Need a hair color expert's help please!! - Hair Problems Message Board

ShiningCrazyDiamond · 07-16-2003, 12:20 AM

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Marti · 07-16-2003, 07:28 AM

Copper is still in the 'red' family, so would actually be a good base to apply a brown tint without unwanted undertones. The stylist can remove any excess color using a "Color Remover" - however, if she uses bleach to remove any excess color, it can not only remove too much and leave you with another unwanted undertone, it can dry out your hair and make it more porous.

Semi-permanent color does not remain in the hair shaft like Permanent Color - regardless of what the stylist tells you. When hair has been bleached to the yellow stage, it is much harder to acheive a color match to your natural hair. I would suggest instead, that you go with "low-lights". This is where the stylist weaves a darker color throughout your hair and wraps the colored sections with foil, much like a regular hi-light application. If the stylist chooses a 'warm' color or a 'natural' color, then the color pigment contains gold, red and ash in equal proportions. You shouldn't get unwanted tones with this type of application.

ShiningCrazyDiamond · 07-16-2003, 06:03 PM

Marti, thanks so much for replying to my post.. I had some more questions, but it was just all too long so I erased it haha, I feel like it's just too bothering... so I'm just gonna go to some stylists I guess, and see what they say. Thanks again.

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DJCinnamon · 07-16-2003, 11:27 PM

hi, you sound just like me, i was highlighted light blonde for the last 43 years of my life, i decided i had enough with the yellow look and went red! i went to a level 7 golden brown first with highlights (a little darker than my own dark blonde hair color), then went to a semi-permanent color of auburn that my sylist mixed up. i got tired of paying her to do it, so i got brave and did it myself! i bought "caution red" (by castings color spa,semi-permanent and very gentle, low, low peroxide) a really dark brown auburn. it looks great even as it's slowly fading out, never gets rusty. (by the way i always wash my hair in lukewarm water, it really keeps the color!) the shades EQ color my sylist used on me before always faded to an ugly copper, rust brown color, but not this! anyway, i am very, very happy. this color alows my own natural highlights to show a little, giving it more dimension and looks very natural. and being that it's semi-permanent, i can lighten back to a golden blond over time, but it's more fun being red!! good luck!!

ShiningCrazyDiamond · 07-16-2003, 11:51 PM

DJCinnamon, oh thanks for the suggestions... but I think I am WAY too afraid to try coloring it myself, I wouldn't be so afraid if it were my natural color, but now after everything that's been done to it, I just KNOW I would end up messing it up even more if I did it myself haha! And really the main problem is that I think it's just too dark to apply more color without removing some first. The red that was in it before was so bright and pretty, I just don't know how it faded to such a brown copper color! I guess I chose the wrong shade... But, yes I would love to be a beautiful bright red head again! I LOVE red hair! My naturally light brown hair does have a little auburn in it, and I loved how bright it would look in the light or sunshine when it was natural. Plus red matches me so well since I have really white skin and blue eyes. So I would love to go very red again, but I just do not know if I can keep getting it colored for the rest of my life, haha... Was applying that color yourself fairly easy to do?