Hair Color - Is Hair Color for Me? By Robin Brain

If you don't already color your hair, you may be ready to take the plunge if you find yourself utterly bored with your locks so bored that not even a new haircut makes you feel perkier. At this point, you begin noticing hair color on other women, you study celebrities' locks, you see a magazine article on highlights and you can't help wondering: Should I try color?

Whether or not you decide to color your hair is ultimately up to you. I will tell you this, however: There is no one who cannot wear hair color. Okay, maybe there are people who are allergic to some hair coloring ingredients - those folks should avoid color - but the rest of us live in a world filled with hair­color choices. So many choices, in fact, that it's easy to find a product to enhance your beauty gently or to downright alter the way you come across. You can try a no-pain, wash-out color, then slowly move on to more permanent choices such as highlights or double-process color. . or you can keep experimenting with different temporary shades. That way, if you get tired of coloring your hair, you can simply stop.

Covering gray

I am just now beginning to see my first gray - a tuft at each temple. This confuses me: Both my parents were a full 15 years older than I now am when they started to gray. While there's nothing I can do to stop my premature gray, I can cover it. Apparently, I'm not the only woman who sees hair color as a way to cover silver. According to my hairdresser, half of his clients (both women and men) get their gray covered. This doesn't surprise me - after all, we live in a youth-oriented society, where even the smallest sign of age erodes a
woman's sex appeal (or so we've all come to think). For those brave souls who want to keep their gray, a silver-enhancing shampoo can keep hair from looking dull or yellow.

Gray strands are incredibly resistant to hair color: Depending on your hair, you may find that certain home hair-color formulas ­especially the less permanent versions - simply can't cope with your silver strands. If you're having difficulty at home, why not go to a salon? Chances are, a color technician can hide every last trace of gray.

Adding excitement

Excitement is a subjective term - especially when it comes to hair color. To me, exciting hair color is color that is better (I know, another subjective word) than nature. On my own head that translates to "brighter than the mousy, light brown buried under my gold highlights." For someone else, exciting means brash, such as bombshell blonde or high-intensity auburn. Another person might see exciting as sensuous, embodied by a glossy espresso or cool aubergine. Blue streaks, green tips, pink ends - these can also be exciting, as can rushing to try every hair-color trend before it hits the streets. In short, the excitement of hair color is part fun, part self-expression, and part self­improvement. And yes, all of this is subjective.

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How to Choose the Best Eyeshadow Color For Blonde Hair and Green Eyes By Naomi Kendell

There's a real order for choosing eyeshadow colors. First, choose from a range of colors that complement your eye color. Then, make sure these match your skin tones and hair color. Lastly, check that the eye shadow goes with your clothes.

When you choose colors to complement your green eyes, remember that the aim is to make your eyes stand out. So, choosing a shade of green that's the same as your eyes is a definite no. You want to pick colors that contrast your green eyes.

The greatest contrasts to green are colors that come from the opposite spectrum: the opposite side of the color wheel.

Good contrasting colors are deep purples and wines. If your eye color is a lighter green or lime, try eyeshadow that's got lighter pink and purple tones. If your eyes have more blue-green or emerald tones you could experiment with plum, violet, and blue purples.

Yellow is next to green on the color chart, making it a complementary rather than a contrasting color. However gold eyeshadow can look magnificent with green eyes.

Once you've found a range of eyeshadow colors that complement and contrast your green eyes, you'll need to make sure they go with your skin tones.

Natural blonds usually have lighter complexion. If this is you, try lighter shades of apricots, purples and plums. If you're stuck, sometimes you can get away with using a green that's at least two or three shades different from your eye color.

So you could use khaki or forest greens. As long as these are a different enough shade of green to your eyes. Otherwise, the eyeshadow will simply blend with your eyes, making them recede. Not the aim of eyeshadow at all!

The best thing when you're looking for a new color palette is to try different colors (even with samples at a makeup store) and see what works.

One look that never goes out of fashion is the smokey eye. For a natural blond with a fair complexion you want to keep this look subtle. This can even be achieved using more grays and browns than strong blacks. Black can sometimes be too strong a contrast for fair skin and blond hair to take.

Eyeshadow Looks

For an evening look, you can try a shimmery eyeshadow with a bit of sparkle. Irridescent eyeshadows can draw attention to your eyes and catch the light for an extra bit of glamour.

If you have fine wrinkles around your eyes (a common thing as you age) it's best to stay with a matte eyeshadow. Shimmery eyeshadow will actually accentuate wrinkles and creases in the skin around your eyes.

When you're applying eyeshadow, the better you blend it in, the more natural it will look. You'll know when you've picked the right colors when your green eyes 'pop.' This means the green color shines out strongly and your eyes really look like they have their own special glow.

