QuoteReplyTopic: Highlighting Questions Posted: November 15 2004 at 8:48pm
Okay there are a few things I am unclear about, perhaps some of you guys can help me. Theres alot of questions. So please bare with me.
First of all, My hair was semi-colored a dark brown back in late August and as I stated in a previous post, I was able to lift out some of the color with a 40 vol. developer. So now it is a medium brown, a little reddish but not too much.
1. A week after I had colored my hair, I did a strand test to highlight over it and applied heat, and it ended up breaking! Was it because it was too soon? It has been about 3 months now. Would it be safe now?
2. Can I get blonde highlights now? Or do I have to remove more of the semi-color out of my hair?
3. Colorfix is for permanent color. Would it still work on my hair? Is there another color lifter that works for semi-colored hair? (I heard Uncolor stinks)
4. If I were to use a color remover my hair would come out a weird orangey color. Then I would have to color over it with a base color. But I thought I shouldn't try bleaching over color in the first place?
5. If I decide to get my highlights in a couple of months. Right now, what could I do to counteract the red out of my hair without using any color that lifts? If I were to use an ash semi-color would that do the trick? Or would that just add to the whole "can't bleach over semi-permanent color" theory?
1. I don't think time really has much to do with it. It's always good to wait until after you've washed and conditioned your hair once before doing it again (and doing it when its dirty so the dye stays better and your hair has more of its natural moisturizer on it). But whether you wait a week or 3 months doesn't matter. I've seen the pics you posted of everything that was done to your hair, I suspect it broke because you had it bleached white before you went dark...that damaged hair a whole lot. If it's going to break like that, you may want to wait until all of the parts you had dyed platinum grow out (you had a short cut I think? So it shouldn't take too long).
2. Sorry I don't know, maybe someone else does?
3. Colorfix may wind up leaving your whole head yellow....if you want to go blonde again that would be doable because then you'd just add a blonde tone to it, but if you just wanted light brown with highlights, I wouldn't use colorfix on my whole head.
4. Yeah, you could do that, but if your hair breaks when you try just highlighting, I wouldn't. It's always risky too, dying or highlighting over previously colored hair. You may want to consider going to a salon instead of doing it yourself, and be sure to tell them everything you've already done so they'll know your hair is fragile and porous. I'd wait until it grows out more healthy.
5. Ash may work if you use a green base one...your hair has to be all orangy though, or you will get a greener cast on the parts that aren't orangy right now. Again, that's risky and it may make you have to wait longer before you can have what you wanted done.
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Thank you. Ya I wouldn't dare trying to do it myself. I will definately have a pro do it. When I had it blonde before, I took really good care of it and it was really healthy. Probably because I made sure not to get any bleach over the already blonde parts when I did my roots. Its in pretty good health right now, I have been building it up with HairFixer and moisturizing deep conditioner. The picture with the dark hair was right after I did it. My hair is longer now. The longest layer is to my shoulders. I'm thinking about cutting it just so it will be in even better shape for when I do the highlights.
Do you know of any really good moisturizing deep conditioners that are suppose to stay on longer than 10 minutes? Tri-Moisture is great but its only for 3 minutes. I want something even more penetrating.
At Sally I used to buy one that was supposed to stay on 10 minutes, but I don't know of any for longer than that (just my own experience, there could be some out there). The one I used was called Ion and it worked really well after processing the hair.
I must say that I don't think hair repairers really do anything to heal your hair. I think once it's damaged, it's damaged and there's nothing you can do about it. When I had my hair white, I used heavy pantene conditioner with lots of silicones in it to make my hair look really healthy, but all they do is put a nice smooth coating on your hair and glue all the bad parts down so it looks and feels good. One wash without using them and you are reminded your hair is not in such great shape. Not that those things are bad, if you have any length of hair shorter than bra strap, they can make your hair look great even if it's really not. I'm just saying that they may not actually be repairing your hair, so if your hair was breaking before, I would still be careful.
Good luck!
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