I have a lot of white hairs, if I didn't dye it I think I would have quite an eyecatching white streak on one side and a varying amount of salt and pepper elsewhere. The rest of my hair is a sort of medium brown, though I've been dyeing it for so long I couldn't say if it was more ash or more red. I use Nice n easy 117 medium golden brown to cover the greys. I only do the front and it looks OK, if that makes sense. I also only do the roots, using about 1/3 of a packet of dye every 2-3 weeks. My hair is shoulder length, a bit dry and damaged, but not terrible. I get a trim every 8 weeks. I'm a fairly young looking 33, and can definitely carry off something a bit unusual, but need to be presentable for work (no bright red bits etc, sadly).
I don't want highlights. I look shit blonde. But I want to let my natural colour take over for less maintenance and probably better condition long term. I know I could just cut it all off and then let it grow out like that, but DH loves my long hair, and it's only just reached a decent length from having it cropped a few years ago. Any suggestions as to how to do this? I have used colourB4 with success in the past. But I know that even if I use this I am going to be left with very very orange hair due to the amount of peroxide from the nice n easy.
Could a professional put some very very very white high lights through the grey parts only? May be just very fine ones? Is it possible to get all the artificial dye pigment out like this? Will a hairdresser even do this to hair that has been dyed as much as mine has? (in fairness I am very careful and use a brush so only do the roots each time). I'm not talking about bleaching the whole badger stripe. Would this look shit? Or maybe I should continue colouring my roots, but go gradually lighter. But this will look odd too eventually with lighter roots.
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sprinkles77 · 28/08/2011 23:10
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