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Clairol's Creative Director, Sean Tetlow gives his advice on how your hair colour can work with the season's fashions and make you look younger:
The focus this season will be on natural hair colours and subtle tones that flatter and illuminate the complexion.
We see the end of the dramatic harsh shades, as icy platinum blondes give way to softer pastel, honey and peachy shades and brunettes blend into dark blondes and warm caramels.
Redheads similarly will become lighter and we will see more strawberry blonde and copper tones.
Keep it natural
Seek to enhance rather than change your natural hair colour and opt for slightly lighter rather than darker shades as these will always give your skin a more youthful glow.
Grey areas
If you are looking to cover grey, again opt for a shade that matches your pre-grey natural colour, or one shade lighter. This will serve to bring light to your skin-tone and will enable your root area to grow out more gracefully.
If you are looking to cover grey, again opt for a shade that matches your pre-grey natural colour, or one shade lighter. This will serve to bring light to your skin-tone and will enable your root area to grow out more gracefully.
Warmer colours
This season we will see a move to warmer colours, with golden and copper tones appearing in blondes, brunettes and reds.
This season we will see a move to warmer colours, with golden and copper tones appearing in blondes, brunettes and reds.
This can be tricky if your hair has naturally ash tones and your skin is cool-toned. If this applies to you, then you could try a shade ever so slightly warmer than your usual shade or natural colour.
Clairol's nice 'n easy packs have an invaluable "tone barometer" indicator on the side of every pack which shows precisely how "cool" or "warm" each shade is. If your skin is cool-toned, but you want to try a slightly warmer shade than usual, be guided by the "barometer" and try a shade closer to the "neutral" mark, making sure you do a strand test first to see whether you will like the colour achieved.
Sean Tetlow is the salon owner and Creative Director of The Colour Room. Winner of best Independent Newcomer in the 2004 British Hairdressing Business awards, Sean's photographic collections feature regularly in leading industry and consumer magazines and he has undertaken several readers' makeovers for national and regional consumer magazines.
The Colour Room, 21-23 Great Underbank, Stockport SK1 1LF
Tel: 0161 476 1881
