Anytime you lighten the natural hair a few shades, there will be grow out issues.  If you want to avoid that, use just a few chuncky highlights in the crown and when you have the root retouch done, have the stylist try to select the same chunks, or else you may become progressively lighter which each highlight.

 

Hope that makes sense.

 

My mom owned a salon for  over 20 years and just sold it and retired. The color I used on my hair to get this nice rich chocolate was some stuff from wal- mart- I think I used Natural Instincts at first and then some Loreal- always medium brown. I have to time it carefully, though because  after 8-10 minutes or I  go almost black.  My hair is really  pourous. I thnk they now make a color especially for dark hair- maybe this will aleviate the orange if you are trying to go dark.  This is actually pretty close  tomy natural color, although I have not seen that in so long, I am guessing.

 

My extensions actually match perfectly. I get hair in color #4 medium rich brown. I did not have to mess with the color at all. It sure made it more easy.  When I had several shades in my hair- blonde, lt brown, dk brown, man, it was hard to blend the extensions in.

This has made life easier.

 

I really appreciate the input-

 

hey METALGIRL- I read your posts about clip-ins a few years back... I am hooked on them now. Love that I can wear them or not. My own hair is actually abit longer than the extensions now, so it is not a drastic change, but they  give me the glamour-full  look I love. The next thing I need to do is cut my own hair a bit or order new hair. Think I am up for a good trim at this point :)

She looks fabulous.