Colourblending-help!
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Topic: Colourblending-help!
Posted By: Draakje
Subject: Colourblending-help!
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 11:09am
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Well, I had some trouble matching a colour or colours to my own hair. I made my mom help me, in "houselight" and sunlight. The match looked ok, not dead perfect, but ok. Now I am nearly done installing and the match is AWEFULL! I am on the edge of crying my eyes out, and I am praying a haircut (done by my dad, I love him!) and a good hairwash and styling will do wonders... I doubt it. I really DO NOT want to dye my hair darker, I really don't! Do you guys think that a haircut and -style will make the colour blend a bit more? Could it be my short hair with the VERY long hair which don't match right now, make it worse? Could a cut and style make it less obvious? Or am I screwed? *sigh* |
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Posted By: gerrigirl
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 11:27am
| Is the extension hair lighter or darker than yours? If your natural hair is darker maybe you could color a few extensions (before you install)to match your own hair and place them around the top rows to blend the colors. Do you have any pictures so we can see better? |
Posted By: Draakje
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 11:32am
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My own hair is lighter.. Making pics now... |
Posted By: Draakje
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 11:34am
| I could always pinchbraid the top hair, offcourse. But it's not really what I want.. But if I have to, I have to... |
Posted By: gerrigirl
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 11:38am
| What installation are you using now? are you placing the extension hair under or over your own hair when you place it in the link? or whatever method you are using. |
Posted By: Draakje
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 11:47am
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Microrings, pre-tips and I put it where-ever it fits. Downloading pics now.. |
Posted By: ccross6032
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 11:50am
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hmmmmmmmm well, if your hair were darker i would say put a demi color on the install hair going on the very top row or 2 to just have that blend, usually that's enough to fool the eye... can you put a demi color on your own hair to match the darker color of the install hair, just making some darker streaks on the top layers of your own hair? that way your lighter hair will look like "highlights" just on the top. the demi should, i think, wash out over time and it's less damaging to your hair than permanent dye. however, i'm not a colorist or professional by any means...so i'll defer to the experts on here...... |
Posted By: Draakje
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 11:53am
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Yeah, well, my hair is stuborn (as is the rest of my body ;)), so I am a bit afraid of how it will hold on to my hair or if it really will make it the colour I want! It's an option I'll keep in mind, thank you! I am using PH btw. |
Posted By: Draakje
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 12:06pm
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v23/Draakje2/4bbd1515.jpg - http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v23/Draakje2/4bbd1515.jpg Sorry, the best my dad could do. The colour is not true, but you can tell the differance is deff. there! All I can think of is getting the extensions higher or pinchbraiding... Not finished, quite obviously |
Don't we all love natural hair, airdried?! No? Me neither!Posted By: JeepGirl
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 12:16pm
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The hair looks nice..
 . .... cut layers in it...that will do wonders for you if you have trouble blending from your hair to the extention hair...but you need plenty of hair to do that.... I would definitely add the color of your extentions to your own hair.
The extention hair is a more purple and your hair seems to be more of a redish/brown.... hard to really tell in your pics..... I'm sure the pro's on here can give you better advice if you post more pics.
------------- Thanks, JeepGirl Current install-Bohyme Bodywave #30 and #14 in the straight hair/ they didn't have the #14 in bodywave, so I mixed them...works great! |
Posted By: Draakje
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 12:22pm
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The extensions are more reddish/brownish. Deff. not purple! Maybe I could pinchbraid tiny amount of the hair on top, like it were highlight? It'll show the "bond", but hell. Would that be enough? Wait a sec, I also have some liquid gold left! That might be less visible. |
Posted By: gsmilie
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 4:12pm
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How much hair do you have in? You may need to add more hair, then try a color gloss to evenly match the two and razor lots of layers in. Good luck. |
Posted By: Naked Eye
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 6:50pm
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Yeah, the colors look different. You would need to make the extensions
SLIGHTLY darker. If you don't want to do that, you can cut more layers in the extensions, it really helps! But once you wash and style it, it'll blend better. |
Posted By: Draakje
Date Posted: April 24 2006 at 1:10am
I know, I am nowhere near finished :) I cut it and it looks alot better! I think I know why we mismatched the colours; sometimes I put wax in my hair, which makes my hair alot darker. I guess putting some extensions higher up and using wax (which makes it blend also) will even it out. Thanks for all your help! I got my faith back! |
gsmilie wrote:Posted By: Draakje
Date Posted: April 24 2006 at 1:15am
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(you mean making my own hair slightly darker, I guess??) Yeah, it blends awesome right now! I put it up for now, because I have two huge gaps on my head, but it looks a lot better! I made it shorter then I originally wanted, but oh well! It looks like I did that colour-thingie on purpose. I still have to alter some stuff, but I am happy! Thank you :) |
Posted By: amm
Date Posted: April 24 2006 at 8:10am
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Little difficult to tell from just a photo but it appears more lower layers need to be installed and, of course like others pointed out, more blending on the side.
Myself, I'd remove it and do another color match. It's too detectable. ------------- http://shrinkies.net - Extension Supplies & Virgin Brazilian Hair |
Posted By: Naked Eye
Date Posted: April 24 2006 at 10:36am
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Yeah, I agree with AMM, I also ment coloring the EXTENSIONS, not your
hair darker. Your hair is darker than the extensions. IF that is what you were going for, atleast dye a few tops layers of the extension to your hair color, and you can then leave the lower extensions layers that color. Did that make any sense? |
Posted By: Draakje
Date Posted: April 24 2006 at 12:07pm
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Its PH, I'd need a pretty darn good dye to colour it.. |