Model Makeover–Blonde Addiction

By Iris Palmer on 21st January, 2012

Sarah writes:

I NEED YOUR HELP PLEASE!!!!!

I cant seem to find the right hair color that suits me!! I currently wear hair extensions because I used to be platinum blonde and ruined my hair so I have a lot of breakage. I then died my hair dark brown and felt so self conscious and ugly it really didn’t suit me, my natural skin color without the suns help is olive! My eye color is green and My natural hair color and eye brows are a mousey brown ( I have bleached eyebrows in the attached photos as Im currently a honey blonde) I like being blonde but Im looking for a naturally looking color as I do like blonde on myself but I need it to be more natural for my modelling and besides growing my hair out to get it back to its dark blonde mousey brown color I don’t know what to do for the meantime? What would honey blonde, mocha and caramel highlights look like on me? My current color is a bit orange-y yellow and I would really appreciate any help you could give me?

Thanks a lot!

Happy New Year, Sarah! Are you ready to start working towards a new look? You are definitely on the right track! Even though your overall coloring and features would look great with dark hair, if you are used to being a blonde (especially very light) it can be shocking and even quite emotional to go dark all at once. And unfortunately, as you learned, quite stressful on the hair to go light again. Chronic color chameleons in Hollywood include Drew Barrymore, Jessica Alba, Ashlee Simpson, Julia Roberts and Lindasy Lohanand most of these ladies are no strangers to extensions, especially to maintain long, blonde styles.

Other stars, who are well-known as blondes, have made drastic changes and gone back ASAP. Examples include Cameron Diaz, Blake Lively, Reese Witherspoon and Renee Zellweger. On the other end of the spectrum, Kim Kardashian lightened her trademark raven locks to a highlighted blonde look, but was back to (nearly) black within a few weeks.