Find the Best Hair Colour to Suit Your Skin Tone

Women are more and more likely to experiment and express themselves through various hairstyles and hair colours. You’ll be hard pressed now a days to find a regular lady in the street who has never woven a little hair colour into her locks.

Seasonal changes tend to bring a change in trend when it comes to hair colouring, but just because something is in vogue and on trend doesn’t mean you have to follow the styles. As with a haircut, hair colours can either flatter your face and features or make them look dowdy and washed out. So while keeping up with the latest thing in hair fashion, you need to ask if the colour that suits your friend so well, will look just as good on you. The right hair colour will brighten up your eyes and compliment your skin tone, make you look fresh, warm and positively glowing.

To find out if a new hair tone or colour is going to suit your skin tone, firstly you need to determine what your skin tone is. There are a couple of observations you can make to ascertain what your skin tone is, and from there you know which hair colours will flatter you, your make up, and your fashion choices.

The first thing you can do to find your skin tone is to look on the flip side of your arm. Look carefully at the veins. The veins that appear greenish in colour signify a yellow undertone, meaning your skin is warm. Should your veins be more blue than green, then you have a cool skin tone.

Secondly, you need to look at the effect that gold and silver jewellery have against your skin. If you look better in silver jewellery you have a cool skin tone, and if gold looks good on you, then you are warmer.

Another thing to consider is your eye colour. People with cool tones usually have blue, green or grey eyes with natural hair colours with blond, brown or black hair. Those with warm skin tones usually have brown, black, or hazel eyes with black, brown, blond, red, or variations of blond hair.

Now you have taken the basic steps to determine your skin tone, you now need the tools to establish just what hair colour will suit you.

Warm skin tones should avoid ashen tones in the hair colour this is to avoid you appearing pale and washed out. Colours that work very well are light honey blondes, medium strawberry and golden blondes, warm darker browns, ginger or orange based reds and dark browns with a hint of rustiness.

Cool skin tones should avoid hair colour with too much yellow. Colours that work best are light ash-blondes, coffee tones, soft medium blondes, flat browns, mahogany, burgundy-reds, deep purples, dark browns and blacks.

So now you are aware of the fundamental basics when it comes to choosing a hair colour that emphasises and improves the way you look and the way you feel.