I am trying to remember the name of a book I read in junior high. I’m pretty sure it was written by a well-known female author, but this was a lesser-known book. It was about a red headed girl who befriends another teenage girl, who has dark hair and dark eyes. Lots of stuff happens, and the red headed girl (the narrator) gets hurt and can’t go to the dance. Then the dark haired girl wears the dress that the red headed girl made, which is pink, and the red headed girl realizes that she was bewitched and controlled by the dark haired girl, who is a witch, and the dress she made wouldn’t even look good on her because it was pink and wouldn’t look good with her complexion.
Lost Classics of Teen Lit: Name That Book! 
Summer of Fear by Lois Duncan?
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It sounds like Summer of Fear by Lois Duncan
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Totally “Summer of Fear” by Lois Duncan. The heroine (first-person perspective) figures out that the other girl is actually a witch who moves from family to family, impersonating a cousin or other family member whose family has died in a traffic accident (an accident that she as a witch had caused). The heroine’s mother was a photographer and insisted on taking photos of the “cousin” who was wearing the dress the heroine had made for herself to wear to the dance; the cousin doesn’t like this because (as the heroine figures out), witches don’t show up on film. (Although honestly, I think that was only vampires, but whatever.)
Anyway, the heroine finds the witch in the mom’s darkroom, unrolling and exposing the film in order to destroy it and they have a showdown where the heroine tells the witch she knows who she is and what she is, and the witch tells the heroine she has plans to marry the heroine’s father after the mom dies in a car accident. The heroine locks the witch in the darkroom (leaving the witch shrieking and cursing) and then runs out and saves her mom from the car accident the witch is trying to cause. Also in the story: a sympathetic professor, a dog that sees the witch for what she is, a clueless little brother and of course, the heroine’s boyfriend.
At the end of the book, the heroine and the boyfriend are married and the heroine is reading a newspaper article about a car crash in which “a cousin is said to have survived.”
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