ANYONE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HAIR DYE – NEVER DONE IT BEFORE…. HELP!!

Here is a tip that my friend, who does my hair, gave me. If you are in between color and there is some “unwanted blond” at your temples, take a little bit of eye shadow, brush it in and voila!!!!!!

As someone who has dyed her hair for many years (well, most of the time!), the first and foremost thing you need to do is ask a professional about the undertones of your hair. I always wondered why permanent colors turned red on my hair and non-permanent turned out exceptionally black. Well, the lady at Sally’s Beauty Supply told me that I needed to stick to colors with a green base. Now, I have no idea what that means, but all I know is that I no longer have the issues w/the colors not coming out ok. JMHO!!!

my hair is a pale shade of carrot-orange.

i used to have dark blonde hair, and i wanted golden, summery blonde hair. And now i have pale carrot. I think it was permanent stuff, the box didnt say anything about how long this will last – only that you need to do the roots every 6 weeks. I’ve washed my hair 6 times, soaked it with lemon juice, vinegar, alas, its still the exact same shade of pale carrot it was when i first rinsed my hair off.

Guess who will be going to the salon on monday to fix this? I can only imagine what the receptionist is going to say when i tell her i need to fix my orange hair . . .. I’ve thought of buying another box of colour, but how do i cancel out orange? And what colour will i have then? Green? Will i have to dye it again to get it the right shade of blonde? By then my hair will be falling out.

ooof, skyron, but I’m sure they’ll be able to fix you right up. and I’m sure they’ve seen much worse than yours.

cbm, you are a hoot 😀

AV, you said your friend knows what she’s doing…go for it and trust her!

Hey Av! How did your hair turn out?

I would hesitate to ever use a store-bought hair color ever again! Go to a beauty supply place and they will be able to help you pick out the color you need. You’ll notice that the ones at the beauty supply places all have a base color (or something like that) and they’ll be able to tell you which base you need to stick with. Until I was told this, store bought hair colors didn’t work for me. Now, any brunette colors I get that have the green dot at the bottom of the bottle have all turned out to be just like they were supposed to be. The box colors at the store are the ‘one size fits all’ kind and won’t be exactly what you want.

Also–if you go to the beauty supply place (we have Sally’s here), make sure you pick up gloves, a bottle, and the big bottle of activator stuff 🙂 It’s a lot chaper in the long run, too!