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Auburn + Dark Roots
A red-brown auburn through the lengths, dropped into a near-black root that shades the first few inches.
Try Auburn + Dark Roots 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.
Auburn sits between copper and brown, and the shadow at the root does something specific for it: the red stops reading flat once it has somewhere darker to emerge from. The transition is short, usually an inch or two, because auburn is already deep enough that a long melt would be invisible anyway. Red pigment is the largest molecule and leaves fastest, so the lengths drift toward a coppery brown while the root holds.
- Undertonewarm. Auburn is a warm red-brown and the root is a warm-leaning dark, so the pairing holds up against skin with a golden, peach or olive cast.
- Starting pointOnly the lengths are colored, and auburn deposits on natural brown without bleach, though a black base needs a couple of levels cleared before the red shows.
- UpkeepA red gloss on a four to six week cycle keeps the lengths from sliding to brown, and the root grows out into itself so there is no line to chase.
Try it before the bleach
Color is the expensive mistake to get wrong. Put Auburn + Dark Roots against your own skin tone first.
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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.