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Hair Color - Transparent Sealer to Extend Hair Coloring By Tim Faber

With the explosion of color-exclusive salons and the use of in-home coloring treatments, protecting you hair color has become more important than ever before. Expensive treatments can go right down the drain (literally) with excessive use of styling aids, harsh shampoos and conditioners, and from heat damage caused by flat irons and curling iron.

Your hair color can be extended with the use of a transparent sealer. Transparent sealers have become increasingly popular for their ability to help seal and coat the follicle shaft protecting color pigmentation and increasing moisture. Lack of adequate hydration, heat damage, and chemical treatments - perms & straightening - leave hair weak, brittle and frail. Pigmentation and infused dyes and colors can be easily depleted requiring follow-up coloring or treatment.

Transparent sealers use advanced hair product formulations to seal-in moisture and color while often adding a reflective and brilliant shine. These conditioners promote healthier colored hair with active ingredients - proteins and amino acids - that help lock-in hair color. Generally used together with color enhancing shampoos (also recommended for color enhancement), transparent sealers maintain and extend color deposits and often adds brilliance and reflectivity to dark and light hues.

Transparent Sealers for Hair Color

• Prolong and extend color treatments
• Enhance moisture and hydration
• Strengthen, smooth and condition
• Add shine and brilliance to hair color

As a conditioner, sealers also offer additional benefits such as strengthening, improved shine, and increased elasticity - reducing breakage and promoting styling ease while resisting tangles. Botanical and natural extracts such as Sage, Balm mint, Lemongrass, and Rose Hips are popular active ingredients that work with gentle polymers and glycerides to increase your hair's health while adding natural brilliance following coloring.

As many of us are aware, coloring and chemical treatments are harsh on our hair and often strip the shine and moisture from the follicle shaft. Though there are many hair products available for protection and nourishment, choosing a sealer/conditioner designed to protect hair color and facilitate moisture can give you a two-in-one hair product that can save time and money.

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Choosing the Perfect Pair of Glasses By Sandy Dumont

A lot of people choose thin metal-rimmed glasses, believing that they are "near invisible", in the hopes that others won't notice them. Glasses will either look sterile and functional, or they will look like a fashion accessory. With the exception of aviator-type frames, most metal-rimmed glasses look like the former. The face is your body's focal point; therefore, your image is profoundly impacted by your eyeglasses.

Two things to take into consideration when choosing glasses as a fashion accessory are your eye color and your hair color. Frames can be chosen to enhance either or both. Certain colors for eyeglass frames can make green eyes look greener and brown hair look browner.

Generally, people never think of enhancing their hair color when they are choosing eyeglass frames. Occasionally, a person with silver hair will purposely select silver frames, but beyond this, not much thought is given to this connection. People with grey hair actually tend to wear gold-rimmed glasses, which is similar to wearing silver necklace with a gold bracelet.

There are several colors that may, unsuspectingly, drain color from the eyes. Individuals with blue eyes often select frames in some shade of blue, thinking that they will intensify the color of the eyes. Most often, however, the glasses compete with the eye color and make them appear less vivid. For technical reasons, wearing frames in a contrasting color will result in the eye color being intensified. Blue-eyed people, for example, should wear glasses in the red family, such as burgundy or rust, to enhance your eye color.

Choosing Glasses to Enhance Eye Color

Green Eyes: Colors from the yellow or purple families will intensify green eyes. Bright yellow glasses could go over the top, however. Green frames can sometimes accentuate green eyes, but usually not as effectively as purple ones. Recommendations: Mauve, orchid, lavender, periwinkle, purple, violet, red-violet, eggplant, jade green, racing green, emerald green.

Blue Eyes: Pick any color in the red or orange family, as these complementary colors will enhance your blue eye color. Blue frames are a possibility, but make a comparison with red frames to make certain the blue ones do not compete with the eyes for attention. Recommendations: True red, watermelon red, cherry red, fuchsia, magenta, burgundy, coral, apricot, brick, rust, Chinese red. Tones of blue that are compatible with your wardrobe could also be tested.

Brown Eyes: Purples and greens usually make brown eyes look their loveliest. However, you have a wide variety of colors from which to choose. You can wear black frames, horn-rimmed frames or even translucent frames. In general, to make the eyes look darker, choose eyeglass frames in a pale color. Dark purples and greens always look elegant with brown eyes. Recommendations: Plum, purple, violet, lavender, racing green, jade green, horn, emerald.

Grey Eyes: In order to make the eyes appear their palest, choose eyeglass frames in a dark color. These cool, mysterious eyes are the most beautiful when they appear to be quite pale. Recommendations: Black, charcoal black, deep burgundy, midnight blue, deep purple.

