15 Golden Blonde Hair Colour Ideas

What Hair Colour is Golden Blonde?

Warm and glossy; golden blonde is on the richer end of the blonde spectrum, with a melted blend of highs and lows that sparkle like threads of gold. And it's also ultra-versatile; your Wella colourist can make it lighter or darker to suit your skin tone, eye colour and base colour, so you can choose between a bright honey gold or a deep, gilded caramel. In essence, it's sun-kissed and shimmery – a beautiful hue that gives us summer vibes all year round.

Which is Lighter, Honey Blonde or Golden Blonde?

While honey and golden blonde are both rich colours that radiate warm tones, honey blonde tends to be the lighter hue with hints of buttery yellow versus golden blonde's gilded light reflections. A golden blonde is also easier to tailor, as it pairs flawlessly with a darker base or you can team it with brown lowlights to wear it with a little depth.

15 Golden Blonde Hair Ideas

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True Golden Blonde Hair

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This is golden blonde hair at its truest; a shade that glimmers beautifully under the light, combining a spectrum of light hair tones that melt seamlessly into one another. Color Touch is the colour of choice here, our demi-permanent formula that's long been iconic, but is now better than ever thanks to the Metal Purifier. This breakthrough technology neutralizes metals in your hair to ensure you get the most even, flawless results, giving you true-to-tone vibrancy, no matter your hair's condition. Your colourist can mix up a range of hues for a look this multi-dimensional, then blend them together for a low-contrast, high-shimmer Color Touch Melt.

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Golden Platinum Hair

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When you hear 'platinum blonde' you probably think of an almost-white, cool-toned blonde, but this golden glow is putting a whole new twist on the trend. Still light and bright, but with a hint of warmth, it's your go-to if you want a softer platinum. Illumina Color created this hue; our permanent formula for radiant, youthful, 100% natural-looking colour that's luminous in every light.

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Beachy Golden Blonde Highlights

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This sun-kissed blonde radiates golden warmth that's levelled up by the styling. Want in? Try these micro braids through the front of your hair, and tousle lengths with a salt spray. We love EIMI Ocean Spritz for grip, guts and beachy texture. Simply mist it through clean, damp hair, lightly scrunch, and let lengths air-dry or twist into overnight braids and wake up to undone waves in the morning.

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Honey Glass Hair

Part of our collection of Golden Glass Hair services, this dripping-in-shine look gives golden blonde hair a honey-hued twist that glows all season long. And getting the shade is easy; simply head to your nearest Wella salon and request it from their menu. Your colourist will create the hue in three layering steps that bestow your hair with luminosity:

First, they'll lighten your hair with the #1 salon lightener in the US¹, BlondorPlex, our bond-strengthening pre-lightener that reduces breakage by up to 97%².
Next, they'll tone your hair with SHINEFINITY Color Glaze for a zero damage, zero lift, translucent veil of demi-permanent colour.
To finish, your hair will be sealed and styled with ULTIMATE SMOOTH Miracle Oil Serum, creating a glassy topcoat that leaves hair soft, nourished and frizz-free.

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Golden Bronde Hair

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Bronde hair is everywhere right now, so why not give it a gilded twist? By teaming light brown hair with hints of golden blonde, you get the dreamiest fusion of warm, sun-dappled tones. This SHINEFINITY creation shows you just how glossy the demi-permanent glaze can go, giving even dull hair a boost of radiance in 20 minutes (or less). Plus, because all the brightness is focused through the lengths, it's a low-maintenance look, with the natural root allowing for the softest regrowth.

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Golden Caramel Blonde

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Give golden hair an injection of caramel to take the tone a little deeper. This decadent hue comes courtesy of Illumina Color, the perfect permanent hair colour for a natural, light-reflective hue. It even delivers up to 100% grey hair coverage, if that's what you're looking for, so you can target silver regrowth and transform your shade in a single salon visit.

