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Hot Magenta
A blue-leaning pink at full saturation, closer to fuchsia than to red, holding that punch from root to tip.
Try Hot Magenta 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.
Set beside a plain pink this reads louder and colder, with a violet edge that stops it looking sweet. It photographs hotter than it looks in the mirror, which is why the shade tends to blow out under phone flash. Magenta pigment is small and mobile, so it stains skin and pillowcases through the first week, then fades to bubblegum and finally a soft rose that plenty of people keep as a second phase.
- Undertonecool, neutral. It sits cleanly on cool and neutral skin because the violet in it echoes pink undertones rather than competing with them.
- Starting pointNeeds a level nine base, so anything below dark blonde has to be lifted; leftover yellow turns the magenta coral.
- UpkeepA pigmented conditioner at every other wash, cool water only, and a full re-dye at around six weeks once the rose phase goes pale.
Try it before the bleach
Color is the expensive mistake to get wrong. Put Hot Magenta against your own skin tone first.
Orange
Cotton Candy
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.