using color over color-question?
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Topic: using color over color-question?
Posted By: Raquel
Subject: using color over color-question?
Date Posted: August 12 2002 at 2:16pm
I recently got my hair done professionally after doing it myself for a while. I love the shade of blonde except I wish it was slightly lighter overall. I went to the drugstore and thought about buying some Feria in a slightly lighter blonde shade to put on it. However, the hints for using Feria say to not use it on prelightened hair (that is exactly what mine is) Why is this dangerous?
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Rachel
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Posted By: Lyris
Date Posted: August 12 2002 at 5:46pm
Every time you color your hair it is damaging--and it doesn`t matter how gentle the box claims the product is. Dye works by expanding the hair shaft through an alkaline high-pH substance (often ammonia.) This allows the dye to enter. If it didn`t do this, the color would never take. This process is damaging each and every time, although healthier hair can stand it much better than colored hair, which has already gone through it and is more porous and dry.
If your hair is in pretty good condition still you could color again BUT please be careful! I stupidly dyed my hair about 10 times over the course of a year, trying to achieve the perfect light brown. My hair was in decent shape until the very last time I colored it. It immediately felt like straw. Two years later the damage is mostly grown out but I`ll never forget to use extreme caution when repeatedly coloring hair. Remember, no amount of deep conditioner will EVER fix your hair. Hair is dead. Without cellular turnover, your hair cannot repair itself, and neither can protein treatments. You can only grow out and cut off damaged hair.
My advice: unless you absolutely HATE your color, don`t redye it. This damages the cuticle, plain and simple, and while your hair might be able to take it, it will inevitably cause damage that might lead to a strawlike head of hair. You could try some lighter highlights all over to get a blonder look.....just please be careful! :-)
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Posted By: Raquel
Date Posted: August 13 2002 at 12:57pm
Thank you for your reply. I don`t hate my color. My hairstylist just got it a little darker blond than she did the time before. I think I will just wait until I go back and tell her to make it a little lighter.
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Rachel
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