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Northern Lights
Green, teal and violet drifting into one another in soft vertical curtains, with no hard edge where they meet.
Try Northern Lights 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 transitions are the point rather than the colors themselves: teal sits between green and violet precisely because it belongs to both, so the eye reads a gradient instead of three stripes. Applied in vertical ribbons, the movement only shows when the hair is brushed out or tied back. Green holds longest and violet drops first, and once the violet is gone the rest can flatten into a single aqua.
- Undertonecool. Green, teal and violet all lean cool, and against warm golden skin the teal in particular can pull sallow, so it favors neutral to cool complexions.
- Starting pointAll three need hair lifted to a clean pale yellow to read true, so any natural depth below dark blonde has to be bleached first.
- UpkeepPut violet back every three weeks to hold the gradient, tone the green if it warms, and keep a bond builder in rotation because three vivids means keeping bleached hair intact.
Try it before the bleach
Color is the expensive mistake to get wrong. Put Northern Lights against your own skin tone first.
Neapolitan
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Oil SlickSee 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.