complementary color primary secondary color wheel

This means that in order to create the desired results, you must understand how to alter the existing hair colour with an artificial colour formulation. So how do the 3 main characteristics of colour, hue, level and intensity, affect how you will formulate artificial hair colour?Įxisting hair colour + artificial hair colour = resulting hair colour Colours are most intense in their “pure” form.

A colour will be much more saturated at a darker level compared to a lighter level. Some colour manufacturers may use a 1–12 system, with 12 being the lightest colour level.įinally, intensity refers to the strength, or saturation, of colour. Universally, hair colours exist from a level 1-10, with 1 being darkest and 10 being lightest. Yellow is considered the lightest, and so a majority of yellow in our mixture results in our lighter levels. Level is the direct result of how these colours are mixed.įor example, what happens if you have an abundance of blue in your mixture? Or an abundance of yellow? Because blue is the darkest of the primary colours, an abundance of blue creates our darker levels. The level of hair colour is the darkness or lightness of colour in relation to itself and other colours. Voila! Our natural, neutral hair colours are born! Level Mixing two complimentary colours together will create a brown or grey colour result. In the graphic above, the left side of the colour wheel contains our cool colour tones (green, blue-green, blue, blue-violet, violet, and red-violet), while the right side contains our warm colour tones (red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, yellow, yellow-green).Ĭolours that sit directly across the wheel from each other are called complementary colours. The position of each of these colours on the wheel indicates its tone.

Six tertiary colours, created by mixing a primary colour with its neighbouring secondary colour.

Three secondary colours, created by mixing two primary colours together.

As you can see above, the colour wheel contains:

Complementary color primary secondary color wheel