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Topic: Hair Coloring
Posted By: Valerie
Subject: Hair Coloring
Date Posted: January 04 2001 at 7:00pm
Hi, I want to color my hair and am in need of a little information before I make a mistake. Looking in a mirror in natural light it seems as if my hair has “ash” cool tones, but if I hold it out I can see the yellow/red tones, which are much more noticeable if it is a sunny day. I have purchased a gold blonde coloring crème from the Wella Koleston 2000 line along with a Wella Koleston 2000 6% welloxon normal crème developer both 60ml, development time being 40 minutes. I have colored my hair before (about 9 years ago) and had some bad turn favorable results. I was able to correct it (at home). So given my little experience and not wanting to ruin my hair (as it is a medium/long length), I got on the Internet to find out a little more. From what I have found, I am a little concerned. Given the warm tones in my hair, I do not want to overdo and come out with too much “gold” or red. I picked the color by looking at the product lines swatch book of hair. It is exactly the tone (color) I want my hair to be but not necessarily so light, if that makes any sense. From reading articles from William about “levels” it is probably 2 levels above my existing color in the same color family (warm) in which I am wanting to be about 1 level raised. I have not done the strand test yet as I am trying to prepare my hair, giving it a trim, etc. so I don’t know what those results would be. I guess my questions would be do you think this will be ok or should I mix it with an ash color, or even going with just a “cool” color all together? Also, can this line be done in shorter time as the instructions seem clear the development time is strictly 40 minutes? Please let me know what you think. Thank you, Valerie.


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Posted By: Susie
Date Posted: January 09 2001 at 5:06am
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quote:
Valerie originally wrote:
Hi, I want to color my hair and am in need of a little information before I make a mistake. Looking in a mirror in natural light it seems as if my hair has “ash” cool tones, but if I hold it out I can see the yellow/red tones, which are much more noticeable if it is a sunny day. I have purchased a gold blonde coloring crème from the Wella Koleston 2000 line along with a Wella Koleston 2000 6% welloxon normal crème developer both 60ml, development time being 40 minutes. I have colored my hair before (about 9 years ago) and had some bad turn favorable results. I was able to correct it (at home). So given my little experience and not wanting to ruin my hair (as it is a medium/long length), I got on the Internet to find out a little more. From what I have found, I am a little concerned. Given the warm tones in my hair, I do not want to overdo and come out with too much “gold” or red. I picked the color by looking at the product lines swatch book of hair. It is exactly the tone (color) I want my hair to be but not necessarily so light, if that makes any sense. From reading articles from William about “levels” it is probably 2 levels above my existing color in the same color family (warm) in which I am wanting to be about 1 level raised. I have not done the strand test yet as I am trying to prepare my hair, giving it a trim, etc. so I don’t know what those results would be. I guess my questions would be do you think this will be ok or should I mix it with an ash color, or even going with just a “cool” color all together? Also, can this line be done in shorter time as the instructions seem clear the development time is strictly 40 minutes? Please let me know what you think. Thank you, Valerie.
A great idea is to call the 800 number on the product box and talk it over with the operators. They can often help you figure out what can happen in general. I would call them first to find out. A strand test also seems like a great idea. From what I have heard unless you use one of the accelerator color formulas you will have to wait the full time for the color to develop as they state on the instructions.

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