Category: Haircare Advice

Best Hair Color for Green Eyes

~ Joseph Kellner ~ Leave a comment

 

Finding the right hair color for green eyes is not just about picking up the next hair color box that you find in a drugstore. There are many elements that you need to consider when choosing the right hair color. Your analysis should be based on your skin tone, the color of your eyes and the actual or rather existing color of your hair. For understanding the importance of this we first need to find out how colors work. Hair color as we see it is actually the reflection of light of the colored pigments in the hair shaft. No wonder hair that is colored looks different under fluorescent light and normal sunlight. Here is a review of the hair coloring ideas and the best hair color for green eyes.

Along with the color of your eyes, it is your skin tone that is the most important factor for determining the perfect hair color. Those with a yellow or golden skin undertone have a warm skin tone or what is often referred to as the “peaches and cream” complexion. The ones with the pink and blue skin undertones fall into the cool skin tone. So the hair color that suits a woman with fair, pinkish skin and green eyes might look totally uncharacteristic and “washed out” on a woman with olive skin tone and green eyes.
Green Eyes and Olive Skin: The best hair color for green eyes and olive skin or rather ones with warmer undertones are caramel and bronze in a darker shade than your skin. Avoid the brassy blondes or any of the lighter shades of blondes as they can make you look totally washed out. Plum and burgundy highlights, brown, dark brown and black are the best hair colors for green eyes and olive skin.

Green Eyes and Tanned Skin: Deeper chocolate browns, champagne, beige and the lighter browns are the best hair color for green eyes and tan skin.

Green Eyes and Fair Skin: Choosing the best hair color for green eyes and fair skin is quite easy. While for the darker skin tones any lighter hair color shade would look totally unnatural, fair skinned women can opt for hair color shades in red, cool browns, black and blonde. Shades of red are absolutely stunning and are probably the best hair color for green eyes fair skin people. Blonde shades or honey blonde highlights can also lighten your look and emphasize your best features. Usually people who had blonde hair as kids make great blondes. Watch out for warm shades gold, auburn or copper which can only end up in highlighting the ruddiness of the skin.

If you still cannot figure out the hair color shades that make your eyes pop, then it is best to take some professional guidance. This is of course any day better than paying three hundred dollars to fix your hair. But then again this is what I specialize in is corrective hair color.

josephkellner.com
orlandomakeup.com

Hair colors for your skin tone

~ Joseph Kellner ~ Leave a comment

Hair coloring  is one with quite long-lasting effects. Obviously, you don’t want to mess it up and regret it later. Hence, the choice of color is of utmost importance. You need to know your skin tone, in order to find out which hair color will suit you the best. There are basically six skin tones, but you don’t need to know all of them. All you need to know is, if your skin tone is warm or cool. And most of all let a professional advice you and what will complement your skin tone, eye color.

So, how do you know if your skin tone is warm or cool? There is one quick trick to find out your skin tone. Take one piece of gold jewelry and the other silver jewelry. Now, hold each one against your skin and see which of them stands out. If the gold piece stands out, then your skin tone is warm, if the silver one does, your skin tone is cool. Yet another method is to look at the color of your veins. If it’s more on a greener side you probably have warm skin tone, if it has a bluish tinge then your skin tone is cool. Once you know your skin tone, the rest is easy. The general rule of thumb while choosing best hair colors for your skin is that, warm colors complement warm skin tones, while cool shades look great on cool skin tones. However, before choosing a color you must first understand, which colors are considered warm and which are cool colors.

People with warm skin tones have lighter skin tones with pale, peach or golden undertones. Women generally have a freckled complexion. The natural hair color for this skin tone is red, reddish or golden brown, deep brown, strawberry blond or natural golden blond. Hence, if you have a warm skin tone, then the best hair colors for your skin tone, apart from your natural hair color would be shades of copper, cinnamon, ginger, russet and strawberry shades of red hair color etc. Red or copper highlights with rich base colors such as burgundy, dark golden brown, auburn or chestnut look fabulous.

josephkellner.com

orlandomakeup.com

People with cool skin tones may have light or dark skin with pink or no undertones. There is a tint of blue under eyes. The complexion is pale or true olive. The natural hair color for this skin tone is bluish-black, dark brown, medium ash or golden blond. Apart from these natural colors, the hair colors that look great on cool skin tone are burgundy, ruby, garnet, cherry or bordeaux. You can contrast these base colors with the highlights of wheat, honey, taupe etc. It is always better to stick to shades that are closer to your natural hair color. This way, you are unlikely to go wrong. And always us a professional. Especially when having corrective hair color services!