Your Long Hair Journey!

Thanks for your kind words. I used the highlighting kit to go blonde. I used L'Oreal Creme Lights and highlighted about 90% of my hair. I applied the bleach mixture with a denture brush for wide highlights and a toothbrush for finer ones. It's the first do-it-yourself colour job I haven't screwed up and my hair still feels really healthy.

Your hair looks awesome. Did you go blonde after you did the highlighting kt? Or are we looking at the results of the work you did yourself. Reagrdless, it looks really nice and healthy.

Enjoy!

Jacqui

I'm so happy to hear that it turned out well this time! It sounds lovely.

Thanks for posting the diagram and picture, Viktoria. I'm downloading it for my own reference. Very helpful.

Juliana

Hi Juliana:

I loved the Hair Color Recipe. I laughed very hard.
That was great.

Susan

Thanks farahsatana. I got a chuckle out of writing it. It wasn't funny while it was happening, but I can laugh about it now. :-)

Hi Bob S - Thanks so much for the compliment.

Hi deltagirl. Putting the eucalyptus oil in my conditioner made my hair even softer and silkier than usual -- extra shiny too. And I love the smell.

Hi farahsatana. I don't mind you asking me about my hair colour disaster. It is a cautionary tale. I hope no one else would be fool-hardy enough to do what I did. In my defense, it was the first time I had ever coloured my hair and I did panic.

The brown dye was the final step in the process. I was just willing to do anything at that point to cover my previous mistakes.

Here's what I did.

MY PERSONAL HAIR COLOUR RECIPE (or "How to Waste a Lot of $$ and Screw Up Your Hair in 6 Easy Steps"):

1. Start by colouring virgin auburn hair with foils of Feria 100 Pure Diamond and Herbal Essences XL10 Lightest Blonde, and lowlights of natural colour.

2. Destroy that pretty dimensional honey blonde colour with "just a few" highlights. I suggest Herbal Essences Cool Blonde Highlighting kit. Bleach highlights to pale lemon yellow.

3. Panic!! Bleach entire head to pale yellow with the same highlighting kit.

4. Panic again!! Apply Natural Instincts - dark champagne blonde to achieve a glowing apricot colouring.

5. Panic more!! Apply Natural Instincts - medium ash blonde for an all-over vibrant peach.

6. Lose all sense and dump some Nice ‘N Easy - light ash brown on your head for a rich walnut brown.

IMPORTANT: Be sure not to pause and ask for advice or do ANY strand tests!

P.S. My colour is fading rapidly every time I shampoo. It's always a surprise to see what colour it's going to be once it dries. It's a light golden brown now. Maybe I'll get the blonde I want without even having to bleach. :-)

P.P.S. I actually studied colour theory in university. Hard to tell, isn't it?

korsakovhatt3,

My apologies--I am culturally ignorant in this computer context, and I fear to trespass on etiqette grounds, but may I ask how you accidentally dyed your hair brown?

I wish to know if there is a cautionary tale to be learned from here.

My best pictures are unawares, as well; my school pictures were always terribly gawky, and my driver's license photo scares small children, I think that I might enlarge it and use it as Halloween decoration.

Anyway, thanks for the great collage, Viktoria! You look lovely, and I have to say that you look so much younger with your long hair!

yes, viktoria, I love your hair - beautiful!

And I can identify with you on that whole "awkward poser" thing...I take terribly bad pictures, unless I'm the one with the camera :)


Stef