Color wheel can be very effective tool when it comes to determining what color you’re aiming for. With bleaching and toning process, also known as double-process, it’s vital to know what hair color you’re going to use on your bleached hair. It’s all about colors and what works. For example, you may notice some hair colors include bases such as violet, blue-violet, green, yellow and gold. You may wonder what the heck do they mean? They’re used as a guide to let you know what kind of results you’ll get.

For example, if you have banana peel yellow hair and you want a soft and natural looking blonde, use a blonde tint with violet base. Blonde tint with violet base will get you a natural looking light blonde.

If you have orange hair to begin with, a blue-based tint will get you a neutral color but it will be either dark or medium blonde. To get a really light blonde color you will have to bleach to banana peel yellow or pale yellow. Sometimes a blue-based toner made for very light hair will work on pale yellow hair because it will only make it look more drab blonde (common in many cool blonde shades). Drab isn’t same as dull or dead, it just meant it’s not as bright as gold.

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