The hunt for this year’s perfect Halloween costume is on! What are you thinking this year?
There’s a lot to do to make sure your costume is ready for the spookiest night of the year. Once you’ve picked out your outfit, figured out your makeup and nails, you’ll need the perfect Halloween hair color to pull everything together. That’s where we come in.
Ahead, our selection of the most spine-chilling, ghoulish, haunting dye jobs you ever did see.
1. Copper And Black Colorblock
If orange and black seem too obvious to actually pick as your Halloween hair colors, just take a look at this beauty—sometimes tried and true is the way to go. Vivid copper and glossy black are eerie-sistible!
2. Halloween Vanilla Hair
Platinum hair with yellow and pink highlights for Halloween? The spooky season isn’t just about black, orange and green, as this Princess Peach-inspired look proves.
3. Cyan And Green Ombre
Why do cyan and green look so calming together, even thought they’re both so vivid? Analogous colors—colors right next to each other on the color wheel—come together to create some of the most harmonious palettes.
4. Dimensional Purple Hair
Highlights, lowlights and face-framing money pieces are common in brunette and blonde hues. Dimensional purple is something completely unexpected, but so gorgeous!
5. Pumpkin Orange Hair
Halloween and pumpkins go together like bleach and developer—they’re inseparable. In addition to being the symbol of the season, pumpkin orange is also a striking color that suits nearly all skin tones.
6. Electric Blue And Radioactive Green Split Dye
Long, witchy, pitch-black hair gets even witchier when you add a splash of electric blue and radioactive green. Styled with a spooky accessory, this intense split-dye look wins at Halloween!
7. Orange Money Pieces
The money pieces trend is a Y2K aesthetic essential. Here’s how to wear chunky highlights for spooky season: in supernatural orange, combined with deep purple dip-dyed ends.
8. Gray Streaks On Black Hair
Need inspo for this year’s Halloween look? Vintage horror movies have no shortage of cool characters and dreamy aesthetics. For example, this monochrome look with a gray streak, is seriously giving Bride of Frankenstein.
9. Beetlejuice Halloween Hair Color
Right in time for Halloween, Beetlejuice the sequel is coming out to make us all obsessed. This iconic color scheme should get you right in the mood for spooky season!
10. Slime Green Hair
Here’s a look you can do at home if your hair is light or already bleached. Caution: most temporary hair dyes aren’t completely temporary; meaning, they’ll stain blonde hair. A safe option is hair chalk, provided you apply it to dry hair to prevent the dye from penetrating the strand.
12. Flame Red Hair
It’s scary how much this intense red resembles flickering flames, but lay off heat styling if you wish to keep it bright and wickedly vibrant long post-Halloween. Color-preserving products and less frequent washes should also help prevent color fading.
12. Platinum And Purple Ombre
So! You don’t have to actually dye your hair for Halloween. A wig is no brainer—it won’t only protect you from zombies, but pop it on and you can be back to your regular color the next day. May we suggest something like a gorgeous platinum and purple ombre piece?
13. Green Dip Dye
Pea soup green might not be the easiest color to pull off, but that shouldn’t stop you if you like it. Ombre or dip dye both make wearing difficult colors easy, by placing them away from the face and towards the ends of the hair.
14. Red And Blue Gemini Hair
Even though magenta red and indigo blue are so different, this look is harmonious because both colors are of similar depth—if one was much lighter than the other, the effect would have been very different.
15. Triple Halloween Hair Color
You’ve heard of Neapolitan hair color, where pink, chocolate and blonde come together in the most delicious way—now let’s meet the legendary Halloween trio of green, black and orange. Grim, ghoulish and gory!
16. Pink Gemini Hair
Baby pink and dusty pink don’t inspire terror—or do they? If you opt for pastels and want to wear them after Halloween, you’ll need more frequent touch-ups to maintain the vibrancy of the colors.
17. Red Underdye
Underdye, or peek-a-boo hair color, is so underrated. First, it looks amazing, especially when you wear your hair tousled or half up. Next, it can be placed so that the colorful part can be completely hidden when necessary. Finally, you can do root touch-ups at will, because no matter how much it grows out, you can keep the growth out of sight.
18. Green Balayage
Green might not be your first choice when considering getting balayage, but why not? If you’re not convinced in its supremacy after seeing this picture, try it at least for Halloween, and see where it takes you.
19. Orange Streaks
Super-intense orange streaks stand out against vanilla blonde, like something creepy and sinister. Halloween perfection!
20. Halloween Gemini Hair
Try the default Halloween combo with the gemini hair trend. There’s a raw edge to the look that marks it as more than a spooky season look, but a more permanent choice.
21. Neon Green Face Framing
A bright face frame is the staple of some of the most-requested looks in salons everywhere, but it’s usually done in blonde. Why not think out of the box and pick a bewitching green?