QuoteReplyTopic: Can’t get roots blonde... Posted: January 22 2006 at 11:57am
I am so addicted to hair dye. I think I need help... lol. I'm just
sticking to this blonde. I like it, it looks pretty good. Not
exactly my 'fake' look but it looks good on me so... I can't wait till
my hair get's longer. I want to grow it as long as I can without it
going too limp and keep it blonde, I may be blonde forever! Who knows.
As to the straightner. I have an ion/steam one and I don't use products
in my hair so I just use it that way. It works well and my hair isn't
drying out or anythign due to it. What should I use on my hair?
Most products I find either dont' work, or they make my hair sticky, oily, or limp....
Jen's color? I don't like her new color, the one she wears in that new
movie. I seen pics. I just hate her hair. I think it's limp and a funny
color.
Don't you have long dark hair? I actually don't really know...lol I do
know you had a baby... but that's it. :) Goes to show how much I pay
attention doesn't it?
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Your hair is looking great bambilee! I love the crimped look.As far as the straightener goes,it looks like your using it just fine.Just make sure you use something first to protect your hair.Straighteners are really hard on hair.I say stick with your current shade,its so great on you.I get wild hairs too where I'm like I think I want a shade completely different than what I have,lol.Right now I'm trying to talk myself out of dying my hair like Jennifer anistons in along came polly. That would knock off one new years resolution for the year(to stay away from hairdye).I'm hopeless
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Okay here is a few dayz of washing, some of the gre/ash color has faded
out of the hair. In most light it looks yellow/golden blonde. I still
have two chunks of hair that is white andI tend to change my part to
mask it. Purple shampoo... sent by god. It works wonderfully. When I
had my blonde hair before it would just turn brassy icky colors. This
stuff is working... those are the roots... that's what it looks like... I wish I could walk around with a light over my head ALL the time if my hair and skin looks that good! lol
No one will ever know I'm not a natural blonde. *evil laughter*
Though I am so tempted to go dark.... soooo tempted.
Maybe after my holiday. I'm planning on going to have fun in the sun and you def. have top be a beach blonde to do that. ;)
You guys rock and Miss Kelly. I love the new color! It's like strawberry.... it makes your skin look darker. I think. :)
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Thank you. I gave my hair a rest. I'm going to bleach a little more
later on. *when i can afford it* and lift a little more, but not from
my roots, cause those already are light enough. I think I'm going
to need to put a few lowlights or something along the side, because the
color I'm trying to achieve all around the top layer of my hair is
mostly situated on my sides. I don't know why those two chunks of hair
got so light over the few years but they did. I think I've stripped all
color possible from them. LOL Somehow. LOL.
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I've had
breakage, mostly at the back of my head, which is fine, cause I hot
iron them and create volume with them.
This just totally cracks me up! I love how you take lemons and make lemonade. You've got a great attitude!
It looks like you've crimped your hair in the pictures? I love that.
Not many can pull it off! Good luck with what you're trying to achieve.
It seems like once you go blonde you're forever trying to get it "just
right" (at least I am)! My mom and her sister and my cousin have always
colored their hair and NEVER seemed happy. I used to think they were
nuts ... til I started doing mine! LOL! And I know how it is when
everybody ELSE thinks it looks great but it's just not right in your
eyes ... I'm living it every day. Ha, ha.
Exactly! Yes I crimp it to add volume. If you can believe that. I don't
have the skills to create volume with a blow drier and hair
straightener so I cheat and do it with a crimper. It looks cool and it
makes your hair look shiny.
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Here it is. I bleached for about 20 minutes, maybe less. I didn't exactly time it. I merely watched it lift.
Then I rinsed. Didn't like the color, bleached a little more. Rinsed.
Was rather afraid my hair was goign to be yellow. Applied an extra
light ash color to the bleached parts. Waited and voila. It masked them.
I lifed them almost the color of the lightest part of my hair. it blends rather nicely.
In natural light it looks good, in atrifical light, still looks good. I think.
It worked well so I think I'm going to do that from now on.
Till I find somethign else wrong! :)
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sorry to hear about the dilema but yes i also agree with the person that says your going to have to use bleach. i have almost white blonde hair and im naturally dark brown, personally i bleach my roots once till they end up yellow (they end up yellow cause the hair is virgin and i guess it doesnt turn orange lol cause it hasnt on me) then i use a toner on the whole head and it evens me out. good luck tho i know u have really nice hair.
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I've had
breakage, mostly at the back of my head, which is fine, cause I hot
iron them and create volume with them.
