Avoid red or copper hues, which can make your skin look sallow or orange.
Try a deep mahogany base that will warm up your skin tone; protect the color with a UV-shielding styling product (like Kérastase Crème UV Défense Active). Consider a few golden highlights for extra brightness.
We asked readers to share their home-haircolor mishaps and were flooded with stories of dye jobs gone very wrong. Here, the three most common problems--and how to fix them.
It used to be that a do-it-yourself dye job would probably get you on F: for flat, fake-looking of fried. Follow along with the three women here, as they learn how to take their haircolor into their own hands.