Leaving the salon after a professional hair coloring should make you feel fabulous and confident with the new hue you selected. With the endless variety of hair colors available, including those in the highlight and balayage categories, selecting the right tone can be slightly overwhelming. Below, learn how to feel confident about your new hair color choice. 

Let Your Skin Tone Lead the Way

If you aren’t sure whether you have a warm or cool skin tone, now is the time to find out. Wash your face first since makeup can change the skin’s natural color, and look at your face in varying light. You can also check the color of your veins, as those with cool skin tones typically have blue or purple veins showing through the skin while those with warm skin tones have greenish veins.

Clothing tests can help, as well. Do orange, brown, yellow, tan, and peach tones complement your skin, or shades of blue, purple, red, white, and pink? If the former shades look outstanding, you likely have a warm skin tone with peach, yellow, and gold undertones. If the latter shades make your skin look luminous, you may have a cool tone with red, blue, and pink undertones.

Choose From Suggested Tones & Keep the Maintenance Factor in Mind

Narrow your hair coloring choices in light of your skin tone, such as dark brown, black, white blonde, dark violet, and dark red if you’re cool-toned. Avoid golden blonde, honey shades, copper red, or anything else with a peach, orange, golden, or yellow base. If you’re warm-toned, think honey and golden brown, caramel, copper, and milk chocolate, and anything else in the golden, beige, honey, or rich auburn families. Stay away from colors with purple, blue, or deep red undertones, including black, assorted ash hues, and platinum blonde.

As you browse hair coloring selections, consider the maintenance involved to keep your new tone. If you have brown or black hair and want to go lighter, for example, you will need to schedule monthly touch-ups to avoid dark roots. Should you lack time to keep your color from looking brassy, choose a hue that’s similar to your natural hue. Highlights in medium to light brown hair, for example, create the trendy ombre look as they grow out.

Also, consider the hair products you will need to keep your color bright, such as sulfate-free shampoos that don’t strip the dye. You should also keep in mind that the less you wash your hair, the more the color stays put. 

Create your ideal hair color with the stylists at Mark & M.E in Rochester, NY. The salon offers hair coloring, among many other services that have helped men and women throughout the region look and feel incredible since 1956. Call (585) 473-7360 today to make an appointment or learn more about hair coloring services online. Like the Facebook page for the latest beauty tips and news.