If you want to embrace your greys instead of hiding them, there are so many chic ways to blend and play with the spectrum of grey shades for an ultra-flattering, dimensional style.
Icy white face-framing highlights, golden blonde balayage and sombre looks, ashy babylights, dimensional lowlights, salt and pepper color combos, etc. – the options are endless!
This article shares 30 gorgeous gray blending highlights and lowlights ideas for blondes, brunettes, and women with dark brown/black hair. Whether you have just a few strands to hide or are ready to ditch the dye in your golden years, you’ll love all of these ideas.
Let’s take a look!
Reverse Silver Grey Blending Ombre
This gorgeous reverse ombre emphasizes the lighter silver tones at the roots that are beautifully blending into the natural greys at the ends, highlighting the unique contrast and definitely blending any regrowth that will start to appear. A touch of warmer tones added throughout, like soft champagne and caramel, add depth and richness to the overall final look.
Grey Brown With Lowlights & Light Silvery Highlights
Grey-brown can be a great choice for blending greys seamlessly into your hair. The warm undertones of the brown help soften the appearance of grey strands, creating a more natural transition. By incorporating lowlights in slightly darker shades, you enhance this blending effect. Plus, your stylist can add lighter highlights in all the right places to bring in a few lighter strands.
Warm Blonde Sombre With Grey Blending Highlights
In this color option, the stylist created a stunning warm blonde sombre with grey blending highlights using the balayage technique. They painted rich golden blonde at the roots, gradually transitioning to lighter, sun-kissed ends while weaving in subtle grey highlights where necessary. This method ensures a natural look that beautifully embraces the greys rather than masking them.
Golden Blonde With Neutral Grey Highlights & Lowlights
We’re obsessed with this effortless grey balayage on warm blonde hair! The blend of golden highlights and darker lowlights, paired with a perfectly blended shadow root, creates a stunning illusion. As the greys grow naturally, they won’t stand out as much, thanks to the strategically placed hues. This way, you get a beautiful, beaming blonde look while still embracing your natural greys!
Bright Dusty Blonde with Silver and Grey Mix
This gorgeous hair color blends cool blonde, soft grey, and shimmering silver tones to hide the greys in the base color. The icy blonde base brings brightness, while the grey adds a ton of richness. The silver highlights will reflect the light beautifully, allowing for a natural transition to grey. It’s the perfect option for those who prefer a lighter hair color.
Ash Grey and Silver Blended Hair Color
This stunning look features natural ash greys at the roots that are blending into soft silver tones before transitioning to lighter blonde ends. The challenge in this look was getting rid of the old dark dye covering the base, which you can see is almost all gone now. The result is a gorgeous, natural-looking sun-kissed effect with the silver beautifully enriching the color.
Vanilla Blonde & a Natural Grey Blend Balayage
We love how the colorist created this gorgeous creamy vanilla blonde grey blending style, which can be achieved using balayage & foilayage. These techniques are perfect for blending the greys and the color choice is spot on. Although vanilla blonde leans warm, it beautifully balances with the cool grey tones, creating a stunning and natural-looking combination.
Sunkissed Warm Grey Blended Lob
This stunning lob showcases beautifully blended warmer grey highlights paired with a gorgeous sandy undertone, and we’re absolutely in love with this color combo! The subtle mix of light brown and warm ashy highlights not only conceals the grey but also creates a gorgeous, multidimensional effect.
White Sand Blonde with Soft Grey Blending Balayage
White sand blonde with a soft grey blending balayage is all about that perfect mix of warm and cool tones to conceal the grey. Here, the light, sandy blonde shines bright, especially around the face, while soft grey highlights are woven throughout, giving an overall blonde finish. To keep this look fresh, using a purple toning shampoos is a must to prevent any brassiness.
Au Naturel with Highlights & Lowlights
If you have darker toned hair and are tired of covering stark greys with full coverage color every other month, then this more natural blended approach might be worth trying. This fresh look was created with various highlighting, lowlighting, and a fresh all over tone for the more natural approach to grey blending.
Cool Toned Base With Silver Highlights
For this hair transformation, the stylist ditched the full coverage and followed the clients natural greys, adding some bold silver highlights for that perfect touch. We love the all over cool tone and how low maintenance this color is, although using professional hair care products is necessary to keep this color fresh.
Smoky Gray Blending with Highlights and Lowlights
We love this multidimensional grey transitioning look with warmer-toned all-over highlights and neutral lowlights. The strategically placed highlights connect with the new grey growth perfectly, masking them in plain sight. The lowlights, aka the darker shades, add depth and make the highlights pop.
Low-Maintenance Ashy Pebble Grey Highlights
For this look, the stylist used a mix of Redken Shades EQ in 09B, 09T, and 08NA, with a touch of 1B for that perfect grey tone. They also added some dimension with Schwarzkopf Igora Vibrance in 6-12 and 6-0. The result is absolutely stunning!
Grey Blending Highlights on Dusty Blonde
We’re totally obsessed with this grey-blended dusty blonde! It’s got such a gorgeous all over glow, and those highlights are woven in so seamlessly throughout. Plus, we love how the shadow root conceals any new grey growth. It’s just a stunning mix that feels as fresh as it is beautiful.
