How to Choose Hair Color Based on Skin Tone
While we don't always give them a lot of thought, hair color and skin tone are two features that work best when they work together. When these two don't complement each other the way they should, skin may come across as having stark features or looking washed out. Knowing how to use these two features together will help you achieve a harmonious look. Does this Spark an idea?
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Check your skin for its tone. Most people with naturally black or very dark brown hair have cool skin tones. Most people with naturally red, golden brown of strawberry blonde hair have warm skin tones. Cool skin tones have a pinkish hue while warm skin tones will have a more yellow hue. The easiest way to do this is to check the color of the veins on your wrist in natural light. If they appear greenish in color, then your skin tone is warm; if they are more blue, then your skin tone is cool.
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Choose a hair color that enhances your cool skin tone. For those with cool skin tones, you need to select hair colors that work with cool tones, according to The Hairstyler. Base colors that work with cool skin tones are blonde, brown or red with wheat, honey or taupe highlights. Highlights should always warm up any red or blue tints on the face.
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Select a color to work with your warm skin tone. For those with warm, or golden, skin tones, a base color of dark golden browns, chestnut or auburn with highlights of red, cinnamon or copper are good combinations.
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Choose hair color wisely if you have ruddy skin. Ruddy appears reddish or pink, and if you have ruddy skin, you should avoid reddish tones in your hair as well as using too much bleach. Go for honey brown, golden or beige colors instead, as these colors soften the coolness of the skin tone rather than being in contrast to it.
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Tips & Warnings
Try a virtual hairstyling application to match your skin tone and hair colors.
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