Experimenting with your hair’s cut, colour and length is always exciting. Whether you divert slightly from your signature style or opt for something totally new, there’s a sizeable thrill when stepping outside of your comfort zone. Next year, you might be influenced to venture even further out with the advent of pink hair in the mainstream.

A confluence of the copper, apricot, peach and strawberry hair colour trends we saw in 2022, pink hair encapsulates the Barbie-fication of pop culture and joyful, dopamine-inducing colour blocking. Predicted by hairstylist, trend forecaster and presenter Tom Smith, here’s what you need to know about the trending hair colour that will be big in 2023.

Pink hair is going mainstream in 2023: candyfloss, peach, fuchsia and more