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[sapphiredolphin]

Hey, this is still about wigs so I think this is the right place to ask. Anyways, how do you know if a certain color wig will look good on someone. Because not all colors work for all people, I was wondering how you can tell BEFORE buying it. I am looking into a cosplay (Holo from Wolf and Spice) that will require me to wear a red-ish colored wig. I have a light to medium olive skin tone, depending on the season and sun exposure. Anyone have any personal experience with hair colors and matching skin tones?

[Steam_Mouse]

some wig place have samples...they are swatches of hiar that you can hold up and see what it looks like with your skin tone...that is a good way to go if the wig places have them.

[Satine]

I am lucky that I can wear practically any colour, however I find myself preferring cool tones over warm so I will tend to skew colours slightly to reflect that.

If the colour is a tone difference you can just use a rinse of acrylic ink (or other preferred dyeing technique) to change the shade. It requires very little to just tip the colour to your preferred shade.

I have a big blonde wig that I made and used acrylic paint watered down and spritzed to the roots and cap to blend it in with my hair. In principle I could have used that to colour the whole thing to suit me better too, but I found that it was enough to do the top sections as it mimicked hair that was starting to show roots

[Ani_BEE]

I'm olive fair so I have both blue and yellow in my skin tone. Pale pink is the only shade I find that clashes badly in clothing.

I also bought a swatch ring from cosworx to test shades from now one.

My grandmas has the Mediterranean complexion and she had red dyed hair for ages she was close to a medium skin tone. Depending on how pigmented you colour is I would go with henna red over the tea brown wigs you find on ebay for her. That colour is more faltering on paler skin tones (like the wig stand >_<). The closer you get to a medium skin tone the contract between your skin and wig will start to match and won't have the pop you want.

[sapphiredolphin]

Okay thanks. I think I get it. I've heard a lot about cool/warm skin color and I don't think I'm really strong either way. Hmmm...but you've given me hope!