my hair won’t lift (?)
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Topic: my hair won’t lift (?)
Posted By: emu_
Subject: my hair won’t lift (?)
Date Posted: March 22 2006 at 8:03pm
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ok i promise i have combed (no pun intended) posts on this site, i have read claude's sticky several times, and i still don't get what i'm doing wrong. i'm trying to just freshen up my highlights - more or less go from a level 7 to a level 8 - and i've tried w/ a level 8 color and a level 9 color with 20 volume developer. looks the SAME! is it b/c i'm depositing color on color? if so, does that mean i need to bleach?  or just a higher volume developer? please help, obviously the girl at sally's doesn't know color very well. |
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Posted By: KellyH
Date Posted: March 22 2006 at 10:18pm
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Color doesn't lift color.....we've heard it a thousand times. I got a little lift by using a level 10 (from a 9), but you will probably have to use a bleach/lightener product. ------------- 
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Posted By: emu_
Date Posted: March 23 2006 at 1:20am
does this mean that *gasp* all these years my stylist has been bleaching me and i never knew?! |
Posted By: Claude
Date Posted: March 23 2006 at 9:39am
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BINGO! Once your color your hair the only way to lighten artificially colored hair is bleach. Stylists like to sugar coat it for the client and say I'm going to put this lightener in your hair.....it sounds much better than saying....OK I'm going to put this bleach in your hair.... |
emu_ wrote:
Posted By: emu_
Date Posted: March 23 2006 at 10:26am
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certainly does!! i am still in shock that i've been *bleaching* my hair now for 10+ years...
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Posted By: hannebash
Date Posted: March 23 2006 at 11:11am
| Well, lightening is really just a more consumer-friendly (and less fear-inspiring) word than bleaching--but it is the same thing. I had bleached highlights for years and did not find it to be very damaging for my hair. I had my hairdresser who I trusted do it and my hair was not fried at all. Did you get foils in the past? I found that was the best way to go for ne. |