We've come to the conclusion that blonde is the #1 anti-aging hair color. If you're going gray, ask your stylist to combine the grays with warmer, blonder tones for a more natural blend.
Turns out, most colorists and stylists think your hair really does influence whether you look older or younger. We celebrate beauty at every age, and there is no right or wrong approach to personal care.
Lighter hair can make you look younger, as long as you use the right tones. Add some warmth with golden highlights and go for shades like honey to give your complexion a healthy, youthful glow!
Going too dark with your color creates the illusion of more fine lines and wrinkles, says Michael Dueñas, celebrity hairstylist and founder of Hair Room Service. Also, if you have gray hair, you can make the line of demarcation more apparent when your hair starts to grow in.
According to New York plastic surgeon Michael Sachs, blondes age faster than brunettes, and blue-eyed women age faster than brown-eyed women, because "dark skin has built-in sun-filtering mechanisms," and the darker the eye, the more the protection.
Kimball, professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School. Darker pigmentation acts as a natural protectant from the sun's harsh rays, so the paler the skin, the more likely you'll develop hyperpigmentation and early-onset wrinkles.
But some children with light hair, including towhead blonds, strawberry blonds, dishwater blonds and redheads, see their hair go dark brown by their 10th birthday. The reason for this change is because the amount of eumelanin in your hair increases as you mature, according to some research.
Myth: Only Blonde Kids Make Gorgeous Adult Blondes
While it's true that adults who were blonde as kids would look natural as blonde adults, pretty much everyone can look wear blonde hair. That's right. You heard it here first. No matter your skin color or hair color, you can go blonde.
With aging, the follicles make less melanin, and this causes the color to darken and then turn to gray. … My hair is a natural golden blonde and is turning brown and brassy.
Does blonde hair make you look thinner? Well, warm toned blondes (strawberry blonde, honey blonde, caramel blonde) will flatter you, and you can actually experiment with adding some cool-toned blonde highlights.
Going ashy.
The wrong ones, like ash, can instantly age you. “Warm tones reflect light, while ash tones absorb light. Go with warm tones, so your hair won't be dull and will instead shine, bounce, and look youthful,” says Mary Brambila of Brambila Salon.
Most women think brunette hair is the sexiest, as 25% of those polled favoured this option. Womens' second preference is blonde, which was voted as the sexiest hair colour by 19.6% of women. Again, red took third spot, accounting for 11.8% of womens' votes.
Lighter hair color makes you look younger – but the tone you go for is paramount. Stay away from cool, ashy tones and add some warmth to your look with golden highlights. Go for shades like honey to give your complexion a healthy, youthful glow!
Loose waves are more younger-looking, while straight hair can be aging. Play around with face-framing layers to give your hair some softness and movement. Layers can also make your hair appear to be more luscious and healthy. Parra recommends asking your stylist for perimeter layers that are cut in a straight line.
Maintaining an icy white shade of blonde — especially if you're a natural brunette — requires touch-ups every four to six weeks.
Platinum blonde is a cool color, that doesn't look good on fair or rosy-skinned women, since it will give them a “dull” and aged appearance.
If You Have Blonde Hair
Blonds get white hair just like brunets, but some blondes only appear to get a lighter blond while others experience their blonde hairs getting darker and duller as the white hairs begin to appear. Still, blondes can, over time, have a full head of white hair.
Only 2 percent of the world's population has naturally blond hair.
3. Blondes aren't blondes forever. (Naturally, at least.) Many kids born with light hair go dark before their tenth birthday, thanks to rising levels of eumelanin, a natural pigment that regulates the darkness of hair strands.
A couple of thousand UK men were polled and 33.1% of them revealed they found brunettes more attractive than blondes. Though 29.5% found blondes more attractive, brown-haired beauties still edged ahead of the pack. Another 2011 study conducted by Viren Swami and Seishin Berrett went a little more in-depth.
An academic study has found that women with fair hair are more aggressive and confident than brunettes or redheads. This is because blondes attract more attention than other women as they are generally viewed by men as more attractive and so are used to getting their own way, the researchers claim.
They say gentlemen prefer blondes – but it seems that only holds true when they are out on the town. For, while they are more likely to chat up a fair-haired lady on a night out, men actually find brunettes more attractive, a study has shown.
Natural red hair is the rarest hair color in the world, only occurring in 1 to 2% of the global population. Since red hair is a recessive genetic trait, it is necessary for both parents to carry the gene, whether or not they themselves are redheaded.
For one thing, assuming she isn't wearing makeup, a natural blonde almost always has a paler skin color and lighter eyebrows, sometimes lighter lashes. She also has light-colored body hair, including public (if you find yourself in an intimate situation).
Choosing a Shade: Dirty blonde tends to have a bunch of different colors and tones mixed together. Buck says she keeps her dirty blondes at a level 7 and 8. "Depending on your skin tone that will determine the tones used," she says. Maintenance Level: Low to medium.