Graphite and Silver Grey Hair
This graphite and silver grey hair color blend features a striking combination of deep, smoky graphite tones paired with shimmering silver highlights. The stylist expertly uses balayage and other highlighting techniques to add highlights to darker grey hair, creating a beautiful contrast that brightens the overall look.
Warm Brown Blend With Silvery Grey Highlights
No lines of demarcation here! This stunning warm brown grey blend features gorgeous silvery grey highlights that seamlessly camouflage grey strands without completely covering them, letting you embrace your natural grey hues beautifully. The result “feels” blonde, yet you don’t have to worry about covering your roots every month!
Ash Tone Grey-Blonde Highlights & Lowlights
This ash-toned grey blend includes soft, luminous, multi-toned highlights with a beautiful sun-kissed effect. The scattered pops of brighter blonde and ash grey effectively camouflage any grey growth, while the darker lowlights provide a nice contrast.
Seamless Grey-Blended Platinum Blonde
This seamlessly blended blonde base was achieved with platinum blonde babylights to cleverly conceal greys. The goal is to create a harmonious mix of the colors you love and the ones you’d rather not see. Here, the shadow root not only adds depth but also softens the contrast, making the grow-out look more natural and low-maintenance.
Bold Grey Contrast With Fringe
This style is a very natural-looking salt and pepper color combo with its dark base and lighter silver grey highlights strategically woven throughout. The thick fringe and two platinum silver streaks on either side draw all the attention distracting from the greys completely, and making us want the exact same look!
Warm-Toned Golden Highlights on Dark Brunette Hair
Grey blending can also be done with warmer tones. If you want to maintain a dark look like the client here but still add some brighteness, opt for warmer toned golden highlights to mix with the greys. This also adds a subtle sun kissed effect to the overall look while not looking too bright overall.
Subtle Sun-Kissed Balayage
Loving this subtle warm blonde grey blending balayage on dark hair! It meshes those natural greys effortlessly, adding depth without any harsh lines. Perfect for a low-maintenance grey transition and a sun kissed finish for those who don’t want to see too many of those sparkly silvers yet.
Dimensional Warm Blonde with Grey Blending Foilyage
This dimensional warm blonde hair color features a blend of rich golden tones and lighter, buttery highlights for hiding those greys. The darker strands add depth and enhance the hair’s natural texture, while the lighter strands brighten the look and frame the face. It’s certainly a color option that helps camouflage greys for a natural, almost unnoticeable grow-out.
Warm Mushroom Grey Blend
This mushroom grey blend is incredible! We’re loving the mushroom brown base and ashy babylights that have been incorporated to blend with the client’s natural grey. It’s a super low-maintenance look that allows for a natural grow-out without any harsh lines. Your stylist can use balayage or foiling — or a combination of both — to create this seamless blend.
Bright Blonde Meets Cloud Grey Undertones
This look features bright blonde babylights blended with various cloudy storm greys and a gradual root shadow. The layered haircut helps distract from the greys, while the overall brightness of the color effortlessly camouflages them by reflecting light in all the right places.
Warm Grey Highlights on a Dark Ash Base
This grey blending look has a darker ash toned base with some brighter highlights focused around the front, created using foil or the balayage technique. The dark roots interwoven with the highlights distract from the grey and bring depth to the overall hair color.
Icy Blonde Grey Blending Highlights
In this gorgeous look, grey blending is done by using icy blonde highlights that are mixed with the client’s soft, smoky gray base. The babylights create a beautiful naturally blended look that will be super easy to maintain. The blonde ends will take a while to grow out completely, but for now, they blend beautifully with the rest of the hair color.
Cool Blonde & Silver Highlights On an Ashy Base
Here, the stylist has used cool blonde & silver highlights that contrast beautifully with the client’s natural darker grey strands beneath. The result is a stunning, blonde bombshell look that beautifully enhances the cool, silvery tones while adding depth at the same time. Washing your hair with purple shampoo is necessary to keep this color blend looking fresh.
Dark Base with Glimmering Golden Blonde Highlights
The stylist whipped up this stunning look with a deep dark base and bold golden blonde blended highlights that really pop. They used the foilyage technique to blend those bright strands with the greys, creating an awesome concealed contrast. The formula used was L’Oréal Blond Studio 9 with 20 vol for the highlights, a neutral toner from Dialight, and was topped all off with an Olaplex treatment for that extra shine.
Cool Blonde Highlights on an Ashy Grey Base
Loving the combo of natural dark ash as a base with cool blonde blended highlights and a money piece pop to shape the face. The deep, cool tones of dark ash keep things neutral, while the soft, icey blonde highlights blend beautifully with any emerging greys. This all-over grey blend enhances natural color and regrowth that, in return, will keep things low maintenance.
Lived-In Grey Blended Blonde Balayage
How gorgeous is this blend of soft grey and warm blonde balayage? With this color combination, regrowth will be much more seamless and manageable, making it an excellent low-maintenance option. We love how the neutral and warm blonde tones work together to make the greys virtually disappear. The slightly brighter money piece is a nice finishing touch to the overall glowing look.
