Colour Analyst Reacts To Red Hair

Hi, i'm christine today's topic is red hair. Now you can find all kinds of images of beautiful hair color, but when the only thing in the picture is the hair. Well, i figure those are more useful for colorists looking for inspiration for clients or people who already understand how the world of color the world of all possible colors actually relates to them and their coloring. What i want to do is help you understand those relationships in the first place, so we're going to be looking at pictures of hair color and the people wearing them, and talking about why some of those choices might work better than others. I think many actors, when they change their hair color when they change their hair color to red they find their career, takes off or they're offered different roles, more serious roles, and i mean natural blondes - can look younger than they are and in the real world. That'S not a bad thing and they can be that way. Their whole life too. The red is more noticeable on its own. As a hair color, the woman has sharper edges. Well, it's not entirely fair comparison, because the blonde woman doesn't have the benefit of clothing and makeup, so we don't really know how she could look but about the choice of red, so it is more noticeable. It places a certain severity in the face. I don't find it easy to look at. I think that the skin looks pale. It looks strange to kind of miss the softness. The the edges are almost too sharp. The white areas in the skin are too white. The eyes are receded. They look a little further back in the head, the woman with the blonde hair. The eye is larger, more forward and the blonde woman she looks better rested and yeah. She does look younger. What i love about the picture with blonde hair is the plumpness in the skin, the woman in the red hair, the darker hair, the skin appears to have lost volume beneath the surface layer, and so it contributes to this feeling of severity. Sure she looks more mature and she looks strong and capable and all these things we want to be, but there's something about the softness and the plump skin that i miss chemical color is always a trade-off. What'S your best color and what's your best compromise and we're trying to get your beauty in the real world, we're not talking about getting you roles in hollywood, so there's a different purpose to the choice. Keep every picture you have of yourself before you started coloring here, because we forget, we forget how dark we were, how soft we were. We get these ideas, we're lighter and brighter than we ever were or would be or would be with advancing years. The light ginger here is nice because it preserves the lightness. It'S a softer version of red. I find she still has lots of presents, but it allows her facial shapes her skin colors her eyes to come forward. She'S still radiant. She still has an identity would be better if she were better lit with a light background. It'S a pretty color that she's wearing a lovely soft apricot tones in the hair, beautiful with the dress. If chemical color requires you to change your clothing colors, what you know to be your best clothing, colors or cosmetic colors, there's a better color out there, like in the previous one, with the darker red hair, she's, wearing a white and black top. Well, it contributes to the severity in the face and if she wore that darker red hair with this dress, the red hair would dominate the dress. But i find this a very nice compromise, beautiful hair. She still has identity, beautiful clothing. She can wear the same makeup, and so it's that best of both worlds, color comparing dye to dye. That'S often this case with celebrities, and it's really hard because in this woman, you're choosing between two not very good options in the red hair, the face is too pale. It'S almost bluish, it's pink. The eyes are pink. It'S like the face, stings a little wind burned. Maybe in the blonde hair the brows are too dark, the face is yellow and the skin is opaque. It has no freshness, there's no translucency and so and worse without makeup. The woman can appear older than she is and also tired, trying to keep up the lipstick's. Okay with the black clothing, but what about the woman wearing it, the lipstick's? Okay with the dye, but again what about the woman? I think the better answer is to say there are no good choices here. I need to look somewhere else. I don't see this as a person who wears extremes, particularly well, better relief, a real person you could talk to when you're done, admiring how beautiful she is her coloring is healthier. Her skin looks fresh so much more sophisticated too in the overall when she avoids extremes. They'Ve maintained the natural darkness, so the brows are belonging and quite spectacular, the eyes have lots of color the skin's, not strained to keep up the skin's having an easy time. The skin is enjoying what's happening here. Lip color does not need to be extreme to keep up with hair. Some warmth has been added to the hair, but it's not too bright or too light. It'S not that far from neutral or from her natural and for her. That