Thinking about a new shade? Our Hair Color guides cover the shades everyone is asking for, with at-home formulas, upkeep timelines, and honest advice on what each color needs from your hair (and your budget) to look its best. You will find warm red-orange copper, rich cherry cola brunette, and the full range of browns and brunettes, plus the decision guides that help you pick the shade that suits your skin tone, eye color, and maintenance level. The guides also cover what color does to your hair, damage, expiry, and safety, so you know the full picture before you commit.
Start by learning how to choose the best hair color for you based on skin tone and style, then try the rich, glossy tones in our cherry cola brunette guide, or warm things up with copper hair color at home, complete with shades and formulas. When you are ready to color, follow our complete step-by-step guide to coloring your hair at home.
Walk down a busy street in almost any major city and you’ll notice something quickly: hair color isn’t evenly distributed. Some shades show up constantly, while others feel rare, the kind of thing that makes a stranger’s hair color worth a second glance. That distribution isn’t random. It comes down to genetics, population size, and…
Semi-permanent vs demi-permanent hair color sounds interchangeable. They both deposit color, both gradually fade, and both are commonly chosen by people who do not want the commitment of permanent dye. Once you sit in a salon chair or start reading hair-color descriptions, however, the difference becomes much more useful than the names suggest. Semi-permanent color…
Cherry cola brunette is a dark brown base with red-violet cherry reflects, achievable at home without pre-lightening. There is a hair color all over your feed that looks like dark cherry soda poured over brunette – deep, glossy brown with a red-violet glow that shows up in sunlight and looks almost black indoors. That is…
Copper hair color at home is a warm red-orange shade you can achieve with copper dye, 10 or 20 volume developer, and 25 to 45 minutes of processing. Copper hair is the shade everyone screenshots but nobody quite knows how to ask for at the salon – and it is one of the hardest colors…
No, Great Clips does not color hair. You’re due for a color refresh, and Great Clips happens to be the closest salon with no wait and no appointment needed. Before you walk in expecting to leave with fresh highlights or a full color change, it’s worth knowing exactly what this chain does and doesn’t offer,…
Ask five different people to define “brunette” and you’ll probably get five slightly different answers. Some will tell you it just means brown hair, plain and simple. Others will insist it only counts if the hair is dark, verging on black. A few might even bring skin tone into the conversation, which sounds strange until…
To strip hair dye without excess damage, match the method to the dye type and start with the gentlest method that can move that pigment. Changing your mind about hair color is easy. Removing the color is the complicated part. A brunette that looked rich on the first day may feel almost black after several…
Hair dye has an impressive ability to end up everywhere except the section of hair you were trying to color. A tiny streak appears along the forehead. A drop lands beside the sink drain. Another reaches the bathtub, and somehow a dark spot turns up on the bath mat or carpet several feet away. Fresh…
A hair color can be beautiful on its own and still feel completely wrong once it is on your head. That usually happens because the decision was based on the shade alone. Maybe the inspiration photo showed a glossy copper, icy beige blonde, or dramatic espresso brunette, but the person wearing it had a different…
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