We know you’re busy slaying all day, so who has time for high-maintenance hair? The good news is, being busy doesn’t have to mean sacrificing style!
Here, we’ve gathered 45 stunning yet low-maintenance hair color ideas that’ll have you looking like a total bombshell without spending hours in the salon chair every month.
From easy to maintain highlights to gray blending tips and low upkeep hair colors, we have all the ideas you need to turn those appointments from monthly to seasonal!
Dark Brown Hair With Toffee Balayage
Toffee-colored balayage is the perfect coloring technique for brunettes who prefer low-maintenance styling options. As time goes on, your roots will grow out while the balayage highlights will continue to add dimension and shine. You can easily maintain this style by getting touch ups only every 3 months or so.
Multi-Toned Honey Blonde Highlights
Dark brown combined with multi-toned honey blonde highlights is a beautiful low upkeep hair color option with a total va-va-voom vibe. This clever color combination allows new growth to blend without you even noticing it, while still looking incredibly chic.
Golden Honey Highlights on Brown Hair
Subtle golden honey highlights will complement the wavy texture so elegantly. If you’re just dipping your toes in a new look and you’re not ready for a drastic outcome, it’s best to start slow with this golden honey shade. Get it colored every 3-4 months for long-lasting results with minimal upkeep.
Dark Brown Roots With Blonde Ombre and Face-Framing Highlights
Ombre highlights look great on dark brown hair, as you don’t have to worry about coloring your roots. The ends can be lightened and refreshed whenever you feel its needed and your stylist can blend in additional highlights to change up your style. The face-framing highlights will brighten up the overall look, too.
Beige Blonde Hair With Natural Roots & Lowlights
A beige blonde hair color with darker lowlights is the perfect color combo if you want low maintenance hair. As the roots start to grow out, the lighter color will easily blend with the rest of your hair. A beige blonde is forgiving and looks the best on natural blondes, women with grays, or women with light brown hair.
Ash Blonde Face-Framing Highlights on Brown Hair
An ashy blonde is the perfect hair color for the fall season. This cool undertone tends to look the best on pale skin complexions. Your hair colorist will recommend bleaching your hair first, especially if you have naturally dark brown hair. Follow their advice for proper upkeep and color maintenance.
Warm Chestnut Brown Hair Color
A warm chestnut brown shade is a very natural tone that often has natural-looking highlights and lowlights, which help disguise new growth. Depending on your base color, it typically requires less bleaching, too, which means you won’t damage your hair as much. An as your natural roots do become visible over time, they’ll likely look less stark against chestnut brown compared to more dramatic colors.
Espresso Brown Hair With Sandy Blonde Highlights
Some women prefer strategically placed highlights. If you’re one of those women, the initial color placement should be key in your case. You can opt for a shadow root so the whole look blends seamlessly into the rest of your natural hair color.
Dark Brown With Golden Balayage Highlights
Golden balayage on dark brown hair is an excellent low-maintenance option as it creates a gradual, natural-looking transition from darker roots to lighter ends. This helps disguise regrowth, plus, as the roots grow out, the blend itself will grow out more softly and naturally compared to traditional highlighting methods.
Golden Blonde Highlights On Brown Hair
Golden blonde highlights on brown hair offer another low-maintenance option. These baby foliage highlights need to be done every four to six months, and you don’t even have to get your roots done. As the hair grows out, add a glossy hair mask on top to bring them back to life.
Melted Caramel Highlights
Who can resist melted caramel highlights?! With this technique, you can blend 2-3 different hair colors all at once, which makes this look perfect for those who can’t make up their minds as easily. The outcome can last anywhere from 8-12 weeks, depending on the colors that your hairstylist used.
Soft Brown Hair With Beige Blonde Highlights
Sometimes, less is more! By getting super chunky highlights you are at risk of your hair becoming brassy due to over-coloring and constant maintenance. Natural brunettes who prefer low-maintenance hair color ideas will enjoy a look with subtle beige blonde highlights.
Dark Blonde With Soft Babylights
Dark blonde with lighter babylights is a gorgeous color option that will grow out beautifully, whether you’re transitioning back to your natural hair color or have to cut back on salon visits for a while. Your stylist can add new highlights every few months or so, depending on how light and bright you want your hair to look.
