lighten up
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Printed Date: October 29 2025 at 7:18pm
Topic: lighten up
Posted By: Amy
Subject: lighten up
Date Posted: February 08 2002 at 12:35pm
I think that I may already know the answer to this question, but just in case I`m wrong:
I have very dark brown hair with lots of dark red in it. My hair has quite a few layers of colouring products on it due to a severe hair colour change addiction. When I was younger my hair was a nice dark honey-ish blonde, and I`ve been noticing that my roots in the front have been growing in in a similar shade, which is news to me because I usually colour right over it before I even notice the roots. I normally like to keep my hair darker, and I`ve tried going to lighter shades of blonde before with less-than-stellar results. However, I`m thinking that I would love to have dark blonde/light brown hair again for a change. So my question is: would it be absolutely necessary to strip my hair completely with bleach and then colour it with the shade that I want? I think that my only other option would be to grow my hair out for ages and see if it turns out to be what I`m after. That idea is a good one, for sure, but I`m fairly impatient. :) Can anyone give me some guidance on this matter, please?
Thank you,
~Amy
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Posted By: scrye
Date Posted: February 08 2002 at 1:19pm
Hmmm durn from what it sounds like you would have to wait for it to grow out for quite a while...because if you were to dye it that often then your hair is VERY damaged then, and it be best to let it grow out and get cuts often.
I know what you mean about the impatient thing. I too am addicted to hair dye...I used to dye my hair every 2 months then when i got my hair black i hated it so a week after that i tried to dye a lighter color over it (uuum no that was before when i was uneducated) then a month after that i tried to bleach it all out to a blonde...once again taht was a disaster...so now i`m just letting a lot of my hair grow out and the dye fade out, it is sooo much softer then ever now (heh even more so then before i started to dye it.)
It has been 5 and half months so far and its KILLING me i am going to dye it in May:) and i can not wait lol:P
so unfortunently you will have to try to be patient:(
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Posted By: Amy
Date Posted: February 08 2002 at 8:42pm
Part of me quite likes the notion of growing my hair out - `new`, relatively undamaged hair? - yes, please. But it`s the amount of time involved that bums me out. It would likely be very worth the wait at least. I`ll wait for as long as I can. Maybe a cut would make it more bearable. Thanks for the input.
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Posted By: Amy
Date Posted: February 08 2002 at 8:45pm
I`m not sure why I`ve ended up with your signature at the bottom here, but.....sorry. :)
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Posted By: Amy
Date Posted: February 09 2002 at 8:58am
I`ve been thinking this over, and maybe it would be a better idea to do highlights. My only fear with this option would be that I might end up with orange rather than light brown streaks. The last time I tried highlighting I used semi-permanent colour; I don`t know if that`s why I didn`t get the desired light brown colour that I wanted. Or perhaps it was the specific kit that I used - my hair was pretty orange-y after bleaching with the Frost and Tip. Um...I`m rambling. Does anyone else have suggestions?
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Posted By: messed
Date Posted: February 09 2002 at 9:52pm
I just asked pretty much the same question.
It seems ridiculous that stripping the hair would be the only option! I guess highlightings another way.
HL totattaly frys your hair though. Makse it feel like straw
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Posted By: Amy
Date Posted: February 09 2002 at 11:43pm
First of all - I don`t know why there`s an e-mail address and signature which doesn`t belong to me that gets displayed each time that I reply, but I`ll never figure that one out.
Moving along...I`ve done cap highlights twice before and I didn`t find that they made my hair feel any more dry (than it already would have been). Mind you, I didn`t pull a whole lot of hair through, either. I`ve also had foils done at a salon once and the stylist placed them all over my head. I liked the way the colour looked for the first little while, but my hair was so brittle - that wasn`t really the stylist`s fault, because I had bleached myself blonde a few months previous to that.
I am really keen on a combo of dark blonde and light brown and I`m pretty much on a mission to find out how I can achieve that range a.s.a.p. However, if I`m only going to wind up with a bunch of red streaks, then what`s the point? Just more hassle to say the least.
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Posted By: messed
Date Posted: February 15 2002 at 7:01am
**** it then
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