Whatever type of hair color you opt for, choosing the proper range of shades—warm or cool—is the key. The right hair color shade will brighten up your hair style . . . and your life.

What is the most basic principle of color theory applied to hair? It's choosing between warm and cool shades The best way to make pleasing hair color choices is to determine whether natural coloring—hair, eye, and skin tones—is in the warm or cool range of colors. This is a very fun process. A Salon blast hair colorist will determine what works best for you, Answer these questions, or better yet, have your best friend give you their opinion, which is likely to be more accurate:

My eyes are:

• Deep brown or black-brown (Cool)
• Golden brown (Warm)
• Gray blue or dark blue (Cool)
• Green, green blue or turquoise (Warm)
• Hazel with gold or brown flecks (Warm)
• Hazel with white, gray or blue flecks (Cool)

My skin is:

• Very dark brown (Cool)
• Brown with pink undertone (Warm)
• Brown with golden undertone (Warm)
• True olive (most Asians and Latinos) (Cool)
• Medium with no color in cheeks (Cool)
• Medium with faint pink cheeks (Cool)
• Medium with golden undertones (Cool)
• Pale with no color in cheeks (Cool)
• Pale with pink undertones (Cool)
• Pale with peach or gold undertones (Warm)
• Freckled (Warm)
• Ruddy (Warm)
• Brown or bronze when I tan (Cool)
• Golden brown, when I tan (Warm)

My hair color is:

• Blue black (Cool)
• Deepest coffee brown (Cool)
• Medium ash brown (Cool)
• Deep brown with gold or red highlights (Warm)
• Medium golden brown (Cool)
• Red (Warm)
• Strawberry blond (Warm)
• Dishwater blond (Cool)
• Golden blond (Cool)
• Salt and pepper (Cool)
• White (Cool)
• Gray with a yellow cast (Warm)
  
  Click below for your colors:
  
  Click here if you chose mostly COOL colors
  
  Click here if you chose mostly WARM colors