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Ash Brown
A medium brown with the warmth deliberately stripped out, leaving a smoky, faintly gray-green cast through the length.
Try Ash Brown on your own photo. Free to download, iPhone, iOS 15.1 or later.
Both renders are HairGlam output. In the app the shade lands on your photo instead.
Ash is defined by what it lacks. Green and blue pigments are added to cancel the orange sitting underneath every brown, and the result looks muted and matte beside a warm brown of the same depth. In flat daylight it reads soft and almost gray, while under warm bulbs the underlying orange starts creeping back through. It is the least stable brown to maintain, because every wash removes a little ash pigment and lets that warmth resurface.
- Undertonecool, neutral. Cool pink and neutral-fair skin match its absence of warmth, whereas against strongly golden or olive skin the contrast can leave the complexion looking sallow.
- Starting pointThe base needs taking to at least a level six and clearing of orange first, so most dark hair wants bleach or a high-lift tint before ash will hold.
- UpkeepExpect a cool toner or ash gloss every four weeks, a blue-based shampoo between visits, and warm regrowth showing at the root within three to four weeks.
Try it before the bleach
Color is the expensive mistake to get wrong. Put Ash Brown against your own skin tone first.
Espresso
Chocolate Brown
ChestnutSee it on your own face first
Every style in this catalog renders onto a photo of you, so you are judging your own face shape and coloring rather than a model's.
Free to download. iPhone, iOS 15.1 or later.