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Tips for Choosing the Right Hair Colour Shade for Your Skin Tone

Feb 24, 2023

Hair colour plays an important role in elevating your overall look. It reflects your personality and fashion choices as well. But choosing a hair colour and hairstyle that suits your natural appearance is essential. While you can select the right hairstyle according to your face shape, choosing the right hair colour requires you to understand your skin tone first.
Here are the guidelines for choosing the perfect hair colour for you.

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How to Choose the Right Shade of Hair Colour

1. Skin Tone vs. Undertone

Generally, people know whether they have a fair, medium or dark complexion, but this isn’t enough to choose the well-suited colour shade for your hair. Undertone is the key to finding out the ideal shade of hair colour. Though your skin tone may change over time, the undertone remains constant, making it the best way to select the perfect colour shade for you.

2. How can you determine your skin undertone?

Cool, warm, and neutral are the three undertone colours. Your skin looks golden, yellow or peachy if you’ve warm undertones; while people having cool undertones have pink, blue, or red tinge skin. Neutral skin undertones are generally between blue and yellow.
If you are still confused about determining the correct skin undertones, here are some steps to help you.

  • Check your veins:

    It is one of the easiest ways to find the right skin undertone. Look at the colour of your veins beneath your wrist and make sure to check it in the natural light. Blue or purple colour veins signify cool undertones, whereas greenish veins signify warm undertones. If your veins aren’t clear, you aren’t sure about their colour, or you feel it matches your skin tone, you may have neutral undertones.

  • Notice how your skin reacts when exposed to the sun:

    Check whether it easily burns or turns pink. If so, it means you have less melanin in your skin, referring to cool skin undertones. While if your skin tan easily or rarely burns, you may have warm or neutral undertones.

At Darren James Bye, we have over 25 years of experience providing an extensive range of hair styling services like cutting & styling, colouring, perming & curling, and others. If you are looking for the best L’Oreal hair salon in Dorking and nearby areas, book an appointment with us today or check our website for more information.