To be frank, this is the style when you want something that can be used in a variety of situations. It turns out smooth when you keep it straight or curled. And the fade is not so stark as to look groomed in any way, but still fade out gracefully– no sharp lines.
The style is particularly flattering when you are growing out dark red or brunette hair but feel you would like a warm boost. It’s transitional magic.
Textured Pixie with Caramel Tones
Pixies aren’t just bold — they’re brilliant. This tousled short cut is given an added edge by streaks of buttery highlights brown woven in a dark dimensional brunette foundation. It has lift in the back of the crown, a slight curl on the edge and it is airy and chic in shape. It’s fall texture reimagined.
Short styles like this thrive on texture. I love to use Ouai Matte Pomade because it adds some much needed definition but not the stiffness, and a spray of dry shampoo adds some additional volume and hold.
Pixies are so freeing. I have never done this cut in my life but when I did it I felt I can take this whole world. They are not scared at all and yet they are somehow soft, and it is such a fall mood. Throw in some hoop earrings or a big knit and the entire scenario comes into song.
Not sure if you’re ready for a chop? Save this anyway. You’ll come back to it next season, I promise.
Caramel Brunette Luxe with Depth
We end with a showstopper. This super rich brown and caramel combination is deep, dimensional and almost luxurious. They include the waves, which are less tight and long, leaving the dark highlights opportunity to appear naturally. It is a healthy, pricey, and balanced feeling, such as one after a hair gloss, new boots, and a first spicy latte in the season.
The combination of the two colors looks incredible on darker skin tones and should be complemented with shimmering sprays, such as IGK Good Behavior or Color Wow Extra Mist-ical Shine Spray.
There’s such grown-woman energy in this style. It’s confident without being loud, expressive without being trendy. It may enter a book club, a board room, or a gallery and people would still turn heads.
It is the perfect seasonal color that can take you through the fall/autumn into winter and not look seasonal.
Cascading Honey Waves with Dimensional Lift
Nothing compares to the combination of voluminous and golden blonde highlights to make the entire season to look like a movie. This fashion is characterized by super soft curls in a deep side part, which produce drastic movement to the front and the ends. The caramel hair color of autumn fall in this case is more of the warm honey and sandy tones with the base layer being toffee. All that is gold about this style, only make it decadent and lavish.
Voluminous hair like this loves support. Use a light mousse (I love Living Proof Full Thickening Mousse) at the roots and a velcro roller set while you do your makeup. That’s the secret to the lift that lasts.
Fall parties, sparkling cider, warm neutrals one on top of the other beige knits, suede jackets, gold chain accessories are the associations that come to my mind when I see this style. It’s drama, but the soft kind.
This is a golden yes, in case you have been in the fantasies of becoming lighter but without full-on committing to blonde.
Shadowed Bob with Almond Frost Highlights
This current bob is a demonstration that fall/autumn color does not belong only to long waves in my short-to-mid length girls. Honey highlights of the deep brunette, enhanced with frosty brown cool-looking almond twist, lay on a foundation of grounded brunette. What is successful about this style is that the lighter pieces clutch the face making it brighten the eyes and shape the face naturally. It’s classic, wearable, and crazy flattering.
Keeping the frost cool and bright takes intention — I recommend Matrix Brass Off Blue Toning Shampoo once a week and sticking with warm heat tools (avoid super high heat).
This cut and tone combination smacks quite a bit of that cool girl in coffee shops. You can see there is little you have to do to achieve the maximum polish like you can never be ordinarily dressed but claw clipping your hair.
And what you are entering the world of dimensional brunette in primeval-time? It is one of the most low-risk high-reward styles you can ever give a shot at.
Autumn Root Stretch with Windswept Curtain Fringe
And finally, one we do love a lot: an autumn-based softly-mixed style that features the warm beige and sandy caramel colouring throughout and, best of all, that airy curtain-bang hang down stuff that frames the face so nicely. It looks like it owes a bit of vintage muse, though in a Pinterest-core fashion. The highlights 2025 here are natural, thin, and in all they are perfectly in place, just like one would desire that sun-warmed look but not too much of that or too little.
On layered cuts like this one with long fringe, I am crazy about the Amika Blowout Babe Thermal Brush, literally providing that pillowy wind-swept end without making the hair itself too dry.
Whenever I have returned to wearing bangs in the fall it is because of a hair cut like this. There’s just something so softly cinematic about them. Couple it up with a turtleneck and a bit of red cheeks and you have got an editorial in action.
Ready to stretch into a new season? This style might be low-key but it is one of the most creative concepts of the cozy glam girls of 2025.
Your hair has a history and fall is the right time of the year to change your story. Swing short, sun-kissed, daring red or soft brown, no matter what you do, these highlights 2025 ideas are not only trends but also petite adjustments. Pin your must haves, screenshot your favorites, and do it anyway. Since there is no feeling quintessential to the beginning of a new season than a feeling that your hair is so you.
