Choosing the Best Hair Color for Fair Skin Tones

Being a reasonably attractive woman with fair skin has taught me several valuable lessons when it comes to attempting to compliment my skin tone with makeup and hair colors. Certain shades should be avoided at all costs, while others flatter light skin and help to bring out the warm glow of fair complexions.

Hair colors that compliment fair skin include:

Dirty Blonde

Many fair-skinned women long for the lightest and most striking of blonde locks to accompany their fair complexion. Avoid the tacky appearance of platinum blonde hair and choose dirty blonde highlights instead. Adding dark or medium blonde highlights to any hair color helps to diminish the paleness of the face while creating a warm and radiant glow.

Medium Reds

The majority of those born with red hair have a very light skin tone, which makes these shades ideal for creating a natural hair color that compliments fair skin. When attempting to choose a shade of red for your hair, be sure to stray away from anything overly dark or pinkish in color, as most of the shades are loud and unnatural.

Caramel Shades

Fair skin paired with naturally dark hair often creates a pale and ghostly look. Lighten up your dark locks with a warm caramel shade of highlights. This will compliment your fair skin while making your hair appear thicker.

Light Browns

For the light-skinned ladies that refuse to let go of their dark locks, consider lightening hair up a bit with a variety of light brown shades. Whether you prefer simple highlights or coloring all of the hair, adding a lighter shade to extremely dark hair will help create a much healthier appearance.

Strawberry Blonde

A unique shade that greatly flatters fair skin, strawberry blonde is an excellent choice of hair color for women with light complexions. This warm color helps to bring out the healthy pink hue of light skin, while complimenting even the fairest of skin tones.

When attempting to choose the appropriate hair color for your particular skin tone, it is necessary to consider exactly what benefits you are looking for in a hair color. If you wish to bring out the rosiness of your cheeks, reds and strawberry blondes are an excellent choice. Or maybe you desire the naturally lightened look? Light browns, dirty blondes, and caramel shades help to create the most natural appearance.

Shades to Avoid:

All deep brown or black shades should always be avoided by those with fair skin, as these colors only aide in creating a pale, sickly, and undesirable look.

Always steer clear of unnatural and pinkish shades of red and strawberry blonde. These shades simply scream that your hair has been colored and do very little to compliment fair skin.

Be realistic: very few people are born with yellow-tinged or platinum blonde hair. Adding extremely bright highlights to your hair or dying all hair with these colors will only create an extremely fake and fried look.

Auburn or copper shades should always be avoided at all costs. Many of these shades may look quite attractive on product packaging or sample hair, but more often than not these shades actually turn out to have a rather strong purple hue, which is both unnatural and much too dark for fair complexions.


Source:
Experience as a former Cosmetician