QuoteReplyTopic: Using professional dye at home Posted: September 23 2004 at 1:27am
Can you buy professional hair dye at home to color your hair, and if so, is this a really stupid idea? I'd like to dye my hair myself, but I don't want to use regular hair dye. Can you take a course just to learn how to use the professional products for this purpose? I mean, I don't want to be a stylist, I just want to be able to dye my hair. Any ideas?
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If you have a beautician friend, you can always have him/her pick up professional color at a supply company. The next closest thing is going down to Sallys' Beauty Supply.
I did this last weekend and the gals that work there are super-helpful. You buy your color and the developer seperate and you mix it just before applying, it's really simple. If you have dark hair, they have hi-lift colors that work really well. You can even buy hilighting kits there.
Basically, you choose your color, i went with Wella Color Charm, they also have L'Oreal and a few others. For shoulder length hair, you'll only need 1 box of color. The price is about 3.99 for 1 box. Then you'll need to buy a bottle of 20 volume developer (1.99). Buy a plastic bottle to mix the color and developer in; the color box tells you how much to mix. Usually 3 ounces of developer to each box of color. You can buy most of the same colors in semi-permanent if you're worried about it coming out wrong. Or, you can use 10 volume developer instead of 20 and make a demi-permanent color that will last roughly twice as long as semi-permanent. Talk to whover is working there and they will help you fgure out the color you want and make sure you have all your supplies (including gloves).
Hope this helps a bit and i can say that my hair looks better than when i colored with drugstore kits. OH! Don't forget to buy a deep treatment to use after coloring, this is very important.
Good luck!
CO wash only since September '04! Dyed red botticelli curls (3b), fine and just past shoulder length
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Great question Just like you Ive been looking for a course on hair color only,but have never found one that just did a hair color for hobbyist. You had to take a full course for beuticians.I hope this changes there are many vocational schools that ofer automotive courses for hobbists.I would love to see the cosmotology schools follow suit.
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Hi, I'm the Veronica who posted this. But since there are two of us I guess we should probably use the first initial of our last name if we want to avoid confusion. I don't really care, I mean, as long as you don't write anything crazy or insulting. I didn't even realize there was another Veronica on here.
Lol how funny! Yes i think this suggestion would be good. From now on, I the old veronica will be veronica F. Lol thanx for clearing up this confusing but even ur posting syle was sorta similar to something that i would write so i thought i lost my mind for a sec! Welcome to the board hehe!
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I think the process is the almost the same with drugstore and professional. Beside you are getting the better quality kind instead of the mass product kind.
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