What do you call this color?
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Topic: What do you call this color?
Posted By: diann
Subject: What do you call this color?
Date Posted: July 31 2007 at 4:40am
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What color would you call what people call the "dirty dishwater blond"? All my life I've been told my hair is a dirty dishwater blond and I want to know what color do you really think it is. Dark blond..........ash blond...........med ash blond....dark ash blond.........light brown or what! I have colored my hair for years to a golden blond but was thinking about going back to the dishwater blond and then just adding highlights but I need to know what color the dishwater really is. ------------- diann |
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Posted By: lovetocolor
Date Posted: July 31 2007 at 12:10pm
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go to sally's and look at hair swatches....see what looks like your natural color or if you have just a little bit of roots you can match it up. ------------- happy coloring |
Posted By: Rebekah
Date Posted: July 31 2007 at 7:07pm
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Mine was light golden brown...
Rebekah
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Posted By: diann
Date Posted: July 31 2007 at 8:07pm
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We don't have a Sally's here but the next town over does so I might have to make a trip. When I was a kid I never could understand what color the dishwater blond was and I guess it is different for everyone. Light brown to dark blond is what I was thinking. I have been reading pages and pages of the threads and I have a question I hope can be answered. I want to get back to my natural hair color, the dishwater blond ,and then just have blond highlights put in but I just recently colored it andd it was suppose to be a golden blond but it has some red in it. I was reading where some say to use the colorfix to bleach it out and then recolor and then I read where you have to have a license to buy the colorfix. Is this true? Then someone mentioned Color Oops at Walgreens. Which is better and do I need a license to buy? Maybe I should go to a salon but in our small town they aren't up on really going on in today's world. Next town over is 70 miles. ------------- diann |
Posted By: MileHiGirl
Date Posted: August 01 2007 at 3:45am
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Diann-
I don't think you should have to use those color remover kits. I've never used one, but think it would be very harsh on your hair's condition. I think you can just use a toner to balance out the red tones. Something comparable to Clairol's Natural Instincts, as an example, that lasts 28 shampoos. I read that you can't put color on color, without lifting a little, so a little peroxide (level 10) is needed, like the demi/semi permanent color kits have. Usually it's listed to use an ash toner to eliminate red tones...but that might take you too far past the 'golden' that you want. Maybe a neutral, or a champagne color could help bring down the red tones?
My own vision of dishwater blonde would be a medium to dark neutral blonde.
Anyone know where 'dishwater' came into play as a description for blonde hair anyways? just curious, thanks
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Posted By: lovetocolor
Date Posted: August 01 2007 at 12:02pm
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i don't know where that term came from but i have never liked it. i agree, the color that comes into my mind is dark blonde. ------------- happy coloring |
Posted By: Rebekah
Date Posted: August 04 2007 at 1:43am
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Dishwater blonde is now called dirty blonde...here's a link that sounds pretty accurate to me. What do you think?
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dirty+blonde - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dirty+blonde
Hope this helps.
Rebekah
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Posted By: diann
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 2:23am
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Yes, that helps. I just want to go back to my natural dishwater blond and then put highlights in it. I thought that would be easier to maintain. I had a car accident and broke my back pretty bad and so I need to do something that will be easy to keep up. thanks, diann ------------- diann |