Brown Hair With Blonde Balayage
Light brown hair looks amazing during summertime, especially when paired with blonde balayage highlights. You can choose whichever blonde shade you like or ask your hairstylist to give you a look that suits your particular skin color.
Dark Brown Hair With Sun Kissed Blonde Balayage
Dark brown hair and sun-kissed balayage highlights can be your go-to for the summertime period. Your stylist will blend the highlights through your hair, but leave your roots natural. The closer the colors are to each other in terms of shade, the less visible your dark roots will be.
Espresso Brown Hair With Golden Ombre
Want to return to your natural dark brown hair color at one point? You can easily do that even when you commit to these golden ombre highlights. This look is perfect for women who love a natural, lived-in look.
Bronde Hair Color With Subtle Blonde Highlights
If you want a golden mix of colors, bronde with blonde highlights is the way to go! Bronde is a blend of blonde and light brown shades, which leaves a beautiful, sun-kissed glow on your mane. The blonde highlights will blend smoothly with the base color, minimizing the need for regular upkeep. You’re looking at hair coloring every 8-12 weeks, depending on the undertone of your natural color.
Chocolate Brown Hair With Caramel Highlights
Caramel highlights will look lovely on natural brunettes or brunettes with a chocolate brown undertone. You can easily transition from this hair color and not worry about its grow-out phase. As your roots become more prominent, the highlights will create an ombre effect, allowing for minimal upkeep and no reason for constant color touch-ups.
Rich Brown Hair With Warm-Toned Ombre
A rich brown hair color paired with a subtle warm-toned ombre is another beautiful low upkeep hair color option. The ends in this color combo will have a warmer golden glow while the roots can grow out naturally. It’s the perfect way to go from light to dark!
Jet Black Hair With Icy Pearl Ombre
Silvery/icy tones can be incredibly cool low maintenance hair color options. As your roots start to grow out, the stark contrast between your dark roots and light ends will naturally evolve into a chic, gradual ombre effect. This allows you to embrace the grow-out phase as an intentional style and transition from a sharp two-tone look to a softer, more blended appearance over time.
Hazelnut Brown Hair With Sandy Highlights
This is an effortless and timeless way of doing your hair. Hazelnut brown hair color can be achieved DIY, while the sandy highlights should be left to the pros. Your highlights can be lighter around the root and base of your hair while gradually getting thicker towards the ends. This allows for a forgiving growout and extends the time between salon visits by months!
Dirty Blonde With Platinum Highlights
A dirty blonde base with platinum highlights is another low-maintenance hair color option that will look the best on women with lighter hair. That said, the warm hue with cooler undertones will leave a gorgeous shadow-y vibe on brunettes as their natural dark roots start to grow out, too.
Blonde Balayage on Natural Brown Hair
Blonde balayage will look lovely and seamless when applied correctly on top of your natural brown locks. The style itself is low maintenance, as there is no need for constant color touch-ups. Let your natural hair grow out and get a new set of highlights every six months or even once a year.
Chocolate Brown Hair With Babylights
Subtle highlights when applied over your brunette hair color will add a bit of dimension while looking completely natural. After your appointment, all you have to do is maintain the shine by using color protective shampoo/conditioner and an at-home hair gloss product every now and then.
Honey Blonde Highlights on Brown Hair
A honey blonde hair color is quite easy to achieve and maintain. Natural brunettes will enjoy highlights like the ones here that are applied with a fine comb. A brush-on application works the best, and it looks seamless yet natural.
Ash Brown With Platinum Babylights
I can name two main reasons why you need this hairstyle. First, the combination of ash brown hair with platinum babylights creates a very chic and cool vibe. Second, these babylights are so subtle that they look like you were born with them. Meaning? You get a completely low-maintenance look!
Black With Light Ash Ombre and Highlights
Black with light ash ombre and highlights is a striking but low upkeep option. The pale ash hue mixes softly with the black roots, and if your colorist is any good, it will create a beautiful gentle graduation. This style is a contemporary take on ombré while still remaining very flattering as it grows out.
Honey Brown With Honey Blonde Balayage
Why not mix two shades of honey together? You can enjoy a lively and bright hairstyle that leaves a beautiful lived in vibe. Unlike traditional highlights, balayage creates a soft blend of colors that will grow out seamlessly. And if the colors are very close to each other in shade, it will look completely natural!
