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Did you check mostly cools? If so, your natural tones are in the cool spectrum. Mostly warms? Then you're naturally "warm."

Cool

Naturally cool people should avoid gold, yellow, red and bronze tones, which have a tendency to make you look sallow and drawn. The best hair color shades, depending on your skin tone, are shiny raven-wing blacks, cool ash brown hair colors, and cool blondes in shades ranging from mink to platinum and icy white. You're fortunate to be able to wear many exciting "unnatural" colors . . .for lipstick try reds, burgundies, and orchids, for a more daring look.

Warm

Naturally warm people should avoid blue, violet, white and jet-black hair, which will seem to "wash out" your natural hair color. Depending on your skin tone and your preference, you'll find that deep chocolate, rich golden brown hair colors, auburn, warm gold, red highlights, and golden blond shades enhance your "sunny" look. Hair weaving and hair highlighting are great ways to add warm tones to your hair color—and natural-looking corals, oranges and reds look dazzling on you!

Covering gray hair

Make sure you don't look incongruent. What do I mean? We age as a unit. If your hair color (or any other feature, for that matter) is out of sync with the overall aging process, it may look unnatural. When our eyes see a 60-year-old woman with jet black hair, our sensory acuity will begin screaming "what's wrong with this picture."

Think of the "comb-over guy." You know the guy who is nearly bald, but lets a few strands grow to three feet long and then plasters them over the bald spot. Believe it or not, he goes to the mirror each morning and says, "This works . . . look how young and virile I look." Don't be the female version of the comb-over guy!

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