QuoteReplyTopic: How close is close enough? Colors Posted: January 18 2006 at 11:38pm
I'm holding the Bohyme color ring up to my freshly colored hair (nothing
matched my natural ash blonde!), and some colors are a close match, but
they're just a touch off. How close is close enough? Do most of you have
a perfect match, or do you tell yourself, "eh, good enough, the difference
won't show"? Just wondering if I'm being too picky and perfectionist with
my color ring.
If it's not perfect- which sometimes it's not- I choose two colors that the hair is most similar to and install both. Sometimes I install sandwich the two color wefts together with clips of some sort and snip your pieces to pre-tip from that. This way there are 2 colors in each piece which will make it blend perfectly. If you post a picture I'd be happy to help you with some color recommendations.
This client was between colors so I sandwiched two colors together and look how great it turned out:
I'm pretty sure I used #613 and #16 for this client
my experieince has been when a clients hair isnt exactly the color of the extensions, i either color their hair to match, or most times, its like magic, once its installed it all blends together, its amazing how it happens but it does!
good luck
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So say I was to do the pro-tac weft install.... in each pro-tac strip, I could
have one weft of one color, and below it another weft in the second
color?.... My new hair color is pretty close to Bohyme #14 and #M27/30,
and I could use Amm's tip for using little bits of blonde weft in the pro-
tac strip to add highlights. Think that'd fly?
Kimberly: I use the same technique with sewn in intstalls which should be similar to a pro-flex install. I usually sew one of each color to each row but I don't think two wefts per pro-flex will work so just alternate the colors. #14 and M27/30 would be beautiful together. I'd probably alternate them so that the m27/30 was on the top most row because it's lighter.
Aphrodite: Yes they are all D-LUX in three solid colors installed with fusion. I was going to use the mixed D2/4 but she wanted the streaks of each solid color so we stuck with that.
I started with the first 3 bottom rows only being #2 and #4 and then on the 4th row I started adding the #30 for highlights. I added about three highlights on the fourth and then one or two more on the 5th row and then one or two more on the 6th row and so on. Here's a picture of the top row:
Thank you so much. I really appreciate you showing me how you place the highlights. I realize that some of my questions may seem basic ( hopefully not assinine...) but I am not shy about wanting to learn and develop. I was always taught that no question is a dumb one...
Kimberley, I'm the same. I'm told that I'm extremely 'anal' with my colour matching as I scrutinise till kingdom come. Don't get me wrong, we're all very particular as you need to be but I think I often stress too much. Perfect example, I have a weft of hair that has I've previously cut into smaller wefts. Recently a male client wanted only a few bonds attached to thicken his hair at the front. With the sample of his hair I took out a few wefts that I felt matched perfectly. I narrowed it down to two wefts and stood in every light saying 'this ones the best, that ones lighter' then 'this ones so the best, the other is way lighter' then 'this one, the others almost red'. And guess what? They were from the same weft! Suffice to say that it all matched perfectly and I was cross-eyed!
So maybe I shouldn't answer you...
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Well, the REAL problem is that #10 or 14 or 18 or M27/30 all do a great
job of matching my 3 inch long roots that were colored yesterday, BUT all
my length past the 3 inch root point, where it's been bleached 3 times, is
such a drab ash blonde, that NOTHING comes close.
My poor stylist colored my hair 3 times yesterday, trying to get my
damaged section of hair to accept color!! It grabbed onto the ash
pigment in the 1st color she did, and then wouldn't take any reds or
goldens. She even put on a BOLD auburn, and my damaged hair is still
incredibly gray-ash blonde. It's like my hair was playing "Stump the
stylist".
So, my healthy roots match Bohyme's colors, but the length doesn't match
any extension hair. And the length is what I want to match, isn't it? Don't
know whether to try to color again, lop it all off at the 3 inch point, or just
crawl under the bedcovers and never come out.
Hey Kimberly D: Do you have any pictures of you hair? I can help you with some color choices. I work on clients 5-6 days a week so I know my colors pretty darn well
Thank you for the offer, Kristin! But I just placed my order! Ha,
what timing. I decided to take the plunge and already ordered 22"
Bohyme in #10/16 and #18/22. The blondes in the blends help break up
the darker colors, I think, and the damaged length of my hair is actually a
blend of colors itself, because where my stylist had put in lowlights a
couple months ago, those pieces took more of the red & golden colors
yesterday.
I'm crossing my fingers!
Here's a pic anyway, just in case you'd like to alert me of a horrible
color choice! Sorry it's so blurry (note the Alaskan-themed
photography that we have in our bathroom). Sheesh, it's hard to have
shoulder length mousy colored hair, when just two days ago, I had long
blonde hair hanging to my lower back!
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But I just placed my order! Ha,
I decided to take the plunge and already ordered 22"
