Your Best Hair Color: Multi-toned Warm Brown Hues

To enhance your eyes and medium- or olive skin tone, go for a deep caramel all-over shade with "cafe au lait"-colored highlights, or a gentle auburn color says Minardi, as these shades will blend naturally with your skin and won't bring attention to any skin imperfections. To brighten up your face, go a couple of shades lighter only along your hairline, says L'Oréal Paris celebrity colorist Kari Hill. "Color looks less artificial this way, as natural color growth is typically lighter around the hairline."

At-home hue to try: Revlon ColorSilk Luxurious Buttercream Cream Color, $5.99, in Medium Auburn.

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.