Without any doubt, natural black hair color is a great base color for any type of highlights. With so many variations flattering different skin tones, textures, and personal styles, it’s easy to find a combination to enhance your appearance. Whether you seek to add some depth or juice up your dark tresses with color, explore these amazing highlight ideas to step up your look.

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#1: Black Hair with Burgundy Highlights

Natural black hair with darker shade highlights, like this burgundy hue, is easy to maintain. If you wash your hair once or twice a week with color protection shampoo, this color will stay on black hair for about 7-9 weeks.

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#2: Black Hair with Brown Highlights

This color is perfect if you are looking for a minimum maintenance choice for very dark hair. Just wash and air dry your tresses, and it will still look beautiful, especially on long hair.

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#3: Mocha Hair with Light Brown Highlights

If you’re a bit bored with your natural hair color but don’t feel like dyeing it all, highlights will come to save the day. Adding highlights on dark hair create dimension and depth, making it look really chic. Opt for light brown highlights in case you prefer a more natural look.

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#4: Black Hair with All Over Platinum Highlights

This color is high maintenance, especially if you have black/brown natural hair roots. You need to do your hair every 4-6 weeks and use purple shampoo and conditioner every time your hair is washed.

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#5: Black and Auburn Hair Color

Auburn highlights on black hair give you a natural look and, at the same time, are clearly visible. During the spring and summer season, auburn highlights are the perfect color if you like to have a more natural look. Auburn highlights are also low maintenance.