Golden Brown Highlights


Selecting the right shade of golden (blonde) and brown hair color is important when coloring your hair. Because, one shade of golden brown can be a cool shade while another shade of golden brown can be a warm one. Cool shades of hair color ideas suit people who have cool skin tones and eye color, and warm shades of hair color suit people who have warm complexion and eye color.

Picking the Right Shade of Golden Brown
Most shades of golden brown like shiny or light golden brown hair color are warm color shades. So, people who have warm skin tone and eye color, then they can go for these shades of golden brown easily. However, if you belong to the cool category then there are very limited choices, to pick a shade of blonde-brown highlights.

People who belong to the category of warm skin tone and eye color category, can have skin tone brown skin tone, with pink or golden undertones, ruddy complexion, pale complexion with peach or golden undertones or a freckled complexion. The eyes can be green eyes, greenish-blue eyes, golden brown eyes or hazel eyes with brown or golden colored flecks. If you belong to this category, then you can go with golden brown streaks. If you want to get golden brown highlights in brown hair, then go with a base of warm brown color like medium brown, auburn brown, milk chocolate brown, dark brunettes. You can also go with darker shades of blonde, and on top of that get light golden brown hair highlights.

If you have skin tone which is bronze or brown complexion after tanning, pale complexion with pink undertones or no color, olive complexion, medium complexion with light pink color in the cheeks or no color, dark brown skin or medium complexion with golden undertones then you have a cool skin tone. The cool eye colors are dark blue, grayish blue, hazel colored with light flecks, blackish brown and dark brown. If you have one of these eye color and skin tones. If you are thinking of getting these highlights in black hair or in dark brown hair, then pick cool shades of blonde and brown. Sandy blonde hair and ash blonde color suit people with cool skin tones.

How to Get Golden Brown Highlights
The best way to get hair highlights is to visit a stylist. An experienced stylist will also help you to pick the right shade, and place the streaks in your hair properly. When getting highlights you can consider skinny lots of highlights to get a nice textured look. However, if you want your highlights to stand out, then go with chunky highlights. If you are thinking of doing the golden brown hair with highlights color kit, then the easiest method is the cap method. In this method you need to make holes in the cap and take out hair strands and color them. Make sure you get minimum 8 highlights. Also, place your highlights properly all over your hair, so that when you are tying your hair, still your highlights are revealed.

Hair Care Tips for Colored Hair
After highlighting your hair, it is important that you use products like shampoo and conditioners which are especially made for colored hair care. Also, avoid exposing your hair to sun, as this can lighten the color. Wear hats, scarves, or use umbrellas when out in the sun. Also, dilute your hair with mineral water and then go for swimming.

These were the guidelines on picking right kind of golden brown hair highlights, and other tips on coloring hair and tips on caring your colored hair. To get best results visit a stylist to get highlights.

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