Top 45 Fabulous Hair Colors for Women Over 60

There was a time that chunky highlights were all the rage. However, you might think of that as a time that’s completely gone past.

There’s no rule that says just because you don’t see it everywhere that you can’t still pull it off! Take a step back in time and try a few chunky highlights for a mix of blonde and brown to add some layers to frame your face.

If you want to give your look a dark, warm tone for fall or just frame your face with darker locks, a darker brunette hair is a great choice that will complement your face without giving you a color that falls flat.

When it comes to keeping things from being flat, some highlights can help you out to add something more dynamic than a flat brown tone. Great choices here include red tones and copper if you want to keep it warm but subtle blonde highlights can really lighten it up. Pair this with layered hair for excellent results!

There are a lot of dynamics you can play with when you get a haircut. An angled bob is all about a very geometric look that gives a sharp frame for your face.

If you aren’t familiar, this type of bob is incredibly short at the nape of your neck and closer to chin length as it follows the line of your jaw. For this cut, we’d recommend opting for a deep, dark tone that will help add a bit of a youthful energy to your look.

If you have short hair — whether that’s a bob, a pixie, or something else — we recommend considering a light mushroom brown tone for your hair color in women over 60. The brown is so light that some would call it a “dark blonde” at first glance.

It’s a nice subtle color that you can easily work some highlights into… even a little silver if you wanted to let some of your graying hair jump into the look! This one is a versatile choice that is sure to turn heads.

Choppy layers are a great way to add some depth to your haircut. They can help add texture to your hair even if you have finer hair.

To go with those layers, you could always opt for a deep mahogany brown for some warmth. However, with those layers, remember that we want some depth here to make your hair really pop. So, throwing in soem ombre highlights can add a bit of a sunkissed look.

Another dark tone that looks great on women over 60 years old is chestnut brown. This brown is a mixture of darker and lighter tones, giving you a lot of visual texture in your hair.

Do you want to go the extra mile and add even more body? This is a great color to pair with a bob. If you have curly hair – or a few extra minutes in the morning to style – adding some physical texture to your bob will help you add depth as well!

If a deep brown isn’t what you’re looking for, you can opt for something lighter that will complement you well. We suggest considering a cinnamon tone if you have a warm skin tone.

This is a great light color that has some varying tones in it to give it depth and to really frame your face well, especially in a curled bob. If you want to take things a step further with this hair color, try asking your stylist for little subtle “babylights” to add little touches of color.

If you prefer something with a cooler tone, an icy gray is a great way to rock your gray hair and make it look like you’re fresh from the salon.

So, how does a stylist achieve this color? Well, rather than giving you one color over your whole head like boxed dye might, this hair color uses a blend of cool grays and outright silver. Once it’s blended, you get the “platinum blonde” version of gray hair!

If you want something sophisticated and chic, leaning in and accepting your white hair might be just the way to go!

One of the best ways to get this look to land the way you want it to is to wear it as a bob. For this one, rather than feathering the bob near the end, we’d recommend a more traditional, sharp bob to match the starkness of the white hair.

This is a great choice if you have straight hair that’s always been finer or you’ve found has gotten finer as you get older. The layers in a stacked bob will help you add some body without spending a morning with a curling iron!

For the color, we suggest a blonde balayage. This technique helps add highlights to your hair but much more naturally than the chucky blonde highlights of yesteryear. It goes well with the bob too since it helps to add depth with color as well as layers.

Just because you’ve reached a certain age doesn’t mean that you necessarily want to narrow yourself down to one hair color. A lot of people still want to play with a range of tones!

If you want to give the gray a break, try opting for a light brown haircut with cool tones cut in to give it some depth. As for the hair style, this pairs great with an inverted bob. Even better, this is one of the lower-maitenance styles you can get, making it great if you don’t want to spend a lot of time on it in the morning.

