Advice needed on hair colouring (merged)

Bronnie

I think the products you are using, colour protect shampoo and serum are coating the hair shaft, which is their job after all! Maybe you have a build-up of product on your hair, try to use a clarifying shampoo and no conditioner the day before you colour to strip the remains of any product from your hair.

Also, L'Oreal have a very helpful website . If you look at the hair care section they have a customer care freephone helpline where you can discuss any problems. As I said, I do think their products are very good, so might be interesting to see what they say.

http://www.loreal-paris.co.uk/_en/_gb/contact/index.aspx

Shapeshifter

Bronnie wrote: »

I think the products you are using, colour protect shampoo and serum are coating the hair shaft, which is their job after all! Maybe you have a build-up of product on your hair, try to use a clarifying shampoo and no conditioner the day before you colour to strip the remains of any product from your hair.

Also, L'Oreal have a very helpful website . If you look at the hair care section they have a customer care freephone helpline where you can discuss any problems. As I said, I do think their products are very good, so might be interesting to see what they say.

http://www.loreal-paris.co.uk/_en/_gb/contact/index.aspx

thanks that great i'll check the site :T

Slim4Summer

Hiya
Looking for some advice on DIY hair colourants!
I have very long naturally curly hair - dirty blonde but highlighted to quite light blonde. I have it done every 6 weeks at the hairdressers but can no longer afford it ... totally skint now and for forseeable future.
Any suggestions on what to do/brands to use to do it myself? Do I have to cut it short and use the old "Nice n Easy" I was devoted to for so many years?
Would be reluctant because I am such a fat ugly bag my hair is my best feature LOL!

whatatwit

Why not try a local college that has a hair & beauty department, they often have offers on for models.
Or try a salon that has a trainee.

thatsfabulous

Hi
I used to go the salon however for me it become too expensive too.
I've started using a semi permanent colour.
L'Oreal Casting creme gloss. Its very good, i wash my hair almost every day and now 4 weeks later the colour is still in and not faided very much at all.
Its only a semi however if looking for a permanent maybe pick one form the L'oreal permanent collection.

sammyjammy

Slim4Summer wrote: »

Hiya
Looking for some advice on DIY hair colourants!
I have very long naturally curly hair - dirty blonde but highlighted to quite light blonde. I have it done every 6 weeks at the hairdressers but can no longer afford it ... totally skint now and for forseeable future.
Any suggestions on what to do/brands to use to do it myself? Do I have to cut it short and use the old "Nice n Easy" I was devoted to for so many years?
Would be reluctant because I am such a fat ugly bag my hair is my best feature LOL!

Hi Slim

You sound like me, I had been highlighting my hair for over 20 years before i decided to stop a few months ago, my hair was really suffering and I started to get paranoid about it dropping out, I'm 37 and haven't seen my natural hair colour for 24 years :eek:

I to had to stop having it done at the hairdressers due t othe expense and used the Blonde range of highlighting in Boots, can't recall full name but it comes in gold packaging, you buy the powder and a small bottle of cream which you mix together, its blue just like at the salon and works very well and is easy to do, I think its probably even more important to use a protective conditioner which I didn't and probably explains why my hair is now very poorly. I don't mean to put you off I used this method for 3/4 years before stopping.

Am currently using semi permanent light brown to let the highlights grow out and am finding my hair colour isn't as awful as i thought it was.

Cat72

Hi
I have really long curly hair that it highilighted and sometimes also dyed brown.
I can only afford to get my hair dyed once or maybe twice a year.
My hair then starts to develop dark roots and looks awful.
I tried the hair mascaras and they were a waste of money and brush in temp highlighters.
However what I have been doing for he past year is using Schwarzkopf NORDIC BLOND DUO COLOUR HIGHLIGHTS.It has a blonde highlighter shade and a dark shade.
I use the m4.1 rand blond and mocca .Its is in two bottles inside and I dont apply the mocca as I am only intereasted in the highlighter.
The reason I buy this one as I dont want really light blonde highlights,more carmel, so another one in the range might suit you better if you want lighter highlights- have a look as there are various colours.
It costs about £3.99 ,it is permanent and last for about 4 - 6weeks before I need to touch it up again.

HOW TO USE-
It is easy to use .You mix to tubes together to get the highlighter and then squeeze on to hair, applying well.The smaller the sections you do the better and vary them.I do my t-zone and some of the crown and front of my face.
I find the tube container supplied can be hard to squeeze out. You could ask a friend to help.
However I now empty the contents into a mixing bowl- (buy a cheap highlight applicator brush from Sallys or hairdressing suppliers )- and apply like the do in the hairdressers.In small varied sections and then cover in tin foil.
You wait from 30 -45 mins but I always am the full 45 incase it goes reddish. Then wash off.
You also get a conditioning treatment in the box too.



This is my hair -

xxvickixx

I use the jerome russell B Blonde (in the gold box) and buy a separate cream (i have mousy brown hair so find 40% works best for me. I pull fine strands through the highighter cap. This works really well for me and I think my hair looks better than when I used to go to the hairdresser (over 2 years ago). I sometimes use the same method with a mid brown nice and easy colour to break up the blonde a bit. HTH.

donnac2558

Heads up, if you have longer hair below shoulder lenght then you will need two boxes of colour to cover it all.

Also semi will not colour darker hair to light blond, and dark blond is classed as that.

If you know someone who is a hairdresser and they can lend you their card you can get colouring cheap in Sallys. They do sell to the public but any stronger products that professional hairdressers us you need the card for. The card shows you are a professional hairdresser or training to be one.

tracyk

Hi - I'm having my hair coloured this evening & have no idea what colour to go for.

For the last 10 years I've had a full head colour of light blonde but for the last 6 months have grown it out so I can see my natural colour (scary!) - it's dark with no colour at all & quite a bit of grey. I was naturally fair haired before I started colouring my hair.

As you can imagine it looks a right mess now with 4 inches of dark roots & the rest blonde (down to way past my shoulders) but it had to be done!

My complexion is quite sallow, almost to the point of looking ill!

Help - what colour should I go for?