Video:Tips for Coloring Shoulder-Length Hair

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Hi! I'm Laura Kiorkis, owner of Gemini of Chicago Hair Salon in Peoria, Arizona. Today I'm going to talk about tips for coloring shoulder-length hair.

Consider How You Style Your Hair Before Adding Color and Highlights

When determining your color for shoulder-length hair, it is important to consider your everyday style. If you wear your hair pulled up in a ponytail or pulled halfway up, it is important to consider your highlight placement because that will be exposed when you pull that hair back. If you wear your hair down and straight a lot, it is important to consider where your highlight placement should be and if you want those highlights to stand out or look more natural, or if you'd like to choose one solid color as a nice clean canvas. If you wear your hair curly and shoulder-length, your color consideration might be a range of things including highlights, all over color, lowlights, or a mixture of both.

Consider Your Face Shape When Deciding How to Color Your Hair

When choosing hair color for your shoulder-length hairstyle, it is important to consider what face shape you have. Round-faced shapes might want to choose color that creates visual height at the top of the head. This would mean wearing your highlights at the crown or in the bang area and keeping the sides dark to create a slimming effect at the sides. Oval-faced shapes can wear their hair color any way they choose. Most of the time, you'll want to enhance the nice bone structure that comes along with having an oval-faced shape. Long-faced shapes might want to wear their hair color lighter at the sides to create an illusion of a wider face. This hair color trick has the eye moving from side to side versus up and down to create a shortening of the face.

Heart-shaped faces might want to wear their hair dark in the areas of the temples and light at the neck. This will create widening at the base where the chin is narrow and narrowing at the forehead where it tends to be wider. For heart-shaped faces wearing shoulder length hair, a trendier hair color option might be a Balayage technique or a melting color. This means having darker roots and lighter ends.When choosing color for square-shaped faces with shoulder-length hairstyles, you might want to consider a mixture of highlights and lowlights in the front face framing area. This will soften the angles of a square-shaped face. And those are your top tips for coloring shoulder-length hair.