17 styles of blonde highlights that will transform your hair

Adding lighter sections to the front of your hair is a great way to accentuate your bone structure and brighten your complexion without committing to a complete colour change. If you're keen to keep it au natural, be sure to keep the colour only a few shades lighter than your natural strands like these.

Crab Salad are an incredible London based salon who pride themselves on creating every kinda colour under the sun. Seriously, nothing is too weird or too wild for them. So if you're looking for a bold hair transformation like these extra chunky highlights, we advise paying them a visit.

Sometimes you don't want to completely change your colour, just breathe some life back into it. Enter baby lights. These soft tonal highlights have brightened the hair, whilst still keeping it brown.

If you have olive skin, you want to avoid ashy tones as these will wash you out. Instead ask for yellow and golden hues, as many hairdressers will automatically assume you want your hair to be cool toned. A mix of various baby lights will create a subtle, multidimensional finish like this one.

The perfect in between honey hue, these golden highlights allow you to let your brown base shine through whilst also elevating your colour to a delightful caramel colour. The softer, streak-free top fades effortlessly into lighter ends for that holiday hair effect.

If your hair is already light but it’s extra depth you’re looking for, ask your colourist to mix multiple tones for a seamless transition into natural hair – a technique mastered by Manchester-based stylist Catherine Boden.

Worried about roots making blonde maintenance a living nightmare? Asking the colourist to stretch the root colour downwards before the highlights start, helps extend your time in-between appointments.

Award-winning hairdresser Charlotte Mensah underlines that blonde highlights on Afro hair is a triple threat – volume, depth and curls.

Spice up your life with a look to rival that of Geri Halliwell circa 1997. Throw it back with a mixture of highlights intertwined with lowlights.

Going lighter is a gradual process. Begin gently and, in the meantime, let small sections of hair do the talking with sparse, scattered highlights.

Golden tones are your one-way ticket to beach perfect hair. Most effective on longer hair, go gradually lighter from gold to yellow blonde towards the ends.

Highlights take to texture like a dream. Add a tinge of honey blonde for a summer statement, followed up with a strengthening treatment to care for curls.

Starting on a platinum canvas, ask for the lightest possible bleach highlights for a complete white out.

Blonde highlights needn’t be in your face. Keep it subtle by highlighting thinner strands, with strategic sectioning helping frame the face, as achieved at Larry King Hair Salon.

Somewhere between white and yellow blonde, milky blonde is ice cold cool without a dairy product in sight.

If blondes have more fun, then brunettes can get in on it now, too. With a few blonde highlights blended in, bronde is the happy medium.

Scattered highlights make for a plethora of shades running through tresses and will keep people guessing – was it two weeks on the beach or two hours in the salon chair?

Stay out of Barbie blonde territory beginning with ashier tones contrasted with light blonde highlights added later to the mix, as trialled by Bella Hadid earlier this year.

Caramel tones are continually lusted after, and this summer is no exception. Blonde highlights + brown curls = creamy caramel delight.

Both sophisticated and summer-appropriate, sandy shades are the grown-up way to go blonde.