10 Top Hair Color Trends to Try Before 2016 Is Over

You may not be able to change the results of the 2016 presidential election, but you can certainly change you hair hue before the end of the year.

In 2016, we saw endless creative color ideas, from rose gold blond to tiger eye and ecaille. Before seeing your family or old flame when you go home for the holidays, spice up your style with a fresh dye job.

Keep reading to discover 10 of our favorite hair color trends and techniques, plus pro techniques on how to achieve them flawlessly. — additional reporting by Jeannine Morris

Rose Gold Blond
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Rose Gold Blond

The color: Rose Gold Blond

Description: "For a modern touch, keep most brightness around the face while staying a bit deeper in the roots throughout the crown," said Butterfly Studio colorist Tamara DeFelice. "Concentrate highlights around the middle to ends of the hair. This keeps maintenance lower, and adds instant depth to the look." You can see it here on Margot Robbie, whose slightly pink-tinted blond is not quite strawberry.

Who it works for: "This color will accentuate the peach and gold tones in women with warmer skin tones," she said. "Also, it will bring out the honey tones in their eyes."

Technique: "Ask [your stylist] to add in hues of rich rose gold and butterscotch," she noted.

Cool Dimensional Brunette
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Cool Dimensional Brunette

The color: Cool Dimensional Brunette

Description: DeFelice describes the shade as "a dark, icy brunette with soft ribbons of lighter brown highlights" (as seen on the mid-to-ends of Lily Aldridge's hair). She went on, "Think shades like walnut and sandy brown."

Who it works for: The colorist suggests the look for olive and cooler skin tones. "The depth from the brown will give a nice contrast to olive skin tones and the highlights will flatter any yellow hues in the skin or eyes," she explained.

Technique: "Ask for lowlights through the crown to bring some depth through," she said. "Finish with a cool-toned gloss all over to refresh and deepen ends, and give it instant high shine! For girls with warmer skin, opt for a rich, chestnut gloss to enhance the honey tones in your skin."

Bronde
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Bronde

The color: Bronde

Description: The bronde trend is here to stay! It's not quite brunette, not quite blond. But it's just right for those who can't choose.

Who it works for: "This color works best for light brown to dark brown hair types," said John Barrett colorist Allison Gandolfo. "It may include lightening the base color, keeping the highlights in a cool hue to allow maximum brightness on the brunette. This works best on warm skin tones." Ciara shows how gorgeous it looks on deeper skin tones.

Technique: "Ask your stylist for a low-maintenance blond highlight that is grown out from the root," she instructed.

Illuminated Copper Red
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Illuminated Copper Red

The color: Illuminated Copper Red

Description: "This is an ultrareflective rich copper red," explained master colorist Christine Thompson, cofounder of Spoke & Weal. "The hair color looks expensive. It's a solid color and you get the dimension from the reflective and light."

Who it works for: Thompson noted that the color can work for a variety of skin tones, including those who are fairer, like Sophie Turner. "It's important to ask a colorist to color match with the right red undertone," she advised. "This particular color is more of a copper-gold than a red. Ask your colorist to pull copper red, red-red, and cool red swatches and put it next to your skin tone to find the complementary color to skin and eyes."

Technique: "Make sure you go to a colorist who uses a color line that is reflective," she said. "It has an iridescent quality so the natural variation of your hair shows through."

Platinum Blond
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Platinum Blond

The color: Platinum Blond

Description: Jennifer Lawrence pulls off this this dramatic, ashy, superpale blond, chosen by Sharon Dorram, celebrity colorist and owner of Sharon Dorram at Sally Hershberger Uptown.

Who it works for: Anyone can go platinum blond, but if you're already light, it's easier to achieve and less damaging on your hair. Since this is a high-maintenance look, you'll likely need touch-ups every two to four weeks (depending on how dark your natural base is). The hue works best for someone who has the time and cash to make frequent visits to the salon. That said, it pops in Instagram photos!

Technique: This shade looks best when it's a double process or a blond-on-blond creamy shade made up of different tones. The best technique is to have your colorist lighten the base to with a high-lift tint and weave in baby blond or pale blond highlights around the face.

Caramel Twist
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Caramel Twist

The color: Caramel Twist

Description: Corinne Adams, senior colorist at Serge Normant at John Frieda, is a fan of colors with a '70s flair to them, like this shade seen on Jessica Biel. "Women in the '70s were using natural henna to add shine and color to their hair for dimension, which gave them a natural golden, chestnutty tone," she explained. "The key to achieving this look is for hair to appear effortless, natural, and healthy, regardless of how extreme your color transformation is."

Who it works for: Because it adds warmth to the face, this shade works best on people who have dark hair and fair skin.

Technique: Ask for babylights all over or just from midshaft to the ends of your hair. Your stylist will create blended highlights, very fine in very small sections, to create an even color. Touch-ups are minimal and needed only about every three months.

Denim
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Denim

The color: Denim

Description: According to Kylie Jenner and Jan-Marie Arteca, colorist at Broome & Beauty in NYC, out of all of the rainbow hues to try, playing with smoky blue shades like pale blues (think acid-wash jeans) and navy were hot this year.

Who it works for: This shade is great for people who are looking to make a trendy statement.

Technique: Ask your colorist to balayage your ends to a pale yellow and then tone all over for an awesome denim ombré. Make sure you bring pictures of the exact denim shade you're trying to achieve. Since a fashion-forward look like denim fades, a toner is needed every four to six weeks, but if you opt for ombré, you won't need to get your dye done again for about two to three months.

Sombré
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Sombré

The color: Sombré

Description: "The hand-painted technique is used to show off the layers in the haircut," Gandolfo said. "Sombré blends the natural hair color on the base of the head and lightens the ends of the hair." See Chrissy Teigen's midlength cut for how it works well on shorter hair.

Who it works for: "This works well for all hair types and shades of color," she said, since it is more of a dye style than straight-up shade.

Technique: "Ask your colorist to paint thin highlights around your face to frame your face and paint large V's in their balayage to create sombré."

Jewel-Toned Rainbow
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Jewel-Toned Rainbow

The color: Jewel-Toned Rainbow

Description: The color technique is called Borealis. Michael Haase, Wella top artist and Salon Platinum Black owner, explained what this means: "[It is] a term coming from the magical Northern Lights, which include rich gemstone-quality hues with the slightest hint of fairy tale." Envision green, blue, pink, and violet tones that have richness and depth. Katy Perry's violet (pictured) is exactly on point.

Who it works for: This works for anyone who wants to showcase their personality and has time to make trips to the salon each month to keep the color in check.

Technique: Hair is usually prelightened to a light blond and then shades like amethyst are added. When booking your appointment, let your stylist know that you want to dye your mane a rainbow shade so that he or she can allot the appropriate amount of time. In most cases, booking a consultation is important.

Blended Blond
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Blended Blond

The color: Blended Blond

Description: Gigi Hadid, Beyoncé, and Khloé Kardashian have all gone blond, but their colorists make sure to "blend the roots with different shades so the color doesn't clash harshly with their naturally dark hair," Adams explained.

Who it works for: This technique looks best on people who have naturally dark strands, because it allows them to go blond in the most natural way possible.

Technique: Your stylist will have to create a more natural blond with lots of highlights if your hair was previously lightened. If not, he or she will need to lift the hue in order to make your base lighter and then add extensive highlights to bring in some brightness. Normally balayage is paired with babylights in the root area, which allows for more time in between color appointments. Touch-ups are needed about every two months at the root.