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    Posted: January 11 2007 at 11:36am
IT would be ok to let the colourist see a picture from your phone, but I would recommend you take an actual picture. There a good hair magazines out there, try them.
 
Yes most definetly tell them you have previouse colour on your hair, as this will make a diffrence to the end result they are trying to acheive.
 
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Definetely mention that you dyed you hair before. Virgin hair and dyed hair react differently to bleach and dye.

I have naturally black hair and I did caramel highlights awhile back. It looked good, but all the bleaching was frying my hair so it's now a weird color (that's a whole other story). 
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Thanks for the tips on my bangs! I'll keep that in mind. 

Hm, well I have a couple pictures that I'd like to take (caramel color was a great suggestion too!) except my printer is broken.  Would it be too frustrating for the colorist if I took some pictures on my phone instead?

Again, thank you for replying! =)

--Also, I died my hair a few months back. Do you think it'd be important to mention this?


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I would say go for it, I have done an asian client with black hair and caramel hi lights , then she decided to go for red hI-lights , she looked great with both colours , although it is harder to lighten black hair , so you might only get the hi-lights to a soft caramel colour , which looks fab.
 
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ps , if you do decide to go for the hi-lights the colourist should know to leave a section of the fringe (bang USA term) to avoid your eyebrow colour looking slightly odd, or you could get your eyebrows tinted .
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Argh, I'm so frustrated. 

Okay so for a while I've been really wanting to get some highlights done in my hair.  I want it to be a light color against my dark hair, but when talking to a few people and searching online, most seem to think that it wouldn't look good at all. 

I have tan skin and because I also have black hair and black eyebrows it sort of limits when colors I can put in my hair without looking totally drastic.

Does anyone have some suggestions or pics? I'm going to be using a new colourist this time so I really want to make sure I can show him a picture or explain it really really well.

Please, please help!!
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