Darker blondish red to light blonde
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Topic: Darker blondish red to light blonde
Posted By: tobyjones
Subject: Darker blondish red to light blonde
Date Posted: January 08 2008 at 6:54pm
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Hello! My hair is a strawberry blonde (more blonde) in the summer and turns a darker reddish blonde in the winter when I've been out of the sun. I would like it to be strawberry blonde or light blonde all the time. Will lighteners help with this or should I color my hair. If I should color it, what should I use? Can anyone please help me with this? ------------- Toby Jones |
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Posted By: Susan W
Date Posted: January 10 2008 at 10:02am
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There's no putting lighter blonde color on hair, the hair is always made lighter by lightening. You can choose different products to do this, like highlighting, bleach, or dye (but it has to be dye with a lot of "lift" for the lightening, a box color from the drugstore usually just makes people's hair turn orange). Which product is up to you. Highlights give you a textured look and roots every 1-2 months, and dye or bleach will give you all over blonde and roots about every 3 weeks. If your hair is already dark blonde, you probably don't need bleach. Its very damaging, and probably would get it white pretty quickly (not necessary if you only want dark strawberry blonde). Unfortunately, I'm not a pro, and I also can't see your hair. If I were going from my dark blonde to lighter, I'd just use a high lift dye with 40 volume developer (you need to get that at a beauty supply shop), probably twice, and use it with a "high lift" dye that has a green base (if I could find it), or a blue base (if I couldn't). The base is important. This gets my hair to go through an orangy stage, then to yellow. If its too yellow for you, you can go over it with a violet toner, or dye it again with a violet dye (but not with the 40 volume developer, use something weaker like 10 so its less damaging because you already got it lifted to where you want it - if you keep going with the peroxide it'll end up white). You REALLY need to test strand this though, since you are new to dye, make sure you don't do anything to your whole head you won't like! If you lift for too long, you'll go past a strawberry blonde and into yellow pretty quickly. Test strand every step of whatever you do on a hidden piece of hair, and keep doing test strands keeping track of different timing so you know exactly what to do on your hair. ------------- Making metal barettes/concord clips hair safe, long hair style how to: http://alonghair.wordpress.com |
Posted By: Ally<3
Date Posted: January 10 2008 at 7:08pm
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You could try one of those Sun-In type products that gradually lighten your hair simulating the way the sun does. There fairly cheap and not hardly damaging to hair (they do contain peroxide, though). Worth a try IMHO.
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Posted By: julesyjul88
Date Posted: January 10 2008 at 8:37pm
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Or highlights...that way you can acheive a mostly blonde look without having to color it all. ------------- |
Posted By: tobyjones
Date Posted: January 10 2008 at 9:01pm
Thanks for your response! Where will I be able to get the "sun-in" products?  ------------- Toby Jones |
Posted By: tobyjones
Date Posted: January 10 2008 at 9:03pm
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Thanks. Will I need to go to a salon to get the highlights? ------------- Toby Jones |
Posted By: julesyjul88
Date Posted: January 10 2008 at 10:40pm
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You dont HAVE to go to a salon to get them.Some of the over the counter ones are ok (not the ones where you have to pull hair through a cap~too complicated and usually need someone to help you.) The kinds that comes with a mascara-like wand that you just brush on are easy to use.I would stay away from kits that say "frosting" as those tend to look too drasticly white blonde and lighten ALOT(unless that is what you want).I would pick one that says "Subtle highlighting". You usually leave it on about 20 minutes.
Just match one up to your hair color that you have now.
My sister has strawberry blonde hair too.Her hair gets almost brownish in the winter so I gave her highlights and now it looks blonde with red highlights.
Here is a link that may help:
http://www.ehow.com/how_2341_hair-highlights.html - http://www.ehow.com/how_2341_hair-highlights.html
and one more :
http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf27467536.tip.html - http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf27467536.tip.html Here is a good one that you brush on:
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Posted By: Ally<3
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 12:37am
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Sun In is available at most drug stores. I'm contemplating home highlights too! ------------- |
Posted By: Susan W
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 11:48am
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Sun in and Touch of Sun ruins your hair though. I've used it in the past, it is mostly peroxide and doesn't contain the moisturizers that the dyes and developers do. It will make your hair go orange, then yellow like lightening it alone, but it won't have the natural looking tones better stuff would give it. ------------- Making metal barettes/concord clips hair safe, long hair style how to: http://alonghair.wordpress.com |
Posted By: Ally<3
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 6:29pm
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I haven't used sun in, but I have used those Sunsilk lightening mousses years ago, and it worked really well. ANd you can apply only where you want it to give it a highlighthing affect. Highlights are more of a commitment, but I agree, probably the better way to go. Try to go to a salon if you can. ------------- |
Posted By: tobyjones
Date Posted: January 12 2008 at 9:05am
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Thank you so much for your advice and suggestions! You've been really helpful. ------------- Toby Jones |