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Posted by Miss Honeychurch on June 23, 2004, at 14:41:00
your hair?
Posted by Aphrodite on June 23, 2004, at 16:13:41
In reply to Dinah, are you getting used to..., posted by Miss Honeychurch on June 23, 2004, at 14:41:00
Posted by Dinah on June 23, 2004, at 19:08:39
In reply to Dinah, are you getting used to..., posted by Miss Honeychurch on June 23, 2004, at 14:41:00
All the professionals kept wanting to highlight it, and I didn't want blonde highlights on too dark hair. The highlights weren't the trouble.
So I did it myself with dark ash blonde, which I think is pretty much my natural color when I'm not grey and they don't make grey highlights. Soooo.... My husband said it lightened it to the right oohhhhh, what would you call it? darkness level. And I suppose he's right. It's back to being a shade lighter than my brows, which is correct.
But it gave it that awful bronzy color you get from lightening your hair. I *think* the bronzy part is wearing off (or maybe I've stopped seeing it), but it's still got too much blonde. So while the darkness is right the hair color still isn't. I don't think they make color my natural color, which is pretty much dark ash blonde but absolutely neutral in tone, with no yellow or red. Light absorbing I always called it. Sigh.
I guess I would like my hair to be the tan it was as a child, and barring that the mouse-pelt greyish blondish brown it was before this mess started, and barring that it's natural pre-grey neutral light absorbing dark ash blonde.
But I've given up. Now that it's no longer really dark, I don't start and accidentally stare at myself in the mirror. So now I just pretty much ignore it except to make sure it's clean and brushed. It's amazing how you can selectively filter what you see in a mirror if you try.
Now that I've bored you senseless on my treatise on therapy failure haircolor, how are you doing?
Posted by Racer on June 23, 2004, at 19:55:29
In reply to No :(, posted by Dinah on June 23, 2004, at 19:08:39
Hope you don't mind.
Roux used to make -- and I think still does -- "color rinses" that might help. (Take it from someone whose copper-penny hair started going that gadawful steel-grey-with-white at 18, 'K?) I've changed my haircolor more often than I've changed -- never mind... Just trust me on this one -- I have some experience with haircolor products, 'K?
Anyway, what can happen with hair color -- especially at-home brands -- is that they open the hair shaft so much that the color molecules kinda fall out, if that makes sense. (Red is probably the worst for this, of course, being the largest molecule in the visible spectrum -- guess how I know that?) Anyway, the Roux rinse can coat the hair shafts, but can't penetrate, so they are sometimes helpful to use temporarily while the color stabilizes a bit. (And I know they make -- or at least did -- a huge range of blondes...)
I'm very sorry your hair hurts, Dinah. :-(
Posted by gardenergirl on June 23, 2004, at 22:50:24
In reply to Bargin' in... » Dinah, posted by Racer on June 23, 2004, at 19:55:29
Dinah,
There is also something called drabber. My mom used it to make her hair more neutral. I think it takes the warmth out (like golden or reddish tones) and makes it more ashy. You add it to the hair color.gg
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