Choosing the Right Hair Color


Whether coloring your hair professionally or at home. Choose the right hair color to compliment your skin tone. Be it all over color, highlights, or lowlights, the right shade will make your look come to life. You will need: Hair stylist or packaged hair coloring, a shade selector, a color wheel, a mirror and selected items from your wardrobe.

Step 1:
Decide whether your going to use a professional salon or an at home coloring kit. Base your decision on whether your covering gray, highlighting a natural hair color or using hair color to completely change your image. Plan your commitment to hair coloring. Temporary hair colors wash out quickly. Semi-permanent products typically lasts for a couple of months and permanent dyes will need to be grown out or require frequent root touch ups.

Step 2:
Get out your color shade selector and color wheel. Use a mirror to decide if you have a cool or warm complexion based on your skin tone, eye color and natural hair color. Remember the results on the box or swatch are only an approximation of the color.
Cool complexions typically have deep brown or ash-colored hair, with dark brown or dark blue eye color and a medium to all of complexion. Warm Complexions feature golden brown, green blue to hazel eye color with golden brown to strawberry blonde hair color and a fair to peachy complexion.

Step 3:
Examine your wardrobe to get a feel of what hair color would suit you. Green, Blue and Violet are cool shades. Warm hues are reds, oranges and yellows

Step 4:
Try highlights or lowlights if you’re not ready to commit to all over hair color. Add Carmel highlights for a Sunkist look. Copper highlights are great for warm complexions and chunky low lights add dimension and modern flare.

Step 5:
Experiment with your look. Go for the black goth look you always crave. Or see if blondes really do have more fun. Opt for a firy red hue to match up your firy personality. Temporary dyes make experimenting a cinch, after all its only color.

Remember the best possible way to take care of your hair is by visiting your local hair salon. For tips on finding a great stylist Click Here.

How to Maintain Your Hair Color


A gorgeous hair color can lift your looks and your spirit. Once you’ve go to the salon, you get that amazing hair color. You want that color to last as long as it can. First off, we would recommend not shampooing your hair that day. As a matter of fact, wait several days if possible so that hair color can really stay in there and last as long as it can. Wash your hair only as often as necessary and work with a conditioner that’s really gonna help seal that hair down. So the next thing we’re going to do is to choose the proper shampoo & conditioner for that color treated hair. It’s very important to look for shampoos and conditioners that are designed specifically for color treated hair and you can find them available in professional hair care lines all over. To get that great color in, some people say “how do I know, how to find a stylist to give me a great color?”. If your new to a community, look around and see if people that have great hair and ask them who did their hair. That’s the best way of finding a great stylist. And when you go to that stylist, you want to make a few inquiries – What type of education do they keep current with the trends?. Do they offer retail products available for you so that you can take home or healthy hair care products after you get that great color? All these are good things to look for when looking for a new stylist. For tips on finding the right stylist click here.