Please help, ’high’lights...
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Topic: Please help, ’high’lights...
Posted By: CrazyZebra
Subject: Please help, ’high’lights...
Date Posted: April 06 2005 at 2:34pm
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I have been on a quest to reachieve great chunky high and lowlights (pale ash blonde and dark brown,) I had two years ago. Alas so far I have been doomed to fail - I seem to have a permanent case of the Yellow - trust me, yellow looks awful on me (and with the school uniform I haven't since had the two stylists who gave me nice hair, but two different stylists. I have tried different combinations - blonde and dark red, (which ended up pretty much yellow,) light blonde and dark blonde, (yep, yellow) - and so appreciating my mistake I recently had "ash blonde" and "dark brown" high/lowlights again. I'd like to say my stylist did create a wonderful effect, but it just doesn't suit me AT ALL. The high/lowlights are very very thin, (which I appreciate is probably what looks best for most people - but trust me, chunky streaks look much nicer on me,) and the contrast isn't enough - the blonde is too dark and the brown too light. The result is, you guessed it - YELLOW! I don't know what to do. I'm sure I'll manage a few months longer with yellowness, but I can't afford to visit the salon for a while, and I'd like to do something (nothing too drastic) if you have any suggestions. If not, what should I ask for next time so I get what I envisage? Zebra |
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Posted By: Alyssa_
Date Posted: April 06 2005 at 5:46pm
| Try shampooing with a purple shampoo like Artec white violet or Clairol shimmer lights. It might be just enough to reduce the yellow in your hair that you don't like. |
Posted By: abeka24
Date Posted: April 06 2005 at 5:53pm
| Maybe next time you get your hair done you should bring in a few pics of yourself with the colors that you really liked, and once you get what you want, have your colorist write down everything she used and did for future reference-my colorist enters everything into her palm as soon as the job is done. Maybe even keep a copy for your records in case you switch colorists. |
Posted By: CrazyZebra
Date Posted: April 07 2005 at 11:02am
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Thankyou so much for your suggestions. Where on Earth can I find a purple shampoo in the UK?! Are there any drugstore brands which sell it? *despairs* I hardly dare suggest it but might blue shampoo for white horse coats be successful? |
Posted By: Alyssa_
Date Posted: April 07 2005 at 4:05pm
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Blue shampoo for horses... wow, that's a new one! It probably couldn't
hurt to try it; if it is for white horses then its probably for
eliminating yellow. I don't know where you could get the purple
shampoos I mentioned in the UK, but you can probably find artec white
violet on ebay. Just make sure you check out the person you are buying
from if you go that route. P.S.. what's the name of the horse shampoo?? I'm willing to bet it would be a lot cheaper than the shampoos marketed for humans, lol. I'd like to give that one a try if I could find it.  |
Posted By: CrazyZebra
Date Posted: April 07 2005 at 4:37pm
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Well, tonight I washed the pesky hair for the first time - normal clarifying shampoo then a deep conditioner. Surprisingly - and contrary to my expectations - the yellow is marginally less offensive in tone. I might trundle along to one of the different salons in town in a couple of days or so and ask if they sell purple shampoo; I'd have thought they should do and I know one of them sells Loreal products. (Not that I have much money left :S) At risk of some sort of horrific reaction I'll keep the blue shampoo for my horse for the time being! We have two blue shampoos for him...not sure of the names right now but "Dream Coat" is one. He also has a purple shampoo as I recall! So I shall look at the name of that next time I'm outside...honestly there are more cosmetic items available for horses these days than people I don't know whether I should be glad for the hair horrors I've had over the few years I've been hair colouring - accidental ginger...black...continual yellow. Each time I seem to learn about a new type of product so perhaps it a good thing *optimistic*
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Posted By: Susan W
Date Posted: April 09 2005 at 5:10am
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I don't know if I would use blue....it is interesting mind you, I
didn't know they made blue horse shampoo! But if what you want to
counter is yellow, you really need violet. Blue will counter
orange, but if you put it over yellow hair you risk coming out a little
green. Since it's made for natural haired horses and not dyed
hair, I'd even do a test strand with it because you never know what
will absorb into the porous dyed hair. ------------- Making metal barettes/concord clips hair safe, long hair style how to: http://alonghair.wordpress.com |