Darkest Brown With Light Ash Balayage and Highlights
If you’re after a low maintenance look that helps you blend your grays at the same time, try this dark brown/light ash color combo.The contrast of the colors is bold but it’s low-key enough so that it looks good even as it grows out and those grays start to show.
Chestnut Shade With Warm Blonde Ombre
With a warm blonde ombre, the chestnut shade brings a bit of richness and brightness to your style. Plus, it can look super cool when it grows out – if your stylist is able to blend the colors like you see on our model here, there will be no harsh lines to worry about!
Light Brown Hair With Sandy Balayage
This is another excellent low upkeep hair color option with its dark base and the gradual lightening effect from root to tip. Since light brown and sandy blonde are quite close to each other in tone, you won’t get an obvious line when your strands start growing, which is a win-win in our eyes!
Caramel Hair With Strawberry Blonde Babylights
Want a low-maintenance look that still turns heads? Try caramel hair with strawberry blonde babylights. This dreamy blend feels both soft and warm. Because the colors melt together seamlessly (like they do in nature), you won’t see a harsh line when your roots start to grow.
Medium Brown With Sandy Blonde Sombre
Another great style and color combo that doesn’t require much effort. By using the sombre technique to melt medium brown into soft sandy blonde, the result is a beautifully natural style that stays super chic as it grows out.
Chocolate Brown With Warm Blonde Highlights
Here, the warmth of the blonde hue works harmoniously with the dark chocolate base color. You can easily let it grow out for a few months before getting back to the salon to refresh the blonde tones.
Jet Black With Ash Blonde Ombre
Yep, this hairstyle is as cool as it is chic and edgy, and for women love a bold look, this can be an excellent low maintenance option! As the ash blonde strands start to grow out, the color will fade out gradually, and it will take months before you need to redo the look.
Mahogany Shade With Honey Blonde Sombre
For me, combining the mahogany hair color and a honey blonde sombre is a must-try for dark-eyed girls. Here, the sombre technique creates subtle variation by gradually lightening the hair color from top to bottom. Maybe you’ll want to refresh your blonde strands once a month or two, but overall, maintaining this color combo doesn’t require a lot of work.
Dark Hair With Fine Platinum Blonde Highlights
This is another excellent low maintenance color option that helps you camouflage those grays. The fine platinum blonde highlights will mix with the growing gray, lightening up the overall look and evening it out as well. You only need to color it again when you notice new sections of gray or feel you need a refresh.
Light Mahogany With Sandy Blonde Sombre
With its sandy blonde sombre, this light mahogany hue looks absolutely stunning. Thanks to the coloring technique, there’s a seamless transition between the colors, which also means softer roots as they start to grow out.
Chocolate Brown With Bronze Sombre
If you want a low-maintenance hair color that still looks glamorous and expensive, ask your stylist to apply a bronze shade over your dark brown base in the sombre technique. This warm and rich color combo will blend into a smooth transition, and the grow-out will look amazing for months to come.
Ash Blonde With Platinum Balayage
If you need to look cool and chic without putting too much effort into maintenance, go for this hair color combo. This technique helps “marry” the platinum tones seamlessly with the ash blonde strands, so you don’t need as many touch-ups.
Sandy Blonde With Butter Blonde Highlights
When I saw this hair color combo, I thought it was a completely natural look rather than one created in a salon. The mix of sandy blonde hair and buttery highlights looks so natural together that you won’t notice when you need to make an appointment again.
Dark Brown With Ashy and Blonde Highlights
A cool and classy low upkeep look comes from combining dark brown with a mix of ashy and blonde highlights throughout. By placing the highlights all over, they mix seamlessly with the dark base, and you won’t get a harsh grow out line.
Golden Blonde Hair With Babylights
I think that this hair color can win an award for how low maintenance it is for women with light brown hair! By adding fine highlights to the golden blonde hue, the overall look is very natural, and the play of light and shadow will hide the grow-out line beautifully.
Medium Brown With Caramel Babylights
This low-maintenance option is for those who want to refresh their look but in a very subtle manner. The caramel babylights on the medium brown base look very delicate, yet they still brighten up your hair color, plus you’ll barely notice it when they start to grow out.
Dark Blonde With Full Platinum Highlights
This is another natural hairstyle that I can recommend to anyone who wants an easy to maintain hair color option. Because the highlights are mixed in well with the base color—which is also blonde—they will still look natural even as your hair starts to grow out. Meaning, you won’t have to redo and refresh them constantly!
