30 Wolf Cuts With Highlights to Sass Up Your Hair!

Add Highlights to Your Wolf Cut for Extra Oomph!

By Muskan Verma
Wolf Cut with Highlights

Revitalize your hairstyle with our handpicked list of the best wolf cuts with highlights! This collection brings a bold touch of sass and vibrancy to the classic wolf cut. Each style uniquely incorporates highlights, turning your hair into a dynamic and eye-catching masterpiece.

There are many types of highlights you can choose from, and we’ve tried to cover as many as possible! But, before getting into the list of the best wolf cuts with highlights, let us first take a look at the different types of highlights to choose from!

What Are the Different Types of Hair Highlights?

Balayage Highlights: Balayage gives a natural look to your hair. It is a freehand painting technique that blends color seamlessly for a soft, gradient effect.

Foiling Highlights: Precise and versatile, this classic method uses foils to highlight specific sections of hair. Using foiling allows control over the placement and intensity of color.

Ombre Highlights: Ombre refers to a gradient transition from dark to light hair color. It displays a striking and intentional color shift that adds dimension to your overall look.

Chunky Highlights: Make a bold statement with larger, more noticeable sections of color, giving your hair a dramatic and eye-catching appearance.

Lowlights: Add depth and richness by coloring sections of hair with shades darker than your base color, providing contrast and dimension to your overall hair color.

Besides these, there are many other ways to highlight your hair. You can choose to highlight specific areas of your hair viz. bangs, ends, crown area etc! Now, let’s get to our list of the best wolf cut options with highlights!

1. Brown Wolf Cut Hair With Blonde Highlights

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If you are looking to give your long brown wolf cut hair a new look, try this style with blonde highlights heavy on the crown and sparse on the length. After all, brown and blonde combine to create a cozy and warm vibe.

2. Black Medium Hair Wolf Cut With Pink-Orange Highlights

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A stunning blend of orange and pink highlights can make your medium wolf cut on black hair stand out no matter where you go. These beautiful hues of sunset will look magical on the bangs and ends. How do you like these colored bangs?

3. Multi-Toned Wolf Cut With Black Block Highlights

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Black is the “highlight” in this unique multi-toned medium-length wolf cut with bangs. After all, the color black complements both blonde and red tones in the hair. The block highlight create an out-of-the-box vibe and never-seen-before look!

4. Layered Black Wolf Cut With Burgundy Inner Highlights

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There’s no single pattern or style when it comes to decorating your hair with highlights. If you are comfortable sporting bold looks, try this look with burgundy inner highlights on black hair. Doesn’t it look mesmerizing?

5. Light Pink Wolf Cut With Blue Highlights

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This is another innovative way of adding vibrancy to your wolf cut look. Instead of highlighting the length, add color to your bangs and wolf cut ends. The bright blue shade looks magical on the straight bangs and layered ends of the light pink wolf cut.

6. Black Bob Wolf Cut With Burgundy Highlights

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Highlights are not limited to medium and long wolf cut styles. You can also ace the wolf cut with highlights look on short hair. See how the burgundy highlights on the bangs and inner sides add glam to the simple bob wolf cut. After all, black and burgundy also look fabulous together.

7. Ash Grey Short Wolf Cut With Purple Highlights

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Bright purple highlights on a short ash grey wolf cut with curtain bangs are a classic example of the perfect balance between vibrancy and simplicity. As you can see, the only highlighted parts are the edges of the wolf cut but aren’t they enough to elevate the vibe?

8. Black Medium Wolf Cut With Bright Red Highlights

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Wear a daring look with these bright red highlights on the crown and edges of a simple black medium wolf cut. As you can see, the red highlights are vibrant on the crown and subtle on the edges of the wolf cut.

9. Wavy Bronde Shaggy Wolf Cut With Blonde Highlights

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For those who are new to the term “bronde,” it’s a mix of brown and blonde hair. Instead of adding a third color to this calm and warm mix, consider adding all-blonde highlights to your wavy shaggy wolf cut with bangs, for a chic and stylish look. Check out our guide on blonde wolf cuts for more options.

10. Long Brown Layered Hair With Light Pink Highlights

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Here’s another attractive and eye-catching combination, brown and light pink! Transform your long brown wolf cut with clear layers by covering the lower front layers with light pink highlights. You can also add mild highlights to the layers on the crown to enhance the magical look.

11. Black-Brown Wolf Cut With Purple Chunky Highlights

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Here’s another unique way of decorating your straight wolf cut hair with highlights. This time, we urge you to pair purple highlights with brown-black wolf cut hair. Instead of highlighting “only the crown or edges,” highlight the front layers to enhance the radiance of your face.

12. Medium Black Wolf Cut With Bright Blue Highlights on Half Bangs and Frontal Layers

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The beauty of bright blue shade lies in its compatibility with a plethora of hair shades, such as black, blonde, brown, and so on. This ultra chic look with bright blue highlights on half bangs and frontal layers of the wolf cut creates a stylish and unique vibe.

