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Neapolitan
Three bands borrowed from the ice cream: chocolate brown at the root, pink through the middle, soft cream at the ends.
Try Neapolitan 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 order is what makes this read as Neapolitan rather than an arbitrary multi-tone: dark at the top, pink through the middle third, cream across the last few inches. Each junction is blended soft, so from across a room it looks like one long gradient and close up it resolves into three colors. The pink goes first, drifting toward a beige peach after several washes while the cream underneath holds.
- Undertonewarm, neutral. The chocolate and the cream both lean warm while the pink sits near neutral, so it settles most easily against skin with a golden or peach cast.
- Starting pointThe pink and cream sections have to sit on hair lifted to at least a pale yellow, so anything darker than light brown means bleach through the lower two thirds.
- UpkeepPut the pink back every three to four weeks with a direct dye or a pigmented mask, keep purple toner on the cream, and enjoy the fact that only the dark root band grows out invisibly.
Try it before the bleach
Color is the expensive mistake to get wrong. Put Neapolitan against your own skin tone first.
Rainbow
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GalaxySee 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.