Your best friend showed up with a great new hair color and it gave you the bug to make a change too. Matter of fact since she looked so great in Champagne Blonde, you decide to try it too.

So you buy the kit and color your hair and after doing the dramatic unwrapping in the mirror, you look ill. Matter of fact your skin tone looks positively green. What happened? Simple, you chose the wrong color for your skin tone.

You can divide skin tones into two basic categories, warm and cool. If your Eyes are: dark brown, dark blue, grey blue or hazel with brown flecks and your skin is true olive, medium with no reddish coloring then you are a cooler type of person. If your Eyes are:light brown, light green, blue or turquoise, hazel with light flecks, and your skin is light, freckled, brown with pink undertones or golden undertones, or you are ruddy complected then you would fall into the warm category.

It's easy to follow once you learn your type, if you have a warm tones to your complection, cool it down with complementary colors. Ditto if you have a cool coloring. Choose warmer colors to cancel out your cooler undertones and bring life to your hair and complection.

On the color box itself, you'll see a listing of tones. The term tone refers to whether a color is warm or cool. The warm colors are red, orange and yellow. In looking at hair coloring boxes you may have noticed they have names like golden brown and warm brown this is to let you know that the undertone of the hair color is warm.

You can read the cool colors the same way. You will see darkest ash blonde or ash brown, then you have a chosen a color from the cool palette. Once you know the ropes, it's easy to pick the best color for your hair!