13. Black Wolf Cut With Edgy Golden Highlights and Micro Bangs

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Wondering why we are calling these highlights “edgy?” In case you haven’t already noticed, this medium black wolf cut look is decorated with blonde highlights on the “edges” of the micro bangs and layers. Try this edgy look to create an attractive and unique style like no other.

14. Long Wavy Black Wolf Cut With Neon Green Highlights

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It’s time to “go green.” The neon green highlights on the lower parts of the long black wavy wolf cut look bold and classy and the curtain bangs add class. We never thought neon green could look so graceful with black wolf cut.

15. Bob Wolf Cut With Ginger Highlights and Fringes

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This bob wolf cut with ginger highlights is one of the most highlight-laden wolf cut look on our list today. The bright gingery highlights on the crown and upper layers create a dashing and unique vibe. What a fiery look, isn’t it?

16. Pink Medium Wolf Cut With Ash Grey Highlights

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We have often seen pink highlights on ash grey wolf cut, but the vice-versa combination is rare. Most people prefer blonde highlights with pink wolf cut hair, but we think this unique look with medium pink wolf cut and striking ash grey highlights looks fabulous and magical. The ash grey highlights on selected layers and wolf cut edges create an innovative look.

17. Wavy Blonde Short Wolf Cut With Sky Blue Chunky Highlights

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It’s time to switch gears from bright blue highlights to sky blue highlights. Give your short wavy blonde wolf cut a new vibe with subtle chunks of sky blue highlights on the crown layers.

18. Tousled Light Blonde Shaggy Wolf Cut With Grey Highlights

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Grey doesn’t blend well with bright blonde hair, but it looks fabulous with light blonde locks. Add random grey highlights to your tousled short light blonde shaggy wolf cut to create a casual and rugged look like never before.

19. Wavy Blonde Wolf Cut With Light and Baby Pink Highlights

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There’s a subtle difference between light pink and baby pink, and this difference is clearly visible in this short blonde wavy wolf cut look. Leverage a balanced mix of both “pinks” to create a blushed look in your wolf cut hair.

20. Short Wavy Wolf Cut With Pastel Pink Highlights

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Here’s another twist to the pink color. Ace a rosy look on your short wavy wolf cut hair with pastel pink highlights on the crown.

21. Medium Wavy Blonde Wolf Cut With Neon Purple Highlights

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Let’s go a notch higher and replace the subtle pinks with bright purple hues. Don’t you think blonde and purple look fabulous together? Highlight the wolf cut layers framing your face with vibrant purple hues to add a radiant glow to your overall look.

22. Short Brown Wavy Wolf Cut with Blazing Red Highlights

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Another bold and daring look with fiery red highlights. Elevate your medium brown wolf cut with flaming red highlights covering most of the wavy layers in the front.

23. Black Wavy Medium Wolf Cut With Hot Pink Highlights

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Wondering whether we are showing black highlight on pink wolf cut or vice-versa? Well, the base is an all-black wavy medium wolf cut with hot alternating hot pink highlights. What a bold and innovative look! Check out other hairstyles with streaky highlights!

24. Medium Shaggy Mild Pink Wolf Cut With Purple Highlights

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The best way to elevate a mild pink shaggy wolf cut is to add complementing purple hues. After all, pink and purple belong to the same family. The chunky purple highlights on the crown add a touch of vibrancy to the mild pink layers.

25. Brown Mullet Wolf Cut With Teal Highlights

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Just like the black and neon green wolf cut with highlights combination, brown wolf cut and teal highlights also look stunning together. Don’t you agree?

26. Black Layered Wolf Cut With Berry Blue Highlights

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Even though both black and berry blue are dark shades, they look pretty good when combined to elevate a black medium-length layered wolf cut. This unique look with berry blue highlights on all the back-side layers looks attractive and chic.

27. Short Duo-Toned Black and Blonde Wolf Cut With Bangs

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This duo-toned black and blonde short wolf cut creates a radiant vibe. The blonde highlights on half the bangs and front wolf cut layers add an instant glow to your face.

28. Long Mullet Wolf Cut With Burgundy Highlights and Curtain Bangs

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This simple yet stylish combination of a graceful long mullet wolf cut with curtain bangs and burgundy highlights radiates confidence and trendiness. Moreover, the burgundy highlights add volume to the lower half of the long layered locks.

29. Tousled Dark Blonde Wolf Cut With Multicolored Highlights

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This look is the boldest of all the wolf cut with highlights looks on our list. The crazy combination of dark blonde hair and bright blue, parrot green and neon yellow highlights on alternate bangs and frontal wolf cut layers is not everyone’s cup of tea. You need to be confident to ace this bold and daring look with tousled wolf cut layers.

30. Long Wavy Black Wolf Cut With Flaming Red Highlights and Bangs

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Here’s another intense look with black wolf cut and fiery red highlights. The blazing red highlights on the bangs and front layers look mesmerizing. If you are looking for red wolf cut options instead, check our guides!

With that, we come to the end of this stunning list of the best wolf cuts with different types of highlights! We know single-shaded hair look classy, but adding these highlights with add that extra ‘wow-factor’ that you need! Let us know in the comments, which color and which type of highlights are your favorite!

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