HOW TO CHOOSE. The Perfect Colour for your Headband

Whether you’re looking to make a bold statement or keep it low-key, the right headband can help you create your signature style. It’s important to consider your hair colour, skin tone, eye colour, and outfit before investing in a headpiece. Let's go into more detail below:

1. Your Hair Colour

Think about headband shades that coordinate well with your hair color instead of those that clash with it. One great tip is to select a headband that contrasts slightly with your hair color, whether it be a few shades darker or lighter. By doing so, you can add a bit of contrast and dimension to your style.

When going for a headpiece with a similar shade to your hair colour, try to create a bit of contrast by choosing hair accessories with interesting textures, a unique shine, delicate embellishments, or bejeweled accents. By doing this, you can create a subtle but stylish ensemble.

If you love to mix and match with colours, the colour theory can be a great tool to help you rock your look and avoid any colour coordination issues. By understanding its basics, you will be able to select hues that give you an aesthetically pleasing look. Let's go through some examples below:

If Blonde hair look for headbands with warm tones such as peach, coral, bronze, golden yellow, and pink. Cool tones such as lavender, light blue, silver, and mauve can also work nicely.

For Dark hair try wearing hair accessories with warm tones gold, honey, copper, auburn, strawberry blonde, and light brown. Cool shades such as ash blonde, silver, and platinum can also look great with darker hair.

Red hair can be paired with warm tones gold, light auburn, golden brown and honey. Cool tones such as purple, navy, ash brown, ash blonde and silver can create a nice contrast.

2. Your Skin Tone

The next thing to consider is the shade of your skin. When selecting a headband, finding one that is the correct tone to complement a person's look is important. If the tone is too light or too dark, it can have a draining effect, making the individual appear washed out or not in harmony with their outfit.

For instance, if your skin is light or fair, colours that may work best include pastel shades such as light blues, lavenders and pinks, as well as neutral shades, such as beige, taupe, and grey. To pop your look, you can go for vivid colours like coral, fuchsia and turquoise.

For Warmer or Darker skin tones, colours that usually work best are jewel tones, such as royal blue, emerald green, and ruby red, as well as earth tones such as olive, burnt orange and mustard yellow. To make a statement and add that extra touch of brightness to an outfit, hairpieces with pastel tints like blush pink, light yellow and pale blue are the ideal pieces to go for.

3. Your Eye Colour

Lastly the right shade can also draw more attention to your features and enhance your overall natural beauty.

For blue eyes, consider accentuating the colour with headwear in rich hues of violet, navy, royal blue, lavender and magenta.

For Green Eyes opt for bright yellows, oranges, and pinks when picking out your headband. For a more edgy and dramatic style, try a headband featuring a combination of emerald green and shades of blue, such as navy and royal blue.

For Brown Eyes, choose deep shades of rouge, fuchsia, and coral for a bold, on-trend look. Punch the ensemble up with a gold or bronze headband to complete the monochromatic effect, selecting hues from the warm earth-tone family such as beige, brown, and taupe.

For Hazel Eyes choose a headband in warm, earthy tones like brown, orange, and pink. To further add a pop of colour, opt for headpieces in olive green, purple or blue shades for a bold look.

For Grey Eyes look for bright shades of blue, purple, and pink. To create a staple monochromatic style, look for desaturated hues with darker shades of grey and black.

4. Your Outfit Style

Ask yourself what kind of style are you aiming for? Is it elegant, formal, vintage, artsy, sexy, or classic? Your colour choice will help you achieve the look you desire. For instance, if you're aiming for a sexy look with your little black dress, why not complementing it with a red headband?

It all comes down to what looks best on you, choose a colour that will enhance your natural beauty whilst allowing you to reflect your unique personal style. Let your hair accessory beautifully frame your face and be the focal point of your look!

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If you're looking for the perfect piece to highlight your unique features, jostheartisan is the perfect place! We are passionate about creating beautiful, timeless, and versatile fashion accessories that accentuates any look. Visit our shop and use the colour filter to find your ideal headpiece shade - and if your colour is not available, don't hesitate to get in touch - our team at Jos The Artisan will do their best to make it happen for you!