Try Clairol Nice 'N Easy Permanent Hair Color 6A/114 Natural Light Ash Brown ($8, at drugstores). And if your hair ever does get an orange tinge, pour some cool black coffee over damp hair ...

Up ahead, we interviewed ... have brown eyes with yellow to them: This means warmer skin tone, so use a warmer shade. If you have icy blue eyes: You probably have cool skin tone; go with ash ...

I bleached my hair platinum, six months later became a redhead, and six weeks after that dyed it back to a light mushroom brown ... I’ve been using the Ash Brown shade to knock out any reddish ...