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25 copper hair styles for flaming red hair
Match your hair to the contents of your purse.
Naturally blessed redheads, step forward it's your time to shine. Copper hair is the one thing we all want this autumn – just ask Instagram, where we’ve found bounds of inspo for the rest of us to take to our next colourist appointment.
From penny-hued curls and sleek cherry transitions, to fiery highlights. Look no further than our pick of the best tones of the bunch.
No matter your hair length, texture, or curl type, we've found the perfect shade and style of pumpkin spice for you. We're talking everything from metallic brown Bantu knots to blonde and copper highlights that Geri Halliwell herself would be proud of.
If you weren't blessed with red hair naturally, a word of warning though. Copper is one of the most beautiful shades, but it's also one of the hardest to maintain as red pigments fade the quickest. Equally, if you mess it up doing a dodgy at home job, it's also one of the hardest colours to remove.
Which is why we definitely recommend you book in with your hairdresser for your amber transition and invest in some at-home colour boosters for those weeks in-between salon visits. Josh Wood's Glosses and Glazes are our favourites (we even gave them a beauty award).
However, the maintenance is worth it, especially when you look like a tonal goddess as the leaves start to change colour and you head off to your nearest pumpkin patch... spooky season is almost here.
'70s sunset
Make like our beauty writer Kate Pasola and head to Josh Wood for the ultimate cool girl red.
Rusted Roots
Create dimension and depth in your hair by keeping some dark tones at the base to balance out an all over rusty hue.
Beet Roots
These cherry-toned roots make for the perfect base to introduce some copper highlights at the tips.
Burning orange
How beautiful is this orange russet shade? It's like highlighter for hair.
Metallic brown
These over-sized copper bandu knots are not only damn cute, but they bring a beautiful warmth to the complexion.
Cherry Blossom
A more cherry-toned red looks incredible on deeper skin tones. Who knew red brows could look so good?
Copper hints
For a more subtle look add some copper highlights to add some warmth to your existing colour.
Faded Peach
Scared of commitment? Try a wash our peachy shade first before taking the copper plunge.
Rusted Penny
This colour falls somewhere in-between caramel and copper. Perfect for those seasonal transitions when you can't make up your mind.
Danger Zone
To achieve a base this bright, brace yourself for some serious bleaching, and some hefty maintenance. Worth it for hair that stops traffic though.
All over warmth
For a more subdued copper, make like Bleach London and put a red dye over a brown base for a richer outcome.
Golden sunset
Copper doesn't have to look artificial, look how natural this shade by Blue Tit London looks in golden hour.
Rich in tone
This incredibly beautiful colour by Mimi et Mina salon shows just how much impact a hint of copper can have.
Penny ombre
Beginning with dark copper roots, ask your colourist to use an ombre technique to transition through this fiery spectrum all the way to honey blonde tips.
Choppy copper
Proof that this vibrant shade can work on any hair length and texture.
Au-burning
Get ahead of the game and switch to auburn tones now before the temperature drops and everyone gets on board.
Strawberry Shortcake
Pare copper tones back with blonde highlights painted by hand in thick strokes.
Copper stripes
We are obsessed with this chunky blonde and copper style, which looks super cute on short hair.
Tinged Tips
Copper highlighted onto the ends of hair, particularly curls, creates a tinged effect that we can’t get enough off.
Ginger spice
Add some chunky blonde highlights to a bright copper and perform Say You'll Be There in your room all night.
Laura is a former writer for Cosmopolitan UK, covering everything beauty and fashion related and specialises in makeup, plus-size fashion and the world of YouTube. Her favourite pastime is reminding everyone of that one time she met Charlie Hunnam and Jason Momoa. Please don't ask to see the pictures...
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