Ten Hair Looks That Play With Color, Texture, and Contrast

A straight cut with a deep red lower section

Long, straight hair falls in a smooth curtain, with a vivid burgundy-red section concentrated across the lower portion. The pale upper lengths create a broad field of light color before the red rises in a pointed, uneven boundary and narrows toward the ends. Individual strands remain visible through the transition, giving the color a feathered edge rather than a perfectly straight dividing line. The clean rear view makes that shape easy to follow. A white top and pale background keep the composition restrained, allowing the darker color to carry nearly all of the contrast. The hair's straight fall makes this look a useful counterpoint to the curled red ends in another portrait: the same broad light-to-red relationship appears here with a sharper, more graphic outline. The overall silhouette is long and simple, while the color placement supplies its visual complexity. Nothing in the setting distracts from the way the two tones meet.

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