"Halo Top Hair" Is 2018's First Food-Inspired Hair-Color Trend

By Devon Abelman, Allure 

Blame Unicorn Frappicinos. After stylists all over the U.S. took cues from the colorful frozen drink, dozens of food-inspired hair-color trends popped up. La Croix, peanut butter and jelly, and champagne followed suit. Now, three days into 2018, Instagram has presented us with the first food-inspired hair-color trend of the year: Halo Top hair.

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Scruples Hair Care tasked 10 hair stylists with a challenge: create looks based on different flavors of Halo Top with its colorful dyes. The zero-calorie hair-color creations they came up with bear striking resemblances to the already-low-calorie ice cream. (If you haven't tried it out yet, I highly recommend it. I love regular, full-fat ice cream more than most things in life, but Halo Top still hits the spot.) Some are actually pretty low-key 2018 hair inspo while a couple may make you want to take the plunge into the rainbow hair realm this year. Regardless, the Lemon Cake and Rainbow Swirl ones, in particular, made me wish I had a pint in the freezer to dig into.

Birthday Cake

St. Louis-based stylist Kristina Cheeseman started with a base of purple shadow roots and platinum before spraying on rainbow sprinkles with pink, orange, green, and blue dyes. Cheeseman even added hints of gold like the top of the Halo Top packaging.
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Lemon Cake

Yellow hair is going to be one of the biggest rainbow hair trends this year. Mark my words. (You can thank K-pop stars for helping me form this theory.) Megan Schipani, a hair stylist based in Rockville, Md., just gave us more yellow hair inspo with her take on the Lemon Cake flavor of Halo Top. It looks deliciously amazing.

Rainbow Swirl

Robin Del Toro went fully neon with her Rainbow Swirl-inspired hair
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Peanut Butter Cup

Las Vegas-based stylist Leysa Carrillo came up with two different Peanut Butter Cup hair looks. For straight hair, she added strips of chocolate brown, which mimic the swirls in the ice cream, to bright orange hair.

Because she's a pro a coloring textured hair, of course, Carrillo showed us a Peanut Butter Cup look on curly hair. She dyed the ends of brown hair with a reddish-orange shade and clipped on golden accents.

Cinnamon Roll

Here's how Brit Wright reimagined my personal favorite Halo Top flavor.

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Black Cherry

This isn't the black cherry hair you can get off the shelf with box dye from the drugstore. A California-based stylist who goes by @sydniiee on Instagram looked to Black Cherry's packaging for her ombre purple hair.

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Chocolate

Mika Rogerson made the seemingly easiest flavor to translate to hair her own by adding golden brown highlights to milk chocolate-colored hair.

S'Mores

Need some blonde hair inspiration? Let Ryan Weeden guide you with his beachy S'mores hair.

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Red Velvet

OK, now I'm craving red velvet cake. Frances Garcia, also known as @makeupbyfrances, emulated baked good-inspired Halo Top flavor with maroon-and-blonde hair.

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Sea Salt Caramel

Surprisingly, colorist Sadie Gray added a tube of green dye and a dash of pink to the formula to make her Sea Salt Caramel hair happen.

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