Another way of cutting costs - I'm going to try to do my own highlights!

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I've got it all ready, just building up courage to do it!

Has anybody done this and did it look good?

Did you find any of it particularly tricky?

hurts like a fecker getting longish hair through the cap

i might try the lemon jiuce thing this year

i did home highlights myself once, and went a spectacular shade of green
but that was years and years ago, over multi-coloured hair
im sure you'll be fine

No cap thing in my set - just a "wand" to apply the highlighting lotion (hopefully it's a magic wand!)

Thanks for that harleyd - just the confidence booster that I was looking for

Step one will be tonight - apply the all over cover!

I've always found the ones with the little wands pretty ineffectual. The best ones are the ones with foils or caps altho' I haven't done the cap bit as my hair's quite long.

superdrug do a good one Smart lights or something.

Think the wand ones are easier tho if you're a first timer & mistakes or rubbishy bits are less obvious. Good luck!

You are very brave.

I am all for cutting costs, but I would also be thinking how much would it cost to go to salon for a correction.

Sorry I know I am being negitive, it's just it's your hair, not self-dying a top that (if goes wrong) never has to see the light of day.

I think I would do a tint myself if I had to, but highlights? Nope, too scary.

Fingers crossed for you though

I bought the stuff but reacted to it when I did the patch test so it's still in the back of the cupboard

I did this a couple of years ago. It looked awful. So patchy. Ended up at the hairdressers three days later (It was a weekend or I would have gone sooner) and she dyed it back to the original colour for me. She said that over the counter highlight kits are only allowed to have x amount of bleach/peroxide/lightener in them and that generally it's not enough, unless your hair is quite light to start with, to turn it blonde and that anyone darker than a dark blonde usually ends up looking quite ginger.

I think I'd enlist the help of a steady handed friend when it comes to applying the actual highlights.

Take before and after photos!

Good luck!

Too late for photos!

The first stage colour is on!

Dh "helped" me as I was wondering how I'd do the bits I couldn't see. He got very stressed about it so I'm wondering how it will be!

The wand bit will be tomorrow night - DH will be asked to help again!

Do you like the base colour?

Hope all goes well with the second stage tomorrow. Keep us updated won't you.

All good so far!

I've done this. Not to me, but to other people.

I've done one with a cap and bleachy stuff on a friend who had dark blonde hair - it worked really well but she needed nearly a whole bottle of conditioner to smooth out her hair after we got the cap thingy off.

I've also done the L'Oreal kits on my mum, where you dye the whole head a base colour and then paint on a contrasting colour (which is what it sounds like the OP has). I don't think these ones bleach exactly, they just paint. It also worked pretty well.

The highlights are on!

We got a bit pissed distracted on Friday when we had intended to do them!

I did my own highlights with a cap using a highlighting kit that I found in Boots, it actually gave a good colour as it was 12/13% peroxide strength which is what I have done at the hairdressers. That was until I did it myself about 3 times in a short space of time and it went a bit white looking!

Can we see pictures? Did they work well? What sort of kit did you use?

Well I'm pretty happy with the result! Not quite salon quality as they usually put 3 colours in and this is just one, but they're good and about £100 cheape than my favourite salon!! You can tell they're there but they still look quite subtle.

No pictures I'm afraid - like to maintain my anonymity and pretend I'm a sophisticated type really!

Oh, they were kits by Schwartskopf. One for the base colour and one for the highlights.

Bewae of doing this. I tried, cocked it up. It looked like a seagull had shat on my head. I used the wand, couldn't get it fine enough.