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Hair Color Ideas:
Finding the Right Natural Looking Dye Color for Your Complexion
Once you've got the right haircut, it's time to consider color.
Hair color is a fun fashion option because you can change it
with the season or with your mood. With modern products, it's
simple to be a redhead for a day or a blond for six weeks, with
shades you can get at any drug store and easily put on at home.
Hair color doesn't require a professional stylist, but when
you're choosing a product, keep in mind that most of them are
made with dye that can cause allergic reactions in some people.
If you have trouble with sensitive skin, you may want to try a
natural hair color made of henna. Henna comes in a variety of
shades, but it's ammonia and dye free, and much gentler to the
scalp than other hair colors.
Choosing the Right Shade for Your
What's the right hair color for you? Part of it depends on your
skin coloring, but a large part of it relies on your attitude.
If you've always wanted to try the Goth look, black hair is a
necessary part of your style and it doesn't matter how it goes
with your skin or eyes. In fact, the more jarring, the better,
so if you're an ice blond with cool blue eyes, you'll get a
huge effect from black Goth hair color.
But some people just want a nice color, nothing too dramatic,
that they can wear to work, that will cover gray hair, with
maybe a few highlights for summer. In this case, you'll want to
choose a shade that's very close to your own natural hair color,
maybe a shade or two more red or brown. Add caramel highlights
for a slightly streaky, sunkissed look. If gray hair is turning
your own color drab, consider going blonder. If you want to go
blond as naturally as possible, choose a shade that matches
your skin tone in warmth. If the undertones in your skin are
bluish instead of yellowish, you are a "cool" blond and should
get ashy, silvery shades, or even platinum. If your skin tones
are reddish or yellow, you are "warm" and should try golden-
hued blond colors instead. If you have very ruddy skin, try
even redder hair: it can help tone down the redness in your
skin.
Explore Different Dye Styles and Colors
And don't be afraid to experiment to find the best color. If
you want to try a brunette look but aren't sure you want to
commit, get one of the temporary hair colors that wash out in
six or eight shampoos. Funky, chunky highlights can be
rectified nearly overnight with another color, as long as you
use the wash-in-wash-out type that aren't made to last. If
you're going to play with your hair color on the weekends,
never use the "permanent" variety and then try to reverse it
in less than several weeks. The harsher chemicals in the
permanent hair colors, if used too frequently can turn your
hair to straw, and may even turn it a scary and unexpected
color if you try to set more color on top of a recent dye job.
Blonds can have more fun with reverse-highlighting; adding
deeper shades in wide or narrow streaks to their natural color.
For bored brunettes, streaking or foiling is a great option,
being dramatic and playful without going over the edge. Try
streaking your brown hair with coppery red, or even a
combination of red and gold highlights.
Fiery redhead, or a wannabe? People make assumptions about
redheads that may or may not be true, but what is true is that
if you go red, you may feel a burst of power. The new shades
come in colors from strawberry blond to shriek red, to a
plummy, deep, unbelievable purple red. If you're feeling
nervous, choose an auburn or a reddish brown that won't scare
you and work your way up to brighter shades as your boldness
increases.
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