The clean girl aesthetic is centered around looking naturally pretty—the aim is to look put together without showing the effort behind it. The skin is dewy and glowing, the outfits are minimalist and casual, and the hair is healthy and simple.
Glossy, natural-looking and rich in depth, the clean girl brunette goes together with the rest of the aesthetic. We’ve gathered our favorite looks to inspire you.
1. Clean Girl Brunette
More than one particular color, clean girl brunette look is a vibe. It can involve a few subtle face-framing pieces or be one-dimensional, like this stunning medium shade. As long as it’s glossy and rich, it suits the aesthetic.
2. Soft Almond Brunette
The best thing about clean girl brunette? It’s actually low-maintenance, provided you keep it healthy. A moisturizing hair mask once a week is the perfect start to having shiny, healthy hair.
3. Light Brown Hair With Blonde Highlights
Clean girl brunette goes beyond a single shade—it goes from deep chestnut to pale sandy browns. With subtle blonde face-framing pieces, this light mushroom brown gets a luminous glow.
4. Pastel Brown
This cool-toned pastel brown is a luxurious matte shade that pops when you add some subtle beige highlights.
5. Golden Cinnamon Brown
For warm skin tones, choose shades like a rich cinnamon brown. This gorgeous, glowing warm shade will require occasional glossing treatments to look its best.
6. Clean Girl Dark Brunette
To give your dark brown hair a clean girl vibe, make sure you keep it glossy and vibrant. A few chocolate highlights can give it some oomph, but as long as it’s shiny, it will perfectly suit the aesthetic.
7. Milk Chocolate Brown
Healthy-looking hair is essential if you want to adopt a clean girl aesthetic—the exact color and haircut don’t matter as much. Just remember to keep it simple and natural-looking, as this beautiful medium brown proves.
8. Clean Girl Light Brunette
If you can’t part from the brunette balayage, go easy on the lightening to keep your hair low-maintenance and keep it from becoming a full-time commitment.
9. Dark Brunette With Cinnamon Accents
Chestnut brown with glowing, barely-there cinnamon accents has depth without drama—perfect for the clean girl aesthetic.
10. Brown Sugar Brunette
The subtlest of babylights will turn a mousy brown—which is another trend that’s been having a moment—into a richer, more elevated shade that complements this otherwise simple aesthetic.
11. Tawny Brunette
The clean girl brunette is elegant but casual—add dimension and face framing with delicate highlights that look sun-kissed instead of painted.
12. Walnut Ash Brown
The iconic sleek bun is one of the staples of the clean girl aesthetic, but you’re not limited to slicked-back hair. You can style it in other ways as long as you keep things effortless—or at least looking effortless.
13. Hazelnut Brown
Let’s be real, the clean girl aesthetic isn’t really about being natural, but looking naturally pretty—which in reality can take a lot of effort. That said, you don’t have to wear your hair in your natural shade, as long as it’s a natural shade.
14. Sun-Kissed Brunette
This sun-kissed brown is the perfect example of “your hair but better” look that makes it a clean girl brunette shade. Soft highlights add warmth and depth that makes the skin glow.
15. Cool Espresso Brown
This stunning cool-toned brown hair is simple but it has lots of dimension—the epitome of clean girl brunette.
16. Sandy Brunette
Keeping your roots natural and only adding slightly lighter accents starting mid-length means that you won’t need a touch-up in quite a while.
17. Medium Mushroom Brown
Nothing gives model-off-duty like the neutral, one-dimensional brown hair, and the clean girl aesthetic is all about looking like you’re between runway shows. Give your hair lots of TLC to keep it healthy and give your simple, understated color a chance to shine.
18. Cacao Brown
Dark hair colors have the ability to shine like no other. Make your dark brunette extra glossy by smoothing a hair serum or oil over dry hair.
19. Dark Brunette With Babylights
Hair color ideas for brunettes often involve some type of highlights that enhance this beautiful color without altering it too much. This shiny and lived-in color is easy to achieve and maintain, ready to make your clean girl look complete.
20. Clean Girl Brunette With Subtle Money Piece
Here’s a flawless interpretation of the clean girl brunette hair color: delicate face framing and barely-there highlights that add glow and depth to natural hair color.
