How to get a natural dark brown in your hair

Brown is not just one colour, it is a universe of nuances. From the darkest and deepest shades to browns with golden highlights, including chocolate and hazelnut. Every brown hair is unique and, with vegetable hair colouring, you can enhance or tone down your natural colour without damaging it, enhancing its shine and, above all, without the root effect. The key is to make the right choice, so if you're a brunette and you know what shade you want, here's what formula you need to get it.

4 brunette shades from darker to lighter

INTENSE DARK BROWN HAIR DYE: INDIGO WITH HENNA

If your hair is and always has been a very dark brown (or brunette, as we also refer to it), this is your formula. This combination intensifies the dark brown tone, adding depth and covering grey hair with a dark and natural shade, not at all coppery. Please note that there is no jet black in our Vegetal Colouring range, so this is the darkest shade you can achieve. Grey hair is dyed dark brown, very similar to the rest of the hair.

DARK BRUNETTE HAIR DYE WITH CHOCOLATE TONES: WALNUT WITH INDIGO 

If you don't want a very dark brown, this is the dye formula for you. The Walnut with Indigo brings warmth to the colour of your hair thanks to Walnut, a plant with slightly chocolate pigments. It also softens grey hair with caramel-toned highlights.

HAZELNUT BROWN DYE: HENNA WITH CASSIA OBOVATA

The formula Henna with Cassia Obovata is for you if you want to give your colour a hazelnut hue and cover grey hair with a slight coppery tone. Even if you have a very dark brown, this formula will help to lighten it up so it doesn't look so dark.

DYE FOR AUBURN/COPPER BROWN: HENNA WITH BLACK TEA

If you want a coppery brown, go for the formula Henna with Black Tea, Cinnamon and Hibiscus. On a very dark brown, it gives a mahogany shade, and on a medium brown, it gives a deep coppery colour.

Remember that Natural Dyes do not penetrate the inside of the hair, but wraps the fibre with colour, that's why the final result always varies depending on your base. 

Tips you should know before dyeing with vegetable dye

As we have told you, Vegetable Dyes dye by deposit, wrapping the hair fibre (that is to say, the pigment settles on the hair) as if it were a varnish or colour bath, so the base colour will always influence the final result. Moreover, in this case it is not the same to dye on a white base (the one of a grey hair) than on a brown base (the rest of the hair), that is why the grey hair is always a shade lower than the wick effect. Another important point is the amount of grey hair: if you have +50%, you will have to do double coloring (or dying your hair in 2 steps) to achieve a good coverage.

We recommend that before applying the dye you review and take note of these tips.