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The perfect hair color for you

Whatever type of color for hair you opt for, choosing the proper range of shades—warm or cool—is the key to a great look. Determining whether you are warm or cool in terms of coloring must be the first consideration in choosing a hair color. The right hair color shade will brighten up your hair style . . . and your life. A shade in the wrong range will be totally and completely wrong.

What is the most basic principle of hair color theory applied to hair? It's choosing between warm and cool shades—and with the dizzying variety of color for hair available, choosing can sometimes be confusing. The best way to make pleasing hair color choices is to determine whether your natural coloring—hair, eye, and skin tones—is in the warm or cool range of colors. Answer these questions, or better yet, have your best friend give you her opinion, since her opinion is likely to be more accurate:

My skin is:
Very dark brown (Cool)
Brown with pink undertone (Warm)
Brown with golden undertone (Warm)
True olive (most Asians and Latinos) (Cool)
Medium with no color in cheeks (Cool)
Medium with faint pink cheeks (Cool)
Medium with golden undertones (Cool)
Pale with no color in cheeks (Cool)
Pale with pink undertones (Cool)
Pale with peach or gold undertones (Warm)
Freckled (Warm)
Ruddy (Warm)
Brown or bronze when I tan (Cool)
Golden brown, when I tan (Warm)

My hair color is:
Blue black (Cool)
Deepest coffee brown (Cool)
Medium ash brown (Cool)
Deep brown with gold or red highlights (Warm)
Medium golden brown (Cool)
Red (Warm)
Strawberry blond (Warm)
Dishwater blond (Cool)
Golden blond (Cool)
Salt and pepper (Cool)
White (Cool)
Gray with a yellow cast (Warm)

My eyes are:
Deep brown or black-brown (Cool)
Golden brown (Warm)
Gray blue or dark blue (Cool)
Green, green blue or turquoise (Warm)
Hazel with gold or brown flecks (Warm)
Hazel with white, gray or blue flecks (Cool)

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