Can I colour over foil ??

BOBS

Any hairdressers on this forum that could advise me please ??

I have had two sets of red copper foils put into my dark brown hair 8 weeks apart - the last being 6 weeks ago.
I have a lot of grey showing through again and am now wondering can i put a normal permanent colour over the foils to go back to a natural(ish) shade of brown ??
We are heading to Spain in 3 weeks and cant really afford more foils ??

Thanks for any advice :beer:

jenniewb

If your colour hasn't lasted and the roots aren't even showing personally I'd go back to the salon that did them and complain.

BOBS

I am not complaining about the salon - its just my hair - its woeful dark brown with far more grey than i want to have at 36 .... i should learn that it is too expensive to keep going to the salon to get it coloured and foiled. To be honest after 4 weeks i would really need to be getting roots touched in again but end up using a hair mascara to colour grey roots to take me to at least 6 weeks.

Amanita_2

Not a hairdresser but I've been playing with my hair colour for many years.

Yes you can colour over the copper but the hair may take the dye a little differently and they could be a different colour from the untreated hair. This is not necessarily a bad thing - it can give depth to the overall look as hair dyed all one colour can look flat.

I will often have highlights put in with the intention of overdying them at the next colouring. Yesterday I had my heavily highlighted ( blonde and copper) hair dyed all over with a dark red. The blonde has taken the colour much more strongly than the rest and I have exactly the effect I want. I've also had some more blonde woven back in to soften it a bit.

SandC

A home colour will probably work okay for root coverage but what you really need to do is when you do have enough money for another appointment is have a proper chat with your hairdresser about what your main issues are. Clearly having 'foils' is not working for you - you need to be working together to find a way to not require a hairdresser visit so often.

'Foils' are just a way of putting in different colours. Is this the only colour you are having on your hair or are you having an all over shade with the foils procedure to give you high or lowlights?

You might want to ask around friends whose hair you like and perhaps look at finding a new hairdresser. Find out if anyone you know also has a lot of white hairs and what they do about it.

Amanita above also has some good ideas.

For me personally, my hairdresser and I concluded last year that I need lighter shades woven in with my colours to hide the white ones more. All over dark colours will show up roots very quickly. She has cleverly managed to conceal mine with natural looking blond highlights and toffee colours.

BOBS

SandC - i have a dark brown base - which the last twice she has put on red cooper foils (think Rhianna !! eek!! ) and touched in the brown roots. Have had toffee/caramel foils before and they didnt work much better. My dark roots show through quite quickly and then the greys along with it.
I have a friend with similar hair to mine she she ends up getting her roots done professionally every 3 weeks and just keeps to her dark brown.
Wish there was an easier option. Seems the only affordable way is home coloring and touch in my own roots. But then as what has happened there can be colour build up and thats another mess.
Or to go grey gracefully - I think not

SandC

I know where you are coming from bobs. My greys are in chunks rather than the salt and pepper look. I can't not do the blond bits now I don't think - well not without spending a fortune that is. It works for me as my hair is naturally (I think) mousey brown right now but has been naturally dark blond in the past, plus I have blue eyes.

The worst part for me is on my temples, it's hard to hide. On George Lamb it looks sophisticated, on a 40 year old woman - just old.

BOBS

Last time i got the blonde bits they were grand the first time - then i got my teebar done and all of a sudden i looked like a blonde bomb shell .... albeit short lived! My hair is so dark that nothing seems to look right for any length of time apart from all over colour.
And i am not even 40 yet