Highlighting Kit gone wrong! Help
Printed From: HairBoutique.com
Category: Hair Talk
Forum Name: Hair Color
Forum Description: The tricks and tribulations of changing your hair color
URL: https://talk.hairboutique.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=58856
Printed Date: October 03 2025 at 1:13am
Topic: Highlighting Kit gone wrong! Help
Posted By: Balliva
Subject: Highlighting Kit gone wrong! Help
Date Posted: January 17 2008 at 6:55am
|
Hello,
I bought Loreal Highlighting kit and first colored my entire head of hair, then added highlights. It looks like I have chunks of color, not strands.
What should I do to fix this? Should I recolor my hair?
Help!!!
Thank you for any help!!!!!!
|
Replies:
Posted By: Susan W
Date Posted: January 17 2008 at 7:21am
|
Do you mean you dyed your whole head, highlighted, then you didn't get the highlights lifted as much as you wanted? What color did you dye your whole head? Or did you mean you just got highlights that were an okay color but too chunky? Remember that color won't lift color, so that might have been your problem if you didn't get the lift you wanted from the highlights (I'm not a pro and not familiar with that specific kit). If they just came out too chunky, this would be how you put them on. Doing less hair and hair that is not so close together would make it more strandy and less chunky. ------------- Making metal barettes/concord clips hair safe, long hair style how to: http://alonghair.wordpress.com |
Posted By: Balliva
Date Posted: January 17 2008 at 8:04am
Thanks for responding. I dyed my hair with a Loreal color/highlighting kit. First, you all over color. (I used warm brown as my hair is dark brunette with some gray) Then, you paint with a brush, highlights. I have chunks of reddish highlight. It looks horrible. Should I recolor in your opinion? I wanted a softer look as I am 50 and my hair is way too dark. Do you have any recommendations? Thank you!
|
Susan W wrote:Posted By: PerfectBrunette
Date Posted: January 17 2008 at 2:22pm
| I would recolor with a demipermanent shade like Natural Instincts or L'oreal Casting Colorspa in one shade lighter than your all over color in a neutral or warm shade. This should blend the hair nicely. Then get the highlights done professionally if you still want them. Hairdressers spend hours upon hours practicing highlighting techniques which is why we pay them the big bucks. |
Posted By: datura
Date Posted: January 18 2008 at 1:13pm
|
If you think your hair is too dark: before re-coloring with anything else wash it 8-9 times (seriously) with Prell or Dawn or some other dishwashing liquid you have around (Head & Shoulders shampoo also works). Spread those washes over a week if you can afford the time. Between each time use a heavy conditioner and comb it through your hair. The color should fade in a visible way, getting lighter. Then you could have it fixed by a pro if possible. I only had bad experiences with l'Oreal highlight kits...I've been coloring my hair from boxes for 15 years... |
Posted By: PerfectBrunette
Date Posted: January 18 2008 at 1:50pm
| If it's too dark, why not use a color remover like Color Oops , (a sulfate based remover that only removes the artificial pigment?) Then color with the demipermanent in a neutral or warm shade lighter than you want (they tend to come out darker than they look on the box). Going to a professional for a color correction is a good idea too but they will probably charge quite a lot. Don't be surprised if it costs $300. |
Posted By: datura
Date Posted: January 18 2008 at 2:02pm
|
Color removers do not leave your hair the way it was before the botched color. It leaves it a funky color that another box color might or might not cover up. They are no better than a mild bleach job. Besides it will certainly not correct the highlights, these will stay some unpredictable color as they were a bleach step following the all-over color. More home chemicals could just be a waste of cash. |
Posted By: PerfectBrunette
Date Posted: January 18 2008 at 2:29pm
|
That's just not true. Are you speaking from experience? Perhaps you were using a different type of color remover or one that actually contained bleach which I don't consider a hair color remover. There is actually a lot of technology in hair color removal these days. There are 3 types of hair color removers and the one I am referring to, Color Oops, is a dye solvent. It shrinks the hair color molecules so that they wash out of the cuticle. It is much less damaging than bleach and does not remove the natural hair color. See my post entitled "Hair Color Removers: 3 Main Types". This will also give you a list of other hair color removers that are dye solvents. |
Posted By: datura
Date Posted: January 18 2008 at 2:39pm
|
I used color removers 3 times (w/o bleach), none ever gave the promised results, all of them left the hair in an unnatural color, though I didn't try that Oops thingie. Highlights were left a weird color because bleach is used. Any home color on top (especially warm) of that was left to chance and sometimes it would've been just better not to mess with it further. Pros don't all charge outrageous prices for nice results. |
Posted By: PerfectBrunette
Date Posted: January 18 2008 at 2:51pm
|
What did you use? I can't be totally sure that you used a dye solvent. But assuming you did, the hair will not be exactly like the nautral color you started with. This is because the permanent hair color used comes with a developer that lifts your natural haircolor about 2 shades before depositing it's own artificial color into your hair. What you are left with after the color removal is the underlying pigment minus the artificial pigment and this is warmer and lighter than your natural hair color. For this reason, you need to apply a toner afterwards. But if you bleach it, then the bleach actually removes more of you natural hair pigment than the color did in the first place. In fact, bleach removes natural hair color faster than it removes artificial hair color. This damages the hair much more than dye solvent color removal alone. It will make the hair much more porous as a result and you will still be left with an unnatural color, albeit a much lighter color that also needs a toner. |