Hair Colour For Every Skin Tone In The UK | Cosmetize

Just as with their clothing choices, a person's hairstyle conveys a lot about how they wish to express themselves. But a hairstyle must complement your natural features while expressing your personal preferences.

The Brits are becoming daring with their semi permanent hair colour choices in the UK. About 25% of Brits who coloured their hair did so with non-natural tones, including pastels and vibrant hues. However, 42% of Brits chose blonde as their preferred colour, and 18% went platinum. With 36%, brown comes in second, followed by 17% for red/auburn and 8% for black to complete the list.

The Cosmetize team relies on these two pertinent points when choosing a hairstyle -

• The haircut should suit the face shape.
• The hair colour should suit the skin tone.
  

It can feel like a minefield deciding on your ideal hair colour given the vast array of hair colour products available. It is crucial to research which colours would compliment your skin tone before making a decision. Finding the ideal colour scheme for your natural base requires understanding your skin tone. You want a colour that draws attention to your best facial features and contrasts beautifully with your skin. Of course you can always opt for a semi permanent pink hair dye. And there are multitude of hair colour removers available at Cosmetize, in case you think it doesn’t suit you.

So, what exactly is skin tone?

Your skin's outermost layer, known as your skin tone, varies throughout time due to the elements, UV damage, or ageing. Your skin tone determines whether you are fair or light, olive-toned or medium, or dark. Most people can usually decide whether or not they have a fair, medium, or dark skin tone. Still, it gets a bit trickier when it comes to the colours that you'll discover are the most attractive. You must be aware of your skin's undertone for this reason.

What is a skin undertone?

Your skin's undertone, which determines your overall hue, is the colour that lies beneath the surface of your skin, and this doesn't change no matter how nicely you tan.

Warm, cold, and neutral are the three types of skin undertone. The undertones of people with the same skin tone can vary greatly. Warm undertones can be present in fair or light skin tones, whereas cool undertones can be in deep or dark-complexioned tones.

Determining skin undertone

There are numerous methods for determining your undertone:

Verify via your veins.

Check the colour of your veins on the inside of your wrist. Your veins' colour determines whether you are cool, warm, or neutral and how your skin looks on the outside. You are cold if your veins are blue or purplish-coloured; if they are green, you probably fall between neutral and warm.

Use jewellery

Although this is a subjective test, it might help you understand your undertones. You may have warm undertones if gold jewellery looks better on you; if silver looks better, you definitely have cool undertones. If both appear fantastic, you are neutral.

Use a white paper

When holding a piece of bright white paper against your skin, ensure lots of bright natural light is nearby. Your skin's undertones are probably cool if it seems pinkish, and they are more likely to be warm if it appears yellow. Your skin undertone is probably neutral if you don't see either of those colours.

Best hair colour for your skin tone

Now that you are a skin tone and undertone expert let's look at some of the best hair colour suggestions for each kind.

Cool skin tones

Hair colours with a faintly bluish or purplish tone work best for cool skin undertones. For instance, your skin will complement hues like ash blonde with undertones made of blue and violet. Try Manic Panic High Voltage Semi Permanent Hair Colours - Violet Night to achieve this. Ash is a tone that may be included in all colour depths to meld with your skin tone.

Deep coppers and true reds also look great on skin with a slight pink tint.

Warm skin tones

Warm skin undertones are, as the name implies, golden or peach. Shades like gold, copper, chestnut, mocha, dark auburn, dark chocolate, honey, mahogany, and cinnamon will stand out if you have these warm undertones. Try Dark and Lovely Fade Resistant Rich Conditioning Hair Color - Chestnut Blonde,380 to stand out.

Warm skin tones can also appear stunning when coupled with true black, blue-black, or liquorice-coloured hair.

Neutral skin tones

You're lucky since a neutral skin undertone combines all of the above and allows you to wear warm and cold colours. Avoiding extremely vivid or bright colours is one general rule of thumb. Oversaturated colours will easily overshadow your neutral skin tone, so softer or muted versions of the colours will appear better. You should consider strawberry blonde, amber, copper, red hues and ash, beige blond, or honey brunette as suitable hair colours. Try Crazy Color Semi Permanent Hair Color Cream - Candy Floss, which delivers a soft, muted pink and vibes with the cottage core aesthetics.

Should you indulge in some non-natural colours?

Today, technicolour hair is in; from lovely pastels to dramatic neon tints, it's all about non-natural colours. The skin tone/skin undertone guideline still holds, and regardless of how bright your hair colour is, it can either brighten or dull your skin.

Fair, cool-skinned people look best in pastel pink hues. Try Directions Semi Permanent Hair Colour - Flamingo Pink or Crazy Color Pinkissimo. Soft blue hues will show your inner radiance if you have warm undertones.

Fuchsia and magenta, two vibrant jewel colours, enhance the richness and natural radiance of medium to dark complexion tones (especially those with cool undertones).

Vivid violets, brilliant purple-pinks, and even somewhat blue tones look great on dark complexion with cool undertones. Purples are great for making a statement.

Conclusion

It's your hair, your rules. Chuck all the advice out and go for Adore Semi Permanent Hair Colour - Cosmic Yellow, to colour your locks yellow. The brilliant thing about the mentioned hair colour products is that these are all semi-permanent hair colours. They are less stressful for your hair, and you can always opt for new hues when bored. In case you want to stick to the tried and tested, opt for Bigen permanent hair colour.

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