If you’ve been mentally prepping your beauty mood board for the new season by scrolling through summer hair trends for your next salon visit, then let me introduce you to the luxe summer hair colour that’s quietly popping up on multiple celebrities right now: mocha bronde.
What Is a Mocha Bronde?
This luxe hair colour, much like the caffeinated beverage after which it is named, blends the smoothness of cool brunette with muted blonde tones. “This monochromatic, muted neutral bronde is very different to the intense caramel brondes we saw last year,” says Tom Smith, hairstylist and hair trend forecaster. “This one is clearly inspired by Mocha Mousse (Pantone’s Colour of the Year). “The hair is beautifully blended with neutral cool-coffee tones but it looks special and not too natural,” he says.
Depending on your natural base colour, there are a few different options to achieve the mocha bronde hair colour. “[Mocha bronde] is harder to do on super dark natural bases but it can be done,” says Smith. “Pre-bleaching would be needed, and the hair releases these neutral mushroom tones quite quickly, so a blue or purple shampoo will help maintain the result neutral and clean looking if you want to steer clear of the traditional caramel bronde,” he says. Pre-lightening and toning the hair will give the best, most predictable results whilst using blue or purple shampoo and regular salon toners.
Mocha bronde ready to try? Keep scrolling for all the inspo to take to the salon, plus the best products to keep the look going at home.
…mocha bronde inspiration.
Jourdan Dunn has recently switched to this muted bronde hair colour.
Hailey Bieber has tried out a golden mocha bronde shade, too.
Even Kate Middleton has opted for richer bronde tones for summer.
The wonderful thing about mocha bronde is that it can be used as an all over hair colour, or as a fab base for blonde highlights or balayage like Lisa has.
Rita Ora has also released a coffee-blonde hair colour.
If you have blonde hair colour then try this colour-depositing hair mask which will give you some bronde tones to your lengths.
This hair gloss will give a more muted tone to current light to medium blondes while leaving an amazing gloss.
Blue or purple shampoos are great for fighting off any brassy tones that can sometimes appear. This one keeps mocha bronde looking fresh and cool tone between salon visits.
The shinier your hair, the better your hair colour will look (whatever shade you choose!) This hair gloss from Living Proof provides hair with a mirror-like shine.
Give your lengths a super shine with this shine-boosting hair oil.
