Coloring my hair, need suggestions please!

[Shelley]

My stylist has upped her prices and it is getting too expensive to color and highlight my hair at her salon. My hair is naturally a medium-dark brown. She dyes it slightly darker and then adds sort of a brown sugar color highlight. Well actually it looks a bit on the red side. My highlights are touched up about every two to three months. I do like the color she uses. Anyways a salon closer to my house where I get my nails done also does hair. They are good, from what I see ,and cheaper. I believe around $25.00 cheaper. I am considering just having my hair colored and no highlights. My skin looks orangey in this photo, but actually I have olive/yellow undertones, green eyes. I would like to keep my hair in the brown shade family, low maintenance. Any suggestions or photos I can refer to?Thanks!

My hair now (Don't mind the pic, I brushed my hair more flat) This pic is when the color was fresher, faded slightly now..

 

[blackmettalic]

Honestly, I think you could pull off just about any mid-tone color. You are lucky! You could lighten up with some golden highlights, or add auburn highlights and go more red. Or dye all of your hair a red shade. I think you should add some chunkier layers (for more body and a piecier effect), and add some shorter layers by your face to frame it, although the seamless look in the picture is good too.

 

[Shelley]

Thanks! Actually my hair is different now compared to that photo. It was sort of dragging so I had some extra cut in along with some face framing ones. I like reddish colors but find that they fade fast.

 

[Aquilah]

What about just coloring it to match the current color now? I think it's a gorgeous shade /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[Shelley]

Thanks Aquilah! I am thinking of doing that. As little as maintenance as possible, lol.