Choosing the perfect hair color for winter skin tones might seem like a puzzle, but fear not—it's simpler than you think. Every skin type can rock a variety of shades, and armed with a few pro tips, you and your stylist can collaborate to tailor the ideal color that suits you best. The key factors? Placement, saturation, and highlighting the undertones in your skin that you want to accentuate. We tapped into the wisdom of colorists and hairstylists to cover all angles, from identifying your skin's undertones to receiving personalized shade recommendations. Keep reading to dive into the world of finding the ultimate hair color for your skin tone.
How To Find Your Hair Color For Winter Skin Tone
Before settling on the perfect hue, invest some time in unraveling the mysteries of your skin's undertones. Most folks fall into three broad categories—warm, cool, and neutral regardless of whether their complexion is dark, medium, or fair. Although determining where you fit in might seem like a maze, there are some tricks to guide you:
- Cool-toned skin boasts blue and olive undertones, while warm-toned skin flaunts yellow and gold.
- When scouting for color ideas from the stars, pay attention to celebrities with similar skin and eye colors as yours. This will offer a more accurate preview of how the color will compliment your features.
- Your wrist displays an array of pinks, reds, blues, greens, and yellows. It's also an excellent spot to check your veins—blue or purple veins suggest cool undertones, while green veins indicate warmth.
- Golden specks in your eyes typically align with warm undertones, while blues and greens lean towards cool undertones.
Top Hair Colors For Winter Skin Tone
Now as you finally know how to determine the best hair color for your winter skin tone, let me reveal some of the obvious hair colors that suit your skin tone. So, basically there are three main skin tones out there and that are: fair, medium, and dark. I will try to briefly explain every single color you can try on that specific skin tone around the winter season.
Hair Colors For Fair Winter Skin Tone
Let’s start with the fair skin tones, so first of all there are three different undertones which are cool, warm, and neutral. I will start with the ever gorgeous Margot Robbie look, she has cool undertones that we can clearly see on her face. Love how she carries her blonde highlights with her gorgeous caramel hair color. Mostly cool undertones work well with hair colors like butterscotch, honey, caramel, gold, and amber.
For warm undertones it is recommended to go for hair colors with icy shades, sand, platinums, champagne, silver, beige and ash. These types of shades also look great if you add a hint of highlights whether chunky or minimal it takes the look to a whole new level. Now last is neutral undertones, which works great with colors like rust, copper, russet, strawberry blonde, and amber. So, opt for these hair colors and experiment with beautiful colors to finally find the one that suits your style the best.
Hair Colors For Medium Winter Skin Tone
We have ever gorgeous and Y2K fashion diva, the one and only, Olivia Rodrigo! Okay, so Olivia has medium skin with warm undertones which is why she opt for darker and deep colors as It is actually recommended to go for colors like mocha, dark chocolate, dark auburn, and chestnut. While for medium skins with cool undertones some of the hair colors that work great are amber, honey, cinnamon, caramel, golden brown, and mahogany. These colors can be achieved in their soft shade or darker and both of their tones will do great job on medium skin but what we would recommend will be going for the deep and rich shades to make your cool undertones stand out even more.
Lastly, neutral tones goes well with the hair colors like espresso that’s just too delicious to even look at have a deep and rich shade, true black that has enough power to grab everyone's attention and create a deep vibe to your overall neutral tone, licorice for a deep and rich shade of a perfect blend that looks like a deep red but it’s only a trick to take your attention, and lastly blue-black that will give you a playful look.
Hair Colors For Deep Winter Skin Tone
We have the most attractive beauty queen for this category, a talented celebrity that can take our breaths away with her natural beauty and soulful vocals, yes, Beyonce we are talking about! Okay so, she has deep skin with a warm undertone and that’s actually the most attractive skin tone out of all, seriously (no wonder why self tanning is so on-trend always). Well, deep skin with warm undertones goes well with hair colors like butterscotch, caramel, and golden brown (adding highlights will give you a next level look for sure).
For deep skin with cool undertones the hottest colors that go well are deep black to give even more richness and depth to the overall look, dark mocha to light up the colorful side of the hair, and brown-black to create something unique for yourself for sure. Lastly we have neutral undertones of deep skin which work great with hair color shades like chestnut, auburn red, and reddish brown. All these shades are literally gorgeous when anyone opts for these, they give your neutral tones exactly the same highlight and make them stand out while keeping the perfect balance of light and deep color.
Conclusion
Now that everything is clear on how to choose the perfect hair color for winter skin tone, don’t worry for the dry and dull skin tone of yours, just figure out what undertones you have and follow the guide above to make a unique look out of these suggested colors and tips.
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