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    Posted: August 16 2006 at 3:43am

HiColor has a lightener in it already.  I'm assuming it's some kind of bleach, since it works just like it.  Say you dyed your hair with HiColor and the roots came in, could you do a full-head application or do you have to just do the roots because of the lightener/bleach? 

How do you do root touch ups without overlapping?
 
Also, what do you do when you're using Hicolor, and the color on the lengths of the hair begins to fade?  I imagine that the root touchups would be brighter than the lengths.  How do you avoid this since HiColor is a one-step double-processing hairdye and overprocessing could happen in 2 or more applications??
 
I should just go to a salon, jeez...
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HiColor has a lightener in it already.  I'm assuming it's some kind of bleach, since it works just like it.  Say you dyed your hair with HiColor and the roots came in, could you do a full-head application or do you have to just do the roots because of the lightener/bleach? 

HiColor to mee sounds like a commercial form of a Professional High Lift Color...which lifts and deposits in one application....typically 45 minutes. It does have a lightening agent in it which will work on virgin hair however it will not lighten previously colored hair....as this is one of the fundamentals laws of color. NEVER! NEVER EVER put color over color to try and lighten it....it will not work. You would only do the roots and not the previously colored hair as that would damage and overprocess that hair.
 
How do you do root touch ups without overlapping?
 
Very Carefully and very quickly....it's best left to a professional at a salon.
 
Also, what do you do when you're using Hicolor, and the color on the lengths of the hair begins to fade?  I imagine that the root touchups would be brighter than the lengths.  How do you avoid this since HiColor is a one-step double-processing hairdye and overprocessing could happen in 2 or more applications??
 
Highlift Color will lighten virgin hair to a level for example 9GB (Gold-Beige)....to match that color on your previously colored hair you would use a semi-permanent color that matches the roots and pull it thru the mid-shafts to ends. Never pull permanent haircolor thru previously colored hair that has been processed with a permanent color unless you are darkening the hair. The goal is to arrive at the target color while minimizing the risk of overprocessing to hair this is why you would use a semi-permanent of the same color.
 
It's really best left to the professionals....if you can't afford a salon goto a beauty school and get it done for half the price or even less.
 
I should just go to a salon, jeez...
 
I think that's a good idea....
 
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Thanks for your reply!  Helpful
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