Hair color question....?

Question

I have light brown hair, and i was wanting to dye it a dark brown. Do you think its a good idea. Does it damage your hair alot? I have plae skin and blue eyes if it helps.

Answer 1

I think you should always pick a color that goes well with your skin tone and once your roots begin to grow out the change or difference in color wont be as noticeable, but then thats just me.
Here's some tips from some pros. And the cons of it.

Heres the cons -
You’re usually safer in coloring as long as you use deposit only colors. These tend to be much less harsh to the hair, and have less risk of doing actual damage. If your choice of color requires that the starting color be lifted to a lighter level, be sure that you don’t lift the color level too much in one process. This is where most haircolor related problems occur – the bleaching process. While deposit-only color processes simply introduce color molecules into the hair shaft, high-lift processes use stronger formulations of peroxide (and sometimes a separate bleaching stage) to disperse the original color and then introduce a lighter tonal color.
Fortunately, most of today’s products are formulated to be gentler to the hair and scalp and you can always do a patch test to check for chemical sensitivities before having a procedure done. I realize that by most people’s standards, I am overly cautious about doing nothing to harm the hair. But I know how most women (and especially young girls) feel about their hair and would never want to see a young woman forced to cut off her long hair because of a bad reaction to a service that she didn’t really need.
http://www.hairfinder.com/hairquestions/hair_color_damage.htm

Skin Tone: Your new hair color should complement your skin tone. Light-skinned people don't look good with very dark hair because it draws color out of their skin. Dark, tanned skin doesn't look great when mixed with a one-tone blonde, but four or five blonde, chestnut or honey tones look fabulous.

*~*~* Just for you since you asked about dying your hair dark brown - BROWN:
Brunette is always a safe choice as it suits nearly every girl in town. Varying the shade with highlights can achieve a huge range of looks. From chocolate brown and bronze shades to honey or dark blonde, combinations of natural tones gives incredible shine as darker-pigmented tints add condition to your hair.*~*~*

Will coloring my hair damage it?
Only if the wrong level of peroxide is used or you are over-processing (too many permanent colors are applied) your hair. If you constantly change your hair color, especially if you go from blonde to brown and back to blonde, you must regularly use deep conditioning treatments.
Why can colored hair look dull?
Over-processing is the biggest reason. If your hair is starting to look dull, use semi-permanent colors where the pigments sit on top of the hair adding plenty of tone and shine.
What's better for my hair, semi-permanent or permanent color?
Semi-permanent color gives your hair a higher shine and enhances condition, but they won't lift natural hair color. Also, a semi-permanent tint will not cover large amount of grey hair (more than 50%). If a permanent tint is used correctly, you will always achieve a beautiful effect and semi-permanent tints can be used to maintain these permanent treatments, adding condition. http://www.haircolor-tips.com/haircolors.htm

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Choosing The Perfect Hair Color
Coloring your hair is one of the most common and exciting ways of expressing your individuality. Whether you are using hair color to brighten your own shade, to create a completely new look, or to cover gray hair, the choice of color can be confusing. There are hundreds of shades to choose from. With all the choices, which is best for you?

There are undoubtedly a number of shades that can be effective. However your color will be most flattering if you take into consideration your underlying skin tones and eye color. Your natural beauty will be accentuated by a beautiful hair color that blends with and enhances your skin tones.

Before making your hair color choice, look intently at your skin and try to evaluate the underlying tones. You may want to enlist the aid of your hairdresser or a friend. Now you are ready to make an educated choice of hair color.

Light warm skin tones:
You have warm, yellow-red undertones. Your skin may be described as ivory, peaches and cream, creamy beige or light golden tan. Your eye color is green, hazel, amber, or brown.
Choose a hair color that is light and warm for the most flattering effect.
This includes beige blonde, light golden blonde, strawberry blonde, light auburn, light brown with lots of golden or red highlights or golden blonde with red highlights.

