Bad highlight job... help?
Today i went to get my hair highlighted. It's naturally a really really really dark brown. Long story short the highlights are a honey color (not the color that i wanted at all) and it's allllllll over. How do i go about getting it back to my natural color? My friend is a hairstylist and she offered to just add toner to my honey highlights to make them darker. But idk if that will look good. Basically, i'm asking if i do add a toner that was close to my regular hair color, will it damage my hair even more, since i got it bleached today? (and it was my first time bleaching) Also, how long should i wait to do this? Can i do it tomorrow or over the weekend?
Should i go for blonde highlights?
my hair is medium blonde but because this country doesnt get enough sun it has lost alot of its natural highlights. Should i get thin streaks of a light blonde in there? Would it look nice or a bit trashy? My eyes are greeny brown.
How long does it take to get all over highlights done in a salon?
It depends how much hair you have, but why would you want to waste the money on a trendy fashion, when natural is much more attractive and beautiful.
How do I highlight my hair?
this depends on your definition of “done”simplest way, spend time in the sunassisted simplest way, add lemon juice or hydrogen peroxide and spend time in the sun (lemons a more natural approach and result)the expensive and more damaging ways (salon ways)old way not often done anymore due to hair breakage: tufts of hair are pulled through holes in a form with a small crochet hook (that breaks the hairs) then these tufts are bleached (causing chemical damage)new way tufts of hair are wrapped in aluminum foil to separate them from the rest (this is also done to frost tips) with most wrapped except the parts you want lightened to highlight, bleach is used to lighten..no hair breakage but bleach still causes chemical damageeven the at home methods cancause some damage if the peroxides used to lighten too much, or the lemon juice is left in too long (lemon juice is a rather strong acid that penetrates the hair shaft, the pigment lies a few layers deep, which is where the bleaching occurs, but lemon juice can not only destroy the pigmentation, but slowly break down the hair itself from the insideit would take a great deal of overuse to cause serious harm however and simply putting a little here and there on small strands of hair then sitting in the sun then washing after is safe enough.. this is a more gradual and natural lightening method though the highlights don’t just appear suddenly, but instead gradually after a few times repeating the process (ps heat from a blow dryer can be substituted for sunlight, but since sunlight causes highlighting on its own, without the potential of heat damage its the better choice)
Can I gradually get more and more highlights till I am fully blonde?!?
Okay right now my hair is a dark brown, almost black. And I want to go blonde, but I don't want to bleach my hair. So do you think it'd be possible if my my hair styilst could add lots of blonde highlights to my hair and gradually every 6 weeks I add more and more till I am fully blonde? Do you think my hair styilst will agree to that idea?
Blonde highlights not blonde enough!?
I always opt for more highlights. Applying an all-over blonde dye process could cause damage to your scalp, and it will also leave a very unattractively stark grow-out line which will start to appear very soon. With respect to 'the bottom' of your hair; I assume you are referring to the nape of your neck. A lot of stylists believe that since our hair is usually naturally darker in this area, lightening it less will give you a more natural look. She was probably trying to do right by her client--you!
When highlights fade, do you go back to your original hair color? Do I need to dye my hair back to it?
Highlights don't exactly “fade” rather as your hair grows, the lightened hair which was so close to your scalp in the beginning, now grows down away from your scalp, to mix with much more hair of your original color. So the highlighted hairs after 3 or 4 months are father apart from the highlighted hairs when they appear mixed with the volume of hair which is farther down your “mane” than when they were “bunched together” on top in the beginning of the process .Therefore they may not be as eye catching, or appear “faded”. But yes, your regular hair now comes back as you get regular haircuts and if you only want your regular hair color back, you need not dye it.If you want more highlights then see your colorist at the salon again, for the best looking effect. I have never done highlights at home or “frosting” as it used to be called back in the 1960s and 70s. I went to a professional to have it done, the best in the city. It was enormously expensive -- $27.00 !I was afraid my Mother would be upset but she loved it, and so did the boys. :) I was only 19, but after that I didn’t ever have it done again until my daughter’s wedding, decades later. It was just as cool, but cost over $ 100 more than when I was 19, along with the cut and base color, but was worth every penny.On the other hand, my sister decided to “frost” her own hair at home using a kit, back in the 1970s. I was surprised she was able to do it, but it became a dreadful ritual, which she kept up for 30 years, and along the way, the look began to deteriorate badly. The highlights were all one color, and she didnt do base color as she aged, and she just did not have the quality tools, chemicals, and knowledge of hair coloring and cutting, since her degree was not in the field.I finally convinced her to go to a professional after my experience (for my daughter's wedding) and she was very happy with the result as well. But she said she couldn't afford to go once per month. Neither could I, but we don't have car payments, cable TV, and both our children already finished college and grad school but hers were only beginning, so her expenses prevented her from going back to the salon. I think she now went back to her original color, no highlights, but she still dyes it.Anyway if you only want your original hair color back, then if you get regular haircuts your original hair color will come back from your scalp as the highlights grow out, and get trimmed off as they grow out.
How do I make my highlights (blonde) stand out more?
I would recommend using the professional shampoo Shimmer Lights by Clairol sold at Planet Beauty or at http://www.haircareusa.com/clairol_shimm... It is a Conditioning shampoo for highlighted and light blonde tinted hair. It is a protein-enriched color enhancing shampoo. It Brightens blonde and highlighted hair. Shampoos away yellow. Refreshes faded highlighted hair. Tones down brassiness. WORKS AWESOME.
Which takes longer? A partial highlight or an all over color?
I recently got highlights, it took about 20 minutes to get from a black to a light brownish color. It depends on what color. All over hair coloring usually only takes about 30 minutes, considering you don't really have to part the hair much. So yes, it's about the same time if not shorter. I say go with all-over color, it's more natural looking and it won't take longer for the stylist good luck!!
Best at home highlighting kits for blonde hair?
okay well at the moment my hair has a thousand colors in it and they aren't fading lol. so here.. 1. make sure the box dye is PERMANENT 2. make sure you bleach your hair before you dye it so it doesn't fade and you get a better color on it 3. ( it really depends on the color of your hair for the color your dying it to make it come out better ) 4. Go to a hair store. I know there's some in malls and stuff like that but those hair dyes are better quality 5. Make sure after you dye it do a hair treatment on it. ( conditioning, oil treatment, ect... ) 6. make sure you don't do to think pieces when you dye it so it looks more natural but whatever you want im sure it will look fine! I do all my hair colors at home. Mine haven't really faded and its been in for about a year now. any questions email me! Good luck!! ~Haley<3