works really well kind of a soft medium, dark, ginger, beautiful facial shape and bones beautiful facial sculpture. I mean it's amazing really can look at this all day long and you just find more and more and more good things right. So on the left side is the natural color or i assume it's the natural color. How would we know, but it doesn't have the intensity of chemical color. She has natural red tones and she's got enough color intensity. In her other features. You can see that in the eye color at least she has enough darkness to balance adding chemicals, adding more red, not saying to add more darkness. That is rarely a good decision for hair color in anybody, however, dark your natural color making it darker is not usually an improvement. Now i might not be a hair colorist, but i wonder if that's because when you darken a color, any color anywhere you're going to have to add blue or black as soon as you do, that you're going to cool off the color on the right. That'S a pretty good choice of red, it is definitely brighter and perhaps it does dominate the woman a little bit, but not by a lot. It'S a very artificial effect, but she's young and the intention is to wear a trend, and that comes across i'm happy that they put the lighter ginger tips in the as an ombre effect, or they could have done a balayage just keep it in the lower sections. The color is light for her because she's losing shape definition in the lower half of the face. Everything'S a bit more blurred sure more color in the lip and more color in the clothes would give back substance to the lower half of the face. But look at the picture on the left, the clothes aren't dark and yet the jawline and the chin are better defined from the neck. I also think the woman on the left is more adult she's, more united, more settled in her appearance. The whole picture comes together. The skin, the hair, the brows the eyes, whereas the woman on the right seems younger in the sense of less steady and unsettled in the way of youth, maybe still searching a little bit still trying all kinds of different things: the hair and the eyes and the Face are more separate, the eyes are very intense, but that's happening to some degree, with the loss of facial shapes and colors. It'S a trade-off again. You get to wear a modern trend. You get to have an interesting effect. Has choices of red go? This is probably a pretty good color for her, but it creates that look of still searching for yourself, both wearable colors, the dark brown is likely a dye. Her natural color is probably a more neutral, more ash version, maybe similar darkness level though, but she wears it well, she's not disappearing in the die, the red hair. I i know it's her trademark and uh you're supposed to love this hair. But honestly, i like the brown better. I find that her skin is more illuminated. Her complexion is fresher. Her features have better definition. I see the clear white of the eye and the yellow tones in the eyes that are creating a gorgeous warm cool contrast with the hair there's a bit of a fairy tale kind of snow white lightness about it, whereas with the red, the color, the hair is Dull, it doesn't seem to have the same kind of shine. The skin is too close to the color of the hair. So you don't have that beautiful separation of hair framing an illuminated face. Many people will prefer that warm glow in the skin in the red hair, but i actually don't - and i like the separation of the lips better in the other picture as well. Beautiful color, not necessarily what you'd call red but a really good starting point. Given that her natural color, i believe, is quite a bit darker than this love the way you can move from her eye color to her hair and find these very good continuity, one is a good extension of the other they've preserved enough darkness. Her face has a beautiful shape and her face structure has can be delicate and the volume around it. Those larger soft curves gives the face a more sculpted, delicate appearance. I think that looks really good. The color is warmer than her natural. It has warmed up her skin, but it's believable with her skin tones and the white of the eye has warmed up, but there's such good continuity from the hair color to the eyes that it works really well. The hair and the eye color make sense of one another. Neither one is leaving the other one behind. So a really good starting point and also a person who would credibly add more red to the hair, good red nice red, not much lighter than the natural darkness level. It'S essentially the first picture. Look at the red tones that are in it now add a little bit more rich auburn still have great continuity with the skin tones. Great continuity with the eyes allows her to wear makeup, not loving the eyeshadow, but the the makeup and the lip colors and the blush and the contours that she enjoys and that look nice on her. Her facial shapes are soft and strong. At the same time, she's pretty nothing wrong with being pretty even if you're, a business tycoon naturals on the left and a lighter softer version on the right for a roll that she played darker