Most people are either warm or cool toned. The shade of blonde you choose for your hair depends on the underlying tones in your skin.  Warm toned people have golden, olive, or dark skin with brown or dark eyes. Their hair is black, brown, blonde, red, or strawberry blonde. People considered warm tan easily. If you are warm toned, your hair reflects gold, and gold jewelry looks good on your skin. Cool toned people have fair skin with blue or green eyes. They have blonde, black, or brown hair. These people burn instead of tanning. If you are cool toned, your hair might reflect silver in the light. Silver jewelry looks good on your skin. Turn your arm over. Look at the veins in your wrist and forearms. If they appear to be green, you have warm tones. If they are blue, you are cool toned. Another method is to hold a white piece of paper up to your face. If you are cool toned, your skin will look blue compared to the paper. If you are warm toned, your skin will look yellow or golden next to the paper. Whether you are dyeing your hair from a box or at a salon, the shades can sound like food options at a bakery. Warm shades contain words like warm, honey, golden, butter, caramel, or copper. Cool shades are called ash, beige, pearl, and ice. No matter what skin tone you have, if you want your hair to look natural, only go 2-3 shades lighter than your natural hair color. Also consider the color of your eyebrows when deciding on a natural blonde shade.  Going a few shades lighter can easily be done at home. Lifting your hair's natural hair color a few shades can be achieved through a boxed dye. If you are going a few shades lighter on already dyed hair, but your hair naturally is dark, go for ash-toned blonde shades. Consider dyeing your hair with cool or neutral shades of blonde if you are doing it at home. Warm shades, with golden or honey in the title, can end up making your hair look orange. Adding warmth to your hair if you have a pinkish hue can result in an over-reddening of your face. Go for cooler blonde shades, like sandy blonde, ashy blonde, or beige blonde. Anyone can go blonde, but you have to find a complimentary shade for your skin. Darker and olive toned skin may not be right for a super bright blonde shade.  Try a honey blonde instead. Another suggestion is to keep your darker roots and ask for golden beige highlights. The roots help prevent your face from washing out. Caramel is another shade of blonde that will compliment your tones.  Alternately, you can try buttery or strawberry blonde shades.  If you have brown hair, be careful going too light because it can wash you out. Avoid platinum, white, or orange. Go for blonde highlights or lowlights instead. You can try golden blonde, beige blonde, or even light blonde. Keep warmth in your hair to match your warm skin tone. To get a subtle ombre, keep your light brown base and add varying tones of honey highlights through the middle of your hair, going a bit lighter at the ends. If you have warm skin tones, avoid brassy blonde colors. Brassy blonde colors can end up giving you an orange hue. Ashy colors can leave you washed out. If you have light skin, you want to choose golden, strawberry, or light blonde while staying away from white, ash, and reddish. The lighter your skin, the lighter the shade of blonde you can go while still looking natural.  Try buttery highlights on a caramel base. For a multi-dimensional, natural lighter blonde, go for a mix of butter, gold, and honey.  Dyeing your hair blonde works well if you were blonde as a child, or your hair got blonde as you spent time in the sun. For a bold blonde that goes beyond 2-3 shades lighter than your natural hair color, seek the help of a professional hair stylist. Extreme blonde shades or highlights require multiple bleachings, and most of the time, multiple visits to the salon. If you try to bleach your hair at home, you could end up with banana or canary yellow hair or brassy, golden orange.  Anyone can be platinum blonde, but it may take months to achieve. Lighter hair will be much easier to dye a white blonde. Hair that has been dyed before or naturally dark hair will take much longer. To safely dye your hair, you need to gradually lighten the hair. If your hair is dark, you won’t going to be able to reach platinum blonde in one visit. It could take months of dyes in lighter shades to work you up to a white blonde. Most hair colors need at least 3 appointments to achieve full blonde status.  For a white blonde, go for ice blonde if you are warm toned. Platinum blonde works better on cool tones. Remember - there is no white. Ask a hair specialist to help you understand the different white shades if you have trouble. Correct a brassy dye job at home by using purple shampoo. At home bleaching can go very wrong. If this is the first time you are dyeing your hair, go to a professional. When bleaching at home, make sure to follow the directions on the box exactly. Don't leave the bleach on for more than 45 minutes.  Your hair should be a pale yellow when you finish bleaching. If it's an orange, which happens sometimes with very dark hair, wait a week to bleach again. Put conditioning treatments on your hair during this week. If you are trying to dye your hair platinum at home, you will need to use a purple toner or shampoo on your hair. This is a must if you want to dye your hair white blonde because it erases the yellow brassiness. Go for a 30 or 40 volume toner. Rinse with white vinegar to help keep the toner color longer.  Don't try to leave the bleach on your hair for a shorter amount of time to reach a darker blonde and a longer amount of time to reach a lighter blonde. Bleach doesn't work this way. It strips the hair if the pigments.
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