I want to be blonde now!
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Forum Name: Hair Color
Forum Description: The tricks and tribulations of changing your hair color
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Printed Date: October 02 2025 at 7:56pm
Topic: I want to be blonde now!
Posted By: PerfectBrunette
Subject: I want to be blonde now!
Date Posted: March 02 2008 at 11:51pm
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I am going crazy with dreams of super blonde hair lately, not white blonde but more of a natural level 9. But I know how high maintenance it is so I have some reservations. Also, I am not sure if I want to do it myself or go to a salon. I am not sure if I want to trust someone else with my hair yet I know how difficult bleaching can be. I've tried it in the past and had anything but even lightening. For those of you who bleach out there and color at home, what is your secret? How do you get it to come out even? Should I just bite the bullet and pay the big dollars? Or get highlights like a wuss? What I'd really love to do is find someone who knows how to do balayage and gradually go blonde that way because foil highlights look too streaky and unnatural to me. Sigh. I suppose I will figure it out. |
Replies:
Posted By: Ally<3
Date Posted: March 03 2008 at 3:40am
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Highlights are over. They are so very dated. Find someone who can do Ribbons, Paint Drips or like you say, the Balayage technique.
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Posted By: Bambilee
Date Posted: March 03 2008 at 9:07pm
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Bite the bullet and pay the cash if you want to be light. If you are willing to struggle and fight and just enjoy the process of getting to a blonde, and willing to take the risk then do it at home.. if not. Don't!
Good luck. ------------- ~* Bambi Lee *~ |
Posted By: Ally<3
Date Posted: March 04 2008 at 4:18am
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I have had much, much more success becoming blonde on my own than my stylist has. I guess it's cause I know what I want, and with a little research I learned how to do it. Fear pays colourists' rent. Power is knowledge. Just sayin'. ------------- |
Posted By: Ally<3
Date Posted: March 04 2008 at 4:18am
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Oh, and always use a good toner.
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Posted By: PerfectBrunette
Date Posted: March 04 2008 at 12:18pm
| Which toner do you think is good Alley? I think I'm going to search for the balayage instead and then go blonder gradually. Not easy to find colorists who can do balayage though. I found one in San Francisco. Maybe there's more but they don't advertise. |
Posted By: fakeizme
Date Posted: March 07 2008 at 10:26pm
Hallelujah!!!! Preach!!! That is so true. I'm so tired of hairstylists in general. Half of them don't know what they're doing and need to ask questions on forums like this to get the answers! I say go gradually lighter by doing foil highlights --- balayage is difficult to do without the proper tools like high volume peroxide. You need cottom to separate the sections and how to go diagonally up the head to not overlap the lights. If you keep highlighting sections, you will be all-blonde very quickly! Then you take your time and do your root touchups with a good bleach (Wella Blondor rocks!). Get yourself another mirror to see behind your head and you can do anything. I do my roots every month and it has gotten so much easier and it's very even. ------------- Love clip-ins and tape! |
Ally<3 wrote:Posted By: PerfectBrunette
Date Posted: March 08 2008 at 12:44am
| I'm still a little shy about the whole blonde thing! I am thinking about removing the demi I have in my hair with Color Oops. That will take me to a dark golden blonde. Then toning with some medium golden blonde demi. This will take me lighter without going all the way. I'm scared! You guys are so brave, especially doing it yourself. Although, I too have developed a complete mistrust of hairdressers, even though I know they know hair color better than me (well most of them anyway) I don't trust they really know what I want. |
Posted By: Ally<3
Date Posted: March 08 2008 at 3:35am
To try and sway you over here to the blonde side, here's some pics in shapes and tones...        ------------- |
Posted By: Claude
Date Posted: March 08 2008 at 7:26am
That statement might be one of the dumbest things I've ever read on these forums. A HairStylist is one of the most disrespected professions out there and it's obvious to me this person thinks she knows as much if not more about HairColor than an experienced stylist. |
Posted By: PerfectBrunette
Date Posted: March 08 2008 at 1:25pm
| I really love the tone of the third pic down Alley! Claude, I think I know what she means - a lot of us have had bad experiences with hairdressers. Even though they have more knowledge, they don't always use that knowledge to give you what you want. I don't see anything wrong with educating yourself on how to get a particular shade and doing it yourself if you are willing to take that risk. |
Posted By: ammonia
Date Posted: March 08 2008 at 6:35pm
i love the color of the 1st picture, can we say wow!
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Posted By: Ally<3
Date Posted: March 09 2008 at 12:39am
Of course it is - you're a hair stylist. I never said I knew everything. I don't. But I know my hair, and I know how to do it well. Do you see me charging people hundreds of dollars to do what I want on THEIR hair? Nope. We're your bread and butter. If we learn how do our own hair and be happy with it, you're out of a job. The reason a hairstylist prehaps might be a disrespected job is because people are so often dissatisfied with the service they are given. You may believe that is the dumbest thing you've heard, but it is unequivocally and undeniably fact. It may not be be only reason ppl go to the salon (relaxation, etc, though to me it's not the way i'd choose to spend 3+ hours) but people unaware how to do their own hair, and who are afraid to attempt it themselves, go to a salon. I know lots of people would rather pay $15 dollars than $150 and be able to do it themselves. ------------- |
Posted By: Ally<3
Date Posted: March 09 2008 at 12:41am
I know isn't it just to die for! ------------- |
Posted By: groberts80
Date Posted: March 13 2008 at 12:46am
| Go Ally! I totally agree with you and couldnt have put it better myself. |