highlights

I have alot of success with Kaliedacolors getting past yellow, but I only use the blue one. It neads heat if you did'nt already know that. I don't know what kind of advice you might need re: highlighting w/color, maybe this might be helpful: If I am doing a multi color foil I often opt for high lift color so that it does'tn process too fast for the color that neads to develope fully. I only do this on hair that does'nt require more than 5 levels of lift.Related Link:Pony Tails

paula, thanks for the advice. Do you feel its necessary to leave the kaleidacolor on for more than 10 min. with heat (the recommended time)?

> Does anybody have any feedback on Clairols> Kaleidocolors? I've recently started working with> them and have noticed they rarely lift past the> yellow/orange stage. Also, any advice on> highlighting with color vs. bleach would be much> appreciated. Thanksjulie,my wife and I use them to do her highlights/roots and have had good luck.We did not have as many levels to lift as perhaps you do.I have some questions on the subject maybe you can shed some light on.My wife wants me to go blonde but I'm not so sure.If use the clairol mixture and do not like my color can I use a permanent color such as Nice-n-Easy and how many shades from my natural color?(currently 116 natural light brown).My wifes friend wants me to do her bleach but the problem isshe has a overall light blonde growing out to her natural color.(growing back 2-3 shades darker) and its about 30%dark,70%light.Can I safely rebleach the lighter hair without damaging it or how can I retouch the roots when the are about 4-5 inches in length.Her hair sees to be in good condition and I have been giving her deep conditioning treatments to assure health of hair. thanks for advice

> I never noticed a recommended time. I guess I'm too> used to testing it. I had a client, for example, that> had very hard to lift hair and she liked to maintain> it utterly platinum. If there was even an inkling of> gold she would be freeked. I tried so many types of> bleach and high lift blonde color was out of the> question. We found, together, that Kaliedocolor worked> the absolute best and with no scalp irritaiton. Even> though it claims to be an off the scalp bleach only,> honey, we were bleaching that scalp!!! and every month> for years. I had to process her under the dryer for 30> min!!! and if I took it off too soon, we would always> end up with a little yellow and she is a> perfectionist. Learned my lesson with her too many> times so resigned myself to leaving it on under dryer> for 30 min. Moral of the story is: How effective it is> depends on how long you process. You will just have to> test it wich if you don't have experience might be> hard at first because the blue makes it hard to tell.> You must rub some of the bleach off good with a wet> towel and see if you see yellow. Like I said before, I> bleached her roots this way for many years and had no> adverse effects. FYI I always toned her bleached hair> with Logics Attitudes or Imprints in a 10V. Made that> bleached hair a nice soft platinum color. Hope this> helps, PaulaJust noticed your response. Thanks for getting back to me. I would never had thought you could use kaleidacolors as a scalp bleach. Thanks again for your help.