What Hair Color is in Fashion for Winter 2005 and Spring 2006?

"Red used to be the color women chose when they wanted to look completely unique," says Hairstyle magazine (Winter 2006), "but that may soon be changing."

The mag itself features a cover model with subtle dark red highlights, announcing the hair color trend.

"Every year," says Hairstyle, "one hair color is slightly trendier than others. This season, red is the color of choice."

Another hair mag, New Ideas for Hairstyling (Feb 2006), has Rhetta the redhead as its main cover girl, and three other models with shades of red hair color.

A third hairstyles magazine, Short Hair Styles (Spring 2006), has a redhead model.

"As we go from fall and winter into spring," predicts Xena Parsons of Xena's Beauty Company in New York, NY, "the biggest color trends we're going to see are lots of rich red tones."

Toni Braxton has beautiful long red hair on the CD cover of her new album Libra.

Michelle Merz of Elon Salon in Marietta, GA, says Ashlee Simpson's darker shade of hair color has been popular.

"They also want natural, dimensional color like what Jessica Alba sometimes wears."

Kenny Zahn of Lush Day Spa in Ramsey, NJ, says darker reds, auburns, and brunettes are coming back in vogue.