Finding The Right Hair Colors For Your Skin Tone

The good news: picking out a flattering hair color can make you glow. You can look younger, healthier, all the good 'ier's. The right hair color can make you shine.

The bad news: an unflattering hair color is, well, unflattering. Some colors accentuate wrinkles and other signs of aging. The wrong color can make you look sickly, sallow, and worn out.

So how do you figure out what colors are right for you? First of all, figure out if your coloring is warm, cool, or neutral. If you have access to a mirror, you can do this in a jiffy using the below list:

Cool coloring

If you have cool coloring, you'll have several of the following physical traits:

Eye color:

• Deep brown
• Black-brown
• Gray blue
• Dark blue
• Hazel with gray, white, or blue flecks

Natural hair color:

• Black
• Deep coffee brown
• Medium ash brown
• Dishwater blonde
• Salt and pepper
• White

Skin tone:

• Ivory
• True olive
• Peach or blue undertones
• Medium with golden undertones
• Pale with golden undertones
• When you go out in the sun, you burn, rather than tan
• The veins on your inner wrist are blue, rather than green

Colors of clothes that you look best in:

• Blacks
• Whites
• Silvers
• Blues
• Violets
• Emerald greens
• Jewel tones
• Pastel colors

Warm coloring

If you have warm coloring, you'll have several of the following physical traits:

Eye color:

• Golden brown
• Green
• Green-blue
• Hazel with gold or brown flecks

Natural hair color:

• Golden brown
• Red-brown
• Medium golden brown
• Auburn
• Red
• Strawberry blond
• Golden blonde
• Gray with a yellow cast

Skin tone:

• Yellow undertones
• Peach undertones
• Golden undertones
• Olive undertones
• Ruddy
• Freckled
• When you tan, you turn golden brown
• The veins on your inner wrist are green, rather than blue

Colors of clothes that you look best in:

• Browns
• Off-whites
• Oranges
• Bronzes
• Golds
• Peaches
• Brick reds
• Earthy greens

Neutral coloring

If you have neutral coloring, you'll have several of the following physical traits:

Eye color:

Any of the warm or cool eye color traits.

Natural hair color:

Any of the warm or cool hair color traits.

Skin tone:

• Mix of red, pink, yellow, and peach undertones (for example, the surface of your skin might look ruddy, but the undertones are yellow)
• Your skin tone is more ashen, gray, or olive
• When exposed to the sun, your skin both burns and tans.
• Your veins look greenish-blue

Colors of clothes that you look best in:

• You can wear just about any color, and look pretty good in it.
• You look equally good in gold and silver jewelry.

Keep in mind that your coloring is on a spectrum. You can have coloring that's:

• Very warm
• Pretty warm, but also somewhat neutral
• Mostly neutral, if slightly on the warm side
• A true neutral
• Mostly neutral, if a smidge on the cool side
• Cool, if a bit neutral
• Very cool

So now that you've established what kind of coloring you have, let's get to the good part.

Cool coloring

Colors that flatter people with cool coloring:

• Blacks
• Cool ash browns
• Cool blondes
• Whites
• Burgundies
• Unnatural colors like blue, orchid, fusias and purple ombre hairstyles

Colors that are less flattering to people with cool coloring:

• Gold
• Yellow
• Red
• Bronze tones

Warm coloring

Colors that flatter people with warm tones:

• Deep chocolate
• Rich golden browns
• Auburns
• Warm gold and red high lights
• Golden blond shades
• Natural looking coral, oranges and reds

Colors that are less flattering to people with warm tones:

• Jet black
• Blue Violet
• White

Neutral coloring

Colors that flatter people with neutral coloring:

Basically everything!

Colors that are less flattering to people with neutral coloring:

There really aren't that many of them.

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