Hair Makeunders
Does your hair color look as natural as a snowstorm in July? Does it look more like Barbie doll hair than hair that grows from your head? Can your color best be described as white, black, yellow, or a screaming red? Do your roots show in a week? Then you probably need a hair color make-under.
Most hair color make-unders often go hand in hand with hair style make-unders. Usually extreme coloring requires so much styling, hair products, blow drying and curling irons that you end up with an old fashion hair do, or should I say a hair don't. This makes any woman look way beyond her years. Who wants that? TIP - If your hair takes more than 15 minutes to style, you probably need a hair make-under. Hair color and texture that looks like it grows from your head is always the most flattering. I am not saying that everyone should be au naturel; I am saying that your hair should look effortless, even if it requires a little work.
A black hair beehive works for Amy Winehouse, but not too many other women. Maybe it's the multiple tattoos that make the hair color work. Coloring your hair black is the biggest beauty faux pas.
Once hair is colored black, it is almost impossible to remove it. Black
color is always flat, covering all the natural nuances of your color.
Even people born with black hair should pick a slightly softer shade
when it comes time to coloring their hair. Darkest brown is a much better choice. This color will soften your features and you will look years younger.
Going in the totally opposite direction but equally hard to wear is platinum blond. This color washes out your complexion similar to grey hair and makes your face disappear. Make up is not an option with platinum color, it is a requirement. Skipping red lips and smoldering eyes will most often leave you looking like Casper, the ghost. White blond hair is also the most invasive hair coloring. Your hair condition will definitely be in an altered state. Note how almost everyone with platinum hair wears a short style or fakes the look of long hair with extensions. This isn't a coincidence. Platinum hair often has a considerable amount of breakage with each touch-up.
Bright yellow hair is another difficult color to wear. It clashes with most skin tones, looks totally artificial, and makes almost everyone look post forty, even if they are in their twenties. Color that looks like it came from a bottle gives the impression that you are covering dreary, dull, grey color. A more subtle shade with subtle nuances of color is usually more flattering and always more natural looking.
The last mortal sin of hair color is screaming red.
I am always shocked when women chose to have iodine red hair. They lose
sight of their appearance and they will see it as brown. Ironically,
the brighter the shade of red, the faster the color fades. This is the
catch-22 of hair color. The most flattering red shades are coppers that are found in nature.
Just because the brighter than natural colors are always the most flattering, it doesn’t mean they should be totally avoided. Every now and then it’s good to shake things up a bit. After all, we are talking about your hair color right now, not your color forever. I say have fun and enjoy the changes that hair color, big or small, can provide. Just remember you will probably end up with a new cut, too!
Enjoy the new you!
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on feb 18th you did a makeover/make under on my mother in-law sohair she was a difficult one please let me know where we can go to see it on the web. my husband did not see it. she has since changed it back to that horrible jet black we never saw her in person after her makeover.
"Black color is always flat, covering all the natural nuances of your color. Even people born with black hair should pick a slightly softer shade when it comes time to coloring their hair."
I am a person born with black hair (South Asian background) and I completely disagree with this. Yet again, this is just another example of Western "beauty experts" telling non-Westerners that the way we were born doesn't look "right" and that we need to change that, i.e. colouring our hair dark brown to fit a certain ideal, as outlined above.
BULLSHIT.
soumia dont be jealous...You are probaly really ugly and need to take the advise given about black hair..You probaly dont look right and should be put in a freak show.
>> Look you ridiculously shallow people, black hair works on some people and doesn't on others. You have to consider the race they are TALKING about first. Some white people, like me, would not look good with black hair. Some aren't meant to have it while others are. For goodness's sake... it's not that big a deal.
Move back to South Asia if you dont like the fact that Westerner'dont look good in black hair, it's gothic for a whittie!
Wow, some of you people are horrible. This is a forum for relatively adult and civilized people. If you want to be hateful and petty, please direct yourself to a more appropriate website, like perez hilton! This is not the place for such disgusting behavior! Shame on you!
I agree....you people disgust me. I too am of asian decent and personally I don't like my black hair because being a mother of two boys under 5 I get sweaty pretty fast. Black hair accentuates greasiness in hair if you arent careful. P.S. to MissytheKitty......please keep your shit talking to yourself as it is a documented statistic that asian women are the most sought after by men of all races for their "exotic" beauty. Take your childish crap to the little kiddy chatrooms or to a Disney concert with all the rest of the ppl with your maturity level.
Do you have any suggestions that are valuable for people of color??? Your comment about not dying the hair black is really wrong!!! Jet black is a wonderful alternative for medium-skinned, prematurely gray-haired ladies. It seems you offer extremely-few-to-no suggestions of beauty tips for those of African, Latino or Asian heritage. Please offer more suggestions.