From Blonde to Brown

Hi longandbrown:

You do have a dilemna! I am guessing that you do not want to buy all new shirts right? Sometimes all it takes is to have either a cream, off white, ivory, beige, or any warm pale shade placed up to your skin at the neckline. You can wear a light scarf, jewelry beads, or layer up using the lighter color under your darker shirt. This will help by softening up your skin tone and still lets you wear your favorite colors. Hope this helps. Forest

Hi, I also went from a light honey colored shade to a dark, warm brown with red highlights. I totally LOVE the color change too, and think it added some much needed color to my rather fair skin tones. Like you, I also had some adjusting in clothing colors to make. I still think olive colors look very good with reddish brown hair, as do sage, black (I know it's very dark, but hey, I think most anyone can carry off this color & look great), light grey or steel grey, taupe colors, tans, and especially whites. I personally look awful in cream colors, but need a true white with my skin tone, and it sure does play up the beautiful hair color! Possibly some shades of red, probably more in the orange-red (vs. blue-red) shade would look good on you too. How about ice blue? Just don't be afraid to experiment because you'll find that some colors you'd never dream of wearing before look very good with your new hair coloring. Same goes for makeup shades. Usually, these are the shades I gravitated to since I changed my hair coloring a couple of years ago. Hope this helps some! :)