dying VIRGIN! need any advice
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Topic: dying VIRGIN! need any advice
Posted By: audreyhorn
Subject: dying VIRGIN! need any advice
Date Posted: March 09 2005 at 9:54pm
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I'm a natural auburn head. However, I'm worried my hair's turning brown/dull (my mother's did the same thing when she was my age)... so what I use aveda color enhancing shampoo and lately I've sprayed sun-in in my hair. But I was wondering if there are any highlight kits I could use on my hair that would look completely natural? I'd get my friend to help me do it but I just don't know what to do/what brand for my hair! I guess I want lighter highlights to make my hair look more orangey.. When I've used Sun-in in the past I've gotten compliments. ANY advice would be appreciated. Thanks in advance! |
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Posted By: Kuroneko
Date Posted: March 10 2005 at 4:34am
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Well, if you want your hair to look orangey, home highlight kits will generally do that. You might be the one case they're ideal for-- most people don't especially want that result ^_^; . Natural-looking, though, they are not :-P . ------------- More awesome than a manatee! |
Posted By: Susan W
Date Posted: March 10 2005 at 6:41am
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If you go for a color that does not say ash, it will probably go orangy (like said above), but it's bound to be better for your hair than Sun-in (which is incredibly drying). ------------- Making metal barettes/concord clips hair safe, long hair style how to: http://alonghair.wordpress.com |
Posted By: audreyhorn
Date Posted: March 10 2005 at 12:40pm
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yay, so most of them do go orangey? woohoo. either way I want the highlights to be a little lighter, so a bleach kit is the only solution for that..right? ------------- |
Posted By: audreyhorn
Date Posted: March 10 2005 at 12:41pm
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and are all highlight kits about the same or are there certain brands that are known to be really good? ------------- |
Posted By: swede
Date Posted: March 10 2005 at 1:09pm
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don't use sun in sprays, they do more damage than good. You're highlights will probably not look natural, if you want the highlights to look natural you shouldn't bleach them too light. A good idea would probably be to use a highlight cap a take thin hair strands and apply a heavy blue base high lift color with 40 developer, if you've got very much red pigments in your hair you'll might have to add some blue intensifier to cancel out all the orange. Good luck to you ------------- |
Posted By: Innamorata594
Date Posted: March 10 2005 at 1:29pm
| if youve used SunIn in the past, then all of your hair isnt exactly virging. Also, ORANGE? I would suggest you go for a more attractive shade of it like Redken Shades EQ in Papaya with a 30 volume.Its a beautiful orange citrusy color that would look beautiful with auburn hair. Dont use a drugstore highlighting kit that contains bleach, because it can process unevenly and you may have blonde as opposed to "orange". |
Posted By: audreyhorn
Date Posted: March 10 2005 at 3:48pm
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Ok, I dunno if my hair is "orange" or "red"..people have told me both and it sounds silly. I'm not the best at describing these things. is the redken recommendation..is that a shampoo? right now I'm using something similar (i think) called aveda's madder root, but what you've described sounds gorgeous and I'm gonna check it out. to give you guys a better idea, here's a picture taken of my hair a few years ago in the sun looking extra pretty..those are the kinda highlights I want.  ------------- |
Posted By: audreyhorn
Date Posted: March 10 2005 at 3:50pm
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i guess i should stop using the sun-in..it's just such a quick and easy fix :( i'm lazy. ------------- |
Posted By: SumoSamurai
Date Posted: March 10 2005 at 7:23pm
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your hair in that picture does not seem orange nor red, your hair has different darkness and lightness of "brown". ------------- 
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Posted By: leia1979
Date Posted: March 11 2005 at 12:44am
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Redken Shades EQ is a professional color...you used to need a license to get it, but I guess not anymore. I've never used it myself, but I have heard wonderful things about it from colorists. ------------- |
Posted By: audreyhorn
Date Posted: March 11 2005 at 2:10pm
you've gotta be kidding me. nobody's ever told me I had brown hair. this is brown--  vs.  vs. this which is actually called "light auburn"  ------------- |
SumoSamurai wrote:Posted By: Kuroneko
Date Posted: March 12 2005 at 4:41am
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Auburn, I think of as being a very brownish red (or somewhat reddish brown, depending on how you look at it). I think your hair looks pretty much just a natural red, although natural reds are generally rather orange. So I guess both the "red" people and the "orange" people were right. ------------- More awesome than a manatee! |
Posted By: divinediva
Date Posted: March 13 2005 at 6:54am
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Audreyhorn.....not a question on hair but is your name really Audreyhorn?....the reason that I am asking is that my favourite character from my favourite tv series of all time has the same name....and I thought u where maybe using that as an alias!? xx ------------- It doesn't have to be natural to be fabulous!!!/ |
Posted By: audreyhorn
Date Posted: March 13 2005 at 9:21pm
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Oh, no I wish I were Audrey Horn..if she hooked up w/ agent cooper! Glad you noticed! Well, in that pic my hair does appear nice and red/orange, now it's a little browner. I was just hoping I could recapture that look somehow and have it still look natural. ------------- |
Posted By: divinediva
Date Posted: March 14 2005 at 7:42am
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wow.......ur a fan too, good taste!! I just bought the complete box set and I am sooo addicted. Audreyhorn rocks, she ouzees sex appeal. xx ------------- It doesn't have to be natural to be fabulous!!!/ |