Hair Color Wheel
Understanding the hair color wheel, can help you greatly to select the right shade for dyeing your hair and highlighting or lowlighting your hair. It is quite simple to understand, once you learn what it is, and know which category of skin tone and eye color you belong to. You can then select the best hair colors. Many people select a wrong color, which makes their face look drawn or pasty or makes it look too bright. This happens because people instead of selecting a warm color which goes with their complexion select a cool color, or vice versa.
Color Wheel Chart
The hair color wheel like a normal color wheel which consists of the primary colors (illustrated in the picture with largest circles) of red, yellow and blue. Like red hair color, yellow for yellow blonde shades and blue for deep blue or purple colors are used for coloring hair. The secondary colors (illustrated with medium-sized) are orange, green and violet. In between the primary and secondary colors are the tertiary colors (illustrated with smallest circle) which are yellow-orange, yellow-red, red-violet, blue-violet, blue-green and yellow-green.
The colors red and yellow are warm colors. Shades of red like light and dark copper and light and dark auburn are also warm colors. Shades of blonde hair like yellow blonde and golden blonde are also warm colors. Shade which is a mix of half red and half yellow, like strawberry blonde hair color is also a warm color. While shades of blue like purple, violet and shades of green like ash colors are cool colors.
If you have cool skin tones and cool eye color shades, then you should always select from the cool colors shade otherwise a warm hair color can make your face look sallow and drawn. People with warm skin tone and warm eye color shades should opt for warm colors, otherwise a cool color make their face appear 'washed out'.
Warm Category
People who belong to the warm category can have their eye color golden brown, greenish blue, green, hazel eyes with brown or golden flecks. The skin tone can be freckled complexion, pale complexion with golden or peach undertones, ruddy complexion or brown skin tone with golden or pink undertones. Such people should opt for warm and dark shades of brown. Shades like golden brown and chestnut brown can also look great. Base colors or hair dye of reddish orange or shiny blonde also look great on the warm category people. Best option of highlights are copper streaks, golden brown or golden shades. People belonging to the warm category should avoid blue, purple, ash or beige shades.
Cool Category
People who belong to the cool category can have eye color blackish brown, dark brown, grayish blue, dark blue or hazel colored with light flecks. The skin tone can be bronze or brown complexion after tanning, pale complexion with pink undertones or no color, olive complexion, medium complexion with golden undertones, medium complexion with light pink color in the cheeks or no color or dark brown complexion. Such people should go with shiny raven black hair base. Cool blonde shades like mink or icy white also look great. The hair highlights can be of honey, wheat or ash color. Such people can also go with purple or burgundy shades. People who belong to the cool category should avoid blonde, yellow, red or bronze shades.
This was about selecting the right hair color according to your complexion and eye color. So, understand which category you belong to and select the appropriate hair color.