This just totally cracks me up! I love how you take lemons and make lemonade. You've got a great attitude! It looks like you've crimped your hair in the pictures? I love that. Not many can pull it off! Good luck with what you're trying to achieve. It seems like once you go blonde you're forever trying to get it "just right" (at least I am)! My mom and her sister and my cousin have always colored their hair and NEVER seemed happy. I used to think they were nuts ... til I started doing mine! LOL! And I know how it is when everybody ELSE thinks it looks great but it's just not right in your eyes ... I'm living it every day. Ha, ha.
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Well good luck with the frost and tip. Bleach lasts for 90 min, as long as it doesn't dry out, after that, rinse it out and reapply a new batch.
A true highlift is when one uses two parts 40 vol. peroxide to one part color--Both L'Oreal and Clairol make highlift dyes. I think the HL's at the drug store are only 30 vol though.
I hope this helps and good luck with the bleaching! By the way, as I said before I like your hair, it's pretty!
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I'm doing the frost and tip right now, only the two front pieces and a
little at my roots, to bring out some of the orangey hue. I think it
may work if I am patient.
Awe thanks Hal. :) I wish I could see that.
Ick this really sucks.... I know it's going to turn orange. Freakin
stupid. I'm kidn of mad cause it's the brown lowlights i had put in my
hair it washed out into this dumb red . here is what i'm naturally
lifting from. Underneath these locks is that... meet my natural hair.
So you can totally understand why it's turning reddy. I gotta do
something I can't even look at myself in the mirror. Lots of peopel
like it but I find it ucky. I think even if I lifted some of the red
and then put something in the lighter parts. my
hairdresser left it. I don't dye underneath as you can see. She asked
me if I wore my hair up. I said no. This is about...5 months of growth.
If I use the bleach. (I'm not going to touch the lighter parts near the back...) What's a highlift?
The light chunks on my hair that I would light the whole top layer to
be is, the second from the top on the blonde side. They are
exactly that color.
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Sorry to hear about the cool colors! GASP! Strand test the Frost & Tip to see. I'm not sure what will happen... It seems like it should, but it's much more damaging to hair to use a highlift, then tone, then bleach, but you could always try.
Good luck!
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Yes bleach swells. I'm going to use a bleach otc and then get something
to tone it down a bit. I'm only going to do the front parts.... that's
where I'm having the trouble really. The two front pieces of my hair, I
was thinking of just buying a highlighting kit, cause those usually use
a bleach and there won't be much to waste. However I think they are
more expensive. Anywhoo I'm giong to teh drugstore tomorrow. My b.f
must be getting fed up with me constnatly buying dye.
I don't dye under my head. Due to the fact I hardly EVER wear my hair up. EVER! So no one sees under there anyways. :)
I used a cool color once on my bleached hair. It turned out purple. I was horrified. I stay away from cool colors. :S
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You know I LOVE L'Oreal Excellence Creme Lights, but it's not for on the scalp application. You could use it to put a few highlights in and break up those rings from overlapping (use foils). I've done this to hide using a different tone or level of color for my base and it seems to make everything blend in nicely.
I think the best way to not overlap is to have some help with the back. Remember that bleach SWELLS so allow some room for it to swell. You could do some tests with your hair to decide how long the roots should be prior to bleaching and how much the bleach you are using swells. Does that make sense. I think you can let roots get as long as 3/4 of an inch before you get what's called hot roots--when the scalp processes faster due to heat than the hair further from the scalp.
You could try toning the orangey peachy parts with Natural Instincts in Linen. I think it's over the counter, but strand test first.
Good luck and I hope this helps! By the way I think your hair is beautiful. I sort of like the warm vibrant colors...
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Bambilee wrote:
those are the roots...
that's what
it looks like... I wish I could walk around with a light over my head ALL the time if my hair and skin looks that good! lol
It looks like you've crimped your hair in the pictures? I love that.
Not many can pull it off! Good luck with what you're trying to achieve.
It seems like once you go blonde you're forever trying to get it "just
right" (at least I am)! My mom and her sister and my cousin have always
colored their hair and NEVER seemed happy. I used to think they were
nuts ... til I started doing mine! LOL! And I know how it is when
everybody ELSE thinks it looks great but it's just not right in your
eyes ... I'm living it every day. Ha, ha. 
it blends rather nicely.
my
hairdresser left it. I don't dye underneath as you can see. She asked
me if I wore my hair up. I said no. This is about...5 months of growth.
