Scared of hair damage
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Topic: Scared of hair damage
Posted By: cinderella
Subject: Scared of hair damage
Date Posted: January 17 2007 at 12:03am
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I coloured my hair with all over colour (ash blonde) 4 times in one year. A month after the 4th time I had some serious breakage and put me off colouring my hair. It also lost all its curl and is pretty limp.
That was a year ago and I have just had my hair highlighted and lowlighted at a salon. My problem is I just cant afford the touch ups so am thinking of colouring at home again. (I have 30 o/o grey)My questions are: If I colour again I will only touch up the roots and put the colour through to the ends for the recommended time, how damaging is this to continually do this every 6-8 weeks. Is going darker less damaging than going blonde. I have to use a permanent colour Thanks for any advise, I used to love the home done ash blonde but am scared!!! |
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Posted By: chancebrown06
Date Posted: January 17 2007 at 5:59am
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color (ash blonde) 4 times in one year
You shouldn't dye on top of a color more then 2 times a year
more then that will fry your hair see if you can find a color removal
Make sure you use conditioning after dyeing as well
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Posted By: cinderella
Date Posted: January 17 2007 at 12:44pm
| Yes I realize my hair cant take it although the instructions for colouring if you havent coloured for 3 months was to do an all over!! I have learnt my lesson though. How does everyone else do it and keep their hair in good condition? |
Posted By: karen s
Date Posted: January 17 2007 at 2:43pm
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Hi Cinderella,
To colour your roots (cover the grey), it will be fine, as this is new hair growth, I would however only apply the colour through the middle ends and ends 10min before the end of developing time, I would also recommend you apply a little water (with a spray bottle) to the middle lengths and ends before applying the colour, this will make it a weaker soloution, therefor causing less damage to the hair. And yes lightning the hair( through bleaching causes more damage) but colouring all over the head can cause damage too. You really only need to do your roots every 6 to 8 weeks.
I hope this helps Karen  ------------- karen sanderson |
Posted By: cinderella
Date Posted: January 17 2007 at 8:28pm
| Thanks Karen, so the 10min application on the rest of the hair is not enough to damage? |
Posted By: Susan W
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 8:04am
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I think it depends what color you go and how much washout you
get. If you go red or dark, you're more likely to get washed out
looking length after a few months that will need to be redyed to look
good. Blondes don't tend to washout nearly as much. You would only need to redo the length of blonde if you lose your tone (for instance if you have ash and it starts to go yellow or your roots stop matching when you redo those, then you'd need to do something). Otherwise, not doing the length unless you need to is the healthiest option. ------------- Making metal barettes/concord clips hair safe, long hair style how to: http://alonghair.wordpress.com |
Posted By: cinderella
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 1:08pm
| is there a blonde that only needs root retouches, I used to like it when the colour ash faded to just the blonde but the retouch would never match then. Thanks |
Posted By: Susan W
Date Posted: January 19 2007 at 7:51am
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Well, not being a pro, I definitely can't name you a brand or shade or
anything. However, I used to be golden blonde, and because I
didn't use much ash, my hair didn't fade hardly at all, and never
needed its length redone unless I chose to change the color. If
you go golden blonde (blonde with more yellow in it, not ash -
especially since you say you liked when it went that color on you) it
is less likely to fade and will be more easy to get root
matching. The reason is because when hair is lightened it goes
through an orangy stage first, then to yellow, so yellow is the natural
shade for it to be. Color has been removed from it (by the
pigment getting lightened), but not so much color has been added.
To get ash blonde, a violet or sometimes green tone has to be put on
top of the yellow that the hair naturally goes when lightened.
(This green or violet tone is already present in ash blonde dye).
So, if you go golden blonde, it will fade less because there's not as
much cover to fade off of your hair. It is not exactly, but
pretty close, to the color it would go naturally just by lightening. ------------- Making metal barettes/concord clips hair safe, long hair style how to: http://alonghair.wordpress.com |
Posted By: cinderella
Date Posted: January 19 2007 at 2:49pm
| Thanks susan great advice |