When it comes to colors other than gray, just because we offered light brown up as an option doesn’t mean it’s the only one that you can opt for!

Another option that we think really works for a lot of people is a brown hair color with red undertones to add some additonal warmth. As for the cut, the layers of a textured pixie will complement this hair well and really give you the chance to highlight your face.

Maybe you want to try a pop of color but the pastel colors or bright, neon colors just aren’t for you. Can you do something that strikes a balance?

Naturally, there’s a solution for just about any artistic vision you have with your hair! For this, we would suggest giving a cropped look like this a try. The burgundy red isn’t out of the realm of looking semi-natural but it still gives you a striking color that’s hard to miss.

Blonde hair is a crazy popular choice when you’re flipping through the magazine, waiting for your turn at the salon. How would it look on you?

One color that is sure to flatter is a soft, honey blonde. For even more life in your hair, you can liven up that honey blonde with some soft gold highlights. This will help give you a bright, sunkissed look. This is another popular choice that will pair well with a bob — especailly a graduated one!

Blonde hair is a crazy popular choice when you’re flipping through the magazine, waiting for your turn at the salon. How would it look on you?

One color that is sure to flatter is a soft, honey blonde. For even more life in your hair, you can liven up that honey blonde with some soft gold highlights. This will help give you a bright, sun-kissed look. This is another popular choice that will pair well with a bob – especially a graduated one!

When you think of blonde as an option for you hair, odds are that you often think of a cooler tone. There’s no rule that says you have to stick by that as a rule, though.

This stylist found a way to make sure that blonde was a color for everyone, not just those who find winter hues flattering. By adding deeper blonde undertones to this curly, layered look, they managed to give a variety of hues that makes the hair look fuller and more dynamic.

There are some colors that you hear about a lot because they’re so popular that everyone seems to have an opinion on it. We’ve rarely heard a negative opinion about strawberry blonde!

This is a color that will help you out no matter how old you are but if you’re talking about graying hair, you can sneak them into this color easily. We suggest really letting the depth of this color shine by rocking it with long layers.

Another way that you can take advantage of the benefits of a balayage is with a short, wavy bob. This gives you a lot of life in your hair with some variations on the barrel curls we often turn to.

What color goes well with that hairstyle? Well, there are a lot of options out there but one you’ll want to consider is a caramel brown balayage. This can add a bit of warmth and make you look a little younger, if that’s something you’re after. It can also give you a beachy, summer vibe!

Caramel makes for a great primary hair color when you want to use it. However, it works just as well if you want it to take on more of a supporting role in your style.

In other words, caramel works well as a highilght too! Here, you can see someone rocking that very look with a primary color that leaned more toward embracing their natural gray hair. It really helps highlight a layered haircut too.

We all choose haircuts and colors for a variety of reasons. Whether you just like the color or want to add a bit of a youthful touch to your loook, a light brown can really help you out.

This is a great way to cover grays too, if that’s something you’re interested in. For a little bit more body, pair it with a layered, textured cut. You can add some visual weight by playing aroudn with lighter highlights subtly worked in or even opting for darker roots.

You often hear about a balayage on full, volumous long hair. However, just like any other technique, it’s not really limited to just one haircut.

Another option that you have is to opt for soemthing like this cut you see here. A blond balayage can complement a bob made up with a blow out incredibly well. Plus, this style is a great way to frame your face with a soft tone.

Auburn is a great go-to choice when you’re looking for something to frame your face and give your hair a warm tone. This color leans towards red but sticks closer to the deeper, almost brunette tones rather than a ginger.

You’ll find that this tone looks great, especially if fall colors complement you. What about the cut, though? There are a few different ways that you can wear this but stacked layers help add dimension.

There seems to be a common misconception that fun and unexpected colors are best left to the young. However, we can’t express how much this is the opposite from the truth!

