Does your natural hair color wash you out? (dye, cut, blonde)
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After finding this red I'm using currently I feel I look a lot less washed out. Before it was a med brown that turns blonde in the sun. I think I look best with a bit of color but then my hair goes golden blonde. But the natural brown with pale skin required a lot more make up than blonde or red to make me not look washed out sometimes? What about you? Do you like your natural or applied color better?
My natural hair color is awful. It's a medium-light brown (one shade, no natural highlights... ever) that looks terrible on me. I have found that every other color in the rainbow (quite literally) looks better on me than my natural color ever has. Last week, it was jet black, this week it's platinum blonde, in a few weeks, it will be red.
I saw a girl ( a Renaissance Fest honey)on How Do I Look, the makeover show who was taken from dark blonde natural to ginger auburn and WOW she looked 100% better, her skin especially looked porcelain w/ the red brown. The original color looked good at first with her long wavy hair, I had no idea it needed a change but the colorist did!
My original color was super dark brown and it used to look great, with my light pinkish skin .But at 43 my skin is now a different color, a shade darker and no pink, its weird. Light brown hair looks much more becoming than dark brown. I really miss my dramatic hair color but it just does not work for me anymore! It requires LOTS of make up which is not my thing...
When I was younger I felt like my extremely ashy brown hair (mousy) was washing me out and I spent many years coloring it to other various shades. Then one day I was tired of the damage and how it changes the texture, so I decided to just dye the ends to match my natural shade and grow it out for awhile. Well, it turns out that it is simply not possible to match my natural shade with any haircolor with even the tiniest amount of lift. So I started using a semi for awhile just to blend in the line of demarcation. That color is grown out quite a bit and will be all cut off by the new year. My roots are natural, but have been infiltrated with grey. Strangely, the greying of my hair actually makes it look pretty awesome, it makes it appear more like dark blonde than mousy brown and I am really enjoying my natural shade (and more importantly, my natural texture) at the very time when most women start dyeing their hair.
I don't know...I'm too close to the source. My hair is naturally a dark honey blonde. I also have pale eyes and skin, and sometimes I feel like it does make me look washed out. But then others rave on my hair color and ask if it's natural. So it apparently looks more exciting to others than it does to me. Part of it has to do with the texture and it being shiny, I think.
A persons natural hair color shouldn't make them look washed out. It is probably the colors they wear that are doing that.
Having said that, my original brown w/red highlights wasn't bad per se, but I much prefer being a red head (think Molly Ringwald). I think it's sexier and fits more with my personality *wink wink*
My natural haircolor is between a dark brown to dark chestnut brown (it varies from all my school pictures when I was a little girl).
Since I came to Arizona, I have dyed my hair lighter shades, because dyed dark hair is not great out here in the heat and dryness. So, now you know why we have a lot of blondes and light browns here, mostly...LOL! It's just easier to deal with out here. Right now, I have lightest golden brown haircolor (the lightest shade of brown without having to go blonde, but I might go dark golden blonde by the end of this year).
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