Change hair color - a cardinal step. Before this procedure, you need to carefully think about what kind of paint should be purchased. We suggest you use a special table that will greatly facilitate and speed up the selection process. We will study step by step instructions for its use.
Step by step description of how to choose a shade on the table
Step 1. Determination of the number of natural hair color
To find out the number of your hair shade, you need to look at the first column of the Natural Row table. The gradation of flowers is as follows:
• 1 - black,
• 2 - dark brown,
• 3 - medium brown,
• 4 - light brown,
• 5 - dark blond,
• 6 - medium blond,
• 7 - light blond,
• 8 - blond,
• 9 - bright blond
• 10 - platinum blond.
Note! In the table, the numbering starts from below. The color number is on the left (large white numbers).
Step 2. Select the desired shade
The top line lists the shades that are obtained after dyeing the hair:
• ashen,
• golden,
• copper,
• red,
• Violet,
• brown
• matte, mother of pearl.
Note! The table lists only seven basic shades, but by mixing and using different concentrations of the coloring composition their palette can be significantly expanded.
Tips placed at the end of the article will help you decide on a shade that will fit your skin type and eye color.
Step 3. Dye selection
The most crucial moment is coming. To determine the paint that is suitable for obtaining the selected shade, you need to find a common cell. It is located at the intersection of two lines.
So, select the desired column and, moving down on it, go to the line that corresponds to the number of your natural hair color. In the cell you will see a sample of the shade and decide on the name of the dye.
For each color requires the appropriate paint. For example, owners of dark blond hair to get a purple hue need to buy paint "Burgund". For light brown hair with this purpose need to paint "Mahogany".
Note! The same color from different manufacturers may have a different name.
Empty cell
When working with a table, you may stumble upon an empty cell. This happens in two cases:
• there is no possibility to get the desired shade (for example, having dark brown hair to get an ashy shade is unreal),
• The shade will look very unnatural or ugly.
In this case, in order to still achieve the desired hair color, it is recommended to contact the professionals in the beauty salon, since it may be necessary to pre-clarify strands or other procedures using chemical compounds.
Mixston selection
The bottom row of the table shows the colors of the mixton, which are used for:
• enhance the intensity and saturation of the main hair color,
• neutralization of unnecessary color,
• Trendy strand coloring.
Usually, micone is not used independently, but combined with the use of the basic coloring composition.
Note! The table shows the mixton that will help to get a rich color. Their shade coincides with the main shade of paint.
To get rid of an inappropriate shade, you should use opposite colors (for example, you can neutralize a green shade by using a red mixton).
Tips for choosing a shade for hair
There is a general approach to choosing a hair shade:
• girls with green, hazel or hazel eyes can be painted in warm colors (red, copper, golden),
• Girls with gray, blue or blue eyes can be painted in cold tones (light golden, ashy).
But there are more detailed recommendations that are based on the type of appearance. There are four of them:
• spring - light eyes (green, blue or nut-colored), blond hair (all tones from 5 to 10), skin of warm yellow or golden hue,
• summer - blue or gray eyes, blond hair (all tones from 5 to 10), skin of a cold (slightly blue or pink) shade,
• autumn - any eye color, dark hair (tones 1-4), bright saturated warm skin color,
• winter - saturated eye color (gray, blue, brown, black), dark hair (tones 1-4), cold skin tone (very light or dark, grayish).
Based on this classification, the following tips are offered:
• Girl - spring can choose any bright warm shades (golden, copper, auburn, light brown). A light reddish tint should be avoided.
• Girl - summer fit bright cool shades (platinum, ashen, ash-blond, blond).
• A girl - autumn should stop its choice on one of these shades: black, chocolate, chestnut, dark blonde, copper-red. It is recommended to avoid the blond.
• The girl - winters will look great hair ashen-brown or blue-black. It is necessary to avoid any shade of blond and colors of warm tones.
Using our recommendations, you will be able to choose for yourself the desired hair color, and then repeatedly change the shades within its color gamut.
