Personal Color Analysis - Should My Hair Color Be Cool or Warm?
As a first step in determining what hair color may be right for you, we need to first look at the ones that combine to make all colors.
The three primary colors are Blue, Red, and Yellow.
Blue has the characteristics of having the darkest value, and it's the coolest of the three.
Red has the characteristics of a medium value (lightness to darkness measure) and a warm temperature.
Yellow is the brightest of the three, and it has the lightest value (lightness to darkness measure).
Basically, these three colors are mixed, in various amounts, to create hair dyes.
You will need to first do a simple personal color analysis to determine whether your natural hair color is cool, neutral or warm, and then select your hair dye color from the same category.
Those of you who have chemically treated hair must realize that colored or permed hair has been stripped of some of its color.
The color strips out at varying rates for the three different primary colors, so you cannot assume that coolness or warmth of your treated hair can still be determined.
In order to see the temperature of your natural hair color, you will need to assess the hair that is the very closest to your scalp where new hair is growing in.
If your hair has orange or red tones, then it is warm.
If orange or red are absolutely missing, then your hair color is cool.
This should be a fairly easy determination for most people.
Light blondes may have a difficult time determining if their natural color is a cool or a warm.
There is an easy checkpoint: If you were a towhead as a young child, then your natural hair color is cool, though your skin tone will be warm.
If you were not a towhead as a child, your natural hair color is warm.
To be sure about this, you may do a skin tone stripe test with liquid foundation to determine the warmth or coolness of your skin tone.
Your hair tone will be the OPPOSITE of your skin tone.
Cool hair for warm skin tones, and warm hair for cool skin tones.
You will not be able to discover the warmth or coolness of hair color that is closer to a neutral color, so for these people, you will have to determine the color--warm, neutral, or cool--of your skin.
Remember, warm or cool skin tones will have the opposite temperature hair.
Neutral skin tones will have neutral color hair.
Your best hair color effect will be achieved by staying with the warmth, coolness or neutrality of your natural hair color.
The three primary colors are Blue, Red, and Yellow.
Blue has the characteristics of having the darkest value, and it's the coolest of the three.
Red has the characteristics of a medium value (lightness to darkness measure) and a warm temperature.
Yellow is the brightest of the three, and it has the lightest value (lightness to darkness measure).
Basically, these three colors are mixed, in various amounts, to create hair dyes.
You will need to first do a simple personal color analysis to determine whether your natural hair color is cool, neutral or warm, and then select your hair dye color from the same category.
Those of you who have chemically treated hair must realize that colored or permed hair has been stripped of some of its color.
The color strips out at varying rates for the three different primary colors, so you cannot assume that coolness or warmth of your treated hair can still be determined.
In order to see the temperature of your natural hair color, you will need to assess the hair that is the very closest to your scalp where new hair is growing in.
If your hair has orange or red tones, then it is warm.
If orange or red are absolutely missing, then your hair color is cool.
This should be a fairly easy determination for most people.
Light blondes may have a difficult time determining if their natural color is a cool or a warm.
There is an easy checkpoint: If you were a towhead as a young child, then your natural hair color is cool, though your skin tone will be warm.
If you were not a towhead as a child, your natural hair color is warm.
To be sure about this, you may do a skin tone stripe test with liquid foundation to determine the warmth or coolness of your skin tone.
Your hair tone will be the OPPOSITE of your skin tone.
Cool hair for warm skin tones, and warm hair for cool skin tones.
You will not be able to discover the warmth or coolness of hair color that is closer to a neutral color, so for these people, you will have to determine the color--warm, neutral, or cool--of your skin.
Remember, warm or cool skin tones will have the opposite temperature hair.
Neutral skin tones will have neutral color hair.
Your best hair color effect will be achieved by staying with the warmth, coolness or neutrality of your natural hair color.