After all, bright colors don’t have an age limit and if anything, graying or white hair will be easier to play with color than if yofu have to start from a really dark base hair color. To try out something a little bit different, we advise giving a light pink a shot! For an extra flair, a cropped pixie can go really well with this.

We’ve talked a lot about how your hair grays as you age but that’s not necessarily the only color you might see, is it? As you age, you might notice some white hairs in the mix as well!

White hair is so aesthetically pleasing that it’s easy to give it a chance to shine too. If you want to give your hair some volume and depth, we recomment opting for something shoulder-length with layers and then letting your gray hair shine with white highlights.

As we age, it’s inevitable that we find a few grays here and there. Eventually, you’ll find that the gray takes over and leaves you with a lot more of them than your original hair color. There’s no reason that you can’t maek this work for you either!

Heading to the salon to polish up that salt and pepper style is a wonderful way to wear your gray hair with pride and style. After all, there’s no reason that you should keep them hidden away when they can work for you this much!

A choppy pixie cut is a great cut if you want to skip out on the long morning routine and go for something that’s a little bit easier to manage. What color do you want to go with it?

One that always goes down well is light copper, although it can be hard to get, so you might want to hit up your stylist for this one! This is a color with a lot of varying tones in it, so it can be a great choice to highlight choppy layers.

We often fight the presence of our natural gray hair or are told that we should. We hope it’s clear by now that we don’t think that’s the case at all!

There’s a lot of beauty to be seen in your natural grays, so why not really let them shine? For one, those silver streaks can really shake up a brunette bob. It’s a great way to make sure that your grays have the chance to shine and look stylish as they start to grow in.

If you have naturally brunette hair (or you don’t mind some upkeep at the salon) you might notice more and more gray hair as you age.

Not only can you opt to keep it as a main color or tone it down to some salt-and-pepper highlights, but you might want to consider blending it into brunette hair like you see here. Not only does the range of color offer a unique and flattering look, the asymmetrical pixie cut is really helping it pop.

If you find a color that you like, there’s no reason that you can’t make it dynamic by doubling up on the color. Of course, there’s a trick to it.

If you want to make it look like something a little more flattering and with more depth than a single tone, try pairing a dark and light tone of the same color. For instance, if you look great as a blonde, try this technique out. A cut that frames your face will help you show of your natural beauty.

Another quite flattering idea is to pair a dark hair color with a short hair cut. This is a great way to get some warmth in your hair and it’s easy to keep up with if you already have dark hair. 

More specifically, we suggest trying out a chocolate brown for this option. This color has tones that will help give you an extra shine to your hair. To make this color really rock, we suggest trying out a tapered pixie, where that shine will help highlight those short layers.

One way that you can add some color to your hair is with something fun and subtle. Who said you have to be subtle all the time, though?

If you want something a little bit bolder, well, there’s just about every color and style under the sun available to you to try out. For something deeper and brighter in tone, a deep blue pixie cut will really stand out. Plus, if you want to add an extra touch, some deep purple undertones work well!

As we’ve touched on, if you have pale gray or white hair, it can be a really handy base to play around with more vibrant colors if that’s what you want to do!

At the end of the day, you don’t have to go to the same lengths to get to a pale, nearly white tone if your hair is already white? If you want to opt for something a little less traditional, give pastel purple highlights like this a try! It’s a great way to add a pop of color and it can help create a fuller look as well.

“Gray” is a simple way to describe color but just like you might ask for specific tone of any color, the shade of gray that you choose can really change up the results.

If you have black hair, you’ll find that ash gray complements it well! That’s why we have to suggest a look like this that blends the two together to create a look that would fit in any fashion magazine. Short layers will really let this color combination shine.

We’ve talked a lot about highlights at this point but what about lowlights? Lowlights add in a darker color rather than a lighter color to add some dimension to the color of your hair.

This is one look that really helps you start to incorporate your grays as they grow in. Whether you have blonde or light brown hair, starting out with ashy lowlights can add a dynamic salt-and-pepper look. It’s also a great choice to complement both short and long hair.

