What's the Best Hair Color For You?
The beautiful hair color you wear should complement your skin tone, so take this quiz to discover your ideal shade
Your Results
Your Best Hair Color: Cool, Icy, Ash Tones
Extremely light skin tones like yours are best complemented by "rouge" or "plum" colored reds, pale cool blondes and soft ash browns as "contrasting skin and hair tones are less flattering," says Minardi. Therefore, you want a color that almost blends to your skin.
At-home hues to try: Clairol Natural Instincts in Light Auburn, Medium Cool Blonde or Lightest Brown, $5.99
Help your color-treated hair look its best, and last as long as possible by following these color care tips courtesy of Minardi:
Tip 1: Enhancing the natural color of your hair and/or moderately highlighting your shade are the most durable types of color. To maximize the time between appointments or applications (and to save cash), opt for slight color tweaks to your natural shade of blonde, red or light brown, says Minardi. The further away from the natural tone you go, the more frequently your color will have to be touched up.
Tip 2: Sun, chlorine and high-alkaline shampoos ("clarifying" shampoos with high PH balances) are hair color enemies. To protect your shade from the sun, use a UV protectant that's formulated for color-treated hair like Kerastase Soleil Creme UV Defense Active, $28.95. And if you swim in chlorine, Minardi advises to rinse your hair before and after you hit the pool.
Tip 3: The hype is true, shampoos and conditioners developed specifically for color-treated hair really do work, so the short-term investment in quality color protectors like these highest rated color-protecting shampoos will keep your shade rich and vibrant.
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