Medium to deep warm skin tones:
You have warm, yellow-red undertones. You would be described as having tawny, deep golden brown or coppery skin. Your eye color is green, topaz, amber, cinnamon, or coffee bean in color.
Deep, rich hair color is for you. Your best shade may be medium to dark golden brown, golden brown with red highlights, honey brown, chestnut, copper or mahogany.

Light cool skin tones:
You have cool or blue-red undertones. Your skin color might be called alabaster, rosy pink, rose beige or light pearl. Your eye color is light blue, gray blue, gray green or blue green.
Choose a hair color that is cool or ‘ash’ in tone, such as white blonde, platinum or silvery blonde, taupe or light brown with wheat tones. Highlight any of these with lighter ash or platinum blonde.

Medium to deep cool skin tones:
Your skin tone may be referred to as light olive, dark olive, gray-brown, dark brown or ebony and your eye color may be blue-green, deep blue, deep green, cool brown or black.
Flattering hair color shades are plum, burgundy brown, dark brown, black, slate or any of these with plum or burgundy highlights.

Hair color can be an effective fashion statement and is even more exciting when matched with your natural skin tones.


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The first and most basic rule of hair coloring is to aim to have your hair and your hair style look as natural as possible (unless you explicitly intend it not to!). Many hair stylists recommend that you stay within two shades of your natural hair colour. It is also important to consider the condition of your hair before colouring, Hair that is damaged before colouring, will more than likely be more damaged after the process. The state of your hair also influences the absorbancy of your hair and the length of time the coloring solution should be applied for.

Which should you choose? If you are looking for a gentle boost to your hair color that does not give you regrowth then a semi-permanent color is for you. These colors, sometimes called glazing, color stains, or washes, work by coating the hair with a non-peroxide colour that washes out over a 4-6 week period. They will cover most grey hair, and will actually help to tame any annoying frizzies you may have. Semi-permanent colors are the most gentle way to color your hair and are a low risk way to try out a new colour. It is recommended that you use semi-permanent colors for as long as they are giving you the results you desire.

Permanent colours, however, are required if you wish to lighten your hair as semi-permanent color will only darken hair. Permanent hair colour also gives a much better coverage of grey hair. It works by bleaching and depositing the color in a one step process. If you decide to use a permanent hair colour you will need to minimize the damage to your hair by being extra careful with your hair care regime at home.

The next choice you need to make is whether to have a block color or highlights. Highlights can be added by streaking, weaving, and foiling. Just about any hairstyle can be highlighted, and is usually a great way to add depth and texture to your hair style.

Now you only need to decide which color to try. Before you rush out and colour your hair there are some basic rules you need to consider. You need to determine whether a warm or a cool shade will be best for you. The best way to do this, is to determine your natural coloring.

http://www.styles101.com/haircolor2.html
You've finally decided to color your hair after seeing how great your friends' color looks on her. So you rush to the store, buy that exact color and do it yourself at home. Come to find out, the color looks all wrong on you and you hate it. I can't tell you how many times this has happened to me before I went to Cosmetology school. You ask yourself "why did this happen". Here's why...

When you're choosing a hair color, it's not as simple as picking up a box and getting that exact color match. Many elements factor in when coloring your hair:

Your Skin tones, eye color, your natural and artificial hair color all play a big role in which color will look great on you. You need to first determine whether you fall into the warm or cool category.

Tones & Levels

Another key factor is understanding tones and levels on color boxes. Tone refers to whether a color is warm or cool. The warm (golden) colors are red, orange and yellow. You may have noticed on some hair color boxes, there are references to "medium warm brown" or "natural golden blonde". This means the undertone of the color is warm - either red, orange, or yellow. These can be used to give hair a warmer look.

The cool (ash) colors are blue, green, and violet/purple (same thing). When the hair color names refer to "dark ash blonde" and so forth, it means they have a green, blue, or purple undertone. These you should be careful with. If you put a green or blue undertone color on a warm color (especially a gold/yellow color) hair, you will come out with green.
Levels refer to the degree of lightness or darkness of a color with 1 being the lowest (black) and 12 being the highest (lightest blonde).

