Blonde Hair with Dark Roots: 54 Looks That (Still) Slay Today

Glitter Roots

Put your roots on display, and own it with glitter! To achieve, apply mix some glitter and gel in a bowl, and apply to your roots.

Voluminous Teased Hair

Pump up the volume in your hair by styling it with volume that allows you to blend and hide your roots. To help you in the lift department, spray hair with Bed Head by TIGI Full Of It Volume Hairspray.

Bed Head by TIGI Full Of It Volume Finishing Spray

Elegant Low Ponytail

The ponytail hairstyle always comes to the rescue. Pair your two-toned hair color with a chic low ponytail hairstyle with an elegant twist.

Polished Mid-Ponytail

Turn your off-duty mid ponytail hairstyle into something more sleek and polished.

Curly and Rooty 'Fro

On most curly hairstyles, blonde hair with dark roots gives off an ombré effect. If you’re looking to hide your roots though, opt for lifting the hair at the roots for volume.

Ash Blonde

Wavy and casually beachy, just the way we love it.

Blown Out

A sweet blend of chocolate and caramel is upgraded by a smooth blowout.

Caramel

A light brown ombré gives a dark base more dimension.

Golden

Nuanced warm blonde highlights brighten up complexions with yellow undertones.

Ashy White

…And by the same token, ash blonde melds perfectly with an ashy brown base. Keep this white vibrancy by washing with Bed Head by TIGI Dumb Blonde Reconstructor Conditioner.

Bed Head by TIGI Dumb Blonde Conditioner

Criss-Crossed Pigtails

Braids flatter a streaky blonde, and this viral look has us reaching for our mirrors (or phoning a friend!).

Baby Blonde

This cherubic take on blonde hair/dark roots is subtler, and especially fetching on fairer skintones.

Honey Curls

Medium skintones, on the other hand, are flattered by mid-tone golds and honeys.

High-Contrast Caramel

This full-on caramel ombré is a surefire way to try out a lighter look with less of the commitment.

Golden Honey Lob

Be the queen bee of your hive with a shiny, glossy, sexily highlighted golden blonde.

Platinum Ringlets

Another youthful take on ombré features a dark brown root, a golden mid-shaft and white blonde ends—all done up in perfect spirals.

Copper Topknot

Why rock one trend when you can do two with ease? Doing hair up in a trendy half-updo such as a top knot squeezes more mileage out of an ombré.

Dishwater

The stereotypical dirty blonde shade cleans up with a tighter root and cooler-toned streaks.

Sunny Blonde

A bright, summer blonde if we ever saw one, from the natural roots to the sunny, sand-dune lengths.

Slicked Back

A gelled lob works perfectly with dark roots and blonde hair, highlighting each shade without looking tacky.

Smudged

One of the most natural ombrés we’ve seen, this look features some subtle smudging past the cheekbone area. Tip: Ask your stylist to backcomb hair before coloring it for a diffused line.

Grown-Out and Natural

We kinda dig this deliberately grown-out blonde. The mega-texture plus the baby-light shade add to its overall punch.

Blunt Bob

Same goes for this somewhat grungy bob, which takes an extremely rooty situation and spins it into a favorable, pretty-in-punk look.

Frosted

Yep, this Early Aughts trend is still hanging by a moment, and we can totally get behind it when worn in this more natural version.

Drippy

A brown-to-blonde ombré can also work on shorter, straighter lengths and still look natural, provided the highlights are thinner and a bit higher.

Feathered

It’s only logical that the shade of blonde way popular in the ’70s only looks twice as good with an equally groovy hairstyle.

Long and Light

Another high-contrast look, fans of the classic ombré will easily fall for this black-to-blonde rendition.

Bronde

We’re never not loving a versatile, easy-to-maintain brown-blonde!

Soft Bob

A whisper-fine bob gets the illusion of more fullness with a wheat-blonde ombré.

Peachy

A tad subversive, chocolate brown roots look more laid-back with peachy-pink ends that hit right at the collarbone.

Peek-a-Boo

A platinum pixie gets a grungier effect when its black roots are left exposed just a tad.

White Braids

Prevent damage in these super lightened strands by using an intensive hair mask. Nexxus Humectress Moisture Restoring Masque works to bring moisture back to strands and treat chemically-damaged hair.

Nexxus Humectress Moisture Restoring Masque

Textured Lob

Skater-chic, if there ever was such—from the grungy texture to the exposed roots.

Rope Twists

Natural hair in protective rope twists can also play with a black-to-blonde ombré.

French Girl

Everything about this sexy, dark brown-to-ash-blonde look screams chic seductress.

Side-Spiral

A side-swept look with a quiet ombré is low-maintenance and easily flattering.

Center Part

Another throwback look we love? The sleek center parts of the Noughties, which surprisingly work well with a high-contrast color.

Smooth Curls

Diffuse that hairline via a zigzag part for more oomph.

Full Pixie

Satisfy your pixie and undercut cravings in one look, and keep the roots peeking out a bit to give your scalp a reprieve from that bleach.

Silky

A straight, perfectly blown-out finish is the best foil for an already impeccable ombré.

Long and Grown-Out

Naturalistas, rejoice: This very rooty (and semi-staticky) take is bringing us back to our simple college years.

Streaky

…And so do these bright caramel highlights, which seem to nestle into a straight, espresso-brown base just right.

Pinkish

There’s something so cheerfully L.A. about a nutty base and washed-out pink ends (or maybe it’s those literal rose-colored glasses?).

Straightforward

…And then we go up further north, with this so very Pacific Northwest hairstyle. Featured here: a decidedly more understated texture and a starker, grungier, oh-so-Seatlle ombré. #pnwlife

Loose Bob

Or: What growing out a blonde bob should look like, if only we were all this self-aware.

Coiled

Highlights, lowlights, grown-in roots plus a 3C/4A texture—yet it all works. Give your curls the boost they need with a pump of mousse. We love Dove Curls Defining Mousse for adding definition without leaving a crunchy finish.

Dove Style+Care Curls Defining Mousse

Tip: This is also an effective heatless curling technique, so skip the blow dry—and prep hair with a curling mousse, like Dove Style+Care Curls Defining Mousse instead!

Perfect Bun

A super-correct topknot is ideal when you want to show off the nuances in your blonde (but also want to skip a wash or two).

Two-Toned

Bored of a traditional ombré? We hear you—and so does this clever take on the trend, which, gasps, goes for a vertical gradient. #mindblown

Loose Waves

Beautifully on-point, whether you’re dolled up in Sunday’s best or are totes in the tv binge and chill zone.

Lazy Waves

Let your hair air-dry naturally to urge in those second day bends.

Classic

One for the books is the drippy ombré—which features blonde hair with dark roots, in a messy, low-key wave—has been everyone’s go-to for the past half decade.

Chunky Bob

Cut hair to jaw length, and style with a flat iron to get that rich-girl kink in your lengths.

Tight Highlights

Take your streaks up higher, particularly near the hairline, if you want a blonder look.

Sun-Streaked

As natural as a rooty, caramel-highlighted look can get.