Highlights for Black Hair
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Forum Name: Hair Color
Forum Description: The tricks and tribulations of changing your hair color
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Printed Date: October 04 2025 at 1:36pm
Topic: Highlights for Black Hair
Posted By: Allyanne
Subject: Highlights for Black Hair
Date Posted: January 09 2007 at 1:55am
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Argh, I'm so frustrated. Okay so for a while I've been really wanting to get some highlights done in my hair. I want it to be a light color against my dark hair, but when talking to a few people and searching online, most seem to think that it wouldn't look good at all. I have tan skin and because I also have black hair and black eyebrows it sort of limits when colors I can put in my hair without looking totally drastic. Does anyone have some suggestions or pics? I'm going to be using a new colourist this time so I really want to make sure I can show him a picture or explain it really really well. Please, please help!! |
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Posted By: karen s
Date Posted: January 09 2007 at 2:28pm
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I would say go for it, I have done an asian client with black hair and caramel hi lights , then she decided to go for red hI-lights , she looked great with both colours , although it is harder to lighten black hair , so you might only get the hi-lights to a soft caramel colour , which looks fab.
Karen
 ps , if you do decide to go for the hi-lights the colourist should know to leave a section of the fringe (bang USA term) to avoid your eyebrow colour looking slightly odd, or you could get your eyebrows tinted . ------------- karen sanderson |
Posted By: Allyanne
Date Posted: January 10 2007 at 11:44pm
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Thanks for the tips on my bangs! I'll keep that in mind. Hm, well I have a couple pictures that I'd like to take (caramel color was a great suggestion too!) except my printer is broken. Would it be too frustrating for the colorist if I took some pictures on my phone instead? Again, thank you for replying! =) --Also, I died my hair a few months back. Do you think it'd be important to mention this? |
Posted By: WhisperToScream
Date Posted: January 11 2007 at 1:44am
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Definetely mention that you dyed you hair before. Virgin hair and dyed hair react differently to bleach and dye. I have naturally black hair and I did caramel highlights awhile back. It looked good, but all the bleaching was frying my hair so it's now a weird color (that's a whole other story). |
Posted By: karen s
Date Posted: January 11 2007 at 11:36am
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IT would be ok to let the colourist see a picture from your phone, but I would recommend you take an actual picture. There a good hair magazines out there, try them.
Yes most definetly tell them you have previouse colour on your hair, as this will make a diffrence to the end result they are trying to acheive.
Karenx ------------- karen sanderson |