If you have dark hair, you don’t have to necessarily go all the way to make a pop of color stand out or give up your dark hair to make it happen.

Plus, with dark hair, a pop of bright color can really stand out, making it something that’s pretty easy to notice. It’s a great way to show off a bit of personality in your hair! With a cut and color choice like this, you’ll come up with something that really looks unique.

There are a few haircuts that have shown up on this list again and again. Can you blame us for including another bob? It seems like it goes with just about any look and it never goes out of style.

Another color that we suggest you try out with you next bob is an ashy blonde. Not only does this create a sleek, chic look but leaning towards an ashy blonde is a great way to incorporate your grays as they grow in, since they never come in all at once, even if it sometimes seems like it.

Even if you know about a color combination, shaking things up in how you use those colors can really change the end result.

It’s no secret that if your hair is starting to come in light gray, you’ll have no problem blending it as your hair grows and changes with you if you have blonde hair. What if you switched it around, though? This pixie cut is gray with rather thick blonde highlights really stands out.

There are quite a few ways that you can wear chocolate brown to help frame your face, bring out the depth and volume in your hair, and give you a warm look.

We’ve already touched on a few ways to rock a brunette look in various tones, but this is one that’s too good to not mention at all. Chocolate curls go great with a short haircut on curly hair. This really lets that texture shine as the deep brown help to really highlight your hair shape.

It’s really hard to choose the color that you want to go with sometimes. The good news is that it’s your hair and there are no rules requiring you to choose just one color for you hair!

You can use a color blocking technique to create a dual-toned look that can help you show off some personality and let a couple of your favorite colors shine. This hairstyle shows off a great way to blend grays in with dark hair by not blending them at all!

If you pay attention to trends for your accessories as well as your clothes and hair, you’ve probably noticed that more and more things are coming out in that rose gold tone that’s so popular. So, who says that you can’t do the same style for your hair?

This stylist really made it work in this bob with curled back layers to really frame this woman’s face. Plus, this color calls for a bit of balance to avoid a brassy tone and the technique helps give you a blend of highlights and lowlights.

There are some haircuts that tend to get a bad reputation even if they don’t deserve. Sure, there are bad bowl cuts out there but a pixie bowl cut can look really great when it’s done right!

This stylist did absolutely amazing with the style and you can see how flattering those layers are. You might also notice that the color complements it as well. When you blend gold and blonde for a style like this, you add a lot of dynamic shaping and shading to your hair!

As we’ve seen, there is definitely a time and a place for a pixie cut or a bob that’s tight and clean. Then again, everyone has a different style, so it’s natural to want something different from the status quo from time to time.

If you want to go for something longer, a blonde balayage is a choice that can never fail you. What’s the best way to wear it? If you’re aiming for longer hair, we suggest trying out some long, beachy waves that will frame your face.

When it comes down to it, not all of us age and our hair is one tone. That’s not surprising either! After all, your hair probably wasn’t a single tone even when you’d never dyed it or seen any grays cropping up at all.

Speaking of cropping, a cropped cut is a great way to use this color combination. Instead of opting to choose between gray or white when you embrace your natrual hair as you age, try a blend of both! This way, you get the benefits of each and you get a little more depth from them as well.

There are a few colors that will work on just about anyone. If there’s one that we all tend to grow into as we get more and more of it naturally is white hair.

A great way to make sure that your face doesn’t get lost in a great hair cut is to alter that longer haircut to a shorter one. White hair can be really striking and wearing it in a pixie cut is a chic look that seems to never go out of style.

Once you open the door from natural colors to including “unnatural” colors in your hair color repetoire, you have a lot of options open to you.

After all, without that requirement, you can literally choose any color under the sun. If you want something fun and perfect for spring, a cherry color is a great way to add a splash of color to your look. You can add some edge to the soft color with a pixie cut.