is better better facial shapes better facial colors, both of which are being Lost in the light soft hair, the the lighter hair, the colors fade, they lose their brightness shapes are flatter the cheekbones even look like they have dropped, and so there's less nicole, the person fades and when the shapes soften they don't find their natural point of focus. Face becomes more blended, the features are less defined, less separate from the canvas of the face. Well, when you have less shapes and you have less colors, if you ever need to know two good ways to look older than you are, that would be them good. First impression: don't need it to be any redder but enhancing overall, very different face shape from the previous woman, and yet i also enjoy the volume and the texture. So there's a good compromise of textures and colors near the natural near what she was 20 years ago. Maybe that still seemed to work well for her it's brighter, as chemical color is, but i do find it enhancing. Do you see this is too bright, or do you see it as the the upper limit of brightness? Let'S say she were someone who works in your office or your dentist. There are nice, colors and shapes in the face and think about the two things separately. Delicate bones. Nose comes to a nice point, a little bit overwhelmed by the color, but then there's a lot of color right. It'S like wearing a scarf that color all bundled up against your face. Any hair, color, colors and prints doesn't matter. You should not have to change your makeup colors. These are pretty good, maybe on the warm side, thinking especially of the blush next to the eye color. But i love that there's so much presence. There is so much person and i don't sense her taking a backseat to her hair color, that's a good red on the left. They kept the eye colors and the eyebrows as references, but these brows are beautiful both with the hair above and the eyelashes below, and she can wear eye makeup that properly defines that eye color, the lighter color. It'S too light it's too soft. This is a person who can wear extremes very well in color, and this whole effect is a little bit too medium. She needs more distinction, more distance from the skin to the hair. She can balance chemical, brightness and darkness no problem. The lips are lost by the cosmetic choice and that gives less support to the lower half of the face. The eyes appear more separate from the face, but the um hair color to the skin is more comfortable in the darker hair. Hair color to the skin is less comfortable in the lighter hair they're, both too pink. I actually think she needs the saturated yellows that are in the darker hair. This soft pinkish color is almost a fantasy color. The brows have less effect in framing the eyes. They also look grayer, and so the eyes are less belonging in the face. The nose shape is more beautiful in the darker hair. I think the darker hair is also more real. It'S more believable, looking and less of a fantasy look, copper brown, pretty good natural feeling, darkness level. It'S not too bright. It'S not too dark. Her face comes through. You don't have competition between the hair and the woman or the skin or the features it could grow out with her natural color. Probably it's pretty with her freckles. It doesn't appear to be yellowing. The skin doesn't appear to be dulling. The eye color does not appear to be overshadowing the face. I don't it doesn't look severe by any means that it's interesting. The color is okay with blue eyes, because that can be tricky blue eyes and red tones in the hair. But i think if we looked at the eyes close up, we would see some kind of warm tones in the hair maybe similar to this. So it gives the hair some reason to belong to this woman. It might be too warm to wear in clothing other than an accent, which is how the warmth probably would appear in the eyes. As a small area as an accent, i find it good to think of warm cool on a one to three scale. She'S, probably a two - i don't think she's an extreme of warm or an extreme of cool. Her adaptation with time is not going to be to go darker or to go brighter to add more pigment. It is a very rare for anybody to go darker than their natural color successfully and if it was not easy at 25 or 35, it is not going to get easier with time. Uh eye colors. Interestingly, stay the same once we're about 18.. They don't change very much after that. So if there were warm tones in the hair 10 years ago, there will be more in the eyes there will be warm tones in the eyes now and will make sense of red in the hair. But my gosh, i mean the the black dress, those cool metallic earrings, the very dark eye makeup and then the hair. They may be fine with one another, but i don't think that they're very enhancing for this woman really good color. Maybe she decided that the red was becoming too artificial. The first picture we saw, or the upkeep was challenging - she wants to weave in a more neutral version, less red, more brown. This is a nice transition, actually find this a lot easier to look at than the solid color of the light copper. This has enough darkness and it