Hair Color Research Paper

All over the country, women and men color their hair. Some color their hair to cover grey and have a younger appearance, while others color their hair for the fun of it. According to a 2008 poll by Clairol, seventy-five percent of American women color their hair, and eighty-eight percent of women feel their hair has an effect on their confidence. Skin tone plays a huge factor in which hair color suits a person and what hair color will make them feel the most confident; darker skin complexions will not be able to pull of the same color hair as someone who has a lighter complexion. Skin tones can be described as fair, light, medium, and dark. With a neutral, warm, or cool hue. Neutral tones, have both warm and cool properties no matter what …show more content…
Level three would be a dark brown, while level six would be a light to medium brown, depending on the brand of hair color. No matter what the level of the color, it will always have a tone to it. There is no such thing as just a plain brown. If someone wanted a brown that was not too warm or too cool they would go for a neutral option. The haircolor would have the number of the level followed by the letter N. This indicates that the brown is a neutral shade. For example if the hair color was a level four N. The color would be a dark neutral brown. If someone wanted a brown that had warmth to it. They would go for options that include the letters, W, G, R, or C. W stands for warm, G, stands for gold, R stands for red, and C stands for copper. Sometimes the hair color will have more than one letter. Some will say level five GC, which would be a level five brown golden copper. Some hair color will also use words such as, auburn, amber, strawberry, and bronze. Warm tone hair colors look lighter than their actual level. For example if someone wanted to be a level four brown red, the hair stylist should use a level three brown red (Milady). Warm brown hair can tend to look red and brassy in some lighting. On the other hand, cool tone hair colors look darker than its actual level. The hairstylist should go up to a level four, or a five, depending on the brand of color that they use. Cool tone hair colors use the letters V, B, and A. V stands for violet, B, stands for blue, and A stands for ash. If a client would like brown hair with a purple hue to it, their stylist would use a color that had the letter V after the number. For example a level three