Woohoo! Finally, i am an official redhead!!!
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Forum Name: Hair Color
Forum Description: The tricks and tribulations of changing your hair color
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Printed Date: July 18 2025 at 7:14am
Topic: Woohoo! Finally, i am an official redhead!!!
Posted By: Veronica
Subject: Woohoo! Finally, i am an official redhead!!!
Date Posted: August 22 2004 at 2:44am
Hey guys, just thought i'd let u all in on my latest hair dying endeavors! LOL! Ok two days ago i used this at-home pre-lightening kits (by garnier) which was like over a year old..so i mixed it and my mom helped apply the bleach all over for 30 mins, (like the directions had said) and then another 30 mins on the roots, so i washed it off and dried it..ORANGE brassy spots and the rest was pretty much dark like my natural color (btw, this was on virgin black hair!!!) Then today i booked an appointment at this nice Newport Beach salon, which saved my hair! My hairdresser mixed up the reddish shade that i pointed out in this magazine, and mixed it w/ 30 vol. peroxide, so basically a high-lift tint. The roots really caught color but the ends were lifting slowly so they put foils through my ends and ran a flat-iron over them. after approx 45 minutes she washed off my hair and now it was a neat bright orangey strawberry blonde shade, and then she mixed the color gloss and applied that over my hair for 10 mins, and finally washed, dried and flat-ironed my hair. It is now i lovely bright auburn red w/ dimensional tones of orange and pinkish red all-over. Hehehe, yay! Oh and my hair got the most attention over there being the most outrageous project of the day! LOL!  Well pple just wanted to rave abt how my hair went from a disastor to a success!
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Posted By: dj727
Date Posted: August 22 2004 at 6:34pm
| The same thing happened to me when I used an at home lightening kit. I had 'virgin' drk brown hair and I wanted blonde hair. So people were telling me that I had to strip my hair, bleach it, etc. So I didnt listen, I bought a hair lightening kit at Sally. I used it...well, my hair was blotted with blonde and my drk brown hair. So a week later I went to CVS and bought Garnier 100% color XL-1 Extreme Beige Blonde, and I used it. Boy! Did it work great! I had nice even blonde hair, it even took over my drk brown hair! Even though on the Garnier box it had not to use it on drk brown to black hair, but I did anyway....and shocked... it worked! I now have the blonde hair I wanted. :) |
Posted By: Veronica
Date Posted: August 29 2004 at 8:01pm
cool, ur lucky to have achieved this at home. i think its so much more fun to color my own hair than to have it colored in a salon. I know this sounds crazy buti find it fun to mix up the dye products, its almost the best part to me! LOL
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Posted By: LaCerca
Date Posted: August 30 2004 at 1:46am
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It was good of you to go to a salon. I used to be subborn and wanted to do everything from perming to coloring at home. Now I know better. Have you ever seen Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadow? The wiccan girl, Erica, had gorgeous auburn curls.   ------------- |
Posted By: Veronica
Date Posted: September 02 2004 at 12:05am
Wow that is pretty hair!  Yummy i want... Mine is surrenering to the evil rays of the sun and fading and the annoying roots are beginning to show, but i want to retouch myself so i was wondering if feria power reds seroiusly do show up on black hair?!?
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Posted By: LaCerca
Date Posted: September 02 2004 at 6:56pm
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I would suggest a semi or demipermanent color like Natural Instincts or Colorspa. It kicks up color and shine without damage or roots. to prevent fading Use a leave in spray conditioner with UV filters. Pantene, Thermasilk, John Frieda all make one. Never wash with hot water. It rips out the red or any color in your hair. There are even some styling products and treatments made just for red hair. But you'd have to go to Big Lots for them and look. ------------- |
Posted By: Unregistered Guest
Date Posted: September 02 2004 at 9:20pm
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I was under the impression that semi and demi perrmanent colors only deposit color, they cannot lift the color at all. So, in order to lift back roots to red, you would need to use a permanent color. Semi or demi can be used on the ends to refresh the color, but I'm pretty certain that only permanent color will lift dark hair. Thanks! |
Posted By: ae_boi
Date Posted: September 02 2004 at 9:46pm
oh trust me, it *WILL* show up!!!i know from experience. ------------- |
Veronica wrote:Posted By: Veronica
Date Posted: September 03 2004 at 4:45pm
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Oh cool I hope ur rite! which shade did u use? Cuz i was thinking of getting one w/ the $6.00 gift certificate that i got from l'oreal!! Btw, when u say it showed up on u, do u mean black hair and it actually lifted w/out brassiness?? Becuz i did a strand test w/ hi-lift browns and i wasn't impressed!
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Posted By: LaCerca
Date Posted: September 05 2004 at 11:37pm
I thought Veronica was complaining about fading reds. You can use semi or demi color to desposit color and counter the fading; it also adds shine. By the time roots show up, it would have washed out already. So the hair is ready for a perm recoloring. I've tried a bit or demi on dark hair while my friend was dying hers. It did nothing as I was expecting. ------------- |