23 Warm Blonde Hair Colors That Will Brighten Up Your Locks

Between all the stunning shades and variations of blonde hair, warm blonde shades—unlike cool or neutral—give that instant brightening boost you might be craving at any given time. Think gold, honey, amber, caramel, strawberry, and butterscotch as the delicious pillars of warm blonde hair color.

Even your light-as-pearl blonde friend can join the party by warming up her cool platinum with buttery gold balayage, and your true-to-chestnut brunette friend can boost her brown with lovely caramel blonde. It’s the rich, high-definition glow and brightening effect that warm blonde gives that flatters everyone.

From golden platinum blondes to dark honey blondes, here are our 22 favorite warm blonde hair colors to try now.

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Warm Platinum Blonde

This platinum shade looks the most natural with its warm tones instead of the expected icy, cool tones of some platinum shades. It goes with a warmer, yellow-hued blonde rather than an icy, white blonde.

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Baby Blonde

While similar to warm platinum, baby blonde isn’t quite as light. It’s typical for this shade to use balayage highlights or babylights to really blend the warm shades of platinum and gold into the body of the hair.

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Champagne Blonde

Take your cooler champagne blonde to warmer with gold or butter balayage throughout. We think of Reese Witherspoon when looking at this fair blonde with buttery touches.

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Golden Bronde

Inject a natural brown base with golden tones that look like pure sunlight has hit your ringlets.

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Sunlit Honey Blonde

This dirty blonde is anything but boring, with dark golden balayage that melts down in a gorgeous way.

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Soft Strawberry Blonde

This shade combines golden dirty blonde and strawberry blonde for a naturally sun-kissed look we love for those with fair skin. While the red tones of the strawberry blonde make it inherently warm, golden balayage takes it even further.

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Honey Butter Blonde

Enhance a warm honey base with pure butter balayage for a finished shade that looks absolutely lit from within. This glowing mane gives us major Rapunzel feels!

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Soft Golden Ombré

While drastic ombré is going out of style, soft ombré is heating back up for an all-over boost to your style. This neutral blonde gets warmth and glow from golden balayage starting at eye-height for the most flattering look.

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Honey Blonde Curls

Flatter a warm skin tone with warm balayage highlights that are perfect for lightening up natural curls.

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Cream Soda

This It hair color achieves a warmed-up look with golden and honey shades and a beige or neutral blonde or light brown base. It can start looking a bit rose gold or amber gold depending on your balayage shades.

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Golden Blonde

This quintessential blonde looks spun from gold thread, making it one of the best brightening shades out there. You’ll get this look from highlights or babylights that give cohesive all-over coverage.

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Caramel Blonde Curls

Choose a darker warm blonde to blend seamlessly into a naturally dark base color.

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Golden Balayage Highlights

Even very dark brunette base colors can find that warm blonde adds dimension and brightness.

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Honey Bronde

Honey blonde is all about capturing that warm, shiny, and sumptuous look of honey on a bronde base. It gives a light-catching, sun-kissed look that make our tresses sing.

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Warm Sandy Blonde

This shade uses a warm honey or amber base color and brightens it up with golden balayage all over for that blended sandy look. This color is a great option for those with medium skin tones.

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Rose Blonde

This shade has been making waves as the update to rose gold. The look gets its rosy tint by adding rose gold balayage throughout a bright golden base. You get the warm tones from the rose gold, but with an all-over lighter look.

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Butterscotch Blonde

This shade is about combining golden blonde with warmer butterscotch (think: a tad lighter than caramel) touches for a rich, multidimensional color that looks kissed by the sun.

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Amber Blonde

Amber blonde is a step up from your warm honey blonde with more pronounced orange and red undertones, while still keeping golden touches all over. It works wonders on fair skin, bringing out green eyes like no other.

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Warm Blonde Money Pieces

Even in small doses, warm blonde can make a big impact, as seen here as face-framing highlights on an otherwise-dark brunette base color.

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Deep Strawberry Blonde

Go full Nicole Kidman with this vivid strawberry blonde. Full highlights will give this all-over shining look that bursts with red and orange tones.

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Caramel Blonde

This popular combo is often used with a soft ombré balayage technique to create a silky gradient of warm blonde-brown. A caramel blonde base provides the perfect starting place for adding golden strokes around the face and towards the ends.

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Bronde

Bronde just might be the most popular color of the year so far. Keep your natural-looking light brown base, while honey and butter balayage gives a fresh glow to keep it from looking hum-drum.