A while ago, we discussed if our hairstyle affects our fashion style.
Now that I’ve coloured my hair again, after years of having my natural hair colour, I’m going to ask you if your hair colour affects your makeup choices?
Do you find yourself using certain colours more, or doing your makeup a certain way when you have different coloured hair?
As for me, I used to be a bit of an experimentalist where my hair was concerned. I’d gone from a redhead to blonde-brown within a year although I never quite went the whole way to go platinum blonde – I don’t think my work would allow that 😛
Along the way, I realised that depending on my hair colour, I’d do my makeup a little differently or use different colours for lips and eye. Sometimes softer, sometimes bolder and sometimes, colours that don’t clash with my hair. Also, some hair colour made my skin look fairer while others made my skin look a little sallow so again my makeup had to compensate.
I recently coloured my hair Mocha Orange which is really a warm brown with orange/red highlights and the hair colour makes my skin look a little fairer than it is. So I’ve found that I don’t do my dramatic grey smokey eye looks as much although I stick to colours. For some reason a dramatic grey smokey eye look just looks too stark against my skin and hair du jour. Instead I go with green that works somehow.
But that’s me. How about you? If you colour your hair, do you find your hair colour affecting your makeup choices? No right or wrong answer (of course!) just have your say 🙂
Paris B
shuaddict says
November 9, 2010 at 9:10 amThe color looks great on you – your complexion looks rosier. You really are rocking that haircut! It fits you perfectly.
Crazy coincidence! I colored my hair to jet black yesterday evening and was going to go on a major internet hunt this morning to try to figure out how to work this look. I’m sort of clueless on what to do but do feel like rocking super red lips, because the contrast looks awesome.
ParisB says
November 9, 2010 at 9:22 amThank you! 🙂 Its the same haircut I’ve had for a while 😀 And red lips is gorgeous with dark hair. Its one of the first things I noticed when I changed my hair colour – I can’t wear red red lips much anymore because the tone might clash with my hair! boo 🙁
Nikki says
November 9, 2010 at 9:14 amI actually do not do anything different on my makeup, the makeup actually comes out differently depending on my hair color! Your hair color looks gorgeous PB!
ParisB says
November 9, 2010 at 9:23 amHaha… so your makeup is affected by hair colour then? 😉 Thanks Nikki – it was a home colour that I’m glad worked!
Yani says
November 9, 2010 at 9:20 amThat’s a very sexy colour lah, Paris! Hot! 🙂
ParisB says
November 9, 2010 at 9:23 amAhem! Thanks Yani! 😉
Pink says
November 9, 2010 at 9:23 amooo love it!!! you look more gorgeous Paris!
ParisB says
November 9, 2010 at 9:46 amHaha… thanks Pink! But have you coloured your hair and do you find that it affect how you do your makeup?
Pink says
November 10, 2010 at 9:25 amnot really… the hair color actually affect to out skin color… certain colors can make your skin lighter….
Hanny says
November 9, 2010 at 9:31 amEEEK I wanna color me hair too…. You do look fairer!! ^.^
Erm, since I’ve never colored me hair, the colors of me clothes does affect the colors of me makeup ^.^
ParisB says
November 9, 2010 at 9:47 amDo it! This was a home colour and I was quite impressed 😀
tass says
November 9, 2010 at 9:47 amNice nice color!! I am a brown lover.. so…you look very pretty in it! and yeah, i think makeup should match the hair color. Unless it’s a party time when we can go wild with colors. (exception and limitation:: i saw Lady Gaga in a stunning Yellow hair, and too bad it looks like a mad chicken…)
ParisB says
November 9, 2010 at 10:32 amThank you Tass and LOL at Lady Gaga looking like a mad chicken! 😀 I never really thought about my makeup-hair colour co relation till now and I’m beginning to understand why some women find it hard to wear certain colours 🙂
syeang says
November 9, 2010 at 9:57 amhome hair color kit from which brand? looks good!
ParisB says
November 9, 2010 at 10:32 amIts from Liese 🙂
xin says
November 9, 2010 at 10:06 ami like yr hair color!!!!! i might get one and DIY too
ParisB says
November 9, 2010 at 10:33 amThanks Xin! But didn’t you just do your hair?!
xin says
November 9, 2010 at 4:25 pmbut i didnt dye 😛 i dont like getting hair colored in saloon, always makes my hair dry like hay, but if DIY, my hair can still be softttt
ParisB says
November 10, 2010 at 9:40 amSalon chemicals are much stronger hence the drying out effect. Also in the salon if you want a lighter shade, they bleach out your hair first then add in colour. That’s why its so dry. At home, you dont’ do that so you get a rough approximation of new hair colour but less drying. Use a hair mask – works wonders 🙂
AnT says
November 9, 2010 at 10:50 amLOL Mine is Mocha Orange too! *five* 😀
Unfortunately, one box is not enough for my long hair though 😛
Yes indeed. This colour makes our skin look fairer 😀
Yes indeed. Hair colour sometimes affects my makeup choices
ParisB says
November 9, 2010 at 2:20 pmYay for Mocha Orange! *high five* Unlike you, I find 1 box too much for my short hair! Next time, we dye together and I can share my box with you LOL
AnT says
November 10, 2010 at 10:14 amLOL Yes indeed, we should dye together one day 😛 Can take mine though, I use only 1.5, 0.5 should be enough for you LOL 😀
ParisB says
November 10, 2010 at 10:52 amHAHA ya that would be awesome 😉
lemon says
November 9, 2010 at 11:33 ami like your lipstick, what color is that? if i colored my hair, i will make sure the eyebrow color (either dark brown or light brown) matches the hair color as i have low hairline. other than that, i am free flow on the eyeshadow and blusher.
