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What hair color suits you: choose coloring by color type
If you decide to experiment with your appearance by changing your hair color, we suggest choosing a coloring according to your color type.
How to match hair color to your face: stylist’s tips
To understand which hair color suits your appearance, it is necessary to determine the color type according to “natural” criteria (without cosmetics and with a natural shade of curls). It is important to pay attention to the lighting, which should be natural at this moment. We also advise you to completely distance yourself from your favorite and familiar colors, because it can be chosen by mistake.
Type 1: spring
The lightest color type.
Notable representatives: Sienna Miller, Anna Kournikova, Naomi Watts, Paris Hilton, Renata Litvinova, Margot Robbie.
Description of the flower type «vesna»
Your natural hair color is light blond.
The complexion is almost transparent, there is a delicate peach blush on the cheeks.
Freckles of a golden brown hue (not gray) are possible.
A tan of a delicate shade of “coffee with milk” lays well, but it can even reach a dark brown color.
The eyes are gray, pistachio, yellowish green, blue, but not dark.
Suitable colors for dyeing
Warm light shades – from wheat to intense honey, can revive the look with golden strands.
Should be abandoned from fiery red shades. Also exclude dark brown tones – they deprive the image of tenderness and often visually make them older than their years.
Type 2: summer
The most common type of appearance in Russia. Cold, non-contrasting shades prevail.
Notable representatives: Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Aniston, Uma Thurman, Cameron Diaz.
Description of the color type “summer”
You are blonde with ashy hair.
The skin of the face is light, almost milky, or, conversely, ruddy, tans quite well. After sunburn, it acquires a delicate peach shade.
The eyes are blue, gray-blue, green, green-blue, green-gray, blue, hazel, milk-colored proteins.
Suitable colors for dyeing
Opt for ashy shades. You can experiment with chestnuts, in any range – from light to dark.
Should be abandoned from copper and reddish tones – they can give the skin an unnecessary reddish tint.
Type 3: autumn
The warmest type of appearance. Warm contrasting shades prevail.
Notable representatives: Julia Roberts, Jessica Alba, Julianne Moore, Penelope Cruz.
Description of the color type “autumn”
You are brown-haired or dark blonde with warm reddish hair.
Skin color – from ivory to dark with a golden beige or peach tint.
Freckles of red or yellowish brown color are possible.
A characteristic feature of women of the autumn type is a yellowish-golden skin tone.
The eyes are light and dark brown, green, turquoise, gray with golden specks.
Suitable colors for dyeing
Medium to dark red, brown with a reddish tint.
Should be abandoned from cold shades (platinum blonde, ash-blonde). They can make the skin painful pale.
Type 4: winter
The most striking type of appearance. Cold contrasting and bright shades prevail.
Notable representatives: Monica Bellucci, Megan Fox, Courtney Cox, Dita von Tiz, Salma Hayek.
Description of the color type “winter”
You are brown-haired with dark brown ash sheen hair.
The skin is either very light, white, pinkish-bluish, transparent and clean, like porcelain, without blush. Either olive or dark brown, but with a cool tint.
You tan quickly, while at the same time acquiring a delicate olive skin tone.
The eyes are dark brown, green, dark blue, gray (except light) with bright whites.
Suitable colors for dyeing
Brown tones that accentuate the natural dark color. Blue-black and blue-violet variations will do.
Should be abandoned from lightening and avoid warm copper shades. The porcelain skin tone is ideally accentuated by bright cold hair tones.
Expert Tips
Founder of the author’s school of make-up and hairstyles, stylist, make-up artist
You can choose the color of hair dye based on:
eye color;
skin color;
flower-type entries.
I prefer first of all to determine the type of appearance and, most importantly, to correctly determine whether a warm or cold shade suits my clients. If there is a yellow pigment in the color, it is a warm color, and if it is gray or blue, then it is a cold color. Example: gold is warm and silver is cold.
Clients often come to me with the wrong color for them after dyeing. This situation can arise for a number of reasons.
Customers order a certain color themselves, which doesn’t really suit them.
Women choose the shade on the advice of an incompetent hairdresser.
The colorist did not get the desired color when mixing paints.
How do you figure out whether a certain color is suitable or not? Before drastically changing the shade of your hair, I advise you to find out your color type. It will also come in handy when applying makeup and choosing a wardrobe.
Light brown, amber, blue-green, gray with brown streaks.
Blue, greenish, gray with yellow veins, walnut, blue.
Steel blue, blue-gray, black, dark brown, violet.
Watery green, transparent blue, sky blue.