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Colouring extensions with salon colour Q's

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Topic: Colouring extensions with salon colour Q's
Posted By: 222chik222
Subject: Colouring extensions with salon colour Q's
Date Posted: June 18 2006 at 6:03am
Ok, instead of trying to match the blondes im thinking i might just get the lightest extensions i can get(white) and colour them with blonde colours.
Do you think this would work? Id be using Joico verocolour.
Technically i wouldnt be lightening the hair because id be using blonde colours darker than the colour of the extensions, but im concerned about how well the extensions would absorb the colour? and whether it would leave them strawlike?


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Posted By: misslou
Date Posted: June 18 2006 at 11:48pm
    i *think* that all extension hair is given a protactive coating that will need to be gotten around.  also, the hair is already heavily processed to get it that particular shade, dying it further will probably shorten it's lifespan.  remember, most of this hair comes from natural brunettes (asian, indian) whose hair is naturally resistant to dyes.
    i'd recommend going with as close to as close a match as possible.  if your putting down $150+ on human hair, you probably don't want to kill it right out of the package :P


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what I'm wearing: 1 pkg 18" DLux SS #2 and protac

Posted By: 222chik222
Date Posted: June 19 2006 at 3:10am
Yeah thats what i was thinking :( lol I do want the hair to last at least 3 months if im going to pay $200 for it lol.

Posted By: sherrie215
Date Posted: June 19 2006 at 6:26am
I have colored hair darker, and alot of people do it successfully. But MissLou is right, when you buy  hair that is light blonde it is already highly processed and anything you do to it chemically is going to have some effect on the quality. The only time I color hair is when its the last resort.
 
Also you never know how the hair is going to take the color. You can do a test strand and have it turn out one color and then you can follow the same timing and it turns out different. I have even seen varied colors on the same weft of hair.


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Posted By: Blondie1972
Date Posted: June 19 2006 at 6:33pm
I'm not an expert in this area at all, but I just wanted to mention that I was at my salon getting my roots touched up about a month ago and a young gal had dropped off some level 9 human hair to be toned to better match her own hair colour.  It didn't turn out as they had hoped and I heard them mentioning that it was almost as if the extension hair sucked up the toner colour far quicker than they would ever have expected.
 
I just thought I'd mention it because like the others have posted, it would be awful to have you spend good money on high quality hair only to have it ruined.

Posted By: longhairaddict
Date Posted: June 19 2006 at 10:20pm
I successfully colored the Bohyme color 27/613 (very yellow) to a nice light pastel blonde.  I used a color on some hair, and a toner on some other.  The color with the 20 volume worked much better, and I left it on about 5-10 minutes and the color took wonderful and I'm still wearing the hair and this has been about 2 months.  I haven't had any problems with the hair at all, and I did add some other undyed hair in with the sew-in install and I can't really notice a difference in either.
 
I don't know about other brands, but I give the coloring of Bohyme a thumbs up!!!!


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Wearing 22" 8oz Tease I tips installed with silicone microrings.


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