purple hair highlights
Purple Hair Highlights
Purple hair highlights can go with most hair colors provided one has the skin tone and eye color to carry it off. In this following Buzzle article, we will understand what these factors are, and give you examples of some of the ways in which you can try purple highlights.
Factors to Consider
Skin Tone Color
A cool skin tone is a preferred choice for getting purple highlights. A cool skin tone could feature any of these―a brown or bronze color post tanning, a pale complexion with pink undertones, a pale complexion with no color in the cheeks, a medium complexion with no color in the cheeks, a medium complexion with faint pink cheeks, a true olive complexion, usually observed in Asians and Latinos, or a very dark brown complexion. These skin tones will naturally carry purple highlights exceptionally well.
Eye Color
The eye color also plays an important role in determining whether one should go in for purple highlights. People with cool eye colors can easily opt for these highlights. These feature eye colors like hazel with white, gray or blue flecks, gray blue or dark blue shades, as well as those which are deep brown or blackish brown.
Natural Hair Base Color
As far as the hair color is concerned, different shades of purple highlights can be used on most hair colors like jet or raven black hair, brown or cinnamon hair, ash blonde, platinum blonde, or strawberry blonde hair and the like.
Ideas for Highlights
Purple highlights can look exceptionally good on varied base hair colors. Some of the options and combinations that you can try have been listed below. Either way, they break the monotony of the base color and give it more depth.
► Purple highlights look exceptionally great on shiny, raven-black hair color. These can either be done up as highlights and then used liberally through the length and width of the hair, or they can be used only on one thick section of the hair.
► A base hair color of white or platinum blonde will also highlight the purple shade really well.
► To make a very bold statement, go in for a mix of deep blue and dark purple highlights. Though these look great on most base hair colors, they are enhanced better on raven-black hair.
► A mix of dark burgundy and dark purple makes for one of the most eye-catching combinations on the hair as well. Used mainly on brown or black hair, it makes for a great mix on other base colors also.
► On a base of platinum blonde, white or icy blonde hair, get some pink and purple highlights near the crown. To enhance the look further, dye the bottom few inches of your hair ends into the same shade of purple.
► Another style that can be tried is to take two long strands of hair located right behind the ear and color these completely purple. Then leave the rest of the hair dark blue or icy white.
Hair Care Tips for Colored Hair
Purple hair dye is not as strong as blonde, black, or brown dyes and doesn't last very long. To protect your hair color, it is important that you follow a proper routine meant to extend the life of your colored hair. Use specially made shampoos and conditioners for colored hair, and use mild hair care products, if any. Avoid exposing your hair to the sun, since doing so will fade the color faster. You should also wear protective gear like caps, hats, scarves, etc to further protect your mane.
There is so much that you can do with purple hair on all base colors, as you must have seen through this article. So have you gotten a fair idea of the kind of things that you can do and the kind of styles you can adopt with purple highlights? Go right ahead then, and paint the town purple already.