Hazel Eyes: Hazel eyes, like chameleons, tend to change color. They sometimes appear green or yellow, or even varying shades of brown. In general, to make the eyes look greener, try purples, violets or greens. To bring out brown tones, try horn-rimmed glasses. To bring out the yellow or gold tones, use deep shades of purple or violet. Recommendations: Violets, red-violets, purples, plum, horn, greens, blue-greens.

Choosing Glasses to Enhance Hair Color

Blonde Hair: Eyeglass frames in a dark color will lighten blonde hair. You can try wearing dark purples for green or hazel eyes, deep burgundy for blue eyes, or dark horn for brown eyes. Recommendations: Black or a dark color that will also enhance the eye color (see preceding portion of this chapter) at the same time.

Red Hair: Choosing eyeglass frames in shades of blue, green or blue green can complement red hair. Make sure the frames harmonize with your wardrobe, as well. Purples are also quite dramatic with red hair. Recommendations: Royal blue, Chinese blue, cobalt, turquoise, emerald, jade, bottle green, lavender, violet, purple.

Black Hair: Choose colors from the red-family to accent the natural blue undertones of true black hair. To make the hair appear darker, choose frames in a pale color, including pewter and various shades of white. Recommendations: Burgundy, black, red, fuchsia, white, greens, purples, blues.

Brown Hair: Shades of brown can range from mousy brown to deep chestnut. To make the hair appear darker, choose frames in a pale color that enhances your eyes (see above). To make the hair appear lighter, choose dark colors that enhance the eye color. Red tones will be enhance by blues or greens.

Grey Hair: Endless shades of "grey hair" exist, from partially grey to silver grey. The moment hair becomes noticeably grey, it is important to avoid brown or yellow frames. This includes gold, horn and mock tortoise shell, since these colors will dull the grey tones in the hair. Silver frames call attention to grey hair, particularly when the hair is only partially grey. Silver-grey hair will look more platinum and less grey with dark colors such as black, navy or midnight blue. Light colored frames can make previously dark hair, which is lighter due to greying, look darker.

Sandy Dumont, THE Image Architect is an image consultant and professional speaker based in Norfolk/Virginia Beach, with 30 years of international and national experience helping individuals and Fortune 500 companies improve their image. She conducts customized Branding for People™ workshops on a regular basis.
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Always in Style - Choosing Your Hair Color By Kathy Amarati

There are different preparations used for hair coloring. These are discussed in this article, along with care for colored hair and precautions you need to take when changing you hair color.

DYES AND TINTS

Dyes and tints are both ways to color the hair. They penetrate the hair shaft and will not wash off.

Each manufacturer has his own formula and method of application. If you plan to dye or tint your own hair, study the manufacturer's instructions while you are still in the store, where the salesclerk can probably answer questions if you have them. When you are satisfied that you understand the directions, always follow them implicitly.

BLEACHES

Bleaching is another method of changing the hair tone. Instead of adding color to the shaft, bleaching removes it.

Properly done, bleaching need not damage the hair. The problems involved, whether you do it yourself or have it done, are being able to control the color and avoid a harsh, brassy, unnatural look, and to prevent over-bleaching, which makes hair brittle and porous.

Bleaching can be done at home by those with the required skill. A mixture of ammonia and fresh 20-volume peroxide may be used, or a manufactured bleach, preferably one with an oil base.

RINSES

A rinse is a temporary method of coloring the hair that lasts only until the next shampoo. Rinses, which are made in a great range of hues, are generally used to brighten or lighten the natural color. Usually they are poured over the hair thoroughly at the final rinsing. Among the most popular rinses are henna, which imparts a reddish cast, and those applied on gray or white hair. Some of these are used to avoid the yellowish tinge, while others are meant to add a faint bluish or lavender tone.

CARE AFTER HAIR COLORING

Colored hair requires special care. It should be washed with a bland colorless soap or liquid shampoo. This will safeguard your hair color. A shampoo that has color in it, such as a greenish tinge, might get into, and affect, the color of your hair.

No heavy lacquers should be applied to it. Some of these have a drying tendency. A hat or scarf should be worn when out in the sun, which has a way of taking color out of the hair.

A cream rinse after each shampoo will be beneficial. It will help make the hair easier to comb through.

Hair that has been strongly bleached should be handled with particular care, even when brushing or combing. This fact must be borne in mind constantly, as such hair mats easily and the temptation to yank on it will be strong.

PRECAUTIONS

When you have decided to change your hair color your, you should realize that certain precautions are necessary.

You should avoid having it permanented and colored on the same day, if possible. If both must be done, have the permanent first. A permanent is apt to affect the color of any hair, natural or dyed. If the hair were dyed first, having the permanent afterwards would alter the shade.

