However, going from brown to blonde might not be as simple as the other way around, depending on your hair’s lightness.

A hair coloring technique from brunette to blonde might require multiple all-over lightener sessions to ensure your hair’s health. However, since lightener can damage hair, going from dark to light requires a subtler approach.

All-over coloring usually comes with toner too to glaze the hair and add some dimension. You can also follow up this coloring job with some highlights or lowlights to add some more dimension.

#7. Split-Tone

Can’t decide what color you want to dye your hair? You don’t have to choose with the split-tone hair coloring technique. Well, you’ll have to choose two, but that’s better than narrowing down your choices to one.

The split tone technique literally splits your hair into two colors. You can choose contrasting, different shades of your two favorites or, really, any two color combinations you can think of for a split-tone look.

Similar to the all-over coloring look, split-tone stylists will apply all-over color to each half of your hair according to the color. If you want unnaturally occurring colors, such as green, purple, or blue, your stylist might apply an all-over lightener first before addressing each color to ensure the pigment takes to your hair as you want it to.

#8. Frosting

Frosting is a major throwback to the early 2000s. You might remember it from all of those boy band leads with frosted tips. The hair color technique applies lightened color to the ends of short hair for both men and women—not short hair like shoulder length or a clipped bob but on pixie cuts or typical men’s haircut styles.

The technique achieves an almost dusted look as if you sprayed color on your head like a hair spray. The color does not bleed into the roots but sits on top, hence the frosting technique name. Don’t get confused frosted hair with highlighted hair. You can read the differences between frosted hair and highlights here.