Kamalia’s Guide to the Barbershop

I love the Barbershop. It was one of my favorite new things about Wrath of the Lich King, and I continue to have fun with it. Some of my characters — mostly my Tauren — have set visages. Others, like my Blood Elves and my Humans, may vary occasionally in shade and style, but generally go back to their default appearance pretty quickly. My Troll and Night Elf characters, being of races with especially vibrant hair, tend to change their colors and styles at my every whim.

For some time now I have been assembling a guide to the Barbershop for female characters (someone else will have to tackle the project of making one for male characters) on the Kirina’s Closet forums. With Patch 4.0.6 finally allowing Worgen to work properly in the Barbershop, my guide is now complete and I decided it was time to cross-post it here to my blog.

Azeroth Beautician’s Manual of Feminine Style I: colors

Hair colors are listed in the order they cycle through on the character creation screen and at the barbershop. I have named the colors according to my best judgement. Extra colors available to Death Knights are listed separately. All colors are shown as they appear on the character creation screen.

Human


black*, auburn*, brown*, copper*, honey blonde*,
golden, blonde, ash blonde, grey, white
Worgen characters may choose one of the first five Human hair colors, marked with a star, for their human form.

blue-black, blue-grey, ice blue

Dwarf


orange, golden, red, warm white, brown,
coal black, ash blonde, cool white, grey, warm black

cherry red, blue-grey, blue-black

Gnome


black, brown, silver, warm white, grey,
cherry red, ice blue, mint green, bubblegum pink

dark green-grey, light green-grey, cool white

Night Elf


yellow-green, green, dark green, aqua,
white, blue, blue-black, violet

fuschia, magenta, grey-green

Draenei


auburn, plum, grey, white,
black, blue-grey, slate blue,

grey-green, ice blue, aqua-grey

Worgen


black, grey, light grey, tan, brown,
black-brown, red-brown, red, dark grey,

slate blue, grey-green, blue-black

Orc


coal black, copper, burgundy, violet,
plum, warm black, grey, white,

green-grey, blue-black, ice blue

Troll


magenta, red, orange, golden, yellow-green,
teal, blue, blue-black, silver, white,

slate blue, rose-grey, aqua-grey

Tauren



black, spotted black, grey, spotted grey,
red, spotted red, tan, spotted tan,
blonde, spotted blonde, white

white & blue, grey-green, blue-black

Undead


grey-green, violet, brown, honey blonde, blonde,
teal, ash blonde, blue, plum, black
no new DK colors

Blood Elf


blonde, silver, burgundy, auburn, copper,
platinum, tomato, honey blonde, black, red-gold

periwinkle, ice blue, aqua

Goblin


dark brown, red, ash blonde, blonde, white,
black, blue, dark green, aqua

periwinkle, blue-grey, ice blue

Pandaren



red, pink, blue, violet,
green, orange, white, cool black,
warm black, copper, gray, brown
Pandaren cannot be DKs

Some notes about color:

The color of a Night Elf or Troll Druid’s animal forms is linked to their caster form hair color. The color of a Tauren Druid’s animal forms is linked to their caster form fur color/skin tone. The color of a Worgen Druid’s animal forms is linked to the hair color of their human form. For a guide to the relationship between caster form coloration and animal form coloration, see the excellent charts prepared by Lissanna of Restonkin.

The hair color in human form and fur color in werewolf form of a Worgen are completely independent. The fur color of a Worgen’s werewolf form is linked to the skin tone of their human form.

For every race except Undead, the DK creation screen adds three extra faces that, when chosen, restrict the character’s skin tone to three necrotic colors (ashy pale, dusky black, and grey-green). A Tauren or Worgen DK may only have the three DK fur colors by choosing one of the DK faces. A Tauren or Worgen DK who has not chosen a DK face cannot access the DK fur colors at the barbershop, and a Tauren or Worgen DK who has chosen a DK face may access only the three DK fur colors, even at the barbershop.

Goblin DKs are restricted to the three DK hair colors, whether or not they have chosen one of the three DK faces. Worgen DKs do not get any special DK hair colors for their human form. A Worgen DK who has chosen one of the DK faces and fur colors will still have one of the five standard Worgen-in-human-form hair colors.

Pandaren have both a skin tone and a hair color, both of which can be changed at the Barbershop. A Pandaren’s hair is mostly the same color as her skin tone, with bright streaks whose color is adjusted by the “hair color” selection. Hair color selections exist to match the color of the streaks with each of the available skin tones, allowing a Pandaren to have solid-colored hair of the same shade as her skin tone if she so desires. I have chosen to only show the colors available for the streaks on this page. The skin tone shades are shown in the faces and skin tones appendix.

To be continued (part 1 of 10)…