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Quick hair help pls - am dithering

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FrannyandZooey · 16/09/2006 11:54

I usually have blonde and red highlights put in my long hair. Fancy something different - what do you think about blonde on top as usual and some red underneath? Like all along the underneath of my hair. Will find picture if I can...

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MamaG · 16/09/2006 12:00

Think that look might be a bit, um, dated - it is where I live anyway (fashion capital of the world: Cumbria)

What about different coloured highlights?

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FrannyandZooey · 16/09/2006 12:02

Yes I know what you mean MamaG but I saw it done the other day with a really bright colour and it did look good.

I think something like this is what I really want:

like this but with red instead of black

My hair is usually wavy though, what do you think it would look like?

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FrannyandZooey · 16/09/2006 12:06

or something like this?

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MamaG · 16/09/2006 12:06

Now i actually quite like that - i thought you meant more blocks of colour but that looks nice. Think wavy would be nice as the red would show through more, rahter than the heavily straightened black/platinum blonde look that is SO out of fash!

MamaG · 16/09/2006 12:07

second pic looks like a 3 yo has attacked her fringe!!

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FrannyandZooey · 16/09/2006 12:07

or this???

I have picked the wrong time of day to have a hair crisis haven't I?

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FrannyandZooey · 16/09/2006 12:08

Yes I am talking colour here not style MamaG. I have not got a fringe like that

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MamaG · 16/09/2006 12:09

Yes, I didn't think you were talking style.

REALLY really like the third style with the slices of colour more at the front, would look great red & blonde and wavy

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FrannyandZooey · 16/09/2006 12:11

Yes I think so too...

I reckon I like the first one best but it is a bit brave isn't it?

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FrannyandZooey · 16/09/2006 12:13

Or link

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sancerre · 16/09/2006 12:13

Am hopelessly naive, but if you like the first pic then go for it - tis only hair. (I said this to the last girl that cut my hair, she looked pained to say the least...prob not the best hting to say to a hairdresser )

MamaG · 16/09/2006 12:13

Have you got a fringe?

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FrannyandZooey · 16/09/2006 12:15

Is this just naff? I suspect perhaps it is

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FrannyandZooey · 16/09/2006 12:16

No not really MamaG. I was thinking about having some long layers at the front.

Sancerre hmmmmmm

"only hair"

hmmmmm

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MamaG · 16/09/2006 12:17

how long is your hair? Mine is just below my shoulders and I have long layers in. Looks good.

MamaG · 16/09/2006 12:18

oh GOD don't say only hair.

When I was 15 I had beautiful blonde long straight hair - waist length, envy of all my friends.

Decided it was boring and, without telling anyone, went to the hairdressers for what i hoped was a funky bob.

Ended up with a biddy dandelion hairdo. Took months to live down, I cried myself to sleep every night for 2 weeks.

sancerre · 16/09/2006 12:18

it was nothing compared to the look of shock when I told her I usually cut my own hair

No, firmly believe it is ONLY hair

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FrannyandZooey · 16/09/2006 12:18

Erm mine is just below shoulder blades. Long layers in general are not so good on me because it all kinks up. But I need a bit more fringey action than I have at the moment, I think

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MamaG · 16/09/2006 12:20

What about using straighteners, to just swoosh over the front sections a bit - not so they're poker straight, but so they don't kink?

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FrannyandZooey · 16/09/2006 12:22

I either straighten it or curl it usually MamaG. But layers all over is just bad news for me whichever I do.

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MamaG · 16/09/2006 12:23

hmmmm

Mine is fairly wavy, well a bit, and my shortest layers are sort of level with my bottom lip - any shorter and they just look a mess.

MrsBadger · 16/09/2006 12:28

morning Franny!
this is the best of the bunch IMO - long and all one length with the underneath a bright colour that shows through subtly, with a few slices round the face sounds v good; much better than short blonde layers over a longer bright one.

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FrannyandZooey · 16/09/2006 12:31

Mrs B I was coming to the conclusion that my current hairdresser may not be quite up to the job of the first one, but could manage the one you picked. I am printing off the first one to keep and take to a real hairdressers shop if I ever get to go to one again though

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FrannyandZooey · 16/09/2006 19:00

I wimped out on the slices at the front

not like me to be over cautious I must say

have lots of bright blondes on the top and some slices of red underneath - it has not come out as bright as I like it though, because my hair is fairly dark brown underneath, I guess, rather than fair on top where I normally have the red. What would be the way to get a really bright red underneath? Bleach it first?

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MamaG · 16/09/2006 20:15

ask sparklygothkat, think her hair is red and blue? I know when blondes want to dark brown, they have to go red first, so maybe a mid-brown first.

Any chance of a pic?