Choosing the Best Hair Color and Style

[This Want Gorgeous Hair? series started Saturday.]

When hair is weak, damaged or thinning, it helps to make some adjustments in your hair cut, style, color and perhaps even makeup palette.

Tips on Best Style and Cut
Choose styles that flatter your facial contours – which may have changed with the years.

If your face appears longer and thinner, choose face-framing waves, curls or wispy styles.

If your face is rounder than in younger days, a straight sleek style will provide balance.

Feathered bangs can be used to counteract a receding hairline. Blunt straight bangs don’t work well with thin hair. They call attention to the thinness rather than camouflage it.

You’ve probably heard the advice to give up long hair after a certain age. That’s especially true if your face, hair or both have thinned. However it doesn’t mean you should go ultra-short.

The most flattering cut for a thin face or thinning hair is anywhere from very short to the collarbone. While layers are sometimes used to add fullness, if hair is thinning, too many short layers expose rather than conceal. Longer layers of subtle gradation are better

Tips on Best Color
Adjusting hair color to more flattering hues with permanent color products also adds volume since the colorant coats and thickens the hair shaft.

Avoid ashy, mousy or gray shades which don’t reflect light well and can come off looking dull. You can totally change the color or brighten dull shades with highlights.

For at home shimmering hair color, try L'Oréal Paris Feria Multi-Faceted Shimmering Haircolour, winner of both the 2009 Allure Magazine Best of Beauty Highlighting Kit Award and the Readers’ Choice Best Home Hair Color Award.

Once you’re happy with your new hair color, you should consider adjusting your makeup colors as well. I’ve written a separate article on how to Update Your Makeup Look.

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