has enough red. It also returns. Some lightness that i think is very flattering for her. Her skin is smooth lips. Are pretty the eye makeup is enough: the brows make great sense with the hair and they are doing their job to frame the eyes. I think she looks really beautiful. This is the childhood image of the previous woman. How useful childhood hair color is to deciding adult hair color really depends on the person. First of all, how much do you change in adulthood? Some people definitely get darker or brighter. I don't know that warm cool changes very much. I don't we don't analyze people over that period of time, but they do they can get darker and they can get brighter some change seasons. Some don't there's still information to be gained from those early pictures like, for instance, here you would think well. This is a credible redhead. Adding red hair later in life will be a good idea. You might think well, this person is warm because that hair looks warm. Some folks might see a spring. Some folks might see an autumn, but what people become in adulthood? You really have to just look at the adult look at the earlier hair color. It might work just fine as it does in this person. Good color, nothing to react to it. Just looks normal. The red meets the eyes, it meets the eyebrows. It does not look like a candy color. She can wear a natural lipstick. She doesn't need all sorts of eye makeup to keep up with the hair. The hair is not getting more attention than the woman. That said, it doesn't need to be any darker and it sure doesn't need to be any brighter. It doesn't need any more red pigment in it and perhaps if some of the red were faded down to a more neutral brown, that might be a little bit more natural, more real, more believable looking, but as the color grows, and possibly without the black. Underneath the face, this is pretty good. This is the opposite. It kind of looks like fantasy hair, the hair and the woman would never exist in the same world. The eyes are mossy and soft and the hair is too bright too artificial. Looking the skin loses vitality and loses freshness. It'S particularly waxy and opaque. The hair is almost forcing the lips to be the same color as the skin or picking up some of the hair tones in a way that doesn't look healthy. How would this woman choose foundation if the hair was showing she would pick one color, and if the hair were covered or returned to say a color of the brows, she would pick a completely different foundation. The uh, the brows, are good for the eyes, but they're dull for the hair and the the problem is just that the hair color is too bright, blue eyes and red hair can be a complicated relationship. This copper is warm and it's bright, and i think it's too warm for the eyes because they look ghostly they're, not it's not comfortable to look at the eyes and the hair at the same time and the skin seems flushed and warm as though the hair is Putting a cast of its own colors into the skin in a way that is not entirely belonging, and what's the woman going to choose again for makeup the blush that goes with the eyes is not going to be comfortable with the skin or with the hair. It may be too cool for the hair with cool lips to go with the eyes. The same thing, the hair is going to look even more orange. Well, if we go with warm makeup to go with the hair and the warmed up skin, it's going to look too hot next to the eyes or for lip color to be enhancing. I think she's, a better blonde, probably would be easier to find blonde or she'd wear more shades of blonde better. They don't know that this is her best blonde um. I mean everyone can do every trend, but some are going to be less automatic and her best red hair. Her version of red might be more pink or more peach, and it would have a fantasy effect in any quantity. If you peach or apricot streaks, maybe that's all the red hair she would ever need in a way red hair. It'S like wearing your lipstick colors in your hair. Your colors are your colors, no matter where you put them, but hair color and cosmetics have different chemistry when we wear them and they have different social significance. So, of course, we got to treat them a little bit differently. The lips are bright here, but she could still be a bright season. This is an example where cosmetics can reach a higher saturation, color intensity than human colors, or so i think, the red on the wall behind her as a gloss that might be a nice lip color with the eyes and the skin. But how is she going to put that in her hair, blue eyes and red hair again, not having a great relationship? These eyes are grayed, the skin is waxy and it is opaque. Skin should be fresh and translucent. The teeth are yellowed the hair. It looks very orange. The eyebrow color looks odd. The lip color has become heavy and muddy and again there's another person. If she went with any red, she might be into a fantasy, look might be sunrise, pink or misty apricot or cotton candy, rather than these heavier brick tones. This is better same woman. Blonde variations of blonde will still be easier to find a good, color and more pleasant, more