HELP Advice on home highlighting
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Topic: HELP Advice on home highlighting
Posted By: texasliz
Subject: HELP Advice on home highlighting
Date Posted: June 04 2005 at 8:32pm
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I have had my hair highlighted for over a year now. Gets expensive!!!! Anyway I just dyed my hair back light brown today and it looks dark brown!! I know in about a week it will fade, but i hate the dark look on me. I used the revlon high demension 10 minutes color. I just bought the color accent kit in honey to rehighlight my hair my self. Any advice I ALWAYS SCREW my hair up when I do it myself.
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Posted By: Longhairdreams
Date Posted: June 04 2005 at 10:36pm
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leave it alone.It really will fade.A good clarifying shampoo will help it fade faster.You dont want to have to go back and get it fixed at the salon do you? ------------- 
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Posted By: Susan W
Date Posted: June 07 2005 at 6:52am
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I agree. Using stuff like that where you don't know whats in it
is risky. It would be better to either wait, try to fade
some of the color, or go to the salon.
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Posted By: portrgirl
Date Posted: June 13 2005 at 3:00pm
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Don't do it. Simple as that. I used to do my hair at home. It's always better to go to salon. So many things can happen when you do it at home. If it's too expensive, look into cosmetology schools. The price is often much cheaper than regular salons and the students are supervised by qualified stylists. |
Posted By: eatgreenjello
Date Posted: June 15 2005 at 11:19am
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OK, I guess I'm the only one on this thread that likes DIY highlighting kits. They are so great these days, it's easy to do it yourself. Start with a few highlights framing the face. Mix only 1/4 of the mixture, so you'll have more if you want to put in more highlights. Don't forget a strand test. You can't go wrong if you do a strand test first. The instructions for strand tests are in the box. Goodluck! ------------- **Hair type: 2a, which is wavy and fine. **Color: Naturally dark brown, currently dyed reddish brown. **Length: below shoulder length |
Posted By: eKatherine
Date Posted: June 15 2005 at 11:47am
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For your situation, the problem with home highlighting kits is that they're intended for virgin hair. They won't remove dye you put in there. So you need to wait for it to fade a bit, and then use Colorfix to remove dye that is left in the areas you want the highlights. Since your hair is previously colortreated, it will probably not respond to the kit as the directions say, so you'll have to do strand tests on each step. ------------- 
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