Now that you know whether you need a cool or warm tone and you understand tones and levels, you're ready for the next step. Understanding the natural pigment in your hair and adding artificial pigment(color product). This is where the color wheel comes into play.

Complimentary colors are colors opposite on the color wheel. Red-Green, Blue-Orange etc. What does this mean to you? Well, if you have golden blonde hair, your hair tone is either red, orange, or yellow warm tones. So if you put a cool colored tone on like ash. You're hair is most likely to turn green.

Look at the wheel. Let's say you have yellow under tones to your hair, and you want to cool it to an ash. You decide blue undertone ash toner will do, since it is a cool undertone. Well, by doing this you'll end up with green hair! As you can see, on the wheel that blue and yellow make green. If you want to cancel out whatever undertone you have, you should use the opposite color on the wheel.
In other words, if you have brown hair with red highlights and you can't stand the red, then you would use the opposite color on the wheel to neutralize the red. In this case, the neutralizing color would be green (ash).



Here's an example of choosing a color:

You have golden blonde hair ( level 9 ) and you want to go darker to a light, medium, warm brown

( Level 7 ). Remember you have yellow and maybe orange in your natural pigment. So you would choose a neutral level 7 because neutrals have all 3 primary colors in them and almost always cancel out those bad colors like green or orange. My word of advice is, if you are a blonde, going darker, have a professional do it because blonde hair is a little tricky when it comes to going darker. Usually, one color application isn't enough because you will most likely come up green. The green will have to be neutralized. See a professional. http://www.styles101.com/haircolor2.html

Answer 2

if i were you i would go to like a medium brown first, wait a couple weeks then go to the dark brown. going so far from your natural hair color like you are talking about can really damage your hair. You should really try talking to an expert though. Call your hairdresser and have her/ him do the first application and have them help you decide what would be the best route. It may cost a little bit more than an over the counter hair dye but there is a better chance of it coming out the way you want it to if you have a professional do it. Good luck

Answer 3

If your color is fading out that fast, you are probably using a semi permanent color or demi permanent color. You can try what is called Permanent color, which wont fade but will grow out with your hair, so every 4-8 weeks youd just have to get a retouch. I reccommend going to a salon and having it done professional rather than buying store bought color. Also, I would shy away from completely black, once it permanent black its very hard to get any other color, including brown. Hope this helps!

Answer 4

I think that it is a great idea. maybe you should try to work the the color in as low lights. It does not damage your hair if you take care of your hair. You will have to make sure that you condition your hair regularly. With your skin tone, don't go dark all over though.

Answer 5

It's only hair and it will grow back. Beware though, if you go darker it's harder to get back to a lighter color. You'd have to strip the color off and then dye it the new color or just wait till it grows out.
A temporary color will work and it's not as damaging, however, depending on how light your hair is, the color will soak into the hair and it WILL take longer for all of the color to wash out.

Answer 6

Use one that lasts thru a few washes to make sure you like the color, then find a similar color that is permanent. If you dye it more than every 3 months it will become damaged. You will need a really good hydrating conditioner for after color care.
CT

Answer 7

most people have two different shades in their hair when it isn't colored so I suggest you get a frosting cap and pull out some of your hair and then add the dark brown dye to the hair you pulled out (follow the instructions) this way you will have two shades and it will look better. I had dyed my hair dark brown once and it looked fake.

Answer 8

dark brown would make your eyes stand out more and if your dyeing it, it wont damage your hair much but any type is hair dyeing is usually bad but not seriosuly bad. im planning on getting a dark red =)

Answer 9

I have pale skin and blue eyes too and I dyed my hair dark brown and I think it looks fine.

Answer 10

going darker can make your pale skin appear even paler. there are a lot of hair color products out there that are not as harsh as they used to be. i've only had my hair highlighted one time and my hair didn't get damaged. hopefully someone who works in the field can answer this question more appropriately than i am. you never know unless you try.

Answer 11

Get dark highlights instead. It looks waaay more natural and won't be as much as a shock to your friends and family. Plus it comes out better and is cheaper if you're doing it thru a hair stylist =)