Hair Color Disaster! Please help!
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Topic: Hair Color Disaster! Please help!
Posted By: Unregistered Guest
Subject: Hair Color Disaster! Please help!
Date Posted: January 12 2000 at 3:24am
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Hello, I got myself into a fix and don't know what to do. My naturally dark ash blonde hair has been through alot of color/highlite processes over the years. In the last couple of years, I've had my hair red using mostly Natural Instincts (which does not wash out!). Since my hair is longish, several inches past my shoulder, the ends have been through old highlights and colors. More recently, I wanted to get my hair back to it's natural ash blonde so I could get highlights done and get rid of the red (HA HA!).So a couple of months ago, I went to a salon and the hairdresser put in a demi-permanent filler which left it ash for several weeks before turning a reddish gold. Fed up with these persistent red tones, I went back to the salon a couple of days ago and told him to give me lots of highlights.My problem: The blonde highlights look fabulous, just the shade I wanted, very pale ash blond but I still have streaks of those horrible red/gold from previous dyes which looks weird. What can I do to minimize this drastic contrast in favor of the blonde without damaging my hair too much? I'd like to keep my long hair (my aim is to grow it as long as I can!) and definitely don't want to use red or gold on my highlights. Please help! Sorry this is so long!
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Posted By: Sherry
Date Posted: January 12 2000 at 3:25am
Hi there!What a shame about your hair-- it's such a bunch a bolgna the way that the hair dye industry claims that those semi's such as Natural Instincts and Castings "Wash" out-- what they don't tell you is that they DO NOT wash out,... they are the same as permanents except that they don't have enough quite enough peroxide to lift out your old haircolor-- that's why you don't notice roots as bad. From experience with these semi's (I used to do the red thing too--my hair is very light golden brown) my hairdresser screamed when I came in and told her I wanted the red out. First of all, red is a VERY difficult color to remove by color correcting and secondly, semi permanents are harder to remove than permanent haircoloring. Sounds backwards doesn't it,... but it's not, as you have learned. As for me, I ended up cutting my mid-back length loose curls as short as "Darhma's" and that got rid of what the color correcting couldn't. All that I can say is that it is a waiting game-- but take this opportunity to tell your friends about the "lies" concerning semi-permanants. When all your red is finally gone, stick with the highlights (that's what I do now)by then, red will probably be passe anyway! Good Luck!Sherry
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Posted By: Paula
Date Posted: January 12 2000 at 3:25am
>If you go back to the stylist who did the good highlights, and ask if they could foil in some lowlights to at least tone down some of the red, it would at least be an improvement, albiet a temporary one. Ask if they can try to leave the nice highlighted streaks as much as possible and just try to catch some of the red to tone it down. William often refers to Shades EQ. That would be an excellent choice. As well as any other no-lift haircolor. I know that demi-permanent is the culprit here, but any lifting, permanent color will only cause more red in the future. Next time you nead a highlight, they can do a combination highlihgt lowlight at the same time to eliminate the red that might show up again later. Eventually it should all equalize, only like Sherry said, when it becomes passe. ha
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