Hello
everybody, I've been away for years I think! Now I'm ready to discuss such an
important question as different skin tones in many sorts again!
Oh my God,
I'm going grey! Is it awfully inglorious? Or is it trendy? Could grey hair be
attractive and stylish? How to bring yourself to gracefully natural grey hair?
How to match your skin tone to different shadows of grey hair? How to choose
the right tone of clothes and accessories to your skin and grey hair? There are
so many questions, so let's look at this matter in details with visual skin
tone charts.
There is no
secret grey hairs appear even in youth, so grey hair can't be only the mature
age sign in fact of genetic inheritance, global environmental influences and
other matters. According to the recent famous fashion magazine Glamour more
than 2500 persons poll 43% of people
that took part in it answered that they found grey haired women and men
attractive. Only 4% of asked persons thought grey hair to be unattractive. The
great power of public mind is on grey-haired people side.
Grey hair
were in fashion in 18th century as we can see thanks to the paintings of famous
art members like Thomas Gainsborough, Francois Boucher, and others. Duchess of Devonshire in her powdered silvering grey wig has a fresh
complexioned skin tone with blue undertone like a garden rose. Grey hair were
considered as a mark of high social status. Only quite well doing people could
venture themselves the luxurious wigs in white, grey and lightly colored grey
tones made of real human hairs. Moreover, those volume shaped grey hair wigs of
18th century should be generously powdered with oak powder or with starch. What
a deepest relief that we are not obliged
to do something sophisticated this way!
Grey hair is
in fashion now: Karl Lagerfeld's and Calvin
Klein's favorite supermodel
Kristen McMenamy wears her naturally grey hair on the catwalks and says "You can get older and still be rock'n'roll". Even the style icon Kate Moss is
going grey and she does it gracefully fashionable. Many of celebrities were
driven by this trend: Pink, Kelly Osbourne, Nicole Kidman and Lady Gaga, of course.
Let's
imagine I'm finally encouraged enough to go gray. But would it match my complexion?
I want my grey hair suits me very well, and I definitely do not want to look
like just a person who've forget the way to stylist. Let's have a look at the charts
by the example the celebrities such Jamie Lee Curtis, Helen Mirren, Maye Musk
and Meryl Streep.
Superstar
Jamie Lee Curtis has a medium skin tone with golden undertone. You can read
about medium skin tones in my article about determining skin tones and undertones with charts. She's so lucky about her complexion! When she was a brown-haired
person, she hadn't enough contrast of colors in her appearance. But recently
Jamie Lee Curtis went grey haired, and we can see a striking change to impressive
good-looking. The truth is in the science of colors: the warm tones are in contrast with cool tones. If you put warms and cools nearly, you can see them
brighter and more vibrant then they are in itself. This quite clear principle
is in use by the world artists and stylists. Hair tone is always opposite to
skin tone or skin undertone in the matter of warmth.
I think
Jamie Lee Curtis is much prettier with grey hair. Her skin looks vivid, and her
expressive eyes are appreciable now. Her appearance gained some special dynamics
of tones interaction. That's because of high contrast between very light grey
hair and golden warm skin tone. We can see Jamie Lee in search of best matching
tone of grey for her skin. In according to the science of tones, warm orange
golden is opposite to blues. It doesn't mean Jamie Lee should have her hair in futuristic
manga style. But the best matching tone of grey is cool silver for her. We can
see in a chart that warm grey hair looks not very fresh on Jamie Lee Curtis.
Stay tuned,
more articles with charts are coming soon!