Hair Color Matcher & Virtual Try-On

How it works

“What hair color suits me?” comes down to three things: the undertone of your skin, how deep your skin is, and how far your hair has to travel from its natural level to reach the new shade. The matcher scores 26 shades on all three, then adjusts for the change and upkeep you want.

1. Undertone

Undertone is the color beneath the surface of your skin. Five everyday checks — vein color, gold or silver jewelry, white or cream, how your skin reacts to sun and how a mismatched foundation looks — each add points to warm, cool, neutral or olive. The quiz shows how sure it is: mixed answers mean you sit near the middle, and both warm and cool shades are worth trying on the avatar. Vein color is often hard to see on deeper skin, so it never decides the result alone.

2. Skin depth and contrast

Every shade has a fit score for fair, light, medium, deep and rich deep skin. Deep skin wears saturated color — burgundy, copper, caramel — with real richness, while some muted, cool shades such as mushroom brown can look flat against it. These are style guidelines, not rules; the avatar lets you judge for yourself.

3. How far your hair has to go

Colorists rate hair from level 1 (black) to 10 (lightest blonde). Going darker, or staying at the same level, only needs a deposit-only color. Permanent color with 20 volume developer usually lifts about one to two levels; more than that needs lightener, often in stages, and is a salon job. Jewel tones like burgundy or plum can also be worn as a tint on darker hair — a semi- or demi-permanent color that shows mostly in sunlight, with no lightening. For relaxed or colored hair, the matcher prefers that tint route for warm browns and reds, because lifting chemically treated hair raises the risk of breakage. Permanent dye can’t lighten hair that is already dyed — that needs a color remover or lightener first.

Try-on and privacy

The avatar is an illustration: pick a texture and any shade to compare it with your natural color. The photo try-on runs a hair-detection model inside your browser — your photo is never uploaded. Detection can miss some hair on certain textures, updos or busy backgrounds, so treat the preview as an approximation, not a promise of the salon result.

Limits

• Results are suggestions based on color theory and stylist practice, not a measurement of your skin.
• Real dye results depend on your hair’s history, porosity and the product — always strand test.
• This tool can’t assess allergies or scalp health. Patch test 48 hours before every permanent or demi-permanent color.