Woohoo! Finally, i am an official redhead!!!

Hey guys, just thought i'd let u all in on my latest hair dying endeavors! LOL! Ok two days ago i used this at-home pre-lightening kits (by garnier) which was like over a year old..so i mixed it and my mom helped apply the bleach all over for 30 mins, (like the directions had said) and then another 30 mins on the roots, so i washed it off and dried it..ORANGE brassy spots and the rest was pretty much dark like my natural color (btw, this was on virgin black hair!!!) Then today i booked an appointment at this nice Newport Beach salon, which saved my hair! My hairdresser mixed up the reddish shade that i pointed out in this magazine, and mixed it w/ 30 vol. peroxide, so basically a high-lift tint. The roots really caught color but the ends were lifting slowly so they put foils through my ends and ran a flat-iron over them. after approx 45 minutes she washed off my hair and now it was a neat bright orangey strawberry blonde shade, and then she mixed the color gloss and applied that over my hair for 10 mins, and finally washed, dried and flat-ironed my hair. It is now i lovely bright auburn red w/ dimensional tones of orange and pinkish red all-over. Hehehe, yay! Oh and my hair got the most attention over there being the most outrageous project of the day! LOL! Well pple just wanted to rave abt how my hair went from a disastor to a success!

cool, ur lucky to have achieved this at home. i think its so much more fun to color my own hair than to have it colored in a salon. I know this sounds crazy buti find it fun to mix up the dye products, its almost the best part to me! LOL

Wow that is pretty hair! Yummy i want... Mine is surrenering to the evil rays of the sun and fading and the annoying roots are beginning to show, but i want to retouch myself so i was wondering if feria power reds seroiusly do show up on black hair?!?

I was under the impression that semi and demi perrmanent colors only deposit color, they cannot lift the color at all. So, in order to lift back roots to red, you would need to use a permanent color. Semi or demi can be used on the ends to refresh the color, but I'm pretty certain that only permanent color will lift dark hair.

Thanks!

Oh cool I hope ur rite! which shade did u use? Cuz i was thinking of getting one w/ the $6.00 gift certificate that i got from l'oreal!! Btw, when u say it showed up on u, do u mean black hair and it actually lifted w/out brassiness?? Becuz i did a strand test w/ hi-lift browns and i wasn't impressed!