How to choose a hair color by color type
Before you choose a hair color you need to decide on the color type of your appearance, and in many respects it depends on the complexion. The color type is divided into four seasons: winter, spring, summer and autumn. Of course, this is done solely for convenience, and the climatic conditions of the seasons play no role. Under the season, the color of the eyes, skin and hair is meant. Summer and winter are classified as cold color types, respectively, autumn and spring are referred to warm color type. Below we describe in detail how to use color types when choosing hair color. Brunette
Spring color type
This color type can be determined by the following characteristics:
Hair is blond, distinguished by a yellowish sheen,
The skin is light, also has a yellowish tint,
Eyes are yellow brown, yellow green or turquoise.The choice of color for the hair is very simple, you need to repaint in warm colors: yellow-brown, beige or red. You can not be painted in the color of platinum blonde, shades of ashen and red. The fact is that these tones emphasize the yellowness of the face, and the image becomes unnatural.
Summer color type
Color type can be determined by the following characteristics:
The hair is blond, but have a gray tint. For example, light brown, flaxen or light blond,
The skin has a light blue, light olive or light pink cold shade,
The eyes are light gray, green or blue, differing in a dark shade.It is advisable to repaint your hair in cold and light colors. For example, in shades of light brown, light brown, ashen or platinum. You can not repaint the yellow or red color, it will only emphasize the pronounced bluish or olive skin tone. Because of this, the skin looks unhealthy, for example, the complexion will become sallow.
Autumn color type
Color type can be determined by the following characteristics:
The hair is dark brown and yellow in color.
The skin is dark, has a light bronze tint,
The eyes are brown, yellow-green or turquoise. In this case, the following color shades are best: red-brown, yellowish-brown, dog-rose color, and so on. You can not paint in cold shades, for example, in the color of mahogany. Because of this, a bronze skin tone is enhanced, which makes it unnatural and unhealthy.
Winter color type
Girls with this color type look very cold, skin color is of two types: pale pink and dark olive. This type can be determined by the following characteristics:
Hair is black or dark blond,
The eyes are dark brown or black.Girls differ in bright and contrast appearance. It is necessary to choose cold and dark shades of violet, ripe cherry, mahogany, light brown or brown. If a girl has an olive-colored skin, a red color is contraindicated to her, as her hair may acquire a green tint. Much easier for girls with pale skin, you can choose any colors that we have listed. If you wish, you can dye your hair into a platinum blonde.
You can determine your own color type using a simple test. To do this, you need to check the color of your lipstick. Autumn girls use brown lipstick with shades of red. Summer girls - lipstick with a pink color, and winter - crimson lipstick, which has a cool red hue. But if you still doubt the choice of color - contact your stylist. Below we describe in detail about the advice of professional stylists.
How to choose a suitable hair color (professional advice)
First, you need to remember that if your skin is covered with freckles - you can not be painted in the color of a burning brunette or platinum blonde. Such colors are suitable only for girls with clear skin. In addition, for adult women, these colors are very undesirable, as they emphasize wrinkles.
Secondly, it is impossible to emphasize the redness of the face to girls who blush too often. Colors such as red wine and mahogany are completely prohibited. But in them you can paint girls with a cold skin color, they are best suited the following colors: mahogany, red wine, ashy blond, black and dark brown.
Thirdly, girls with “peach” skin cannot be painted in cold tones, for example, ashy blond. From this, the skin will appear very pale and unhealthy. Best suited honey, dark and ginger shade. You can experiment with red shades, but it is advisable to consult a stylist.
Do not forget that you need to take into account the color of hair, skin and eyes. If you have blue eyes and pale skin - dye your hair a light color. If the skin is tanned and the eyes are brown - dark color. Owners of dark green eyes and light skin should be painted in a light color, but you need to look at different tones, the darker the skin, the darker the hair color. For girls with a weak tan, it is better to paint in a light brown-haired woman, if the eyes are blue or light green.
