QuoteReplyTopic: How long should it last??? Posted: November 02 2010 at 3:56pm
I have been getting my hair "colored" at the salon for a few years now. Originally it started as highlights and now all over color with highlights/lowlights to cover gray and to just bring out the deeper natural color that I seem to have lost. Originally I loved it but now it doesn't seem to last more than a week or two and then fades QUICKLY. It turns back into a light brown - lighter than natural color and just doesn't have the look. I hate looking so washed out and spending that much money and having different color hair every few weeks. Not to mention paying for it every couple of months. (I could use it more but just not willing to spend more). Is it normal for it to fade so quickly - I use fade reducing hair products and try to cover from the sun when I can. I know the salon has changed products and is currently looking to change again since what they are using is being discontinued. My stylist says it is just my hair. Am I doomed or what to do? Are their lines out there that tend to hold longer? Thanks for any personal stories and suggestions!
I don't know about differences in lines, maybe someone else can help with that.
It sounds like you are getting a lot done each time, getting all over color, then highlights and lowlights over that. Highlights especially, since they lighten the hair, are more damaging than the regular dye even. Over time, the damage builds up, and your hair becomes more porous. Thus the dye slips out quicker "through the holes in the hair" so to speak. Its getting lighter than the natural color when it fades because dye has peroxide mixed in it, so this lightens your natural shade a bit. Sadly, I have the same problem (though mine is because I lightened to blonde and now I'm trying to keep browns on it), and I wish I had the answer too.
I use a brown conditioner (then again, I don't have highlights, just all over color so I don't mind if it comes out one shade). It does make it noticeably darker and richer, and especially since my hair is porous, it sticks really well, so maybe it would help you. I'm talking about the kind that looks like paint in the bottle, (not the translucent stuff that says its for browns). I use one by Quantum, I think its called beautiful browns or something, I LOOOOVE it because it smells like chocolate coffee!
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Thanks so much for the reply. I don't do it all at once - I think I started a few years back with highlights and then asked what we could change because I felt it was making my hair too light and all blending together. I dont know the correct words to use. I have been telling her for a year or so that I don't want any more blonde highlights because it seems to fade it all too much. So she uses words like lowlights and all over color. Last time she put in (I guess what you would call) lowlights everywhere and no lighter color - and has done this the last couple of times. I keep telling her it doesn't seem to be holding but I get no suggestions on how to get what I am looking for. Do you have your color done in a salon or use home products? I would like a little texture type look with the color but am told that two different darks is not possible? I don't know.
I buy products at the beauty supply shop and do mine at home (I'm also not a pro). Lowlights would be when she does strands of hair darker (like doing stranded highlights, but using darker dye instead of lighter). All over color is just when they dye all your hair at once, all one color. Yeah, sadly, if some of your hair was blonde, that lightened hair just won't hold color that well, and there's not too much you can do about it until that hair grows out. That's probably why she's not offering you more suggestions.
I don't see why two different darks would not be possible. What they could mean by that is that it just wouldn't show up much after they did it, unless you were in the bright sun. They physically separate hair all the time using foils or a cap, so it is possible to do two shades. Maybe they can clarify why not for you.
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