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Chestnut
A medium brown pulled distinctly toward red-copper, the warmest of the true browns before a shade turns auburn.
Try Chestnut 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.
Where chocolate stays cocoa, chestnut carries visible red in the base, so in sun the whole head throws a copper cast rather than just the ends. Indoors under yellow light it darkens back toward a plain warm brown, which is why it can look like two different colors in one day. Red molecules are the largest in the dye and the first to wash away, so this fades faster than any other brown here, dropping toward a sandy orange.
- Undertonewarm. It reads best on skin with golden, peach, or olive warmth, since the red in the hair amplifies any red already present in the complexion.
- Starting pointThe base wants to sit around level five for the copper to show, so black or dark brown hair has to be lifted a couple of levels before the chestnut reads true.
- UpkeepPlan a red-toned gloss every four weeks and a sulfate-free shampoo in between, because this shade loses saturation visibly faster than a neutral brown of the same depth.
Try it before the bleach
Color is the expensive mistake to get wrong. Put Chestnut against your own skin tone first.
Related shades
Espresso
Chocolate Brown
Ash BrownSee 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.