50 Highlights for Gray Hair That Pros Swear By

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 can 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 variation that’ll work for you.

1. Bronde with Gray. 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. Ash Blending. Let the world know about your creativity with hand-painted ashy streaks around your face. They are unconventional, fashion-forward, and alluring!

3. Silvery 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. Ashy Babylights. 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. Face-Framed Lob. Pair the stunning silver-gray strands with a shattered cut to give your locks a bouncy, flowy feel. A perfect idea for all hair lengths, even the shorter ones.

6. Silvery Medium Locks. Mix and match silver white and ash gray strands to upgrade dark tones such as chocolate or dark brown.

7. High-Contrast Strands. Mix different tones of gray to brighten your original hair color. Combine and blend the hues until you achieve the perfect ash balayage that complements you best!

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

9. Ashy U-Cut Waves. Get a gentler feel by blending your naturally brown hair with ashy balayage in a beautiful cascade falling past your shoulders. Leave straight or curl midshaft to ends.

10. Silver and Beige Streaks. This dreamy look is created by interspersing dark strands with delicate splashes of beige and interweaving brighter ribbons of silver into face-framing pieces.

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

12. Face-Framing Layers. Upgrade your dark brown hair with ashy ribbons to achieve a softer, graceful overall vibe. Some long curtain bangs will make a perfect face-framing.

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

14. Strips of Silver on Brown. Despite the heavily sliced ends, this textured lob retains much of the body thanks to the dark base glossed by an ashy tone and made more dimensional with silver balayage.

15. Sombre-Balayage Coloring. This ethereal color scheme stays away from a high-contrast mix of shades and plays with soft silver and beige hues to delicately enhance the depth and movement in the loose waves.

16. Rootmelt and Highlighting. Tap into your feminine side with this mellow grayish highlighting on dark brown hair. You can also add some curls for extra refinement.

17. Dark Highlighted Lob. The ashy-colored stripes 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. Soft Balayaged Waves. You can create a fantastic dimension in dull hair. All you need is a fitting hair color and the right highlighting technique. These balayage streaks don’t disappoint in this regard.

19. Rusty-Ash Strands. For more even and natural blending, choose to brighten your black hair with some ash and dark copper-brown balayage.

20. Dark Ash Tone. Here we have dark brown hair totally transformed into a dimensional smokey look where a violet tinge gives way to silver shimmer invoked by seamlessly blended balayage streaks.

21. Cool Brown Colormelt. This color job keeps the base color deep and close to the natural shade and then lets it nicely melt into ash streaks getting up steam toward the ends.

22. Light Brown with Gray. These amazing 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 Babylights. Boost your elegance and sophisticated style with a sprinkle of ashy babylights combined with some soft and loose curls.

24. Bronze and Silver. This lovely lob is visually volumized by the well-blended combination of highlights and lowlights, and it feels extremely glossy thanks to the metallic gray finish.

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

26. Salt-and-Pepper Coloring. Gracefully transition to gray hair by completely covering your lengths to blend with your crown showing off some splendid salt-and-pepper balayage.

27. Balayaged Wheat-Blonde Locks. Look angelic by upgrading your warm blonde hair with ashy balayage for a blurred and muted yet phenomenal hair color.

28. Shoulder-Length Silvery Streaks. As radiant as sun-kissed hair goes, this amazing mix of silver on medium-length black hair is one of the best. The shimmering balayaged ends are a showstopper.

29. Charcoal Balayaged Strands. This moody set of highlights is carefully implanted into a deep brown base to deliver depth and visual interest without lifting the natural color very much.

30. Silver Babylights. Go ahead and hop on the trendy balayage train! Blend metallic brown highlights and bright silver babylights for elevated grace and elegance.

31. Barely-There Balayage. The base color of these mesmerizing long waves is shot with a muted shade of purple and further spiced up with some splashes of ash blonde for better movement and dimension.

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32. Black to Ash Melt. Refresh your hair by blending natural shades into an ash balayage and enjoy the compliments that are sure to come your way!

33. Icy-Toned Balayage. These dark brown strands with hints of natural color at the roots beautifully transition to the shiny silver at the tips through a masterfully customized blend of shades.

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

35. Milk Tea Balayage. Here is an ashier take on the trending milk tea hair color, which melts subdued blonde, brown, and grayish tones into a yummy cold brew hue.

36. Metallic Coloring. Platinum and gold highlights are perfect for brunettes with strands that started turning silver early.

37. Taupe Highlights. Beige shades chime well with both brown and ash, which results in this stunning color scheme where depth at the roots is coupled with dimension toward the ends.

38. Smoky-Ash Strands. Get classy and sophisticated with smoky highlights running down your hair. Blend them into your natural brown hair color.

39. Rooty Platinum Locks. Here, the whole look is kept on a much brighter side veering to platinum blonde yet toned down a bit with the glimpses of gray on the top and throughout the mid-length.

40. Lob with Babylights. Run currents of grayish 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 Balayage. Looking to keep your hair highly low-maintenance? Balayage like this on a dark base readily offers you that. The graduated move from dark to ash hair is beautiful.

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

43. Brown to Silver Ombre. The difference between the two pictures below is as clear as night and day. What the weakened mane needed was a good haircut and a reinvigorating touch of balayage to bounce back to life.

44. Black to Ash Fade. If you want to safely start your journey with ash balayage on black hair, a low-contrast color scheme like this smoky fade won’t require much commitment and will grow out gracefully.

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

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

47. Ash-Toned Underlights. Warm brown hair and ashy highlights are a match made in heaven. The blend is so smooth and none overpowers the other. You can even throw in lovely money pieces, and have them subtle and sophisticated.

48. Foil Highlights on Mid-Length. Brighten your hair with lighter ashy strands and invite more shine into your look. Layers and subtle waves will make this style even more captivating.

49. Foil Babylights. 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 Streaks. Build more dimension and volume in your hair with these high-shine platinum and gold highlights!

Do you think such colorings will look great on you? You can pick several coloring options from the ones shown above 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 new look!