It is impossible to hope that the color on the paint box will be the same after applying to the hair. It is best to check the color shades using probes. Unfortunately, there is no complete information on the boxes, only the hair color and shade are indicated. Sometimes the tone is indicated, for example, golden or ashy.
Never take a chance and do not try to completely change the color of the hair. You can change the color to several shades or just paint over gray hair, but it is better to repaint from a blonde to a brunette in a beauty salon. The stylist will take into account the skin and eye color, select the appropriate hair care and emphasize the facial features.
What are the color types
The one who first came up with color types was a genius. It depends on the correct definition of the color type, what color of clothes or make-up will be ideal for you. Defining your color type, be extremely attentive. To determine your color type, you need to know: color of your skin, color of your hair and eye color.
Most often, color types are divided into four seasonal color types, these are:
- summer color type
- winter color type
- autumn color type
- spring color type.
Asking how to determine your color type, you should treat this with all thoroughness. And if your image does not suit you, you can refresh or change yourself.
How to choose a hair color: a win-win tactic
You’ve probably heard this advice before, but it will really help you find the hair color as well as possible. Find a photo where you are 5-7 years old. This hair color will look as natural as possible on you. If your hair has darkened with age, you can try a light brightening. With modern professional clarifiers it is not so scary. It is important to choose a good salon and think about home care.
Editor's Board: home care for dyed hair can be no worse than the salon. For bleached hair, keratin products are excellent. We like the mask for heavily damaged hair level 3 TIGI Bed Head Urban Anti + Dotes Resurrection. The mask gives hair strength, softness and shine. Use it once a week.
Model Ruby Rose chose an unusual pink shade with a metallic sheen. Credit: Rex by Shutterstock
By the way, modern technologies allow us to try on color with the help of programs and applications. Just type in the search for "selection of hair color online" and test several programs. If for any reason this option does not suit you, you can try on a wig in a specialty store.
Another win-win option that will help you choose the hair color - experiments with partial dyeing. Try ombra, balayazh or shatush or just paint a pair of strands in the face. You will immediately understand whether you are ready for full staining.
Editor's Board: if your hair is well tolerated dyeing, it does not mean that they do not need care. The easiest option is to switch to shampoo and conditioner for colored hair. So you not only moisturize and nourish the hair, but also extend the brightness of the new shade. We like Dove Advanced Hair Series “Luxurious Shine” shampoo and conditioner with collagen.
Find a good example.
All the best color combinations have already been invented for us. And not by anyone, but by celebrity stylists. To adopt a successful idea of coloring or cutting a famous actress, you don’t have to be like her. It is enough to have a similar skin tone, eye color and relatively similar complexion. You can also find an example close to you in spirit. For example, the singer Rita Ora often dyes her hair: she tried on pastel shades, brondirovanie and platinum blond. If you want to know what color is in trend - watch Rita. TV stars Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner are experimenting with neon shades, wigs and extensions. That is, their goal - the most vivid image. Supermodel sisters Gigi and Bella Hadid prefer exclusively natural shades. Decide what is closer to you and watch the star images.
Hair color must match skin color.
It is believed that light skin is better accentuate cool shades, and golden and dark skin - warm. This rule seems obsolete to us. It is worth remembering that cold shades, especially if your natural color contains a lot of red pigment, keep much worse than warm ones. To maintain an ashen or silver color, you need purple shampoo and regular toning. Golden shades can lift the mood in the cold season and visually rejuvenate the face. However, moving back from a warm shade to a cold one can be difficult. To avoid difficult transitions and traumatic staining, try to choose non-ammonia paints. About the colors that will suit the owners of light and pale skin, we wrote here. Recommendations for girls with dark skin can be found here.
