Doing it myself

Hello - I am new to hairboutique and I like it so far! I am in need of some help in trying to color my hair to match my roots.


I have naturally med/dark brown hair. I have some med chunk highlights and a big chunk highlight kind of framing my face. The biggest chunk I would say would be above my eyebrows - I guess you could call it my bangs area, but I don't have bangs. I also have everywhere other than the highlights colored to a dark redish. All of this was done professionally with redkin products I think.

I am wanting to darking all of my hair, by myself, trying to match it close to the roots. I understand that if I do attempt this, the area's that are highlighted will not be as dark as the rest, and that is ok. Just as long as it tones down to a brown and away from this yellow orange.

I've dyed my own hair before, mostly from box stuff. So I am confident I can do it myself, as long as I can just add whatever to my whole head. I have been reading something about a filler - what is that and should I use it even though only chunks of my hair are light?

I am going to try to upload some pictures so you can see what I have.
Thanks in advance!









Edited by crazymonkey3 - June 08 2008 at 9:26pm

Ok - I just got back from Sally's. The lady there recommended  a #2 Warm Brown Protein Color Filler by Colorful. It looks like this: http://www.adiscountbeauty.com/media/filler.jpg
I also purchased Loreal Technique Preference Permanent Mega Brown 'BR5 Mocha'. It says 'Level 5 - bases gold and red-violet'. It looks like this: http://www.beautydeals.net/shop/images/14994.jpg

I also purchased a 20 volume creme developer.

I got my bowl and brush, but of course forgot gloves. ha ha.

So - how does this stuff look? Do you think I will be okay? How do I use the filler? Did I get the right filler, or should I have gotten a nuetral one?

Since I forgot the gloves, I won't be experimenting until tomorrow at the earliest.
Thanks in advance!


Edited by crazymonkey3 - June 09 2008 at 8:15pm

The good thing about filler's ( pre pigmenting UK terms, lol) is as you hair is porous the filler will stain your hair ( the filler you got is fine) therefore when you do put a demi or permanent colour on top of the filler it is less likely to fade, also this will make your colour more even( I hope this make sense to you crazymonkey, lol) also the Mocha is a lovely shade. 20 vol 6% is the right peroxide for what you intend to do, it will deposit colour.

Oh I hope everything works out well. I justed wanted to note that in cases like this, you can use a leave-in conditoner (spray) to act as a filler for porous hair. You don't ALWAYS have to use a coloured filler.