sackpac wrote:
Thanks much for the information! ....
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Sack; you are so welcome!
Would I use the violet shampoo right after I foiled? and can you recommend a good one?
- You know...it really depends. If you see any left over yellow in the highlights, then you would use the violet shampoo/conditioner. Some great ones include: Shimmer Lights, Artec White Violet, Redken Glam Pearl and AG Toning Conditioner --- there are lots of other good ones too. I would recommend going to a salon and perusing their products to see what kinds of toning products they have. Just about every salon has them.
So I can go with a 9a or 9n or 9na and that would bring all my hair to the same color?
- No, the 9 a,n or na won't bring you to all one colour because your hair is not one colour. To bring your hair to all one colour, you would have to fill or use a darker colour on your highlights, or a deposit-only colour to bring them in line with your all-over base. The tricky thing is: if your highlights are porous, they could go darker than the rest of your hair. If you don't want to worry about any off-tones, I would go with the 9na, because it will have a base of brown in it with a bit of ash. That way, your highlights are likely to go grey.
When I touch up my roots is there some special procedure to make sure I get the color only on my roots or does it matter if a little gets on the previous colored hair? Would I need to tone then or would the violet shampoo work for this procedure as well?
- Honestly, this is where the WORK comes in. If you just want to do your roots without getting it on the rest of your highlights, you need to cover those highlights in some way. What I usually do in that case, is put conditioner on the section of highlights I want to keep and foil them up and clip them out of the way. Do this to all your highlights. After, apply your base Level 9 colour to your roots and let it process. Rinse after about 40 mins and make sure to rinse the base colour (Level 9) completely out of your hair BEFORE you take down the foil pieces. You don't want to tone them, especially if your colouring with 9ash. They could go grey/blue.
Oh, wait a minute...if you mean does it matter if it gets on your Level 7 hair (coloured), it may make them a bit lighter or brassy, so I would try to be as accurate as you can. But remember, colour does not lift colour, so the Level 9 colour will lift your underlying pigment but it won't lighten your Level 7 hair shaft like it will your Level 7 roots (which are uncoloured).
Sorry for the word-diarrhea! I can never make it brief!!
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