Do not ignore color types
The system of color types will help answer the question “what color to dye your hair”. If you are still not sure what color type you are, read our article. Unlike the classic 4, we give as many as 12 color types. As for the most general recommendations, a natural blond and light brown shades suit the “spring” girls."Summer" girls and women go cold shades: from blond to dark blonde. Representatives of the fall color type can experiment with red and chestnut shades, as well as with a honey blond. Bright "winter" girls suit rich contrasting colors, including black and cold ashy blond.
Hair color can favorably emphasize the eyes.
How to choose hair color, focusing on eye color? Everything is simple here: you need the color to be contrast, then your eyes will shine. For example, red hair emphasizes light brown and green eyes. Ash and bright silver hair looks beautiful with a rare gray eyes. Black color makes blue and gray eyes more noticeable. Dark brown and black will be unusual and even a little mysterious look with light strands. It all depends on the goal you are pursuing. If you want the color to look like natural, do not forget to also paint the eyebrows.
Try on trendy colors
In today's world, the selection of hair color should not be based on the rules. Any shade can be adapted to any type of appearance. For example, TV star Kim Kardashian and singer Rita Ora managed to pick up beautiful shades of platinum blond, possessing dark skin. Now bright shades far from natural are very popular: purple, green, white, metal. With these colors you can experiment with everything. If you want to be in trend, just be in trend. Even if you make a wrong choice, you will get an interesting experience, and your hair will grow back.
If you have already tried on all the shades that you wanted, and want to quickly grow hair, read this article.
Now you know how to choose the hair color that will suit you. And especially for those who want to return the natural light brown color, we have described all the options:
In the spring cold colors mainly approach: light brown, green and brown
Ladies of this color type should choose warm shades, as they are their natural natural colors. Characteristic features of this color type:
- Lack of contrasts in appearance,
- Warm skin tones, eyes,
- The skin is light and thin,
- Freckles are possible,
- Blush light pink
- Peach tan,
- Eye color - hazel, blue, green,
- The color of the curls - shades of brown, rarely, golden, red.
With a light spring type, it is better to dye your hair golden, honey, sandalwood and transitional between them. Separate strands can be brightened, it looks good balayazh, ombre.
To dye the dark hair of brown palettes, which are also often at the spring stands in the tone of mahogany (for lovers of extravagance). If you are more to the classics, then choose caramel, walnut paint. Acceptable light chestnut. If the natural is very dark, then it may have to be clarified before coloring in a lighter tone.
With a large amount of gray hair, the strands are better painted in light colors. You can prefer warm ash. But since this palette is specific, has many features and varieties, it must be chosen individually in each specific case. The features of painting blond hair and gray hair are such that there always remains a light, cold greenish tone. It can be hidden by tint balms.
Hair color type - soft and contrasting summer
Brown hair is often characteristic of this color type. And he especially does not like fashionistas. It is representatives of this color type that most often want to change the color of their hair.
Quite a diverse and numerous type, both with respect to hair color and other characteristics. This appearance is a contrast, low contrast and medium. The main parameters for the selection of this color type are as follows:
- Cold gamma - the main colors are bluish, ashy, cool,
- The skin tone is different, but a light bluish tone shines through it,
- Freckles are gray or cold brown,
- Tan even nutty, appears quickly
- The blush is bright because the skin is thin.
- Often there are redness,
- The natural tone of the curls is different, but always cold, without yellowness, golden notes,
- Strands easily fade,
- Prone to cut,
- Eyes with gray notes are gray-brown, hazel, gray-blue, gray-green, blue,
- There is no white skin, red, black and copper palettes in the head of hair. Do not use them and when choosing a new color for your hair.
Nuance painting hair in the summer
Thinking about what color to dye your hair, girls - summer should prefer light wheat-colored locks, if the color type is Summer. For a contrasting Summer (when the skin is light and the strands are black) choose black tulip paints.
Autumn can be warm and red
Warm color type even compared to spring. Hair of saturated color of warm palettes is suitable, as they are programmed genetically for this color type.
The features of the "autumn" girls are as follows:
- Warm skin tones,
- Peach blush,
- Freckles appear more often than other types,
- The eyes are bright - brown, hazel, green, warm blue,
- The tone of the curls is rich and warm - red, brown, chestnut, black.
