How To Change Your Hair Color

Celebrities change their looks as often as the rest of us change our socks. One day their hair is curly, the next day it’s straight. It goes from super short to super long in a matter of hours and the color has gone from blond to red to dark.

Changing Your Hair Color

If you decide to change your hair color, there are some things you should keep in mind before going forward with it. And remember, damaged hair is not in style, so here’s how to take good care of your hair.

• Let a professional hairdresser do the job. Bleaching dark hair at home may leave you with burnt hair, no hair or yellow hair! None of which are great results!

• Going from dark to blond takes a long time – don’t think that the store bought hair dye will do the job even if it says so on the box.

• Going from blond to dark may seem easier than having to bleach your hair, however many have been left standing with green hair, when doing this at home. This too, needs a gradual process.

• Because going back is not an instantaneous possibility, especially if you want to go back from brown to blond hair, consider this change well before deciding. Is this something you really want? The best way to change your hair color drastically is to take it slowly. Start with highlights and slowly, over a course of time, move towards the wanted color.

• Once you start coloring your hair, make sure to use good, quality hair products to protect your hair from the chemicals that will take a toll on your locks.

Here are some of the celebrities who sported a brown and blond hair color – some of them more successfully than others! Some of the celebrities seem to be able to sport both hair colors, while some of them should stick to one of them!

Mandy Moore

The beautiful singer/actress has gone back and forth between the blond and the dark hair color, but her natural hair is blond. Both colors work for Mandy, although the brown hair makes her look younger than the blond hair.

Jessica Alba

One of our favorite street style fashionistas (see here and here), Jessica Alba, went honey blond for a while, but has gone back to the darker locks. Even though the blond hair suits her well, the darker hair is more natural for her beautiful skin tone.

Scarlett Johansson

The beautiful and elegant Scarlett Johansson, whose looks we all envy, also decided to try out the  darker hair which really brought out her eyes! She has since returned to the golden locks.

But not all brown to blond or blond to brown moments have turned out to be an improvement. For instance, Kim Kardashian’s hair is without a doubt better in its natural color. When it comes to Leighton Meester, her choice to go from blond to brown is the right decision!

Kim Kardashian

The reality star and socialite, Kim Kardashian is known for her long, dark, thick hair, amongst other assets! At one point, Kim decided to take the color to the lighter side, but soon returned to her natural hair color.

Leighton Meester

The actress who portrays one of our favorite fashionistas, TV-character Blair Waldorf, used to be a blond before dying her hair dark just before she started filming Gossip Girl and has stayed dark haired since then. Good choice!

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