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Chocolate Brown
A mid-depth brown with an unmistakable cocoa-toned base, browner and lighter than espresso, without any red edge.
Try Chocolate 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.
Two or three levels up from espresso, this is the depth at which brown starts behaving like a color rather than a near-black. The warmth reads as cocoa, sitting between the coffee flatness of espresso and the copper lean of chestnut. Under warm indoor light it looks softer and richer, and in daylight the mid-lengths lift toward milk chocolate. Warm browns shed their brown pigment first as they wash out, so it drifts orange-ward without a gloss.
- Undertonewarm. The cocoa warmth mirrors golden and peach undertones in the skin, while against very cool pink complexions it can look slightly separate from the face.
- Starting pointIt deposits directly on any natural base up to about level five or six, and anything darker than that has to come up a level or two before the warmth shows at all.
- UpkeepRefresh with a warm gloss every four to six weeks as the red-orange pigment surfaces, and expect visible regrowth within about a month on lighter natural bases.
Try it before the bleach
Color is the expensive mistake to get wrong. Put Chocolate Brown against your own skin tone first.
Espresso
Chestnut
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.