Can I color my hair with extensions in?
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Topic: Can I color my hair with extensions in?
Posted By: Kimberly D
Subject: Can I color my hair with extensions in?
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 7:43pm
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I have Amm's Lush hair in #18, #18/22, and #613 installed with
microrings & shrinkies, and the #18 is too warm for my natural hair, which is a cool ash. I'd like to have a cool color the same level (if that's the word for light/ darkness of the color) of #18, or a bit darker is okay. I'm not looking to lift color, or bleach, but I wanted to know if I can just cover the warm color with a cool color? Can I use a semi-permanent hair color on my hair, while I have extensions in? Or would this make the hair color difference worse? Two types of semi, one w/ no ammonia or peroxide, and the other w/ no ammonia and low peroxide. Can I use either one? The semis with low peroxide have a lot more color choices, but I don't know if even low peroxide is acceptable. I don't have a Sally's Beauty Supply where I live, so I'm relying on drugstore brands, unless I can have something shipped to me super quick. Anybody have experience with this? I know a lot of people color their extension hair to get a better match, but I'm supposing they color it before they install it. This post is really a hair color question, but I'm asking it here because the extensions are already on my head. I'm also wondering how the microrings & shrinkies will fare in the coloring process. If someone can pass along some words of wisdom, I'd be very grateful. 
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Posted By: TanglesRC
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 8:03pm
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i would do a strand or two to see if it would take and also how it would take, the micro rings or shrinks shouldnt get in the way at all,i would be concerend of the extension hair taking on the base of the color u are going to use and that the pigment base would grab the hair and make it look muddy. typicially i dont color extension hair. however, i do know others have. you could ppossibly cool the color up with a semi toner with a purple base. i wouldnt use ash, it could make it gray. try ONE strand only to test ------------- Bringing beauty, one head at a time... |
Posted By: Kimberly D
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 8:54pm
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A semi toner? Do you know where would I purchase it? I do have a
purple shampoo from my stylist from when I had brassy bleached blonde hair.... Schwarzkopf bonacure color: Silver Reflex Shampoo. Is that like a toner? It is intensely purple, and she warned me that I shouldn't leave it on for long, because it'd turn my hair gray. As it is, it really didn't do a darn thing for my hair, and I had left it in for 3 minutes with each shampoo, which is longer than recommended. You're right, I suppose whatever I use, I should try it on a #18 strand left over from the install to see how it takes. That'd be a perfectly risk-free way to see if it'll work, and I totally didn't think of it! I was just going to dump a box of semi color on my head and cross my fingers. Thanks, Tangles, for reminding me to be reasonable! (I could really use an emoticon of a smiley doing a forehead slap.) |
Posted By: TanglesRC
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 9:12pm
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semi toner is a semi permanent toner, i use redken shades eq professional line. yes do one STRAND only ------------- Bringing beauty, one head at a time... |
Posted By: Naked Eye
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 11:17pm
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Yeah, I've did semi and level 3 and have had not a single problem. But
yeah, to be safe maybe test it. One of mine faded REALLY fast, but the same color, on the same hair a separate time held 100%. I think you may have to leave it on longer. |
Posted By: Kimberly D
Date Posted: December 14 2005 at 12:59am
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Yeah, I've heard that the 2nd time the color holds more & longer because
of the pigments left over from the 1st time. I'm glad to hear you haven't had a problem with a semi color; I guess my only fear now is how my two different hair colors (my natural ash blonde and my Lush #18 "strawberry blonde") will match up after coloring. They're the same level, but one's warm and the other cool. I'll have to take a strand of both to test. I don't wanna end up with mud hair! And then there's the selection of semi colors to pick from. If I don't end up going to my stylist to get Redken Shades EQ (or buying it on eBay and doing it myself, tho that's probably a little over my head), I'll be staring at the boxes of color in the store. For all the good that will do me, hair never turns out the same color as what's on the box. Off to the hair color part of the forum I go! Thanks for the words of encouragement! |
Posted By: TanglesRC
Date Posted: December 14 2005 at 1:12am
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ya know-the thing i would prob do is this- why not switch out the hair that u dont like with another color from amm? this would avoid- 1) the chance of the color not taking correctly 2) if it does take, it will fade 3) you will have to seperate the strands that u want colored not the ones u already like, otherwise, those will take on a different tone 4) plus this way the hair is the exact color u want if u replace it and then u dont have to mess with it all. the cost of lush is so reasonable, me personally- i would just replace it. good luck whatever u decide. ------------- Bringing beauty, one head at a time... |
Posted By: Kimberly D
Date Posted: December 14 2005 at 4:22am
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You know, I thought of that, cuz I'm switching out my microrings with
shrinkies, so it wouldn't be a big deal to put it new hair at the same time, BUT..... I don't know which of the Lush colors is a cool color, ash, near the same level as #18. I emailed Amm about 8 days ago, no reply. I should probably send it again, maybe she didn't get it? And I posted a topic about it last week, too, didn't have much luck with that, except that #14 (it might be a cool color) is nothing like anything on the Bohyme color ring. I don't really know what that means, as I don't have a Bohyme ring. Hmmm. I don't think I want to order hair blindly hoping that it will work. They really all look like warm colors to me on the computer monitor. |
Posted By: amm
Date Posted: December 14 2005 at 6:07am
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I have at least 6 color rings from various companies and about the only thing that matches with any similarity is black. Even some have warm tones to the black.
The Lush colors, imo, are warm. The Elite colors are a cooler range. There's rings for that. It's much better hair, too. I don't know thing one about coloring other than lifting from black and toning. Even then I don't know what exactly is going to show up until I'm done. Just about all these hairs from China have coatings and are processed to the hilt. It's always a gamble to color more or get color on it, imo. edit -- re: ordering blind. I've had a lot of requests to get the rings for Lush but I'm not going to sell them. Chances are I will discontinue this line of hair if the supplier can't fix an issue for me before the month is over. If that's the case, this hair is going to all go on sale and I will transfer the name over to what I really want to focus on -- indian hair. I don't see a point in selling rings when I predict they might be useless. :) PS :: I am not always on the board to answer questions. If I don't respond in email in a suitable time frame, send again. ------------- http://shrinkies.net - Extension Supplies & Virgin Brazilian Hair |
Posted By: Longhairdreams
Date Posted: December 14 2005 at 8:04am
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Kimberly, why dont you try a born blonde toner.They come in alot of shades.And are meant specifically to tone down gold or red based blondes.Plus it doesnt work with peroxide so its truly deposit only. Even demi's use a very low level of peroxide to help develop the color.But these toners are a much gentler route. http://www.thecreativestudio.com/dispensary/swatches/toners_swatches.html"> ------------- 
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Posted By: Naked Eye
Date Posted: December 14 2005 at 11:19am
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Yeah, I see what tangles is saying, but I am the same way. The redken
toner (and now I use an ArtTech one) really didn't work that well from me, I was trying to turn my copper-ish red a little deeper red, and it was most definately pink. I've kept using it to try to get it darker, but it really didn't darken it as much as I would have liked. Weird part is, it darkened my natural hair like i thought it would. Which would be good, but now you can see the difference between my natural hair, and my extensions. 
So I'm back at step one. But as for the level 2 and 3, usually it comes out totally diff than on the box, but this was actually really accurate. I think sometimes, all you can do is cross your fingers and hope for the best when you are a DIYer. But I would agree with tangles if you can, do that, much safer. |