The trick with any kind of hair bits and pieces (and I see from Fran's books which I certainly recommend were used extensively) is to match your own hair well enough that it isn't evident. For me this is going to be tricky since the shade isn't really blonde, and not fright wig white.
The places where I have bought false hair by mail were very accommodating about matching tiny pieces of my own hair (cut off and taped to white paper), and about accepting timely returns. You can get a match for anything, and there are even some gray mixes. Also, the colors are numbered in some standard way and once you know the number you can order additional pieces without going through the matching process again. If you use some commercial dye on your own hair, it may help to provide them with the brand and color.
Re color, I think almost any complexion looks good with some shade of brown hair. If you can't manage blonde you can probably manage a golden brown, if you can't manage red you can probably manage a reddish brown, and if you can't manage a strong brunette you can probably manage a darkish brown. If your complexion is warm, go for a warm brown and if not, for a cool brown. Extreme reds and blondes tend to look artificial on many people anyway, so it's not entirely a question of your skin but also the statement you want to make.
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