Hair does not react to coloring in the same way at all times. (In fact, some hair resists coloring entirely.) After you have been having yours dyed successfully for some time, you may be disturbed to find that on the next occasion it turns out differently. Several causes may account for this. Sometimes hair reacts adversely to dyes after exposure to sun, wind, salt water or chlorinated water, lotions, or other chemicals.

Never have your hair colored when your scalp shows cuts, abrasions, or other irritations. No dependable beauty shop would allow this to be done, in any event.

Whether the process is performed at home or in a shop, an accurate record of the formula for your color should be kept on file. This assures your having the same shade time after time, with the exceptions outlined.

Properly done, your hair color can greatly enhance your attractiveness.

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When you are choosing hair styles for your lace front wigs, be sure that you bear in mind the colors and styles that will most flatter you. Just as yo

When you are choosing hair styles for your lace front wigs, be sure that you bear in mind the colors and styles that will most flatter you. Just as you should be sure to take a look at hair styles that look good on you, instead of on someone else. Just as you do before you get your hair cut, you should do the same when you are choosing wigs.

The main thing that you have to consider when you are looking for wig styles is the shape of your face. The shape of your face should always dictate your hairstyle. You may think that a hair style looks great on another person, such as a friend or a celebrity, but you have to take into account your own face shape style.

Everyone has a different face shape. There are those with oval shaped faces, square shaped faces, long faces, round faces and even heart shaped faces. Take a look in the mirror and decide which type of face shape that you have. The type of wig that you purchase should compliment your face shape.

There are two ways that you can purchase lace front wigs. One way is to purchase them is at a wig store or you can choose to buy them online. Many women prefer to purchase wigs online as they have more time to browse selections. The problem with purchasing wigs online is that you do not have the option of trying them on.

You can rectify this situation by trying out different hairstyles online at interactive sites. This can give you a good idea of how you will look in different styles as well as colors. Once you get used to wearing wigs, you may want to start to wear them all of the time and change your style to suit your mood or the clothes that you are wearing.

Using interactive sites can give you an idea of how you look in the lace front wigs that you choose. Once you see a style that looks attractive on you, you can then choose to buy a wig that is of that same style and color. This is the best way to try before you buy.

When you are buying wigs, you should have the same mindset that you have as when you are getting your hair styled. Do not go by what looks good on someone else, go by what looks good on you.

You can use an interactive website to find the style and color that you are looking for when it comes to choosing lace front wigs. Be sure to buy the accessories to take care of the wigs that are needed when you make your purchase.

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Choosing The Right Hairstyle For Thinning Hair - Create Volume and Transform How You Look By Toni Moretti

Attractive Hair Styles For Thinning Hair

Most often individuals that are suffering from thinning hair tend to give up on trying to do anything attractive with their hair. For the most part they will keep it clean and neat but have no joy in doing anything else with it. Actually there are several styles that one can with thinning hair.

Length

When you are dealing with thinning hair, it is important that you consider length. Short haircuts would not only be a good choice, but is most likely the best way to go. You can frame your face very well and most certainly, people's attention will be focused on your face and not so much the hair. They are sure to notice your better features but your hair will not get any thicker. If you are uncomfortable with short hair or are of the opinion that your face may not go well with shorter hairstyles, you may want to consider a short hairstyle but with your bangs kept a little longer and possibly trained to the side.

Ponytail

A great style for thinning hair on women who wish not to cut their long hair would be the high ponytail style. Instead of cutting it, she could sweep the hair into a high ponytail, drawing attention to her facial features as opposed to her hair. She may also choose to incorporate the use of a hairpiece, adding volume to the ponytail. However, be careful not to have the ponytail too tight as that can easily cause the hair to snap or break.

Blow Drying

A blow dryer can be a useful tool. When you are ready to blow-dry the hair, try bending over and drying the hair while it is flipped upside down. This adds volume, most certainly gives the appearance of fuller hair, and does an excellent job in disguising thinning hair.

Layers

Layers have a way of fooling a person eye into seeing hair that is full and thick and provides those that have thinning hair with many attractive and stylish options. Straight long hair on those with thin hair makes it obvious that they have thin hair where layering it will easily disguise that. You can also extend the effects of layering with a perm that creates large curl patterns and then use layers in that permed hair.

Men

Men suffer from thinning hair and like women, and benefit with short haircuts or styles. Two obvious choices are the crew cuts and the buzz cuts, which are very similar to each other but are successful in disguising thinning hair. Another method in making thin hair a lot less evident is hair coloring. Hair that is lighter in color, such as blond, light brown tones and even gray hair make thin hair appear fuller than it actually is. Yet another option is to go bald, which has gained immense popularity in the last 20 years or so.

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