With the arrival of spring, we can look forward to new hair color trends. From earthy browns and champagne coppers to vanilla blonde and greige, there are tons of fresh colors, hues, and combinations to consider for your look.
Although the main theme in hair color over the past few years was to keep it simple, basic, and low-maintenance, the hair color trends for 2022 are all about high-maintenance trends like double-processed blondes, light bases with highlights, and bold, edgy hair colors.
No matter what kind of hair color trend you’re interested in, it’s important you begin with a complimentary image consultation with us. During this color appointment, we’ll work with you to choose an on-trend color that will capture your personality and enhance your style. Book today!
Top 5 Hair Color Trends for Spring 2022
There are five categories of hair colors that are making their way through the fashion trendsetters. These categories are seeing exciting new additions this spring:
Reds
Blondes
Brunettes
Vivids
Block colors
Whether the particular color and style you want will require foils, highlights, color gloss, technique gloss, ombre, balayage work, or anything else, refleKTion can make it happen!
Reds in 2022
It’s true that the red trend isn’t new, it’s been big for years now with many celebrities taking it on as their signature color. The difference this year is in the hue, and the type of red; a copper with a golden undertone is really the ultimate red for Spring. New celebrities jumping on this trend include Doja Cat and Kendall Jenner.
Pretty Penny & Champagne Copper
The coppers with buzz are Pretty Penny and Champagne Copper. These are rich blends of orange-browns and deep red. The subtleness of the Pretty Penny color is perfect if you’re used to rocking a natural blonde.
Strawberry Red
The strawberry red color spans several depths, from deep and bold to fair and pale. Pale strawberry is a great choice for people who aren’t comfortable going full red but still want that vibe.
Amber Ash Blonde
Warm-toned color is in this spring, so if you’re still rocking your ash blonde from 2021, now might be the time to add an amber hue to bring in a warm red undertone. Of course, warm tones might not be your color, so to find out if this is the look for you, reach out to one of our experts for a color consultation.
Blondes in 2022
One of the biggest hair trends this spring is “Expensive Blonde”. Whether you want bleached blonde locks with lowlights, gradient blonde, peachy blonde, or any other trendy shade, blonde in any of its beautiful hues will be everywhere this spring.
So, ditch the dark blonde hair colors and honey shades from 2021, the trending blondes for 2022 lean toward tones that feature plenty of highlights and lowlights.
Icy Face Framing
This is the new trend for balayage, which is popular for blondes everywhere. You can recognize this look as the classic cool-toned balayage with strands around the face in a pop of icy blonde.
Scandinavian Blonde
This color mimics the natural blonde that some Scandinavian women are lucky to be born with. If you like that bold, in-your-face, platinum blonde, stay in style by switching to a Scandi blonde.
Essentially, a warmer tone is added, so it still has that same feel as a platinum blonde but appears flawlessly natural.
Lux Blonde
Luxury blonde is hard to achieve without a professional. This is the kind of blonde with shadow roots and a depth of color you can’t achieve outside of a salon. Which is probably why it’s called Lux blonde.
Vanilla Blonde
This soft, warm blonde will take you from Spring into the Summer months of 2022. This color is best if you have a warm undertone and can currently be seen on celebrities such as Billie Eilish.
Brunettes in 2022
There are plenty of reasons brunette shades remain so timeless; they admittedly require less upkeep than blonde, rainbow, and red hues. Some of the most popular up-and-coming brunette hair color trends for the spring of 2022 offer a certain sultriness, shine, and sexiness that other shades just can’t quite match.
When you’re in a certain mood or you need a glimmer of natural yet powerful-looking vibrancy, these popular brunettes might be what you’re looking for this spring.
Greige
This combination of gray and beige reminds us of the beautiful ash brunettes and dark blondes that have been a hit over the last couple of years. This really is a stunningly understated look.
Cocoa Butter
This brown is buttery and chocolatey, hence the name, Cocoa Butter. It’s a deep warm brown with threads of golden-brown highlights running through it.
Mushroom Brunettes
This color isn’t new, but it’s certainly a favorite this year. It’s a little like cocoa butter - a warm brown with highlights. However, the highlights are a “mushroom brown” color, which is an ashy light brown.
Deep Natural Beige
Beige is one of those colors that falls between brown and blonde. However, a deep beige brunette is often a creamy dark brown with a cool-toned beige gloss on top.
Sneak Peek Highlights
When you think highlights, you’re probably used to the light catching colors that lie on top of the hair. The sneak peek highlight, however, does it a little differently. A contrasting color is placed at the nape of your neck on the underside of your hair.
Vivids in 2022
Vivids are shaping up to be fun, bold, popular hair color trends for 2022 for many reasons. One of the biggest is, as a general rule, vivid colors–in the right undertone–look great with anyone’s skin.
Lime Green Hot Roots
Once considered a common mishap, while coloring hair, “hot roots” are roots that are more vivid or different in color than the rest of a person’s hair. This can happen unintentionally when the heat from the scalp acts as a catalyst for hair coloring to work more intensely than expected.
Lime green hot roots became a calling card of singer Billie Eilish, and ever since then, it’s a trend that’s carrying straight through spring 2022.
Pink Dip Dye
This spring, hair color trend involves your ends becoming a gorgeously different color than the rest. The dip-dye style literally makes it look like hair was partially dipped into color. Colored ends can run just a couple of inches or several inches up from the tips.
Pastel Tips
Pastel tips are not quite as defined or solid (or don’t cover as much hair) as dip-dye styles. They create tips that are gorgeous pastel colors. Whether hair is layered and wavy or straight, blocky, and all one length, pastel tips can add enough of a special touch to transform your spring.
The Cheshire
You may or may not have heard of the Cheshire, but it’s totally overtaking the hair color world by storm. The Cheshire is a coloring style that refers to the stunning colors inspired by the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland — incredibly bold pinks and purples.
Pastel Balayage
Balayage is one of those trends that isn’t going away any time soon. But this new take on it is exciting and fresh. Instead of the usual lighter and darker tones throughout the hair, this takes pastel colors through a natural base, such as blonde or brunette.
Block Colors in 2022
The fifth color trend for hair in the spring of 2022 is all about block colors. As you can probably guess, block colors for hair are just like color block clothing and makeup. There are a few different ways to show off block colors on hair; the only question is, which will you connect with?
The Block Color technique involves a section of hair that is colored in a contrasting shade, so it stands out against the rest of your hair. It can be done in countless ways using any color(s) you want.
Popular block color ideas include face-framing highlights, colored bangs, color-blocked ends, colored roots, and hairstreaks.
Regardless of the spring 2022 hair color trend you’re interested in, RefleKTion has the professionals to help make it become a reality.
Contact us now to schedule your complimentary consultation!