Please please can someone help me with highlight colours. I have an appt tue and am shittin it!

[ENormaSnob]

Courtesy of straightened hair and bright sunlight, I had one of those awful dawning realisations last week.

I have more grey than I thought

I have an appointment Tuesday for highlights but no idea what colour to ask for.

I have very dark brown hair, green eyes, light tan skin but classed as cool colouring.

Please help me, I have no idea what will look good and I need to disguise the greys.

Anyone?

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A few ideas there.

Your hairdresser will be best to advise what will work with your hair type/colour.
Make sure they have those little 'click out' samples that you can hold against your hair to see what they look like. Walk outside and check in natural light too.
How dramatic do you want to go? Lots of fine ones over the 'T' zone can combat greys if you want a more natural look.
I would maybe look at a milk chocolate colour and some ashy light brown if you want to keep the cool tones.

Norma - I get (what my hairdresser calls) honey, caramel & toffee tones through my hair. I then have a base colour of chesnut brown. i have pale skin, dark blue eyes & bluergh brown hair (read mousey).

I get about 3 or 4 colours and they are very fine, not great chunks (that would just look weird).

Do you have any ideas about what colour you would like? Just because they call them highlights it doesn't mean peroxide 80's streaks

I don't like my hair to look coloured really, so it is a natural look. I tend to get blonder in the summer.

Does this help at all ?

NL

Yes, I was worried about 80s streaks

Toffee colours sound gorgeous but not sure they will suit my colouring.

They definitely need to be lighter to conceal the greys but need to be the right tone so I don't look washed out.

Self indulgent bump

If your colouring is naturally "cool" then you'd probably need to avoid red or gold shades. Auburn hair can be a dreadful clash with cool-toned skin and make people look less than healthy. I think yellowish highlights on naturally cool hair look odd too. The "ash brown" colours are perhaps your best bet - go for 2-3 colours no more than 3 shades lighter than your natural colour.