Hair Color Tones

What Is a Good Hair Color if My Hands Have a Yellow Tone?

Choosing the right hair color for your skin tone can take a bit of work. While many people sail through life without ever dappling in the world of hair color, others can barely remember what their natural color is, let alone recreate the tresses...

How Long to Wait to Tone a Bad Hair Color?

Hair dye looks so hot on the dye kit, but it doesn't always translate well to your head. When dye jobs go wrong, hair toner can offer near-instant relief. Since toners are semi-permanent, they can go on right after your dye job without causing...

Hair Colors for Cool-Toned People

When you're selecting a new hair color, the first place to start is your skin tone. Cool-toned women have blue or pink undertones to their skin. If you're not sure if you're cool-skinned, look at your wrist. The vein just below the heel of the...

Natural Ways to Tone Down Hair Color

Dye jobs gone bad are enough to make you want to chop off all your locks. Put down the scissors, girl, and try some natural methods to tone down the color instead. Sure, it's unsettling to look in the mirror and see a bright red head of hair when...

How to Correct Gold Tones in Hair Color

You're not the first person to aim for blond and end up being saddled with a head full of overly gold locks. If you want to tame that yellowish hue, it's as easy as calling in gold's nemesis -- violet. A little color correction with some help from...

How to Change the Tone in a Hair Color

Got the right level of color, but the tone is all kinds of wrong? Change the tone of your current hair color by neutralizing the unwanted color with another one. Use a semi-permanent color as a toner because its gentle formula will ensure...

How to Pick the Right Level & Tone for Do-It-Yourself Hair Color

Select the right level and tone of hair color to achieve salon worthy results in a shade you crave. Stray too far from your natural hair level and you risk a major color oops that requires a fix from a professional color expert. The wrong tone...

How to Tone Hair Color After Bleaching

Wow, you're glowing! Before you go smiling and swishing your hair to and fro, you should know that glowing is not always a good thing, especially when the term is used to describe your hair. A glowing bleach job screams for attention and a bottle...

How to Tone Down Hair Color That's Too Red

Thanks to your latest hair-color adventure, that red on your head is bolder than you expected, huh? Well, shrieking and crying may help restore your inner calm, but it won't take the spice out of that hair color. You need a color intervention, and...