Discover your color season with confidence and get personalized style recommendations and hair color previews.
Picking a hair color without a visual reference is a bit like buying a new dress online and hoping for the best. You can read all the descriptions, scroll through model photos, and still end up with something that looks completely different on you.
Hair color is the same. What looks stunning on your favorite influencer can look flat or harsh depending on your skin tone, eye color, and natural contrast. Which is exactly why we built our Hair Color Quiz, a three-minute tool that figures out which shades work for your specific features, then shows them directly on your face.
No guesswork or commitment. And no wasting money on a color that doesn’t suit you.
The quiz takes about three minutes from start to finish. Here’s what happens:
The quiz walks you through your current hair color, coloring history, and what you want a new shade to do for you. Do you want to brighten your complexion? Bring out your eyes? Cover gray beautifully or go bolder? Your answers shape the recommendations.
You’ll also answer undertone questions that most people find surprisingly clarifying: whether gold or silver jewelry makes your skin glow, whether your veins look blue-purple or green on your inner wrist, and how your skin reacts in the sun. These details tell the quiz a lot about which color families will work in your favor.
Once the quiz is complete, you upload a photo so the AI can scan your skin tone and generate a preview of complementary shades on your face. It detects your natural coloring, your contrast level, your features, and uses all of it to display hair colors the way they’d look on you.
After submitting your selfie, you instantly get your color type result and a chance to unlock a full color report with realistic AI previews of recommended shades, along with wardrobe, makeup and jewelry recommendations.
You’ll get wide range of shades selected to complement your color season, including gray blending options if you have grays you’d like to blend. Then, you can compare colors side by side, try on other color options beyond your initial results, and discuss the previews with your stylist.
One of the most useful parts of your results is your seasonal color type. Based on your undertones, contrast, and natural coloring, the quiz places you in one of four categories rooted in seasonal color analysis: Spring, Summer, Autumn, or Winter.
Each season has a distinct set of shades that harmonize with it, and shades that tend to clash. Your full color report includes your signature palette, your best neutrals, and the shades worth avoiding.
Spring types tend to have warm, golden undertones and look best in peachy blondes, honey browns, and warm caramels.
Summer types have cool, rosy undertones and shine in ash blondes, soft brunettes, and cool-toned highlights.
Autumn types carry warm, earthy undertones, rich coppers, chocolate browns, and auburn shades hit differently on this season.
Winter types have high contrast and cool or neutral undertones. Bold, saturated shades and stark contrasts are their territory.
Knowing your color type changes how you see color decisions across the board. But for hair specifically, it’s one of the most accurate ways to filter out the shades that won’t work and zero in on the ones that will.
Your full color report goes well beyond a simple shade recommendation. Here’s exactly what you get.
Your Seasonal Color Identity
The report opens with your season and sub-type, for example, Cool Winter, alongside four defining traits, your undertone (cool, warm, or neutral), your value (how light or deep your natural coloring reads), your chroma (how vivid or muted), and your contrast level. These four dimensions together explain why certain shades work for you and others don’t.
Your Full Seasonal Color Palette
The report maps out your complete personal palette across three tiers: neutrals to build your wardrobe around, everyday accent colors, and statement shades for when you want to stand out. Each color comes with preview so you can match it precisely when shopping.
Your Colors on Your Own Photo
The centerpiece of the report is a gallery of recommended shades rendered directly on your uploaded selfie, grouped by technique. For a Cool Winter, that means seeing options like Icy Silver Toning Gloss, Cool Dark Brown, Ash Brunette, Cool Espresso, and Deep Cool Espresso side by side.
Hair Colors to Avoid
Just as important as what works is what doesn’t. The report flags specific shades that tend to fight your natural coloring, washing you out, looking flat, or requiring constant upkeep. For cool-toned types, that means steering clear of gold, copper, caramel, and warm brassy blondes.
A Makeup Guide
The report includes shade recommendations for lips, complexion, and eyes, with specific product categories (cool red, fuchsia, and cool berry for lips; cool pink blush; cool gray, sapphire, and icy silver for eyes).
Wardrobe and Jewelry Guidance
The analysis tells you which metals to wear and which to skip. For cool-toned seasons, silver, white gold, platinum, and pewter are your metals, gold, brass, and copper work against you. Clothing colors follow the same logic, with clear lists of what to reach for and what to leave on the rack.
This way, the report consolidates hair, clothes, metals, makeup, colors to embrace, and colors to avoid, into a single visual reference designed to be saved to your phone and pulled up whenever you’re shopping or booking a salon appointment.
Yes, and here’s why. The quiz uses two layers of personalization. First, your answers about factors that reveal your undertone, preferences, and goals help narrow down shades that are likely to complement your coloring. Second, the AI analyzes your actual selfie to generate previews specific to your face.
Salon results will always vary based on your starting hair color, hair condition, and your colorist’s technique. But these previews give you a strong visual reference to walk in with, which makes the conversation with your stylist significantly more productive. If you’re already exploring hairstyle changes too, our haircut quiz is a great companion tool.
Here’s what users are saying after finding looks they loved through our hair color quiz before stepping into the salon:
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Got your results? Now, it’s time to take the next step.
Your quiz results give you a starting point, but the real fun is exploring. Use the AI hair color try-on tool to try on 100+ shades directly on your own photo. Test as many colors as you want before making any decisions.
If fell in love with a shade you saw elsewhere online‚ you may try it on with HairHunt too — the haircut try-on with reference photo upload lets you upload any style you’ve saved and see it on your face.
For a complete hair transformation experience, the HairHunt app (iOS, Android) brings everything together in one place.
Here’s what’s waiting for you inside:
Here are a few quick answers to common questions.
In addition to your personalized recommendations, you can try on over 100 shades including classic blonde, ash blonde, platinum, strawberry blonde, dark brown, copper, burgundy, and black. Techniques like balayage and gray blending with highlights and lowlights are also available.
About three minutes. You’ll answer questions about your current hair, preferences, and goals, then upload a selfie for your AI color previews.
Seasonal color analysis is a method of categorizing skin tone, undertone, and contrast into four types — Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter — each with a specific palette of hair and clothing colors that harmonize best with your natural coloring.
Yes! Your full color report and try-on results will be available in your profile on The Right Hairstyles website and in the HairHunt app. Just sign in with the same account to access them.
You don’t need to scroll through hundreds of before-and-afters or rely on a generic color wheel. Take the Hair Color Quiz and see what works for your skin tone, features, and goals. And when you’re ready to go further, try the HairHunt app (iOS, Android) for daily hair inspiration and coloring ideas. Your next best look is closer than you think!
Disclaimer: Hair results vary based on your natural hair type, texture, density, and condition. Always consult with a licensed hairstylist before making significant changes, especially with chemical treatments or dramatic length changes. Photos may show styled results that require professional tools and products to replicate.
