Coloring African American Skin/Hair with Copics
Coloring African American Skin & Hair w/ Copics by Suzanne J Dean Visit my blog: www.scrapbitz.blogspot.com Stamps by Magnolia at Magnolia-licious “Keisha” Digi Stamp by Mo’s Digital Pencil at www.digitalpenciltoo.blogspot.com Copics Used: Image 1 Skin: E25,E13,E11,E21 Hair: E49,E47,E25 Image 2 Skin: E29,E27,E25,E13
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Luxurious Hair Boutique Synthetic Lace Front Wig: Uptown Girl… Light Colors for Dark Skin
The Luxurious Hair Boutique Presents Uptown Girl in Color 812 from the Nix Nox Brand. This piece is beautiful and has amazing body. I love this color, however there are plenty of others available to you at: www.lhboutique.com Tell me what you think! Please rate, comment, and subscribe Love Always, Taylor- LHB
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Hair Color Ideas | Hair color
How to Get the Right Hair Color:
Firstly, you need to determine your skin color. Hair color ideas have a lot to depend on this factor. Know if your skin belongs to the cool tone or the warm tone category. How would you arrive to that conclusion? Well, if you have natural bluish black hair, golden blonde, dark brown or medium ash, then you are bound to belong to the cool skin tone category. This would mean that your skin color would be mostly pale or pink with little undertones. If your natural hair color is towards a reddish golden brown then your skin belongs to the warm skin tone category. In such cases, your skin will be generally pale brown with golden undertones. Another tip would be to check your veins, if they are bluish then you belong to the cool category and if they appear greenish, then you belong to the warm category.
Once you have figured out your skin tone, you need to plan the right hair color. If you belong to the warm skin tone category, you can go in for golden shades. Opt for caramel or bronze shades that are darker than your skin. You can even go for rich colors such as chestnut, auburn or mahogany. Try some cool highlights like cinnamon or copper if you are a little bit adventurous.
For people who belong to the cool skin tones, you can go in for gold, ash browns, cool browns and copper. You must select a hair color that adds some depth to your skin tone. You can even go in for shiny raven blacks. You should be careful to avoid yellow or tones that make you look sallow.
If you want to try something beyond the ordinary kind of hair colors, then the blonde shade is a popular hair color amongst most women. But how would you know whether you could really carry off the blonde look? Well, darker hair tends to match better with brown or green eyes. If you have natural brown hair, then coloring them blonde may give you a washed out look. In such cases, if you are still obsessed with blonde hair, then you can go in for highlights.
Apart from blonde, red hair are also very popular amongst women. Red hair color suits most skin tones. There are varied tones of the basic red so you need to know which shade would match in the best possible way. Most women with a cool skin tone tend to carry off red hair with great flamboyance.
If you still feel the hair color is wrong despite the initial planning, you will definitely need professional help to color over the already messed up color. This task is not impossible but is difficult and expensive as well. It would also require a skilled stylist to pull off such a job!
You also have to be aware that there are 2 types of hair colors-semi permanent and the permanent hair color. Semi permanent hair color gives you a new look without really touching the roots of the hair. This is also relatively risk free. Permanent hair color on the other hand can often lighten the natural hair color. This can sometimes be damaging to the hair if you do not follow the proper hair care routine.
What color(s) should i get my bands on my braces?
The only color I would stay away from is Green because, then you will always look like you have something caught in your teeth.
My niece did Pink, Yellow and orange, Gray and Red for a football game, and Orange and Black for halloween.
Keep in mind that you will have the braces tightened every so often and you can switch colors (usually) at that time. Get a color you really like to start with like Yellow and Orange.You could do pink, blue, purple, etc.the black and white thing is true, but not the bright colors. i get bright colors all the time and they look great! blue is a good mix with orange. most orthodontists also usually let you change your colors when you go to appointments with them, so you can do themed colors for example: if it is december you could get red and green for christmas colors. that is what i do! i have also even seen people with a different color on each tooth! maybe you could make a rainbow!!!
hope i helped!
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Gilda in Black & White

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@ScrapElegance thank you–it takes all kinds I guess LOL! I’m not offended, I treat that as spam
@TigglesLuvsNomNoms This was very helpful!! instead of trying to offend someone, learn how to spell!!!!!!! Thank you Suzanne for the tutorial!!
loved this
@TigglesLuvsNomNoms She’s not being racist. She’s just showing how to do it. You can’t automatically assume that everything that involves African Americans is racist. I am, and this is not racist at all. this is helpful. Lay off the stereotypes and learn something. If you /are/ African America too, you’re not making us look any better. :I
She is TOO CUTE!!! Thanks for this video!
Great Video! Just wondering what type of highlighter do you use?
THANK YOU THIS IS EXTREMELY HELPFUL!!
Looks my mother’s hair
Thank you so very very much, I was so saddened by the lack of info!
What colors would you suggest for more of a hispanic color of skin. Thank you:)
Not only helpful but cute!
Can not thank you enough……
Thank you so much for sharing. I have learned a lot and now I know which colours I need!
love it,love it, where did you get the stamp of this beautifil little girl? thank you for sharing
Thanks for the demonstration! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you that was very well done and much needed!
this was….different. this would be the first vid i saw up here about coloring a black person with copic. not that its bad but it makes it look like drawing black ppl is difficult. (not so much for me since…..im black)
I love using the paint brush part ^__^
Thanks so much for this video. I have beautiful bi-racial twin granddaughters, and this will be very helpful!
This was very informational. Thank you.
Oh what a great video and thank you so much for sharing the information it is so valuable.
Thanks so much for sharing.
Thank you for sharing your techniques. Just lovely.
This looks great.(:
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you need better lighting
u look like a model…
I like it. It looks like an ash brown. I hope your store buys you a better computer for doing videos. The HP laptops come with great cameras. I have a sony and it’s not as good as my friends built in HP webcams. Thanks for the video. Love your eyeshadow!
is there this, but longer?
I think the wig is too close to your skin tone. You can pull off a lighter wig…or a blck wig.