QuoteReplyTopic: Colourblending-help! Posted: April 23 2006 at 11:09am
Well, I had some trouble matching a colour or colours to my own hair. I made my mom help me, in "houselight" and sunlight. The match looked ok, not dead perfect, but ok. Now I am nearly done installing and the match is AWEFULL! I am on the edge of crying my eyes out, and I am praying a haircut (done by my dad, I love him!) and a good hairwash and styling will do wonders...
I doubt it.
I really DO NOT want to dye my hair darker, I really don't! Do you guys think that a haircut and -style will make the colour blend a bit more? Could it be my short hair with the VERY long hair which don't match right now, make it worse? Could a cut and style make it less obvious? Or am I screwed?
Is the extension hair lighter or darker than yours? If your natural
hair is darker maybe you could color a few extensions (before you
install)to match your own hair and place them around the top rows to
blend the colors. Do you have any pictures so we can see better?
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What installation are you using now? are you placing the extension hair
under or over your own hair when you place it in the link? or whatever
method you are using.
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well, if your hair were darker i would say put a demi color on the install hair going on the very top row or 2 to just have that blend, usually that's enough to fool the eye...
can you put a demi color on your own hair to match the darker color of the install hair, just making some darker streaks on the top layers of your own hair? that way your lighter hair will look like "highlights" just on the top. the demi should, i think, wash out over time and it's less damaging to your hair than permanent dye.
however, i'm not a colorist or professional by any means...so i'll defer to the experts on here......
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Yeah, well, my hair is stuborn (as is the rest of my body ;)), so I am a bit afraid of how it will hold on to my hair or if it really will make it the colour I want! It's an option I'll keep in mind, thank you!
I am using PH btw.
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Sorry, the best my dad could do. The colour is not true, but you can tell the differance is deff. there! All I can think of is getting the extensions higher or pinchbraiding...
Not finished, quite obviously Don't we all love natural hair, airdried?! No? Me neither!
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The hair looks nice... .... cut layers in it...that will do wonders for you if you have trouble blending from your hair to the extention hair...but you need plenty of hair to do that....
I would definitely add the color of your extentions to your own hair.
The extention hair is a more purple and your hair seems to be more of a redish/brown.... hard to really tell in your pics..... I'm sure the pro's on here can give you better advice if you post more pics.
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Yeah, the colors look different. You would need to make the extensions
SLIGHTLY darker. If you don't want to do that, you can cut more layers in
the extensions, it really helps! But once you wash and style it, it'll blend
better.
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How much hair do you have in? You may need to add more hair, then try a color gloss to evenly match the two and razor lots of layers in.
Good luck.
I know, I am nowhere near finished :) I cut it and it looks alot better! I think I know why we mismatched the colours; sometimes I put wax in my hair, which makes my hair alot darker. I guess putting some extensions higher up and using wax (which makes it blend also) will even it out.
Thanks for all your help! I got my faith back!
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Yeah, the colors look different. You would need to make the extensions SLIGHTLY darker. If you don't want to do that, you can cut more layers in the extensions, it really helps! But once you wash and style it, it'll blend better.
(you mean making my own hair slightly darker, I guess??)
Yeah, it blends awesome right now! I put it up for now, because I have two huge gaps on my head, but it looks a lot better! I made it shorter then I originally wanted, but oh well! It looks like I did that colour-thingie on purpose. I still have to alter some stuff, but I am happy!
Little difficult to tell from just a photo but it appears more lower layers need to be installed and, of course like others pointed out, more blending on the side.
Myself, I'd remove it and do another color match. It's too detectable.
Yeah, I agree with AMM, I also ment coloring the EXTENSIONS, not your
hair darker. Your hair is darker than the extensions.
IF that is what you were going for, atleast dye a few tops layers of the
extension to your hair color, and you can then leave the lower extensions
layers that color.
Did that make any sense?
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Don't we all love natural hair, airdried?! No? Me neither!
. .... cut layers in it...that will do wonders for you if you have trouble blending from your hair to the extention hair...but you need plenty of hair to do that.... 
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