Hair Color Guide

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Hair Color Guide – Top 10 Tips for You

Sometimes it feels like getting your hair colored is a science. You try to do it yourself and the color just doesn’t come out right. You go and get your hair colored by a professional stylist and you end up paying an arm and a leg and you still don’t get the right color. Every once in a great while we end up getting just the perfect shade. How does that happen? Well, there is a hair color guide that you can go by.

While some women look good in any color, most women just do not. If you are attempting to go blond, make sure that you do not go more than two shades lighter than your natural shade. If your hair is dark naturally, then blond may not be the right shade for your skin type.

Tone. If you have very pale skin, then you may not want dark hair. You should consider going lighter. Really dark shades will make you look older and ghastly. Finding the perfect dark shade can be difficult, but if you go buy your skin tone, then it will be much easier.

Color. Most people can go red. It is just a great color on most people. Finding the right shade of red is the tricky part. You may want to ask a professional for some advice on what shade will look good with your skin type. A medium red color looks really good on most people. Ask your stylist for more information on how to pick just the right shade of red.


The one issue that a lot of people is whether to color the hair or highlight. If you have a normal great color then you probably should go with highlights. If your normal color is bland then you may want to go with the single process color treatment. This is actually a lot cheaper than highlights.

Highlights look good when they are at least two different shades. When you put more around your face then your complexion will look brighter. Remember, though, that when your hair grows out you will need touchups. Highlights do not need as many touchups as a full color.

There are four types of highlights. There are the basic foil highlights, hair painting, chunking and lowlighting. With foil highlights, you can get a lot of shades to help make it look very natural. Hair painting is great if you want to add natural stripes of color in larger areas. Lowlighting will add darker shades to your hair. It gives it much more contrast.

So if you want a great head of hair, do your research. There are so many tricks to picking just the right shade. Find the shade that looks good on you and most importantly – find a great stylist. A great professional stylist can help you pick just the right shade and can find a great process to make it look great. Picking the right color can be difficult, but when you do, you will love it.

I hope you’ve found this hair color guide helpful.

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shower trays and doors March 1, 2011 at 6:04 am

I would like to add your blog to my blogroll please tell me what anchor should I use?

Emily April 21, 2011 at 1:15 am

Yeah, me too. This site is so full of ideas and guides for a better hair color and style. Every woman wants their hair to be perfect and we deserve it, right?

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