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Golden Peach Blonde

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Add a hint of pastel to your blonde look with a juicy copper peach or golden apricot tone. These shades are soft enough to suit everyone but bold enough to turn heads wherever you go. Your colourist can reach for any product in the Wella portfolio to achieve a peach blonde like this, but we're loving SHINEFINITY for pastel tones that dial up glossiness all over. Ask your colourist to apply your shade with a balayage technique for seamless regrowth, and add a brighter face frame for a halo of complexion-enhancing colour.

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Brown Hair with Golden Blonde Highlights

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If you have deep brown hair and want to maintain your rich, natural base, keep golden blonde tones subtle with a mix of highlights in lighter and darker tones. This blonde makeover comes courtesy of Blondor Freelights to pre-lighten balayage, followed by Illumina Color for the most natural-looking toner. Don't forget to add a purple shampoo to your regimen to keep excess warmth at bay in between salon visits. INVIGO Blonde Recharge Cool Blonde Shampoo will keep your shade fresh and free from brassiness.

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Golden Blonde Seamless Babylights

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Have you heard of babylights? They're micro-fine ribbons that are placed close together, so they boost the brightness in your hair while mimicking the natural twinkly highlights of your childhood. The result: a gleaming blonde with a hyper-real, shiny finish, which you can dial up using the ULTIMATE SMOOTH regimen for major gloss. Try this look if root-to-tip, all-over gold is your goal. Its pure gilded perfection was made for the summer months.

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Golden Copper Blonde Shade

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Gold highlights meet copper hair in this red-tinted mane; an ideal choice for anyone not ready to give up their natural red shade but still wanting a soft blonde concoction. If you're blessed with hair this long, ask your colourist to use Koleston Perfect to achieve your dream hue. The permanent colour harnesses Ultra Precision Colour Technology, which ensures the most even finish from root to ends. It's also the first and only professional colour to combine ME+ Technology with the Metal Purifier, reducing the risk of new allergies to hair colour² while neutralizing metals in your hair. A true multitasker.

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Golden Blonde Twilighting

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Have you heard of twilighting? It's a glow-giving technique for deep brunettes, which sees bright, golden highlights applied to create a bold contrast that breaks all the colour rules. While, typically, it's recommended that highlights are no more than two shades lighter than the base, you're going around four shades lighter with this look. And, honestly? The rule-breaking pays off. Just make sure it's done with BlondorPlex, so the structure of hair isn't compromised.

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Golden Blonde Balayage

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One of our favourite things about a curly balayage is its ability to make texture pop. When it's tactically placed, the lightener can define tight coils, so their shape stands out against a darker base. Try it with Blondor Freelights, which we specifically designed to be used during freehand services. It has an adhesive mass that makes it stay in place, so you don't have to worry about smudging. For extra curl definition, style balayaged strands with the EIMI NutriCurls Curl Shaper gel-cream. Simply apply it evenly through damp hair, then dry with a diffuser for flawless, frizz-free curves.

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Golden Blonde Ombre

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One of the simplest ways to set brown hair aglow is with a golden blonde ombre. It's a low-maintenance look that lets you keep your roots au naturel, while lightening up the mid - lengths and ends. This means no harsh regrowth, no root touch-ups and no more dullness through the ends. Just make sure you care for lifted mid-lengths with a rich, creamy hair mask, like ColorMotion+ Structure+ Mask.

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Golden Vanilla Blonde Hair

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On the blonde hair spectrum, vanilla blonde and golden blonde sit close together, both decorating locks in glimmering warmth that looks luminous all year long. For something in between, go for a softer gold with a milky, hazy finish, and lower the volume of brown lowlights to reduce the contrast of your highlights.

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Golden Blonde Chunky Highlights

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Golden hour is every hour with these chunky blonde highlights, which shimmer and shine from root to tip through a golden brown base. Give them a beachy vibe and tousled texture by working EIMI Sugar Lift through loosely tonged ends. Sun-kissed blondes and surfer-girl waves are always a winning combo.

15 Glittering Golden Blonde Hair Ideas