There’s always a new name and color trend to get across, and this season we are hearing a lot about the linen blonde color trend.

Bringing a refined modern twist to traditional blondes, linen blonde’s beige-neutral tones elegantly meet the rise in interest in more natural looks. Linen blonde tones are inspired by the natural muted tones of linen.

Understated, quietly luxurious and sophisticated, the soft, muted tones seen in linen blondes are the perfect way to update your look for summer.

What is Linen Blonde Hair?

Linen blonde colors are lighter blondes characterised by their cool beige, taupe and neutral undertones. They are cool based, but without the smokey tones of cool ash colors. Linen tones can extend to a dark blonde-light brown base color too.

Think soft, creamy shades, natural and slightly cooler in tone, that resemble your favorite beige linen outfit. The finish is soft, understated and chic, much like the clothing material.

The Colors:

Colors at the lighter end of the color spectrum with cool beige secondary tones will deliver a linen blonde finish, including:

Catania 902 Lightest Beige Blonde – With a very light blonde base and cool beige tones, Catania can work as an all-over color for those with a lighter base color level (or a high percentage of grays). Catania will also deliver a gorgeous lighter linen blonde finish over highlights.

Capri 8.2 Beige Blonde – A medium blonde base with cool, creamy beige undertones, Capri is a beautiful all-over color option for those with a naturally lighter base, and a chic finish to highlights over a darker base color.

Taranto 9.2 Light Beige Blonde – With a light blonde base color level and creamy cool secondary tones, Taranto will leave linen blonde tones while toning and muting warmth.

You can add creamy beige tones if you have a deeper color level with Arezzo 7.2 Dark Beige Blonde. With a dark blonde-light brown base color level, Arezzo will mute warmth and leave a creamy finish. If you naturally have a bit more depth, you can consider an Arezzo root smudge and lighter highlights.

Boost Your Tone:

Keep your linen blonde balanced and beautiful with a linen beige toner. Blending a cool based color with our 5 vol no lift developer will deposit tone, some color and shine only.

A toner won’t lift or impact your base color, but it will add cool tones which will mute warmth and leave a high-shine, tonally balanced finish.

Toners can be used in between permanent color applications or over highlights to boost tone and enhance shine.

We recommend choosing a toner which is at least one level lighter than the lightest color in your hair. A toner should keep your lightest color light and bright, and keep your tone beautifully boosted and balanced.

Try a Taranto 9.2 toner if your highlights or base color is medium blonde, or Capri 8.2 if your lightest color is a dark blonde.

If you want to reduce permanent color processes on your lengths, you can maintain your regrowth with permanent root-smudge color applications only. This can avoid color build-up in your lengths (particularly helpful if your hair is porous and over-absorbs color) and darker, duller color outcomes in your lengths.

Keep your tone, color and shine boosted and balanced by applying a toner in your lengths.

Linen Highlights:

Applying a cool based toner over highlights is generally the best approach to achieving balanced highlights. Highlights can become brassy as they have been lightened, and cool tones reduce unwanted warmth.

You can change from classic ash cool tones to creamy cool beige tones to achieve the linen look in your highlights.

If you have a medium blonde base with highlights, Catania 902 Lightest Beige Blonde will deposit light, bright cool creamy tones, balancing your highlights, and leaving a luxe linen finish.

You can apply highlights, babylights (super fine highlights) or foilyage (balayage highlights) using our Highlights Kit. Select a beige based toner option to achieve linen highlights.

Try freshening your look for summer with softer beige foilyage application which lightens just some fine strands in your lengths and ends only. Adding some fine foils in a balayage application is a low maintenance highlights application, as you can have extended periods in between highlights touch-ups.