As sure as the leaves change every fall, new hair colors emerge to kick off the season. The past few years have seen colorists get innovative with fresh techniques and plays on shades to save us from feeling bored with the same old blond, brunette, and red. But lately it's not even the colors themselves that are attention-grabbing. The names too have become increasingly, well, thirsty.

Late summer brought us "cold brew hair"—as in the slightly varying shade of brown you get when you pour milk into your coffee—while "root beer hair" and "pink champagne hair" were the front-runners for 2017. Even "[Lacroix hair]"(/story/lacroix-rainbow-hair-color)" bubbled its way up into our hair-color lexicon.

 

Cold Brew

You might be all about an extra-hot macchiato right now, but the cold brew that carried you through summer can be a year-round thing. First spotted as the work of colorist Eric Vaughn, the multidimensional brown tones have a warm wash of red to make for rich mahogany.

 

Dark Roast

Not to be confused with cold-brew color—which, as you of course have committed to memory, has a rich, reddish warmth to it—dark-roast color walks the line between having no red tones (and therefore no risk of brassiness) and not looking too ashy. As a result, it serves as a neutral, according to Sadie Curtin, a colorist at the LivingRoom Salon in Costa Mesa, California.

 

 

Blond Roast

If you prefer both your hair and your coffee to be lighter, blond roast is for you. Colorists note that it works well if you already have blond hair and you're looking to add some darker dimension at your roots and throughout.

 

 

Chili Chocolate

Spice up your life—or maybe just your hair—with chili chocolate brown, the work of balayage specialist Amanda Leaman of Joi Salon in Boston. The rich auburn painted over deep brown has an autumnal vibe at first glance, but it's actually meant to give brunettes a sun-kissed appearance. So if you're still wishing for heat wave weather, this is the closest you'll get.

 

 

Toasted Coconut

A new riff on the bronde trend (that is, brown-blond) that was all the rage last fall, toasted coconut is even more low-maintenance. Unlike your usual bronde, Atlanta-based hairstylist Kayluh Stewart used an icy toner to make the blond look almost silvery, while the roots are still a deep, dark brown—hence the "toasted."