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Raven
Glossy black carrying a cool blue-gray sheen that lifts in the light instead of reading as a flat block.
Try Raven 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.
What separates raven from jet black is reflectance rather than depth: a small amount of cool pigment sits inside it, so light bounces off the surface as a blue-gray halo instead of being swallowed. On camera that shows up as dimension where jet black shows as a silhouette. It needs smooth, healthy hair to work, because the sheen depends on the cuticle lying flat along the shaft.
- Undertonecool. The cool sheen picks up blue and pink in the skin, so it suits cool and neutral undertones and can look severe against strongly golden skin.
- Starting pointNo lift is needed, since raven deposits over naturally dark hair, though on light or previously bleached hair a filler goes on first or the result turns patchy and gray-green.
- UpkeepA clear or blue gloss every six to eight weeks brings the shine back as it dulls, regrowth shows inside a month if your natural shade is lighter, and there is no damage cost since nothing is lifted.
Try it before the bleach
Color is the expensive mistake to get wrong. Put Raven against your own skin tone first.
Jet Black
Blue Black
Ash BrownSee 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.