Hi girls

Just wondering what everyone uses out there.  I myself have a few grays near my part line (8-10).  I have been going to a lady for the past few dye jobs and she has been using Nexus hair color on my hair.  I am very pleased on how well it covers gray hair since mine are very stubborn.  What I don't like is how it does not seem very shiny to me.  When I used Nice and Easy in the past I used to get this great shine to my hair but on the downside it did not cover my gray hairs as well.

What do you use?

I use Scruples permanent color and love it.  You have to add more warmth to the formula to cover gray hair because gray lacks underlying pigment, but they give you all the recipes for that, so it's easy.

For a demi permanent, I love Matrix Color Sync.  It blends gray fairly well. 

i use Redken and i also use Paul Mitchell Bleach.

Amm, you really dont need to darken first then lighten, you could very eaisily get what ever color darker you want to use, get some good professional bleach and developer and get some foil and a rat tail comb.

alternate the dark in one foil then the bleach in another foil. this way you are not double processing the dark ones. your a pro at doing your own hair, this should be very easy for you.

when you do the darker color in foil, make sure you get the root as well even if you go off the foil. When you do the bleach, dont go all the way to the root, it will bleed and make a mess.

good luck

This is how my hair is colored (not by myself though) but I do have one suggestions - when you wash it out just make sure to do all the bleash first and get it all washed out before you take out the dark foils!

I did this with red and bleach and wasn't careful enough with rinsing and ended up with pink streaks!  I kind of liked it but I had to tone it out for work.

Mocha-

i have never had a bad reaction with using foil for beach or color- i only use professional products. i apply with a brush. purhaps they are reffering to the application of the color ie: do not apply with a metal comb?

yes foil does speed up the lightening process if you use heat.

i aabsolutely love the paul mitchell bleach and i rarely use heat, and yes foil folds up really great.

Laura- great advice, i usually rinse out the dark first, this way when the lighter hair is getting rinsed, it doesnt touch the dark ones that are still colored.

overlapping is the biggest problem with breakage

try not to put bleach on where there is already bleach, just do the roots

something else you can do is this

afater you foil the roots, wait until its the color you want, then pull the bleach onto the ends for a few mins longer, this way it will all be an even blonde and possibly lighter.

also toning it would help get out the brass and gold, use a toner with a nuteral and a purple tone to it- however dont leave it on too long, it will turn grayish.

what type of bleach and wht deveoper did u use>? my hair is a dark bown naturally like a level 4 and i get it really blonde.

wow! sounds like a lot of chemical processing over and over-

i use 20-30 vol with my bleach never  higher. purhaps a blast of heat would of helped- however yes, let it rest and get it professionally done

first off the rule of coloring is this-

color does not ever remove color. Only bleach.  No matter what the pacakge says its just not so.

also,  who knows wha is on the hair you tried to lift.

correct amm, use bleach first then you can deposit the color you want it to be.

see if you can get some professional bleach- paul mitchell is great, color graphics from matrix

my two favorits, use about 30 vol and watch it

you may need to apply heat so wrap it in some foil