20 Sweet Milk Tea Hair Color Ideas Trending in 2025

Let’s spill the tea on this year’s hair color trend, named after a sweet and flavored beverage popular in Taiwan and Korea. Rich in creamy, beige and warm blonde tones, the milk tea hair color is all over TikTok, inspiring more and more fashionistas to “join...

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20 Sweet Milk Tea Hair Color Ideas Trending in 2025

Let’s spill the tea on this year’s hair color trend, named after a sweet and flavored beverage popular in Taiwan and Korea. Rich in creamy, beige and warm blonde tones, the milk tea hair color is all over TikTok, inspiring more and more fashionistas to “join the bright side.” And with the different variations of this trendy hue, you can create an absolutely unique shade to flatter your appearance.

Check out the fresh ideas below to get started!

1. Strawberry Milkshake

Smooth and creamy, this color is just like the drink it is named after – sweet, rich, and beloved by all sweet teeth over there. The mix of strawberry blonde with beige tones will perfectly complement pale skin tones, adding subtle warmth and brightness to the overall appearance.

Milk Tea Strawberry Blonde Balayage

2. Milky Blonde Money Pieces

For a trendy hair color transformation without commitment, go for face-framing highlights or subtle money pieces. Creamy blonde is a versatile and alluring choice that looks flattering on everyone, and you can make it cooler or warmer depending on your base hair color.

Milk Tea Face Framing Highlights@perfectpartings

3. Milk Tea Brown

If you prefer natural-looking, faded shades, check out this gorgeous ash brown shade with honey undertones. While this photo shows how the milky brown hue will look on bleached hair, you can pick this tone for a balayage if you aim for darker locks.

Ash Brown Milk Tea Loose Waves@_goodnightapril

4. Chocolate Milk Tea

Another bombshell on today’s menu – “piecey, wispy, shaggy vibes with milk tea on the side,” crafted by Joanne Chung from Hair X Jojo. Ask your colorist to add some spicy caramel or warm brown notes to your rich chocolate hair to enhance its natural dimension.

Milky Mocca Brown Butterfly Cut@hairxjojo

5. Creamy Beige Blonde Highlights

Both warm- and cool-toned milk tea shades are perfect for milwarmer days, revealing your hair’s depth, glow, and beauty. For a more low-maintenance color change, use the root shadowing technique, which allows growing hair without its regular coloring. Subtle root touch-ups once in 5-6 months will be enough to maintain the color and health of your tresses.

Milk Tea Hair with a Shadow Root@melis.marq

6. Warm Honey Milk Tea

Peachy and pinkish-blonde hues are coveted choices for those wishing to stand out and showcase their romantic and charming side. However, they can be quite whimsical in care, which is not suitable for everyone. As an alternative, try this pale honey blonde color with creamy tones – the same captivating yet much low-commitment solution.

Honey Blonde Milk Tea Half Updo@neososos

7. Neutral Beige Balayage

Regardless of your complexion, beige milk tea color will brighten up your appearance and boost your natural skin glow effortlessly. Choose between balayage or face-framing highlights, as the key in concentrating the shade at the front for a beautiful face-frame effect.

Light Milk Tea Balayage@hl_hairstyles

8. Honey Brown Blend

If you feel like your hair lacks warmth and shine, add some golden blonde or honey tones applied in hand-painted highlights. This will result in a natural-looking balayage with a sun-kissed glow that warms your skin and brings a healthy blush to your cheeks.

Milk Tea Hair Color Without Bleach@tracilaster

9. Soft Milk Tea Brunette

This hair color encompasses well-blended dark blonde, beige, and taupe tones with a cool, neutral finish. Subtly curl your tresses to emphasize the depth and dimension of your new hair color and make it look fancier.

Mushroom Bronde Balayage@copyofacopy

10. Rose Tinted

Spice up your milk-black-tea mixture with champagne rose undertones, a faded version of rose gold hair color. This shade will look gorgeous whether used for highlights, ombre, or full balayage. All depends on your desired result and hair’s thickness, as you might need to bleach the whole mane.

Rose Milk Tea Hair Color@summer_726

11. Brown Sugar

Just like brown sugar syrup adds sweetness to milk bubble tea, we offer you to “sweeten up” your brown hair with muted gilded caramel balayage. It will add warmth to fair skin tones and enhance brown or amber eyes.

Milk Tea Hair Color for Brunette@hairbyvalerien

12. Vanilla Milk Tea with Creams

Achieving a perfect shade is only half the battle, as you should also consider how to maintain this gorgeous yet complicated hue. Try a color-safe shampoo and conditioner of your fav brand, or ask your colorist for recommendations. Additionally, use hair masks once every 1-2 weeks, depending on your hair type and density.

Honey Blonde Balayage@rosie.locks

13. Muted Caramel Highlights

Soft milk tea highlights can boost your hair’s texture and dimension without the need to compromise its length or cutting layers. Our personal recommendation is to use a face-framing highlights technique to add a sunny glow to your appearance and embrace the warm skin undertones.

Milk Tea Ash Hair Color@amaniartistry

14. Milk Tea with a Pinch of Cinnamon

Apart from adding a touch of sweetness and spice to your beverage, cinnamon can also brighten up your strands. Not the spice itself, of course, but a trendy reddish-brown aka cinnamon hair color, pairing well with different shades of blonde.

Cinnamon Blonde Milk Tea@hairsignature_salon

15. Milky Mocha Brown Balayage

Extending from roots to tips, creamy beige streaks seamlessly blend with the chestnut base, resulting in a subtle yet noticeable change. This is a perfect choice for ladies wishing to try something new while saving the natural color.

Beige Balayage Milk Tea Hair Color@arset95

16. Milk Tea with Coconut Syrup

Balancing between ashy and champagne blonde hues, this color exudes freshness and elegance, flattering for women with light skin. Soft and shiny, this color also works great for covering grays.

Milk Tea Ash Hair Color Trend@haiier_hair

17. Caramel Beige Melt

If you aim for a smooth transition from natural dark brown to warm beige blonde, the balayage coloring technique is the best you can ask for. It’s also advised to use toning products to prevent brassy tones in your newly dyed strands.

Caramel Milk Tea Hair Color@styledbyclairelouise

18. Dark Choco Milk Tea

Barely-there caramel tints will warm up your dark brown hair, giving body and dimension to your locks and reducing their darkness. Besides, there’s no need to bleach your tresses to lighten your brown base to this level.

Dark Milk Tea Hair Color@hairby_vienna

19. Milk Tea with Hazelnut Notes

Here is another color, achieved with a multidimensional balayage technique. We also suggest incorporating babylights painted throughout the brunette base for a more seamless blend with dark brown roots.

Chocolate Milk Tea Hair Color@picassohairstudio

20. Golden Blonde on Chocolate Base

“Sometimes all you need is a few enhancements to bring your natural hair to life.” What is it if not a life-saving, or, better to say, a hair-health-saving approach? The colorist ensures soft tones like these are low maintenance and can be refreshed twice a year with a foil service and an occasional toner in between sessions. To us, it sounds like a dream come true!

Milk Tea Dimensional Balayage@brushedbyclauds

It may be hard to choose your fav color out of this flattering collection of delicate yet captivating hues. Therefore, we recommend you show your preferred photos to the colorist and let the professional decide what’s best for your appearance.

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