Choosing a hair colour for women or one that matches your skin tone can be tricky. You do not want to choose a colour that will make you look rough, dull, less beautiful than you are, or even portray you in a negative light. Whichever colour you desired, be it loreal hair colour, Garnier hair colour, brown hair colour, burgundy hair colour or ash brown hair colour, go for it
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How do you then make the best choice?
- Know your skin tone: There are three types of skin tone – warm, cool and neutral skin tones. You can best check your skin tones under natural light.
Warm skin tone in natural light looks good in colour shades of red, gold, brown, and yellow without looking faded.
A cool skin tone will be flattering in colours like blue, green or purple.
Most neutral skin tones will sway one way or another. While all colours will look good on you, white, grey or silver looks best.
Some colours have attributes of both Warm & Cool tones like Black, Brown, Mauve, & Burgundy.
- Find your complexion
Now that you’ve had your skin tone figured out, determine your skin complexion. Are you light or dark-skinned? People with cool skin tones have two types of complexions: light and medium/dark. The same goes for those with warm skin tones. Light cool tones have beige skin and are very fair in complexion. The recommended hair colour for this complexion is lighter colours like light brown, platinum blond, or white blond.
Other tips for choosing hair colour based on your skin tone :
Choose the colour that is opposite to your skin tone. Warm skin tones look better with hair in cool colours and vice versa. Try on a wig to see how the colour will look against your skin if you want to try a colour shade that is opposite of your skin tone.
Only go one or two shades lighter or darker when putting highlights in your hair. If you have a pale complexion, create contrast by choosing a natural-looking, red colour for your hair. Warm copper, cinnamon browns, and strawberry blond hair also do wonders in adding colour to pale skin tones.
Avoid black or very dark hair colours if you are extremely pale; otherwise, you’ll end up looking paler and older than you are. Browner skin complexions can wear any hair colour, from dark brown to reddish hair, and dark hair best complements your skin. Don’t use blond or too light hair though.
You may have been born with black hair but you can dye your hair to a lighter shade of the current colour or use hair with honey-colour, purple, blue or red highlights to your dark hair. If your complexion looks reddish, contrast that with light-brown hair with honey-coloured highlights, and avoid too bright hair highlights.
Warm skin tones should best use the following hair colours:
chocolate browns, golden browns, caramel browns, brick browns, wine, champagne blonds, honey blonds, dark reds, auburn.
Cool skin tones should best go for, Platinum blonds, ashy blonds, sandy browns, chestnut browns, reds, burgundy, Jet black, and deep purple.
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