Hair dye is one of the oldest known beauty preparations. Chemical Hair dyes has emerged as choice of dyeing hair as these are less clumsy to apply than the natural hair colourants like henna, less time taking and more long-lasting hair colour.

Gone are the days when colour were the option to cover greys only. Nowadays, living with natural hair colour, all your life can get a bit monotonous ,so youngsters even, are becoming a little experimenting with their hair colour.

But, before using any hair colour you must be well aware of the best fit match of colour for your tresses.Wrong hair colour brand and colour choice can damage your hair and can lead to excessive greying, hair thinning and hair loss. So, before deciding which colour you need to cover your hair, first decide on the brands.

Skin Complexion (Tone, or Colour) is the shade of skin with which an individual has been genetically endowed. Selecting a proper colour shade as per your skin tone is essential if we talk about lipstick, foundation, eye-shadows, blush for flawless makeup including your clothing, same applies to your hair colour too. Otherwise you may ruin your look.  Knowing your own skin tone can be a really helpful to give you flaunting appearance. Here is the guide what colour you should go.

Also Read: Harmful Effects of Hair Dye

Know Skin Tone before Colouring your Hair

Don’t confuse your skin complexion with skin tones these are actually two different terms, skin tone or undertone is determined by the colour that come through skin underneath the surface which affects your overall complexion.
Simply, it means you can have dark or light complexion with three undertones: cool, warm and neutral. Following are the three skin tones depending upon the complexion:

Warm: Also called golden, peachy, olive, and yellow
Cool: Hints of bluish, pink, or a ruddy complexion.
Neutral: Has no obvious overtones of cool or warm skin, but rather the skin’s natural colour is more clear.

How to Determine your Skin Tone?

1. Check your Veins
   Look at you’re the colour of veins underside your wrist under natural light. Bluish-purple colour means you’re on the cool side. Greenish means warm. If  your veins look bluish-green, you may be neutral.
2. Your Natural Hair and Eye Colours
   
   Cool tones:
   Hair: Brown, black or blond
   Eyes: black or deep brown, steel-blue, hazel with grey or blue flecks,
   
   Warm tones:
   Hair: Red, brown, black or strawberry blonde
   Eyes: Brown, hazel, golden brown, green, hazel with gold flecks, and blue eyes
3. Do you Tan or Burn under Sun?
   If you fear to step under sun due to tan prone skin, you are warm-toned. If you get red under sun, you are cool.If you tan slowly but don’t often burn, you’re likely to be neutral. If you blush easily, you’re on the cool side.
4. Which Jewelery Suits you? Gold or Silver
   Look at your Jewelery which metal gold or silver enhances your beauty. If you’re  having warm toned complexion, Gold jewellery typically suits you, while silver is more complementary to cooler tones.If your skin looks great in both and you can’t notice a major difference, you’re probably neutral. If you have not noticed it prior, you can do a simple test: lie a gold and silver chain next to each other on your hand or arm. Which looks best?
5. Which  Lipstick Colour is your Favourite?
   The shade which suits you and  bags you tones of compliment becomes your favourite as it tones perfectly with your complexion.
   Cool tones:
   Avoid yellow undertones, and steer away from orange tinges to your red lipstick. Reds with a blue undertone, berry hues, and rosy pink lipsticks will look best on you.
   Warm tones:
   If you love coral lipstick, chances are you have a warm undertone. Peachy pink shades, orange-toned reds, and rosy nude shades will complement your skin tone best.
6. What Colours Look Good on you?
   Cool tones look good in deep, vibrant colours, such as blue, purple, and emerald-green. Warm tones glow in earth tones like red, orange, yellow, and olive-green. If you can wear both shades, you have neutral undertones.
7. Try the White Paper Test
    Take a piece of white paper close  to your face. Does your complexion look dull, or good. If you answered “dull,” you’re warm. If you answered “good,” you’re cool. If you can’t tell much difference, you’re neutral.
8. Look Behind your Ears
   Sometimes when you have acne or other skin conditions on face you will not be able to make out your skin tone ,in this case you can take advice from your friends. Ask your friend to look at  the skin directly behind the shell of your ear, as this area is less likely to be affected.
9. Do a Hair Colour Test
   Hold a shirt in a bright shade of green or blue against your face, then take it down and hold up a different shirt in a shade of red or yellow. If your skin looks better against the blue shirt, you likely have cool-toned skin. If it looks better against the red shirt, you have warm-toned skin.

Which Hair Colour shade would Suit you?

1. Don’t stray too far from natural
   When something looks natural, it looks better, there are no two ways about it! A great rule is to stick to within two hair colour shades of your natural hair, in terms of light or dark, as your hair shade usually matches your complexion.
2. Warm shades are often labelled beige, golden, tan, caramel, and chestnut, golden blonde, flaxen, honey blonde, golden brown or copper, golden red or strawberry blonde.
3. Cool shades are often labelled porcelain, rose, sable, cocoa, Cool reds, like burgundy or bordeaux, wheat, honey or taupe, cool ash brown, copper blonde or chestnut-brown , blue or purple.
4. Neutral shades are often labelled ivory, buff, nude, and praline.
5. Cool Toned
   You’ll do best with warm hair colours like orangish reds, golden blondes, rich honey almond browns, and chocolate brunette.
6. Warm tones. If you have a warm undertone, choose a cool hair colour. If your skin has red undertones and is a lighter shade, choose a medium to dark brown, black, or blue-black hair colour. If your skin has warm red undertones, but is darker, choose a darker rich colour and avoid lighter browns.
7. Choose a dark hair colour if you have the dark skin. Dark brown and black shades are the way to go if you have a darker complexion. These shades won’t create a contrast that’s too intense but are also different enough from your skin colour to subtly complement the natural glow of your skin.
8. Go with a light hair colour if you have a fair skin. When in doubt, play it safe with a lighter colour if you have a fair complexion.