enhancing to the woman. Looking for a good hair color to eye color relationship is a way to choose a good color hair color to eyebrows as well. Well, this skin is peaceful, the expression is peaceful, the whites are nice and clear. The eye color is allowed to be the the lips. This color sure, okay, it's bright and it's cool, but when you can look this good in blonde, maybe red is just too much work and then once you get the red the time you're going to spend trying to get back to this is going to be another Project, what's nice about this picture is that the hair is not too yellow because it often is, and here's an example where the hair is too yellow for the face it's a bit of a wig, but i still prefer blonde to autumn type. Reds those brick type, tones, copper, rust and so on, some of those bright colors in the blonde, where the blonde is it's almost like, so yellow it's peach or so yellow it's turning orange that woven into the natural hair. That might be how this woman does red hair, if you're going to do red chemical red makeup is good because it's always a bit intense in its pigments and without it without makeup. It'S like putting a lot of makeup on one feature of your face and doing nothing with anything else. Something is just off balance. Maybe photoshop had a hand in here who knows, but the red it's attractive for the woman. There'S a cool red violet in this hair and that can help blue eyes. Work with red hair is to respect that coolness. They'Ve also maintained the natural darkness level. So so the face has a really beautiful contour. The blonde ends in the other difficult to see the facial shape properly, and so, when the face becomes more slender, the whole woman looks like she's lost 10 pounds. Red brings out the green in the eyes, which you think is quite nice. The nose shape is more defined, and so that extends to all the features of the face being more crisp and more defined here is that to look at the picture on the left? You don't really sense a credible or an easy redhead, so she didn't try to be one. She didn't try to be some kind of neutral or natural red. She hung onto the darkness level or the salon did and picked a bit of a more fantasy color rather than not ginger or copper or chest didn't pick an earthy color. She picked a bit of a candy color, but a darker one, and i find that this is actually quite nice with the eyes and with the skin among the better reds she's, often a little too orange or too red. I like that. This is uh not too orange. She wears an awful lot of pigment quite well too, because she's, balancing that hair, they say, she's a natural blonde, possibly so, but not that blonde. This red is a believable color, very clean around the eyes, beautiful, clean eyebrows separating from the skin and framing the eyes. She has a superb facial shape and contour, compared with the vague ambiguous shapes in the blonde hair. Beautiful contrast from here to face almost none in the blonde love the development of colors in the skin, trying to decide if, if the skin is too pink or too irritated, i don't think so. I just see these really nice corals coming out of the face. She looks healthy, she looks real and she looks normal. I mean normal is not boring. It'S good great hair color takes planning whether it's red or another color, whether you're going to do it or your colorist is going to do. It know the answers to a few questions ahead of time for red. What color family do you want? Do you want apricot or auburn? Do you want rust, or do you want coral? Do you want peach, or do you want? Caramel makes a huge difference. Also know the answer to these three questions on a scale of one to five, how light or dark do you want it to be on a scale of one to five? How warm or cool do you want it to be, don't be absolute? Most people aren't most of us are somewhere in the middle or think about a range of colors and how soft or bright do you want it to be? How close to your natural color, how much cosmetic impact the same thing you decide about lipstick? How much do you want it to jump off your face? Give those answers to your colorist or have a sense of how to use them yourself and you'll. Make so much better choices. Also, do this in baby steps and take pictures. We forget our hair color, almost instantly so same lighting same time of day, take pictures whether you start with natural or colored. It'S just a point of reference because you want to know you're improving. Otherwise, what in the world would be the point ideas things we talked about, so that you know you might be going the wrong way. The eyes go gray. Eyebrows make no sense. The blush that looked so good before all of a sudden, it's hard to look at with the hair color the skin turns yellow the skin becomes too pale. The face looks tired or it's under some kind of strain. The shapes of the face become blurred together hard to distinguish all signs that it might be time to go the other way or, if they're, getting better than signs that you're going the right way. I hope that you learn some good things in this video and i really look forward to seeing you next time.