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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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