What exactly is my hair colour? (pics)
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Topic: What exactly is my hair colour? (pics)
Posted By: ally_needs_help
Subject: What exactly is my hair colour? (pics)
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 8:08am
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Hi everyone, was just wondering whether you could help me. I've never dyed my hair and this is my natural colour, which I've always considered to be darkish blonde. The thing is, depending on the light it's a different colour and I was wondering whether any of you could determine what shade my colour would be called (I mean in terms of names of hair dye)?
This is in natural light (sorry this pic's so massive, I can't resize it now for some reason!)
This is in the dark with a flash. It looks so much darker here which is what confuses me, the underneath is darker than the rest and I think it looks brown in this photo.
The main reason I'm asking all this is because in the autumn (or fall...I think this is an American site!) I would like to have lowlights put in, but I'm not sure how well this would work with my natural colour. I definitely don't want to dye my hair, but I would like to try being a bit darker for a change. I have found gingery looking hairs amongst my hair before and I think a dark reddish colour would suit my skin tone better than going really dark. What do you all think? I've never coloured my hair before and have no idea what to ask for or what would suit me!
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Posted By: SDOW
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 9:09am
| Not sure on what color your hair would be, looks dark blonde to me, My natural color is darkest blonde and its darker than yours in both pics. I wouldnt go darker tho! Ive been there, makes you appear pale and is hard to get out! I think its a really nice color you have, maybe go for some different shades of dark and light blondes in it |
Posted By: Claude
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 10:11am
In Goldwell I'd say your haircolor looks close to an 8G or 8GB. It's definately level 8. Typically lowlights or highlights are 2 levels lighter or darker than your natural haircolor. Instead of throwing in just lowlights into your hair I'd suggest some blonde highlights throughout your crown and front area....jsut partial highlights and if you want to break it up and give it a little more dimension maybe throw in some level 7 lowlights....just a few foils (maybe 3 evenly spaced in the area that is being foiled) and very subtle and thin to break it up and give the hair more dimension. Maybe a 7G or 7GB for lowlights so it blends and looks very natural with your current color.
IMHO your skin tone is too light to go too dark with highlights otherwise you will begin to look washed out and more pale and depending how dark you went it could actually start to look goth and just plain nasty. Take from a professional hairstylist...you'd look HOT with blonde highlights lvl 9 or 10ish then a few lowlight foils lvl 7G or 7GB to give those highlights more dimension.
What about cutting your hair? Any thoughts on that?
Cheers
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ally_needs_help wrote:
Posted By: ally_needs_help
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 2:46pm
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Thank you very much for the advice guys! I have been wondering whether my skin is too pale to go dark. I tried it out on Photoshop the other day and looked like a goth, it wasn't good but I thought I'd ask for other people's opinions anyway! I probably should just stick with what I have and not do anything drastic.
Claus, whenever highlights have been mentioned to me in the past I've been put off because normally other women have them and they always look to be a bit unnatural, but maybe I'll go for them in winter when my hair goes duller.
About cutting my hair...I had it cut and styled shoulder length with layers and everything about 3 months ago, but since my hair is so thick I had to straighten it every single day and it was way too high maintenance for me. I'm growing it so that it will be long and wavy like it was before and I won't have to bother doing much with it!
Thanks again, very helpful.
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Posted By: cinderella
Date Posted: July 05 2006 at 4:09am
| I think it would look great with some really blonde highlights, your hair looks lovely. |
Posted By: Alayney
Date Posted: July 08 2006 at 9:16pm
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I think you should do what Claude said. I don't think it would look fake AT ALL, especially if it's all done subtly. Go to somebody who REALLY knows what they're doing. I agree, you would look SUPER with what he suggested. |