What colour wig will suit me?

Generally, shades darker than your natural colour will pale the face, and shades significantly lighter than your natural colour tend to wash out your complexion. Remember that the goal is to achieve natural harmony between your complexion tone, hair colour and eye colour.

Often eye colour helps us select a wig colour. We know that red is opposite to green and blue and as such, sets up a beautiful contrast. Blue eyes are a standout when framed with a red wig. Once we decide to go to red, we look at complexion to select the proper red, with fair complexions favoring the light reds, such as Irish Red, and dark complexions favoring the auburns.

Complexion is also a very important guide in selecting hair colour. A strong contrast such as a pale complexion with jet black hair, is great for making people notice your face, but you'd better have a Snow White clear complexion as well. Strong contrast causes the eye to see complexions very clearly, and if that is a good feature for you, you should consider toning down the contrast a bit. You can go too far when toning down contrast. With no contrast at all, your face gets lost completely, like a painting without a frame. We often see this at our salon very often. It can be an interesting effect, but it's not one you normally would want to live with day in and day out.

Dark Complexions and eye colours can still benefit from some contrast with hair colour. Often a dark brown complexion will be set off with light chocolate hair, or #1 jet black. Then light brown complexions get contrast with dark brown hair. It's a vice-versa sort of thing, with the big idea being to get some contrast. The amount of contrast is up to you, remembering that strong contrast causes the eye to focus and pay attention. After the eye is done paying attention, the brain makes decision as to whether or not it likes what it has seen, based on myriads of reasons which include believability. But even the unbelievable can be beautiful. That's one of the great things about wigs. They allow you to change, without really changing.

So as a general guide:

Set up some contrast to your complexion colour.
Fine tune contrast according to complexion perfection.
Sometimes a wig just jumps at you, but if you are not sure of a colour selection feel free to e-mail us.

When browsing our online catalog you can select a colour from the select colour link next on the product page. You will see the colour image appear below the picture of the product. Due to variations in web browsers, computer operating systems, and computer hardware, the image that is shown may not be an exact representation of the colour of the product.

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