How to choose the best colour for your hair

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There’s nothing quite like updating your hairstyle and colour to keep you feeling fresh and fabulous. There are so many wonderful colours and tones to choose from it can feel overwhelming, but not all colours are equal.


What looks great on one person may not have the same positive impact on you. The game aims to make you feel confident and beautiful. You are unique and so the best choice of hair colour needs to meet your requirements.


If you are unsure which colour to go for, we urge you to come into Friends + Co city hair salon Christchurch for a complimentary hair colouring consultation. We’ll help you choose a hair colour to enhance your skin tone, eye colour, and personal style.


Choose hair colour to enrich your natural features

Warm or cool skin tone?

Your skin tone carries the most influence on the success of hair colour, how it looks and how it complements your overall appearance.


Determining your skin tone is not complex. Look at the veins on the inside of your wrist. If they appear blue, you have cool-toned skin, and if they appear green, you have warm-toned skin. (This can also be used to work out which colour jewellery you should wear too – blue for silver and green for gold!).


If you can’t quite tell, you have a neutral skin tone, and the hair colour world is your oyster – you rock both cool and warm hair colours.


Generally, people with warm-toned skin look best with warm undertones. Think golden browns, honey blondes and copper reds. Whereas people with cool-toned skin suit more ashy browns, platinum blondes and burgundy reds.


Women with beautiful shortish blonde hair

Depth of skin tone

In addition to being warm, cold or neutral, your skin tone is either light, medium or dark. This also impacts how successful hair colours look on you. For example, a hair colour that looks striking on someone with dark skin may wash out someone with a lighter skin tone. Be mindful that the depth of skin tone can vary based on factors such as lighting and the time of year – a summer glow or a winter pallor has the power to impact the success of hair colour.


Make your eyes pop

Have you ever seen someone with beautifully coloured hair that just doesn’t quite work? The hairstyle suits their face and the hair colour is professionally applied, but there’s something making it not hit the mark.


Often it’s because the eye colour has not been considered in the equation. Eye colour makes a significant impact on the success of hair colour. This is where a professional hair colourist’s expertise is invaluable to create a colour to accentuate and celebrate your eye colour.


Changing your hair colour can either be a dramatic way to stand out from the crowd or conversely, a subtle way to enhance your appearance – sometimes less is more. At Friends + Co, we collaborate with you and explore colour to bring out your natural beauty and make you feel more confident and attractive. You can book online or call 03 371 9297, and we offered Tuesday and Thursday, late-night hairdressers, in Christchurch appointments.

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