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Chocolate + Dark Roots
Chocolate brown lengths over a root taken darker still, a low-contrast shadow that adds depth without reading as two colors.
Try Chocolate + 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.
This is the quietest version of the shadow root: perhaps a level and a half separates root from lengths, so what registers is dimension at the scalp rather than a change of shade. The chocolate holds a neutral to slightly warm brown through the mid lengths, which stops it going flat the way a single-process brown can under indoor light. Growing out leaves essentially nothing to see.
- Undertoneneutral, warm. The brown sits close to neutral with a small amount of warmth, so it works across a wide range of skin depths without pushing red or ash.
- Starting pointBoth shades are darker than most natural hair, so this is deposit only and needs no lifting, unless you are coming from blonde and need a filler first.
- UpkeepA demi gloss twice a season keeps the chocolate from fading dull, and since regrowth is effectively invisible, retouches are driven by shine rather than by a line.
Try it before the bleach
Color is the expensive mistake to get wrong. Put Chocolate + Dark Roots against your own skin tone first.
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Burgundy + Dark RootsSee 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.