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    Posted: February 18 2008 at 11:35am
my hair has been lightened for 30 years, and i want to get it back to a medium golden blond, it has become a washed out very light blond, no real color, i am a senior and definitely need some color to enhance my looks,my hair doesnt seem to hold color any more, i am a new member today, and so happy to have found this forum, thanks a bunch!
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Welcome!  I don't have grays yet and I'm not a pro, so I don't have any personal experience with this, but I know there have been a lot of posts in the past here about dyeing resistant gray hair.

One method is to use ammonia based dyes, which help open the tough cuticle.  Another is to put some of the developer on the gray hair and let it sit on it for a few minutes before dyeing it.  Another is to use only the dye part of the dye (the dye alone before you mix in the developer) and let that sit on the gray hair for 10 minutes, blot off then apply the dye mixed to the rest of the hair.  (the dye alone would have a more alkaline Ph, like ammonia based dyes, and the peroxide alone helps open the hair's cuticle.).  I haven't heard any news on which of these techniques work best on resistant grays, but one should work for sure.  You may want to test strand different methods and try it out before doing your whole head.

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thank you so much for the reply, yhey all make sense to me, will try one soon and let you know results, best regards,two stepper
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