Autumn Hair Colours and Treatments to Try for Embracing the Season

From pumpkin spice to cinnamon brunette and maple glaze balayage, these fall hair colours work for all hair types and tones.

As the seasons slowly shift, you might feel the pull for a fall transformation. There’s no better way to visually express that than through your hair. With the end of summer on its way, there are plenty of both timeless and new autumn hair colour choices to experiment with this season. The beauty of a new hair colour is the chance to find your new trademark shade, and its temporary nature that allows you to switch it up as your tastes change.

To celebrate the season of crisp days and falling leaves, we’ve gathered up various autumn hair colours to consider and useful tips for keeping your hair healthy in fall from our experts.

Understanding Autumn Hair Colours

What makes an autumn hair colour different from those found in other seasons? It comes down to the tones and shades that are most popular, many of which reflect the changing leaves, warm autumn drinks, and cozy treats. You can group them into several categories, with browns and reds leaning toward more rich tones, blonde hues turning more golden and honey-coloured, and black shades receiving warm and deep tonal updates.

Choosing the Ideal Fall Hair Colour

There are a few ways you can go about selecting the ideal fall hair colour for you. One option is simply finding a shade that you adore and want to try—sometimes that’s the most fun way to approach it! You can also consider your current hair colour, your skin’s undertones, or any colour analysis you’ve had done.

True Autumn Hair Colours

If you’re intrigued by colour analysis and have found you’re a true autumn, there are several fall hair colours that work well for this category. Tones that are deep, dark, and rich tend to be best. Opt for chocolate brown, saturated copper, or a lighter brunette with honey-blonde highlights.

Soft Autumn Hair Colours

If you’re looking for a soft autumn hair colour, highlights and lighter tones are great. Subtle blonde highlights and “vanilla chai” coloured hair (which is a creamy blend of blonde and brunette) tend to look great on soft autumn types.

Dark Autumn Hair Colours

Dark autumn palettes tend to lean the deepest out of these three. Dark chocolate and glossy espresso shades look wonderful, as do darker reds, auburns, and even rich dark blonde shades.

Autumn Hair Colour Treatments

To best care for your new autumn hair and keep it vibrant, there are several treatments worth considering when you’re at the salon or at home. They’ll also support your hair health as the weather conditions change and other factors come into play, like heating, hot tool use for the holidays, and dry air.

One of the best ways to treat yourself and fully support your hair health is through in-salon colour care. A colourist or hair professional can personally analyze your hair and help you determine the perfect treatment and routine that’ll nourish your hair type and the fresh colour you’ve chosen for fall.

Beautiful Things

Our new Beautiful Things treatments enable your hair colour to stay vibrant and last 2x longer** by removing and protecting your strands from metals.

The family of products is made of 96.5% natural-origin ingredients and has zero silicones, immediately giving your hair a shinier finish* and making it twice as soft**.

*Independent laboratory, instrumental test on hair locks exposed to metals: comparison between hair locks treated with Beautiful Things service vs untreated hair locks.

**Independent laboratory, instrumental test on treated hair locks with Beautiful Things service vs untreated hair locks.

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Maintaining Autumn Hair Colours

Here are a few other tips for maintaining your autumn hair colour and keeping it nourished through anything the season throws your way:

Keep your colour fresh and locked in with leave-in masks and other treatments. The Beautiful Things Restoring Leave-In Mask is available at Davines salons and online, perfect for use at home to maintain vivid, healthy hair colour.
Reduce how often you use hot tools.
Limit washing your hair (if your hair type allows) to keep colour fresher for longer and use shampoos and conditioners with colour-protecting properties, like the MINU line.
Use a heat protectant and moisturizing products to shield hair from thermal sources and restore hydration.
Book a colour maintenance appointment at your local Davines salon for a fresh look or to update your routine for autumn.

Create Your Autumn Care Routine

Find Your Perfect Colour Care at Home Routine

Different hair shades, textures and conditions require specialized colour care routines—and not just in the salon. Your home routine is just as important, and we’ve created three curations of products that are made to meet you where you’re at in your haircare journey.

For every hair type, our new Beautiful Things Restoring Leave-In Mask is a professional-quality daily formula you can use to preserve colour and protect your hair. You can find the rest of your routine below:

Heart of Glass

Blondes can maintain the tone they love and protect their hair from damage with Heart of Glass. The Biacidic complex and baobab extract featured repair bonds within the hair and nourish each strand, making it a must-have for any shade of blonde.

Naturaltech Nourishing

The Nourishing collection under Davines’ Naturaltech line infuses moisture into damaged hair, courtesy of vegetal keratin, and makes it easier to comb through. With its line of shampoo, conditioner, vegetarian mask and hair pak, keratin sealer and more, it’s a game-changer for hair that’s dried out, brittle or lacking nutrients following cosmetic colouring.

Essential Haircare MINU

Colour-treated hair that feels healthy still deserves ample love. That’s what MINU is for. Part of the Essential Haircare family, this line of shampoo, conditioner, hair mask and hair serum is full of Salina Caper Blossom extract. This ingredient is teeming with quercetin and polyphenols, which protect and extend your colour.

FAQs on Autumn Hair Colours

What hair colour is best for autumn?

The best autumn hair colour is a personal decision and comes down to your current hair colour and condition, and the shades you like. We recommend finding a salon near you to get personalized recommendations for the perfect new seasonal colour.

What colour should your hair be in the fall?

The hair colour you choose for fall largely depends on your personal preferences and your existing hair colour. Some of the most popular autumn hair colours are auburn, chocolate brown, honey blonde, and deep copper.

What is the new hair colour for fall?

There are several new hair colour trends this autumn that are worth considering. Baked peach and smoked rose are more muted plays on the pastel peach and pink tones of summer. Cinnamon brunette adds a coppery-red twist to light brunette shades, and French vanilla blonde is a slightly warmer platinum.

Starting Your Autumn Hair Transformation

Now is the perfect time to experience a brand new hair colour. As we drift into fall, there is no shortage of beautiful autumn hair colours to try, whether you’re after brunette, copper blonde, black or more colourful tones. After you find the right shade, a nourishing routine is all it takes to keep your hair vibrant and healthy the entire season.

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