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Painting Blonde

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OptimumPlacebo    140

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Hi Everyone! I'm wondering if one can achieve a reasonable blonde from the Chestnut Gold through Buckskin Pale triad. This is the most yellow/brown paint I have and from what I was able to discern from Google...blonde needs an undertone of brown...so yeah...will this work?

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Clearman    11572

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Personnaly, I love the MSP Blond Hair Triad.  It's a tad darker that Chestnut gold thu Buckskin Pale, but just how much darker differs from the online swatches to the bottle.

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Inarah    41663

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I use the Chestnut/Buckskin triad sometimes, but I take the highlights up to white. Depends on how blonde I want to do. The blonde hair triad is good, too. 

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OptimumPlacebo    140

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Thank you for all the tips :D I ended up giving it a shot with Chestnut/Buckskin. It looks pretty damn good...I may do another additional highlight of 1:1 Buckskin and Linen White (it's the only white I have) but I'm wanting the blonde to still have that dirty blonde look so I don't think I want to go all the way to straight Linen White.

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CashWiley    36413

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I haven't done blonde in a while, been on a redhead bender for a while now (someone said they don't make redhead minis, so it's kind of a fun reference for me).

 

Here's an old one. According to my notes it's Oiled Leather (kind of a desaturated orange brown) through the blonde triad to Linen White. I would've used more darks in the shadows near the bottom if I were to paint her today, probably mixing in some Muddy Soil.

 

Shanna_f.JPGShanna_b.JPG

 

https://cashwiley.com/2013/05/26/shanna-the-cave-girl/

https://cashwiley.com/2013/05/27/shanna-postmortem/

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