Lemur_Catta
August 27th, 2009, 05:22 AM
Hello everyone.
I am thinking of dying my hair, but I don't know how and if it would damage my hair too much. So I'm asking you for an advice.
First, let me say I have very light skin with freckles in the summer.
My natural color is dark brown, but I have always liked red so, when I was 14-15, I started dying my hair with semi-permanent, the ones you buy in stores that should last 6-8 shampoos. They always had something permanent in them, so even if I stopped using them people asked if I had dyed my hair red.
Then I decided to lighten my hair, but I was foolish enough to try to do it myself (I have never liked hairstylists, because they could never cut my hair the way I wanted). I bought a lotion who was something like water, chamomile and a little bit of hydrogen peroxide. You simply had to put it on your hair after washing, as a leave in, and shampoo after shampoo it would become lighter.
It kind of worked, even if my hair was dry and damaged. Everyone around me said I had beautiful hair (it was light brown, I'll post a picture) and that the color really suited me.
Then I discovered henna, and that was the trouble: the first time I did it, my color was wonderful, but as the months passed the roots became more visible and so I had them dark red, almost brown, while the ends where brighter and redder.
Then I made a stupid mistake: I went to an hairdresser asking to come back to my natural color, with some lighter highlights. I went out red with orange highlights, a fringe and a horrible haircut.
So I started hennaing my hair again, but I had again the same problem: the highlighted strands would become bright red while the roots would be almost brown, with the red only visible in the sun.
I tried henna + indigo, but that would become too dark.
I still have this problem, and it is really bothering me, expecially when I wear my hair in a bun, because the bun is redder than the hair in the scalp, it looks like I'm wearing a hairpiece.
I am tired of it, so I am considering chemical dying to even the color. I know I have to wait since I have hennaed my hair 20 days ago, but I still don't know what to do.
My options are:
1) leave thing as they are and keep using henna
2) chemically dye my hair dark brown (my natural color) and eventually highlight (I would dye at home and then go to the salon only for the highlights)
3) chemically dye my hair dark red so it would be even, let some months pass and then restart henna
4) chemically dye my hair dark brown and then stop using any other dye
or any combination of the options above.
My first concern is that my ends are already very damaged and I have many split ends so I would not want to damage them more, but I need to even the color some way.
You can see my hair now in the avatar, and that is the color everybody I had about 2 years ago.
http://img211.imageshack.us/i/sve1.jpg/
I am thinking of dying my hair, but I don't know how and if it would damage my hair too much. So I'm asking you for an advice.
First, let me say I have very light skin with freckles in the summer.
My natural color is dark brown, but I have always liked red so, when I was 14-15, I started dying my hair with semi-permanent, the ones you buy in stores that should last 6-8 shampoos. They always had something permanent in them, so even if I stopped using them people asked if I had dyed my hair red.
Then I decided to lighten my hair, but I was foolish enough to try to do it myself (I have never liked hairstylists, because they could never cut my hair the way I wanted). I bought a lotion who was something like water, chamomile and a little bit of hydrogen peroxide. You simply had to put it on your hair after washing, as a leave in, and shampoo after shampoo it would become lighter.
It kind of worked, even if my hair was dry and damaged. Everyone around me said I had beautiful hair (it was light brown, I'll post a picture) and that the color really suited me.
Then I discovered henna, and that was the trouble: the first time I did it, my color was wonderful, but as the months passed the roots became more visible and so I had them dark red, almost brown, while the ends where brighter and redder.
Then I made a stupid mistake: I went to an hairdresser asking to come back to my natural color, with some lighter highlights. I went out red with orange highlights, a fringe and a horrible haircut.
So I started hennaing my hair again, but I had again the same problem: the highlighted strands would become bright red while the roots would be almost brown, with the red only visible in the sun.
I tried henna + indigo, but that would become too dark.
I still have this problem, and it is really bothering me, expecially when I wear my hair in a bun, because the bun is redder than the hair in the scalp, it looks like I'm wearing a hairpiece.
I am tired of it, so I am considering chemical dying to even the color. I know I have to wait since I have hennaed my hair 20 days ago, but I still don't know what to do.
My options are:
1) leave thing as they are and keep using henna
2) chemically dye my hair dark brown (my natural color) and eventually highlight (I would dye at home and then go to the salon only for the highlights)
3) chemically dye my hair dark red so it would be even, let some months pass and then restart henna
4) chemically dye my hair dark brown and then stop using any other dye
or any combination of the options above.
My first concern is that my ends are already very damaged and I have many split ends so I would not want to damage them more, but I need to even the color some way.
You can see my hair now in the avatar, and that is the color everybody I had about 2 years ago.
http://img211.imageshack.us/i/sve1.jpg/