No hair color 'pops' like champagne blonde. Fizzing with light and luminosity, it's a shade that adds serious shimmer to your lengths, balancing cool and warm tones to create the most eye-catching neutral blonde. But how do you get the right level of sparkle? As you'll see across the 9 lustrous looks below, it's all about using color products that put shine at the top of the agenda.
So, here's everything you need to know about champagne blonde hair, including inspiration and ideas you can take to your next salon visit...
What Tone is Champagne Blonde?
Champagne is a neutral-toned hair color with an expensive-looking blend of pale gold and beige blonde hues – sometimes with a drop of blush, if rosé champagne is more to your taste. By balancing warm and cool hues, it proves flattering on a range of skin tones. This means your Wella colorist can carefully custom-tweak your shade, making it very slightly warmer or cooler to work in harmony with your natural undertones.
9 Ways to Wear Champagne Blonde Hair Color
1. Pure Champagne Blonde Hair
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For a low-contrast, pure champagne that shimmers and sparkles in the light, ask your colorist to create your blonde with Illumina Color. This youth-enhancing toner gives you radiant, 100% natural-looking color that allows light to enter the hair shaft, illuminating it from within. Just look at that glow.
2. Golden Champagne Blonde Hair
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If you like your blonde warmer, ask your colorist to sprinkle a few extra golden hues through your hair. This glossy look features gilded honey ribbons while maintaining some coolness through the face-framing layers. It's another Illumina Color creation, once again showing just how luminous the formula can be, and with an infusion of Microtones, it plays up natural highs and lows for a truly natural finish.
3. Dimensional Champagne Blonde Hair
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Layer dimension through your champagne blonde by requesting chunky highlights and lowlights that dial up contrast. This particular look was created with a combination of Color Touch and Koleston Perfect – two formulas that amplify richness and vibrancy. Color Touch is your demi-permanent pick for true-to-tone shades that sparkle, while Koleston Perfect delivers on permanent color with – if you want it – up to 100% grey coverage.
4. Champagne Blonde Balayage
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This is the champagne blonde that dreams were made of; a shimmery, polished hue with the softest root shadowing. It steers slightly more on the cool side of neutral for an almost-platinum shade, but maintains its wearability with a lived-on root that keeps your highlights low-maintenance. A glow like this deserves to be enhanced, so add ULTIMATE COLOR Shine Spray to your hair regimen. It's a gloss-boosting, hair-smoothing, finishing spray that adds instant luster.
5. Rosé Champagne Blonde Hair
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Champagne blonde just got a pastel upgrade. If you're looking for a fun twist on the trend, ask your colorist to add blush tones to your blonde services for a rosy sheen. This pastel pink was created with Color Fresh Mask in Pink Blush, a zero-damage, color-depositing treatment that can be used in the salon or at home to tint already-lightened hair. Want to try it yourself? Apply it to clean, damp hair, let it develop for 10 minutes, and then rinse to reveal a fresh, fun, pastel pink shade.
"THE COLOR FRESH MASKS ARE SO FUN AND EASY TO USE! THEY HELP KEEP MY CLIENTS' HAIR LOOKING JUST LIKE THEY'VE LEFT THE SALON. THEY ARE ALSO GREAT TO HAVE IN MY KIT FOR AN ON-THE-GO REFRESH OR QUICK COLOUR CHANGE-UP."
Briana Cisneros (@brianacisneros), Wella Global Ambassador
6. Dark Champagne Blonde Hair
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If you want the sparkle of a champagne blonde but with a little extra richness, this slightly deeper version of the trend guarantees a luxurious finish. A scattering of dark blonde/light brown lowlights softens the brightness of the blonde while still delivering luminosity. A gloss is going to ensure this shade sparkles, so ask your colorist about SHINEFINITY. It's a zero-damage, zero-lift, tone-enhancing service that adds a translucent veil of color with up to 3x shinier hair*.
7. Champagne Blonde Highlights
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Pure yet dimensional, these champagne blonde highlights are stunningly eye-catching, reflecting warm and cool tones that dance under the light. This is an ultra-bright blonde that requires precise hair lightening with a professional formula, like BlondorPlex 9, which combines up to 9 levels of lift with up to 97% less breakage** (when used with BlondorPlex n°2).
8. Champagne Bronde Hair Color
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The bronde (brown-blonde) hair color trend isn't going anywhere, which is good news if you have darker hair but crave champagne tones. Keep some of your depth intact, but ask your colorist for champagne highlights to achieve that not-quite-blonde, not-quite-brown, in-between shade. This is a Color Touch creation; a dreamy demonstration of the formula's true-to-tone shine and vibrancy. Take the gloss to the next level by enhancing your shade with ULTIMATE SMOOTH Miracle Oil Serum for a smooth and shiny finish.
9. Lived-In Champagne Blonde Hair
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Champagne blonde is a luxe shade with an ultra-polished feel, but you can still make it look lived-in if you prefer beachier, more effortless hues. Ask your colorist to give you a rooted blonde that stretches down to the mid-lengths, so not only does your champagne shade feel more laidback, but it's lower-maintenance, too. Then, add a tousled wave by styling with EIMI Ocean Spritz, a sea salt spray that adds grip and guts through the lengths for easy, breezy texture.
1. Wash with a Sulfate-Free Shampoo
The best color-kind shampoos are gentle yet deeply effective, combining sulfate-free cleansing with metal-purifying powers to remove shade-distorting impurities. That's exactly why we recommend ULTIMATE COLOR Shampoo for keeping your champagne blonde hues vibrant. It revitalizes your hair from the first wash, leaving it clean and cared-for from root to tip.
2. Reduce Your Rinsing Steps
The more your hair is exposed to water, the quicker your hair color fades, so if you want to protect your shampoo blonde, swap rinse-out formulas for long-wear leave-ins. ULTIMATE COLOR Miracle Leave-In Mask is our pick for keeping champagne hair soft and moisturized, with a no-rinse, creamy formula that comes packed with UV protection.
3. Boost Your Blonde at Home
If you do start to notice more warmth than you'd like in your champagne blonde, give the tone a refresh. You can do this at home with the Color Fresh Mask in Pearl Blonde. Apply it to clean, damp hair, let it work its magic for up to 10 minutes, and then rinse thoroughly. It cools down and refreshes your blonde, damage-free, in between salon visits.
Ready to start your champagne blonde hair transformation? Find your nearest Wella salon with our Salon Finder, and take the first step to sparkling hues that shimmer like never before.
* Vs. pre-damaged hair in an instrumental test.
** BlondorPlex 9 + BlondorPlex n°2, vs BlondorPlex alone.