I got my lighter roots, ends are darker.

I'm a nut! Honestly, I constantly dye my hair. I wanted lighter roots, I couldn't get in contact with my hairdresser accuantance so I went and bought 100% Color, bleachign kit, it didn't hurt my roots at all. But my hair was way too orange for my liking. I could no longer stand to look at it anymore.
SO I went and got dark blonde, now my roots are lighter... almost a peach color and my ends are well... darker. I'm hoping that the color will fade a little and it will be somewhat less dark.  Here are some pics: My hair is getting a little weak now so I think I'm done with the whole, trying to get it lighter thing. :D As to all those girls who want to be blondes.... be very carefully. First you must be willing to UP keep it, shell out the dough and be weary of all the damage you WILL get. But you only live once... and hair grows back... I hope. ;)
roots and ends:

Happy Dyeing and Rock Hard....

~Bambi Lee~

My hair also depends on the light aswell. Here it is blonder... it's like before and after! hehehe...
ends are diffrent then roots. the roots are more redy-orange. I still can't get it out. My dark blonde color washed out already... :(





Edited by Bambilee

Well it looks healthy! That's good! No one will be able to tell by just really looking at it that it's getting a little rough. :)

I orginally bleached my head, went orange and pale, went to a hairdresser, she changed it to a ash blonde, tried dying my roots when they started coming in (black roots.) put in ash again, turned hair grey.

After that i dyed it dark brown, it faded to a dark, orangy blonde. Just reently bleached it again, tried Golden Blonde, (dont' do that, it sounds nice but it's pretty much just yellow/orange hair.) hated it, went back and now I got his. A peachy/blonde color.
In some light it looks  just like a light brown, in others like this.

I would suggest going to a salon if you REALLY value your hair and perhaps wouldnt' bare being seen with a hair disaster! Because in truth if you do it from a box, you will. LOL.

I know hair grows back so I just do what I please and hope to god it doesn't fall out. :)
Another is, I think being blonde and having naturally very dark hair,( i will show you a picture), is hell. Cause you always have to touch up, forever... and it does take a toll. But being blonde is fun, specially for a girl who's lived a life being dark haired.

Go to a Salon, even though I hate em. ;)
This is what I had before all this!: This is my natural color.

No problem. I would hate for women to try so hard to get blonde and end up ruining thier hair.
Another suggestion, don't go TOO blonde. Depends on a personal "look" you may have going. I mean blonde is nice, but not everyone can do the whole Plantium blonde, beach babe thing right? No matter how much we would like that!

Do you have really dark hair naturally?

Awesome. I hope everythign works out! I really like the darker golden blonde colors... and of course the real baby blonde colors. I can't wait to see if your hair works out just the way you want.

I wish mine would. LOL. :) And are you really pregant? 98 dayz to go?

You guys are making it so tempting to go blonde! lol ...Now i feel like changing from red to blonde but i know doing it all at once would a recipe for disaster!

Btw, ur blonde looks really good Bambilee!

I totally mean it, it's such a neat shade of blonde! U look really pretty w/ it! ...Blonde does take a lot of upkeep but sometimes i feel its somewhat easier then the red i have lol! I mean imagine black roots w/ light red (when its faded) i think that worse than if it was blonde hair cuz atleast blonde and then dark roots looks more natural.

Btw while i'm at it, how hard is it to change from red to blonde, bearing in mind that the base color is already really light, level 8 i think.

Also, did ur hair really get that light w/ OTC dye?  Thanx and sorry to bug w/ so many q's!

Red is very hard to get to blonde. It will always be kind of orangy, yellow when you try to get it lighter. But I'm no expert. I did use Burgandy often on my hair when it was dark, and when the hairdresser fixed my bleaching fiasco' she had a horrible time trying to get the left over orange yellow red spots from my hair, where I had previously dyed it.

This color isn't COMPLETELY OTC, but it is. I just use dark blonde and a bleaching kit. Works pretty good... I can't get my virgin hair to go very blonde however,it just turns orange with a OTC kit, so I suppose if I could afford to get it done pro, I could get it lighter. But alas I can't. :)

YAY!

Oh my god you look so much better with the dark hair.  I do not mean to be offensive in any way but why, with gorgeous dark hair like you have naturally, would you want to put up with orange blond hair?  Being blonde is not all that!  Embrace what you are naturally.  Your hair will thank you for it :)

I agree with longhairdreams, if she feels better in blond she should keep it. I think she looks good in both colors. My real hair color is med- blonde with golden hints, very much like jennifer aniston but i never feel happy with that and always color dark brown. So I guess I would like to have Bamilees normal color and she mine.

I just love the fact that you can choose...

KB wrote: Oh my god you look so much better with the dark hair.  I do not mean to be offensive in any way but why, with gorgeous dark hair like you have naturally, would you want to put up with orange blond hair?  Being blonde is not all that!  Embrace what you are naturally.  Your hair will thank you for it :)

Awe I am glad you like my dark hair. I myself didn't like it.... I just hated it. I will go back eventually, but right now the blonde works... I do like it best. :) And my hair isn't orange... well maybe a little, but I like it that way. :D Hair grows back, and I only get to live once, I'm going to try all sorts of diffrent things... :) But i'm glad you liked my natural hair.