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Cotton Candy
A pale pastel pink with a milky, low-saturation finish that reads as a tint over blonde rather than solid color.
Try Cotton Candy 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.
The whole point of a pastel is that you can still see the hair through the color, which is why this only looks right on a base lifted almost to white. In shade it can pass for blush; in sun it goes translucent and slightly warmer. It is the shortest-lived shade in the pink family because there is so little pigment to lose, and it usually washes to a peachy cream within two weeks.
- Undertonecool, neutral. Fair cool and neutral skin carries it best, since the shade is light enough that a deeper complexion tends to overpower it.
- Starting pointLevel ten, clean and free of yellow, which for almost everyone means bleach plus a toner before the pink goes anywhere near the hair.
- UpkeepTop up with a heavily diluted pink conditioner at nearly every wash; the bleached base underneath needs bond repair more than the color needs refreshing.
Try it before the bleach
Color is the expensive mistake to get wrong. Put Cotton Candy against your own skin tone first.
Orange
Hot Magenta
Violet PurpleSee 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.