Your Best Hair Color: Cool, Icy, Ash Tones

Extremely light skin tones like yours are best complemented by pale cool blondes and soft ash browns, because "contrasting skin and hair tones are less flattering," says Minardi. Therefore, you want a color that almost blends to your skin. "In general, blonde shades that have beige or champagne hues are universally flattering for most skin tones," adds L'Oréal Paris celebrity colorist Kari Hill adds.

However, a word of caution if you want your hair color to make you look younger: "As we age, our hairlines aren't as thick and defined as they used to be, so going too light in this area can make it appear as if your hair is thinning," explains Hill.

At-home hues to try: Clairol Professional Flare Permanent Cream Color, $5.99, in shades 10N or 8N.

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. 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 Fekkai Soleil Pre-Soleil Hair Mist, $20. And if you swim in chlorine, 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.