ParisB says
November 9, 2010 at 2:28 pmOoh thanks 🙂 I think its the same lipstick – Lancome L’Absolu Creme de Brilliance in (I believe) Exotic Orchid. You know what’s funny? I never thought about my brows before 😛 I did use a lighter brow pencil before when I had very light hair but that was about it
Jennifer says
November 9, 2010 at 11:41 amyes it does affect! I had almost blond hair before (like japanese girls- blond brown, if this makes sense LOL) and it makes my facial features not as outstanding as before (esp eyes get smaller o_o), so i had to put on extra eyeliner and mascara before i head out – now i dyed it darker into brown..and i appear more awake LOL
ParisB says
November 9, 2010 at 2:29 pmHey you’re right you know. When I had very light hair, I played up my eyes more. With darker hair, I can get by with not doing too much to the eyes. But when I have this funny reddish hair, I always tend to go very smokey eyed (but not with black or grey) I have no idea why!
Jessica says
November 9, 2010 at 11:44 amLooking good there 😉 To me, it doesn’t affect much but I find myself looking better with dyed hair as it enhances the makeup. Can’t really pinpoint what is different but when looking at pictures (before and after), the overall impression is somewhat vastly different 😀 Oh Tuesday fuzz, making my brain go fuzzy.
ParisB says
November 9, 2010 at 2:30 pmThanks Jessica and LOL at Tuesday fuzz. I’m pretty fuzzy myself! But yes having coloured hair is always quite different and its fun. I “rested” my hair for a year or so. I guess I just couldn’t sit still that long 😉
Grace says
November 9, 2010 at 4:16 pmWhoah, looking great in reddish brown hair! 🙂 I never really experimented with hair colour so my makeup pretty much stays the same. I dyed it black once and I looked like a hantu, my mum asked me to never do it again! Haha!
ParisB says
November 10, 2010 at 9:39 amThanks Grace! I tried stark black too once. Too much of a contrast with my skin seeing as my natural colour is just a step down from what I just coloured it recently! 😀 But its fun to experiment eh? And black black hair is, I feel amazing looking if you have short hair 🙂
Amanda says
November 9, 2010 at 4:54 pmLooking pretty there 😉
I’ve dyed my hair a few times only. I always have my natural jet black hair. So, I don’t really have to make a choice for a makeup that goes with my hair colour.
ParisB says
November 10, 2010 at 9:41 amThanks Amanda 🙂 I’ve been uncolored for years now, ever since I worked out that my natural hair colour has natural reddish highlights so why waste the money 😛 I did get some highlights put in about a year or two ago but this is the first time in a long time I’ve had new hair colour. Gotta admit that its playing havoc with my makeup color choices though 😛
June says
November 9, 2010 at 5:00 pmI usually match it according to cool tones or warm tones… Since I like cool tones better, I highlight my hair with cool tones and select cool tones of brown for my eye brows too.
Other than that, my choices of lip colour/ eye shadow doesn’t change much 😛
ParisB says
November 10, 2010 at 9:42 amNice technique! Yup pairing cool with cool and warm with warm helps enhance rather than contrast so that’s a good tip!
gio says
November 9, 2010 at 5:13 pmThat’s a really nice hair color, you look beautiful!
Hair color doesn’t really affect my makeup choices. I just wear whatever I want whenever I want lol.
ParisB says
November 10, 2010 at 9:43 amThank you Gio 🙂 I did try going with a red lip with my new hair colour and it isn’t working out very well. Hmm… Maybe I just have to be a bit more adventurous 😉
j3nny9irL says
November 9, 2010 at 5:19 pmLove the new colour Paris! It does brightens up your face 😀 Plus Plus!!!
Hmmm I don’t colour my hair but I do see some ppl with bright hair and dark eyebrows… Kinda weird… I do see ppl match their brows with their hair as well. I think it looks better that way. 😀
ParisB says
November 10, 2010 at 9:44 amThank you! I know what you mean about the eyebrows! When I had very very light hair, I never thought about my eyebrows so I’d have been one of the odd people you saw! LOL
j3nny9irL says
November 10, 2010 at 11:20 amyikes! haha 😛 Now you know lor kekekek
Petrina says
November 9, 2010 at 7:15 pmYou look so chic with this hairstyle !
ParisB says
November 10, 2010 at 9:44 amThank you Petrina! The hairstyle’s old but the colour’s new 😉
Juan says
November 9, 2010 at 9:05 pmthe new hair colour makes you look sexier in the olive green top!!
ParisB says
November 10, 2010 at 9:44 amHaha!! Thanks Juan! Gotta keep this colour now 😛
Connie De Alwis says
November 9, 2010 at 10:15 pmLoving the new color! Tres jolie!
My hair’s so light now that my eyes look darker and I don’t know what to make of them :-/ My typical looks now make me look more seafood *shrugs*
ParisB says
November 10, 2010 at 9:46 amMerci! 😀 What do you mean your look makes you look like seafood?! o_O