Hair colour is extremely important to your overall look. It has the power to change a geek into a glamour puss and a supermodel into a civilian.
Choosing the right hair colour helps highlight your eyes and face shape and should complement your skin tone. For example, if you have luminous white skin, it’s probably best to try and steer clear of really black locks unless you want to look like Morticia Addams (which is totally fine if that’s what floats your boat).
There are those people who can easily slide between dark to blonde to red and back again - think Evan Rachel Woods, Pixie Geldof and Rihanna.
And women who have brief love affairs with a different hue - hello blondies Gwyneth Paltrow, Cameron Diaz and Reese Witherspoon who have all dabbled on the dark side.
Or what about the ones that like to play it super safe – for example, celebrity websites would surely go into rapid melt down if Kate Middleton, god forbid, ever decided to change her locks to platinum blonde.
When the office received a bunch of brown wigs today courtesy of Cedel’s new Dry Shampoo for Dark Hair, it truly highlighted who in our office could afford to experiment a bit with their hair colour and who should really stick with what they’ve got. (And yes, I plan on staying a goldilocks.)
Another amusing thing that happens with hair colour is the way people become linked to a particular tint. Even if someone changes their colour, people still associate them with the colour they are most recognised for having.
An example of this is Blake Lively. If someone were to ask me to think of Blake – in my head would pop up a picture of her with blonde hair rather than the red she recently sported.
It is also hard to imagine people with a different hair colour from what you know them as having. For example, until I saw a photo of my dark-brunette editor Michelle with blonde hair, I couldn’t picture what it would look like.
Whether you’re experimental with hair colour or a stickler for the standard, next time you start to wonder if blondes really do have more fun or if red will turn you into a flaming sex siren, instead consider what colour is best suited to your skin tone and face.
Could you ever dramatically change your hair colour? Have you ever tried out a new colour? And, if so, did you like doing it?