If you've been looking in the mirror lately and think you look unattractive and dull, maybe it's time to reconsider your hair color. Instead of haphazardly choosing the color you like, make sure the color will match the tone and tone of your skin. Quickly determine your skin tone, then find out what your skin tone/undertone is. Learn which hair color matches your skin. The right hair color will accentuate your appearance and make you look younger!
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Method 1 of 4: Checking Your Skin
Step 1. Calculate your skin tone
Skin color in general is pale white, medium, olive, or dark / black. Determining skin tone should be easy enough, but useful in choosing hair color. You certainly don't want your hair color to match your skin tone and tone, because your hair will look dull.
Step 2. Find your skin tone
No matter what skin tone you have, you have to determine what your skin tone/ undertone is: warm/warm, cool/cool, or neutral. Put on a white shirt and stand in front of the mirror. Stand in natural light or bright incandescent light if possible. Look at the veins on the inside of your wrist to determine skin tone.
If your veins are predominantly blue-purple, you have a cool skin tone. If it's mostly green, you have a warm skin tone, and if your veins mix together, you have a neutral skin tone
Step 3. Think about your skin tone
If you're having trouble determining your skin tone, ask yourself a few simple questions. Do you look more suited to gold or silver jewelry? If it's gold, you have a warm skin tone. If it's silver, you have a cool skin tone. What color are your eyes? If it's green, brown, or red-brown, you have a warm skin tone. If you have blue, gray, or green eyes, you probably have a cool skin tone.
One of the easiest ways to determine your skin tone is to feel how easily your skin burns. If your skin tends to burn/redness, rather than dark/tan, then you have a cool skin tone, and if your skin tans easily, then you have a warm skin tone
Method 2 of 4: Choosing Hair Color For Dark Skin
Step 1. Balance out warm colors
If you have a warm skin tone, choose hair that is full of chestnut or light brown tones. This will help balance the yellow/warm tones of your skin.
If you have a bright red skin tone, choose a medium dark brown, black, or navy blue. If you have a red, dark skin tone, choose a darker hair color and avoid light browns
Step 2. Warm up any cool tones on your skin
If you have a cool skin tone, choose hair with warm highlights to lighten your hair. You need warmer shades to add dimension to your hair, especially if it's dark brown or black.
Step 3. Adjust the skin tone to golden
If you have warm golden tones with tan skin, you can actually choose almost any hair color, from light brown to dark brown or red and blonde. Highlights with a red base can help suppress golden hues.
Method 3 of 4: Choosing a Hair Color For Pale Or Medium Skin
Step 1. Choose a rich, color base for your hair
If you have a yellow skin tone, choose hair colors that tend to be chestnut, dark golden brown, blonde and mahogany. Then highlight using a reddish base, such as light brown and copper.
If you opt for a blonde base or highlight, you may end up over-emphasizing your yellow skin tone in the end
Step 2. Choose a medium base color for your hair
If you have a warm reddish hue, avoid choosing red or blonde hair. Instead, go for a honey brown or golden base and add a faded caramel color. This will reduce the redness of your skin tone.
Step 3. Choose a strong base color for your hair
If you have a cool skin tone with pink or blue undertones, look for a strong brown, red, or basic blonde hair color. Then, choose a honey-wheat or gray highlight. This will help contrast your cool skin tone.
Choose burgundy, bright red, or dark red for dark skin with cool undertones. You can use it as a base color or as a highlight. The cool red color of this hair makes the skin look smooth and even
Method 4 of 4: Choosing a Hair Color For Fair Skin
Step 1. Choose a lighter hair color
If you have olive skin with a warm or yellowish undertone, choose a golden color as a base. For example, choose a honey blonde, blonde, chestnut or mocha color.
If highlighting, try a warm red to really bring out your warm skin tone
Step 2. Choose a contemporary hair color
If you have olive skin with a cool skin tone, like most olive-skinned people, choose a hair color that emphasizes these cool tones. For example, choose gray, platinum, copper, or purplish red.
If you have dark yellow skin with cool skin tones, avoid choosing a gray-blonde or similar color, which looks like a complete contrast
Step 3. Highlight your eyes
If you have warm eye colors, such as reddish-brown, brown, or green, consider choosing a hair color that will accentuate your eyes. For example, if your reddish-brown eyes have red spots, choose a hair color with a reddish tint to accentuate your eyes.
