Choosing your Hair color ... what shade works best on you?You've finally decided to color your hair after seeing how great your friends' hair color looks on her. So you rush to the store, buy that exact hair color and do it yourself at home. Come to find out, the hair 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 hair color match. Many elements factor in when coloring your hair:
Your Skin tone, eye color, your natural and artificial hair color all play a big role in which hair color shade will look great on you.
When you're choosing a hair color, it's not as simple as picking up a box and getting that exact hair color match. Many elements factor in when coloring your hair:
Your Skin tone, eye color, your natural and artificial hair color all play a big role in which hair color shade will look great on you.
Are you in the cool or warm category?First and most important when choosing the perfect hair color for you is to determine whether you fall into the WARM or COOL category. Why is this so important? Think of it this way... Have you ever bought the wrong shade of makeup foundation. All of a sudden your skin looks orange. Or too ashy. You must have chosen a color that clashes with your natural skin tone. Just like when picking a foundation shade, you need to look at your skin tone to pick the right hair color that will compliment your tone not clash with it.
If you're still unsure about your category, use color guides such as More Alive with Color. In More Alive with Color, you'll take quizzes that make it simple to choose the best colors that work for you in clothes, makeup, accessories and hair color.
If you're still unsure about your category, use color guides such as More Alive with Color. In More Alive with Color, you'll take quizzes that make it simple to choose the best colors that work for you in clothes, makeup, accessories and hair color. .Understanding the Color Wheel
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). If you need help with correcting a bad hair color, check out our Hair coloring Tips here....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 hair 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.
Few Guidelines to go by when coloring your hair at home: --> -->
If you have artificial color in your hair (any color or tone) and you want to go lighter, doesn't matter how light, you will not accomplish this just by choosing a lighter shade. General rule of thumb in hair coloring is, hair color can't lift (or lighten) hair color. You can change the tone, but not the level (lightness) Go see a professional. See our Going Lighter section... --> -->
If you are going darker, choose a warm, golden tone or you might come out ashy. --> -->
If you grey is coming up too light, or the hair color is not covering the grey, let the color stay on your roots for at least 40 minutes or longer. Grey is very resistant and needs hair color to process longer. Check out Hair Coloring Tips if your grey is not covering well
If you're still unsure about your category, use color guides such as More Alive with Color. In More Alive with Color, you'll take quizzes that make it simple to choose the best colors that work for you in clothes, makeup, accessories and hair color.
If you're still unsure about your category, use color guides such as More Alive with Color. In More Alive with Color, you'll take quizzes that make it simple to choose the best colors that work for you in clothes, makeup, accessories and hair color. .Understanding the Color Wheel
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). If you need help with correcting a bad hair color, check out our Hair coloring Tips here....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 hair 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.
Few Guidelines to go by when coloring your hair at home: --> -->
If you have artificial color in your hair (any color or tone) and you want to go lighter, doesn't matter how light, you will not accomplish this just by choosing a lighter shade. General rule of thumb in hair coloring is, hair color can't lift (or lighten) hair color. You can change the tone, but not the level (lightness) Go see a professional. See our Going Lighter section... --> -->
If you are going darker, choose a warm, golden tone or you might come out ashy. --> -->
If you grey is coming up too light, or the hair color is not covering the grey, let the color stay on your roots for at least 40 minutes or longer. Grey is very resistant and needs hair color to process longer. Check out Hair Coloring Tips if your grey is not covering well
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