When a woman decides to radically change her life, the first thing she goes to the hairdresser. The master can change the length of the hair, shape or color. An experienced specialist is able to determine the ideal shade for each girl at one glance, but how to determine the appropriate hair color on your own? To do this, you need to know your color type, color and take into account the color of the eyes and the natural shade of the hair. Further on everything in more detail.
Natural hair color
When you look at yourself in the mirror, it is impossible to see natural hair, even if it has never been dyed. The fact is that their upper strands are always under the sun and burn out. Dark shades of hair gives moisture and dirt, so before you determine your hair color, you need to wash and dry your hair. After that, you need to select a control strand from the back of the head and look at it in sunlight.
This is how professional colorists work, defining the natural shade of curls. It is important not to use artificial lighting,because it can give the hair a variety of additional shades.
Skin tone
Determining the appropriate hair color from the photo is possible only on condition that the girl on it will be completely without makeup. This is necessary for the correct analysis of skin tone and undertone. There are 6 basic tones:
- very light;
- light;
- medium;
- olive;
- dark;
- dark.
Skin related to any of the tones can be cold, warm or neutral, which is a subtone. It should also be remembered that African women may well have a cold underton, and residents of northern countries can have a warm one, everything is strictly individual. Before you determine your hair color, you need to pay attention to the shade of the veins on the back of the wrist.
Cold undertone is characterized by blue or purple veins. Such skin against a white sheet of paper in sunlight can take on a bluish tint, while silver jewelry looks much more spectacular on girls than gold.
Warm skin casts yellow against a white background in the sun. The veins are olive or green, and gold takes pride of place in the jewelry box.
Neutral undertone is very rare. The veins are blue-green, and gold and silver jewelry looks equally good. In sunlight, the skin has a slight greenish tint.
Eye color
With age, season or conditionhe alth, the skin can change its shades, but the eyes remain the same for life. Determining hair color from a photo with a natural shade of eyes can be almost unmistakable.
Black eyes are found in African, Asian or Mediterranean women. Shades of dark chocolate or black will suit them. To add extravagance, you can add strands of red, copper or caramel color to the image.
Brown eyes suit all shades of brown, copper and red. You can turn into a blonde with such a shade of eyes only when using warm-colored paint. For owners of a light hazel shade, it is better not to use light tones, they will make the look faded.
Green eyes are the least common. Their owners face shades of milk chocolate, red, copper, gold, caramel and wheat. Contrasting black or ash tones will ruin the look.
In gray-eyed beauties, a lot depends on skin tone. If it is warm, then soft shades of wheat and milk chocolate will do. Black color will age, but the owners of cold skin will suit perfectly and ashy, platinum or dark chestnut.
With blue eyes of any shade, the situation is similar. Black or ashy hair colors are ideal for cool skin tones, while warm skin tones enhance the beauty of light honey, caramel, wheat or red hues.
Extremely rare lilac eyes pair perfectly with raven, ash or silver hair.
Appearance color type
Many girls ask the question: "How to determine which hair color suits me?" In many ways, this depends on the conditional category, which is characterized by natural features of appearance. Each of the four color types is named after a particular season.
The "spring" girl is often freckled and blushes quickly in the sun. Her hair and skin are fair, and her eyes are blue or grey. Such beauties cannot dye their curls black, chocolate, cognac or chestnut, gentle pastel colors are needed. Shades of caramel, honey, walnut or sandalwood are ideal. If the skin is too light, then ash tones will do, and gold will have to be abandoned.
Summer color type is characterized by pale or slightly olive skin, which turns cool brown in the sun. Hair has shades of light brown, light brown or ashy, and eyes are gray, blue or hazel. At the same time, a shade of wheat is suitable for light girls, and Black Tulip paint for dark girls.
The "autumn" beauties have olive or golden skin, covered with an even bronze tan in the sun. Often there are freckles and moles, eyes of different shades of brown or green. Hair can be brown, copper or red, rarely light blonde. It is better to dye your hair in chestnut, cognac, copper or reddish shades. Cold blacks and ashes should be avoided.
Winter beauty with porcelain white skin and natural black hair canlook equally good with any hair colors in cold shades.
The eyes of such girls are most often blue, gray or dark brown. The skin may be olive and the hair ashen, but very rarely. Warm tones for curls are not suitable at all.
Colour
Before you determine your hair color, you need to know your color. To do this, you should know exactly what colors to face a girl in ordinary life. If almost all everyday clothes and cosmetics are pastel colors, then the color is light or muted. Most often it is "spring" or "summer" and very rarely "winter". Warm shades of blond are suitable for light ladies, “mouse” colors are suitable for muted ladies.
If bright clothes suit your face, and the color of the eyes contrasts with the iris, the color is bright. Most often these are the color types "autumn" and "winter". They are better off choosing chestnut or chocolate tones.
When contrasting colors prevail in the wardrobe, then the color will be contrasting. For girls with dark skin, light shades of hair are suitable, and for owners of fair skin, dark curls.
Recommendations
Before choosing a color, remember that dark tones give the hair visual volume. Red, platinum or blue-black shades will highlight skin imperfections, but a well-chosen red tone will suit almost everyone.
Before determining their hair color, girls with freckles need to decide whether to hide them or highlight them. Red andred colors will distract the eyes from the pigmentation on the face, while golden or chestnut shades will emphasize it.
Paint selection
There is another recommendation on how to determine if a hair color is suitable. To do this, you just need to try it. You should choose a tint shampoo according to all the recommendations listed and color the curls with it. An unsatisfactory result will wash off after a few days and will not change the appearance, and if the shade is completely satisfied, then you can safely fix it on your hair with paint.
Perfect
If even after that you still have doubts about the choice of color, but you really want to change the image, you should choose the ombre staining technique. At the same time, the hair roots do not change by 5-7 cm and remain of a natural shade, and the rest of the length is dyed in the color you like with a gradual stretching of the color from closer to natural to light towards the tips. This effect allows you to get additional volume of curls, while maintaining a smooth transition.
