Looking for some fresh ideas for colour with a darker base?
Leaning in to your natural hair colour and texture is always the healthiest approach, as you spare your hair from lightening, or straightening processes. Embrace beautiful, low maintenance, high shine colour with confidence!
Here’s a range of colour options which work for hair with a natural darker base:
Bologna 1 Black has a strikingly deep, beautiful finish. Adding depth can leave a flattering contrast with the complexion and leave the hair looking healthier.
If you are looking for a brighter, more dramatic colour change, mahogany tones are always eye-catching, drawing light and attention with their rich red-brown hue.
Colours & Tones
If you want to add some eye-catching, vibrant tones, consider intense red or mahogany colour options.
Florence 4.66 Intense Dark Red has double-strength red tones on a dark brown base colour level. It delivers rich, sultry, vibrant tones and it an excellent option for anyone looking for rich colours over a naturally darker base.
Mahogany colours are characterised by wine-coloured tones, which can be subtle or deeper, depending on the balance of tones. Mahogany colours such as Messina 4.5 Dark Brown Mahogany and Milano 5.5 Mahogany Brown, have a neutral balance of pigments, and they work for all complexions. Mahogany colours perform brilliantly as a semi or demi-permanent colour, depositing tones over brunettes of any depth – a perfect way to try mahogany tones without committing to permanent colour.
Many brunettes are hesitant of warm tones. We often hear requests for cool brunette colours without any warmth. However, there is a huge difference between unwanted, faded, dull, brassy brunette and an intentional rich chocolate or or deep auburn tone. Adding warmer tones introduces brighter, rich hues, which reflect light and give the hair a little sparkle.
Verona 5.53 Chocolate Brown blends mahogany, chestnut and gold tones, and it leaves a warm glow with multi-dimensional tones. Chocolate tones have a blend of warmer secondary tones, leaving a rich warm finish.
A fabulous chestnut brown has the perfect combination of warmth and depth without ever appearing brassy and it looks great on most skin tones.
If you are hesitant to add warmth, consider blending a warm colour with a neutral, which will give you half-strength warm tones. Adding some neutral tones can also be the best approach if you are covering greys. Neutral pigments fill and anchor warmer colours. A neutral + warm colour blend is the best way to achieve an even, consistent and balanced warm colour result, without a lighter or brighter colour result over greys.
Cool Toned Darker Colours:
If you are lightening your colour by even one colour level, and you want to see a tonally balanced colour result, then it is best to use a cool based colour such as Toscano 4.1 Dark Ash Brown.
Our intense ash colours, such as Perugia 4.11 Intense Dark Ash Brown have double strength ash tones. Intense ash colours are a great option if you have had challenges with unwanted warmth even when using ash colours then an intense
Cool toned colours work to reduce unwanted warmth in your colour. If you want to see a colour result without any warmth, you need a cool toned colour. Dark, medium and light brown cool colours are some of the most popular colours. They deliver dreamy brunettes with a balanced tone, leaving a matte, modern finish which is universally flattering.
Highlights
A darker base with lighter highlights is a classic and versatile look which will soften your silhouette. Highlights around the face will draw light to your face and light, softness and dimension to your look.
You can use our Highlights Kit to add highlights, babylights or foilyage. Our kits are customised, and you can add any finish you like to your highlights – classic cool tones or richer, warmer tones.
Low Maintenance Root Touch-Ups + Foilyage
Adding highlights is much more low maintenance than an all-over colour, especially with a foilyage application.
Foilyage uses a foil highlights application technique, but the lightener and tone/colour are only applied on the lower lengths, leaving the roots darker. Foilyage applications let you extend your time between colour applications, because there isn’t a firm colour line. You can get away with less touch-ups, and are a low maintenance colour technique.
Highlights can be fabulously flexible too – Once you’ve pre-lightened the hair you have many more options of shades which you can try, by applying a semi-permanent colour over your highlights.
Commitment-Phobe?
Running a semi or demi-permanent colour through your hair is a low commitment option which will refresh and boost your colour. If you have pre-lightened sections (highlights or balayage), running a toner will add shine, balance and boost tone.
Copper or gold curious? Adding semi-permanent tones over highlights or balayage lets you try brighter or warmer tones, without a long-term commitment.
Demi-permanent colour will last longer than a semi-permanent and is a great option for a longer-lasting finish which will fade away without leaving a demarcation line.
Both options are low commitment and will add just the right amount of refresh, and a whole lot of shine.
Please contact one of our colourists for personalised advice, and to help you achieve your colour goals.
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Laura Johnston
I would like to stick to semi permanent or demi permanent hair color. My hair is colored dark brown and I have about 50% grey hair. I like warm tones, can you suggest a color in your semi or demi permanent range in the browns.
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