Since the skin of such a color type is not light, rich-colored hair will fit perfectly. But it is necessary to exclude bright - black with blue and very light white. The first will give the skin an earthy brown tone, the second will be too contrasted and look vulgar and simple.
If you want to recolour red hair, choose warm and saturated brown dyes. Chocolate, warm mocha, rich caramel, etc. look good. If, on the contrary, the strands are brown, then change the shade to red, red, mahogany.
The beauty of this color type in vivid contrasts. The skin of its representatives is thin and very light. It has a gentle bluish tide, while the hair is rich and bright. It can be black, dark brown or very dark brown. Successfully dye brown hair in this case, you can, for example, in black. Choose saturated colors, looks good blue tide, which perfectly contrasts with the skin. In general, for this color type, experiments with the appearance are most complex.
In what tone can you dye the hair of a winter-type brunette? Anyone will not be bright enough for her. Categorically it is necessary to avoid warm palettes and golden shine, as they will forgive the exterior. Try toned strands with blue tonic. Sometimes eggplant shine looks good too. Try dyeing brown hair in that tone, but only if it is very dark.
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Eggplant is well suited to the hazel eyes of a warm palette. Blue - to the cold tones of the eyes (dark gray, etc.).
What is meant by the color type of appearance
Each person is unique in his own way. His skin tone, eye color and hair creates a unique image. Stylists by the specified parameters divided people into several types. Each type has its own color range, mutually complementing the natural beauty. When painting hair, the color type is taken into account, which helps to determine the perfect shade.
The color type of appearance is a laid down range of shades that perfectly emphasizes the color of the eyes, hair and skin. If you ignore the harmonious mix, you get a funny picture.
How to determine your color type
To determine for yourself what type you are, do a little experiment. Take a photo of your face close enough that you can clearly see the eyes, hair, color of your skin. Take a close look at yourself and determine what color your skin has.
Remember how you react to the sun tan: whether it lays well, the skin reddens under the influence of the sun's rays or becomes darker. During emotional experiences, a blush can appear on the cheeks: from a delicate peach shade to a bright red. Is this phenomenon inherent to you? If so, then most likely you are a representative of a summer or winter color type. What about freckles? They are typical for all color types, except for winter.
Carefully look at the color of the eyes. Blue eyes are inherent in the spring, summer and winter type. The greenish tint is typical for girls of Spring, Summer and Autumn. Pay attention to the combinations: gray-bluish, gray-greenish, green-brown. Every little thing matters. Brown eyes prevail among summer women (extremely light shades), autumn (amber) and winter ladies (dark brown).
On the hair color can also say something. Burning brunettes - this is probably cold winter girls. Fiery brown-haired women are warm autumn ladies. Ash or light brown hair characteristic of the summer type. Spring Woman is a natural blonde, sometimes with light blond or golden hair.
Try not to deviate far from natural data when dyeing strands. Often donated at birth appearance is the most harmonious and holistic. If you still decide to dye your hair, then do not go beyond the three tones from your natural shade. The changes will be quite noticeable, but the appearance will not suffer.
Use the tips on the correct selection of colors.
- The palette of colors is quite extensive and you will surely find the shade you like.
- Do not chase the fashion trends, they do not always emphasize the beauty of a woman.
- If you really want to be in a trend - throw a pair of strands on top of the partings.
Little nuance: If there are rashes, reddenings and inflammatory elements on the face, it is not recommended to dye your hair in bright saturated colors, they will emphasize the unevenness of the skin relief.
If you want to change, consult a stylist or a hairdresser. The trained specialist's eye will help you to create a new beautiful image that will perfectly fit your appearance, will emphasize all your virtues. High-quality paint will help keep the curls shiny and healthy. Experiment with your image, transform, create your own unique style. The main thing is that the result should bring only positive emotions and admiring glances of the people around them.
