The perfect hair color for you
Whatever type of hair color you opt for, choosing the proper range of shades—warm or cool—is the key. The right hair color shade will brighten up your hair style . . . and your life.
What is the most basic principle of color theory applied to hair? It's choosing between warm and cool shades—and with the dizzying variety of hair colors available, choosing can sometimes be confusing. The best way to make pleasing hair color choices is to determine whether natural coloring—hair, eye, and skin tones—is in the warm or cool range of colors. Answer these questions, or better yet, have your best friend give you her opinion, which is likely to be more accurate:
My eyes are:
Deep brown or black-brown (Cool)
Golden brown (Warm)
Gray blue or dark blue (Cool)
Green, green blue or turquoise (Warm)
Hazel with gold or brown flecks (Warm)
Hazel with white, gray or blue flecks (Cool)
My skin is:
Very dark brown (Cool)
Brown with pink undertone (Warm)
Brown with golden undertone (Warm)
True olive (most Asians and Latinos) (Cool)
Medium with no color in cheeks (Cool)
Medium with faint pink cheeks (Cool)
Medium with golden undertones (Cool)
Pale with no color in cheeks (Cool)
Pale with pink undertones (Cool)
Pale with peach or gold undertones (Warm)
Freckled (Warm)
Ruddy (Warm)
Brown or bronze when I tan (Cool)
Golden brown, when I tan (Warm)
My hair color is:
Blue black (Cool)
Deepest coffee brown (Cool)
Medium ash brown (Cool)
Deep brown with gold or red highlights (Warm)
Medium golden brown (Cool)
Red (Warm)
Strawberry blond (Warm)
Dishwater blond (Cool)
Golden blond (Cool)
Salt and pepper (Cool)
White (Cool)
Gray with a yellow cast (Warm)
What were your answers
Did you check mostly cools? If so, your natural tones are in the cool spectrum. Mostly warms? Then you're naturally "warm."
Cool
Naturally cool people should avoid gold, yellow, red and bronze tones, which have a tendency to make you look sallow and drawn. The best hair color shades, depending on your skin tone, are shiny raven-wing blacks, cool ash browns, and cool blondes in shades ranging from mink to platinum and icy white. You're fortunate to be able to wear many exciting "unnatural" colors . . . lipstick reds, burgundies, and orchids, for a more daring look.
Warm
Naturally warm people should avoid blue, violet, white and jet-black hair, which will seem to "wash out" your natural high hair color. Depending on your skin tone and your preference, you'll find that deep chocolate, rich golden browns, auburn, warm gold, red highlights, and golden blond shades enhance your "sunny" look. Hair weaving and hair highlighting are great ways to add warm tones to your hair color—and natural-looking corals, oranges and reds are dazzling on you!
Covering gray hair
Make sure you don't look incongruent. What do I mean? We age as a unit. If your hair color (or any other feature, for that matter) is out of sync with the aging process, it may look unnatural. When our eyes see a 60-year-old woman with jet black hair, our sensory acuity will begin screaming "what's wrong with this picture."
Think of the "comb-over guy." The guy who is nearly bald, and lets a few strands grow to three feet long and then plasters them over the bald spot. Believe it or not, he goes to the mirror each morning and says, "This works . . . look how young and virile I look." Don't be the female version of the comb-over guy!
Determine Your Skin Tone
Instructions
STEP 1: Decide which season most accurately describes your complexion. People - and skin tones - can be divided into "seasons," depending on their skin tone.
STEP 2: "Winter" complexions have blue or pink undertones. Skin can be pale white, yellowish-olive, or dark. Winter people are generally brunettes, with deeply colored eyes. Many Asians and African Americans fall into this category.
STEP 3: "Summer" complexions, like winter complexions, have blue or pink undertones. Skin is pale and pink. Summers are often natural blondes or brunettes with pale eyes.
STEP 4: "Autumn": Autumn complexions have golden undertones. Many redheads and brunettes with golden brown eyes fall into this category.
STEP 5: "Spring": Spring complexions have golden undertones and are usually creamy white or peach. Spring people generally have straw-colored or strawberry red hair, freckles, rosy cheeks, and blue or green eyes.
Tips & Warnings
It is often difficult to discriminate summer from winter, and autumn from spring. Remember that winters are usually brunettes while summers can be natural blondes. Springs tend to have pale eyes while autumns have dark eyes.
Choose Clothes to Flatter Your Skin Tone
Instructions
STEP 1: "Winter": Winters should wear colors that are sharp, stark and clear. White, black, navy blue, red and shocking pink all go well with winter complexions. For lighter colors, wear icy tones rather than pastels. Avoid subdued tones like beige, orange and gold.
STEP 2: "Summer": Summers should choose pastels and soft neutrals with rose and blue undertones. Lavender, plum, rose-brown and soft blue suit summers well while black and orange do not.
STEP 3: "Autumn": Autumns should select colors with golden undertones, like camel, beige, orange, gold and dark brown. Avoid colors with blue tones, like navy.
STEP 4: "Spring": Springs can wear warm colors like camel, peach, golden yellow and golden brown. Avoid dark, dull colors.
2006-12-09 10:31:14
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answered by Anonymous
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try a rich auburn or mocha brown. I would love to color my hair darker, but I love my medium/light blonde. Either of those colors would look great. Also, go for a warm, more gold-infused tone to warm your pale skin. However, only do this if you dont have prominent gold tones in your natural color (if you remember what it is! ;)
2006-12-09 10:29:22
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answered by Anonymous
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I would go to the best hair stylist in my city. Make an appointment for a consultation. With you light complextion, you must be careful with color. You may want to try on wigs at a wig store. That can be a lot of fun and you will see what you look like in a different color. Good Luck.....
2006-12-09 10:30:21
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answered by Rea 3
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Light brown hair
2006-12-09 10:27:41
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answered by Jeff 5
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I think you would look good in light to medium brown. Blonde doesn't look good on pale skinned people, thats just my opinion. But, with your eye color and skin tone I think you would look good in this hair color.
Have a good day! Merry Christmas!
2006-12-09 10:48:58
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answered by northgadeb 2
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Red is in, very much so this year. Actually burgundy, really hot! It looks awesome with green eyes... and heck it's winter go it's ok to have a little contrast... Go burgundy, girl, live a little!
2006-12-09 10:39:09
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answered by Pivoine 7
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Light green eyes. A light red hair color. It is a killer combination.
2006-12-09 10:31:04
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answered by John34 4
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nothing too dark.
try something that looks natural, like a dirty-blonde or a light brown :)
2006-12-09 10:29:39
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answered by Anonymous :) 5
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if you have blonde hair it will naturally get bleached by the sun in the summer. There has been this guy in my class who had golden blonde hair that was a medium brown near the base. When he came back to college after summer vacation, it was almost platinum blonde!
2017-02-23 02:08:03
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answered by Deanna 3
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1
2017-01-25 16:06:47
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answered by ? 3
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Reverse Your Gray Hair - http://GrayHairGone.siopu.com/?pEs
2016-06-29 04:36:45
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answered by ? 3
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