How To Choose a Hair Color That Suits You
Does your face look tired and haggard, with discolored bags under your eyes? Does your complexion seem unhealthily pale, oddly reddish or sallow? What color are the veins in your arms?
Believe it or not, all of these questions are relevant when you are trying to choose the right hair color. Here are some tips if you want to learn how to choose a hair color:
1.The fundamental objective: don't try to match... try to complement. For example, if your skin has some ruddy coloring, don't dye your hair red. Instead, add color that softens the red in your face. If your skin has a sallow tone that you consider unpleasant, your remedy will not be to add more yellow or gold tone to your hair, but rather to soften the yellow complexion and bring other tones to the forefront by adding richer, complementary color to your hair. The good news: there are so many hair colors that complement each skin tone.
2.Skin complexion: cool versus warm. We might all be warm-blooded (or almost all of us), but that doesn't mean our skin complexions are all warm. Nay, we are often broken into two camps - cool and warm. Some say silver and gold, but as far as we're concerned, that kind of talk can wait until the holiday season rolls back around. For now, let's stick to cool and warm.
What does this distinction mean for your hair color choice? Quite a bit, as it turns out! Very few people want to look like a cadaver or like someone suffering from scarlet fever. Heed your skin, eye and hair tones!
Do you have medium-pale or pale skin with some pinkish hue around your cheeks? Are you simply pale with no recognizable undertone? Does your skin have an olive complexion (this would include many of Asian or Hispanic descent), or is it a dark brown hue? Some folks have cool bluish or reddish undertones beneath their eyes, and some have pale skin that almost appears as if it were softly translucent. If any of this describes you, your skin color is likely cool.
Warm skin includes pale peach flesh-tones, brown with faint undertones of pink or gold, warm gold and yellow undertones, and skin with lots of freckles or rosy flush.
If you have already tried dressing in a white shirt, standing in daylight and gazing into a mirror in the attempt to discover whether you're warm or cool, and haven't figured it out, here's a clever trick. Simply look at your arm - specifically, the veins in your arm. Do they look bluer than green, or greener than blue? If they look green, you probably have warm complexion. Blue means that your skin is more on the cool side.
3.Here's another way to determine your skin temperature: look at your natural hair color. It can be as simple as salt-and-pepper gray versus yellowish-gray. Both are very common, but the spicy one indicates coolness while the yellow signals warmth. Is your hair brown with a reddish tinge, or brown with golden undertones? Both are dark, but we want you to pay attention to those undertones, so that you can pick a hair color that complements your complexion. Brown with gold undertones would suggest that your complexion is cool.
4.Eye color. Ask anyone for the first facial features they notice. More than likely, it's either the eyes, the hair or the smile. And since we're not always smiling, we'd better do what we can to make the other two as gorgeous as possible!
Let's talk eyes for a moment, since eye color can also help you to determine where on the warm/cool thermometer to place your complexion. You wouldn't want your hair color to make your eyes less alluring and beautiful, would you? If your eyes are green, gold-brown, or hazel without speckles of anything but brown or gold, then your complexion is likely on the warm side. Grays and blues, not surprisingly, as well as dark browns and black, might place you on the cool side of the spectrum. If your eyes are hazel, but are speckled with any of the afor
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