray to brighten your original hair color. Combine and blend the hues until you achieve the perfect ash gray highlights that complement you best!

8. Dark Hair with Gray Highlights. Brighten up your world with streaks of gray highlights in your dark hair. This statement hair color brings the radiance that starts from your hair and spreads all over your face.

9. Brown Hair with Gray Highlights. Get a gentler feel by blending your naturally brown hair with gray highlights in a beautiful cascade falling past your shoulders. Leave straight or curl midshaft to ends.

10. Straight Gray Hair with Root Fade. Top your black hair with enchanting streaks of gray for an elegant, aristocratic feel. An awesome look!

11. Gray Babylights on Raven Black Hair. Take full advantage of babylights and their ability to twist your overall look with just one session at a beauty salon.

12. Brunette with Gray Highlights. Upgrade your dark brown hair with gray highlights to achieve a softer, graceful overall vibe. Some long curtain bangs will make a perfect face-framing.

13. Black Hair with Gray Highlights. Want to be subtle about taking your hair game to the next level? Then this type of tender highlights is perfect for you!

14. Silver-Gray Highlights. On a journey to icy blonde hair color? Start out with silver streaks in your hair to make the transition seamless. Don’t be surprised to see yourself sticking longer than you intended with this color. Yeah, gray highlights are that captivating.

15. Gray Highlights on Black Hair. Make up for what your hair lacks in dimension by touching it up with sprinkles of grayish highlights. Your complexion will appear brighter too.

16. Gray Highlights on Dark Brown Hair. Tap into your feminine side with these mellow gray highlights on dark brown hair. You can also add some curls for extra refinement.

17. Gray Highlights with Dark Brown Hair. The gray-colored highlights on dark brown hair cast a mesmeric shade that sits somewhere between dirty-blonde and dusky brown. This adds a good amount of dimension to brunette hair.

18. Gray Highlights on Brunette Hair. You can create a fantastic dimension in dull hair. All you need is a fitting hair color and the right highlighting technique. Gray highlights don’t disappoint in this regard.

19. Rusty Gray Highlights. For more even and natural blending, choose to brighten your black hair with some gray and dark copper-brown highlights.

20. Gray Ombre on Black Hair. Tune up the allure of your mane with a classy touch of gray balayage terminating in a smoky ombre. The color contrast and dimension are stunning.

21. Gray Highlights on Light Brown Hair. Embrace your grays and make them a part of your unique look with these fashionable gray highlights on light brown hair!

22. Light Brown Hair with Gray Highlights. These amazing gray highlights took a hair color that would have sat limply on her skin tone and transformed it into an exquisite balayage that beautifully set off her complexion.

23. Brunette with Gray Babylights. Boost your elegance and sophisticated style with a sprinkle of gray babylights combined with some soft and loose curls.

24. Chocolate Hair with Gray Highlights. Add a dash of gray highlights to your natural reddish-brown hair for a stunning hair color choice.

25. Gray Highlights on Dirty Blonde Hair. A generous spread of gray on a dark shade of blonde lifts the dullness out and introduces a magnificent glow into your hair.

26. Beautiful Transition to Gray Hair. Gracefully transition to gray hair by completely covering your lengths to blend with your crown showing off some splendid salt-and-pepper highlights.

27. Wheat Blonde Hair with Gray Highlights. Look angelic by upgrading your warm blonde hair with gray highlights for a blurred and muted yet phenomenal hair color.

28. Silvery Highlights on Shoulder-length Hair. As radiant as sun-kissed hair goes, this amazing mix of silver and gray highlights on the medium-length black hair is one of the best. The shimmering highlighted ends are a showstopper.

29. Silver Highlights and Root Fade. Stand out with an enchanting silver hair color paired with misty gray babylights. The roots are left dark for the popular “dimension” every client wants nowadays.

30. Silver Babylights for Metallic Brown. Go ahead and hop on the gray highlights train! Blend metallic brown highlights and bright silver-gray babylights for elevated grace and elegance.

31. White and Gray Highlights on Long Hair. Gray highlights that begin from the crown and run down the entire length of the hair are very fitting on long hair. The dimension they add to your mane is stunning.

32. Gray Balayage Hair. Refresh your hair by blending natural shades into a gray balayage and enjoy the compliments that are sure to come your way!

33. Ashy Gray Highlights on Black Hair. Ask your colorist to work in ashy-gray highlights into your hair for a lighter and cooler appearance. The mix of ash and gray gives a salt-and-pepper hair color that is really splendid.

34. Ash Babylights on Black Hair. Get away from a dull black color and play with lights by simply getting ash and bronze babylights.

35. Gray and Soft Gold Highlights. As if kissed by the sun and touched by the moon, gray and soft gold highlights make for a remarkable color combination on dark hair.

36. Metallic Highlights on Black Hair. Silver and gold highlights are perfect for brunettes with strands that started turning gray early.

37. Gray Highlights on Short Hair. Gray highlights blend into light brown hair in a very smooth fashion. The blend is soft, subtle, and easy on the eyes. Do so on a short hairstyle and you have a smasher.

38. Subtle Smoky Gray Highlights. Get classy and sophisticated with smoky gray highlights running down your hair. Blend them into your natural brown hair color.

39. Full Gray Highlights with Lowlights. Why pick this color combination? The full-head highlights with lowlights give depth, while the smoky gray hue adds an artistic touch.

40. Gray Highlights on Brown Hair. Run currents of gray strands through your hair for a picturesque look. Bring out your curling iron and add in curls for a truly electrifying hairstyle.

41. Curly Warm Gray Balayage Hair. Looking to keep your hair highly low-maintenance? A gray balayage on a dark base readily offers you that. The graduated move from dark to gray hair is beautiful.

42. Dark Gray Highlights. Go for a refined and sophisticated shoulder-length hairstyle with dark gray highlights to look equally stunning every day and at parties and formal occasions.

43. Gray Highlights Revive. The difference between the two pictures below is as clear as night and day. What the weakened mane needed was a good haircut and reinvigorating touch of gray highlights to bounce back to life.

44. Gray Money Piece Highlights. If you want to highlight your face, go for a gray sombre with gray face-framing highlights. It is also pretty low-maintenance!

45. Salt-and-Pepper Highlights. Pick muted salt-and-pepper highlights for a more natural look. They will look especially amazing on medium-length hair.

46. Barely-There Ash Highlights. The fine ash strands with a hint of dirty blonde complement this brunette hair perfectly. Add waves or curls for extra glow.

47. Midshaft-to-Ends Gray Underlights. Warm brown hair and gray highlights are a match made in heaven. The blend is so smooth and none overpowers the other. You can even throw in a lovely gray money piece, and have it subtle and sophisticated.

48. Gray Foil Highlights for Mid-Length Hair. Brighten your hair with gray strands and invite more shine into your look. Layers and subtle waves will make this style even more captivating.

49. Cute Gray Foil Highlights. For an ultra-natural feel, opt for a shade of gray that is very close to your hair color. A technique like foil highlighting delivers a resplendent finish.

50. Platinum Highlights. Build more dimension and volume in your hair with these high-shine platinum and gold highlights!

Do you think gray highlights will look great on you? You can pick several gray coloring options and combine them if you want. Besides, you can also make a bucket list of styles to try one after another. We also recommend asking your stylist for advice tailored to your appearance. Find what feels best and enjoy your gray highlights!

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