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**browneyedsusan** · August 27th, 2012, 05:32 AM

Originally Posted by oktobergoud

Welcome! I have an angled bob as well that is just to hit my shoulders, it's getting there, slowly..

Anyway, hello! How is everyone?

I'm thinking of doing a '30-day-updo-challenge' in September. Because 1. I don't like my hair down and 2. with my new job I need to put it up anyway. Plus right now I'm staring at it every day to see if it has reached shoulder length yet. I want to let that go!

So I guess that's a nice challenge.

I'm also already bored of the ombre and miss my fully red hair haha! I'm now using a shampoo containing sls to let it fade as fast as possible...

I'm thinking of getting in on that challenge too. My hair looks like a shaggy, nasty mess every day; so I put the front up--back is still too short and layerey. But, if I look at it carefully, and use my imagination, I think it will look pretty good in another 2 or 4 or 6 more inches. It's this horrible in-between that is SO trying!

--I mean, I looked great with my pixie! I colored it and bleached it a zillion times! It would grow and I'd have it cut into a different shapes... This ongoing hot mess head of hair is not for the faint of heart....

Stay the course, Oktober. We'll get there.

**joflakes** · August 27th, 2012, 01:14 PM

Originally Posted by oktobergoud

Welcome! I have an angled bob as well that is just to hit my shoulders, it's getting there, slowly..

Anyway, hello! How is everyone?

I'm thinking of doing a '30-day-updo-challenge' in September. Because 1. I don't like my hair down and 2. with my new job I need to put it up anyway. Plus right now I'm staring at it every day to see if it has reached shoulder length yet. I want to let that go!

So I guess that's a nice challenge.

I'm also already bored of the ombre and miss my fully red hair haha! I'm now using a shampoo containing sls to let it fade as fast as possible...

Hey! I can't believe you're bored of the awesome ombre. It's so pretty!

Good luck with the challenge

**oktobergoud** · August 27th, 2012, 01:53 PM

Originally Posted by joflakes

Hey! I can't believe you're bored of the awesome ombre. It's so pretty!

Good luck with the challenge

Thanks!

Yeah I don't know either. I mean, I like the look, I really do! But I feel so boring with brown? That is why I never dyed it brown before (this year that is, I have dyed it brown before): I know I love how it looks, but I also know how boring I will feel with brown hair. I'm just such a redhead at heart, I think! I just like 'extreme' colours. I always dyed my hair either black, platinum (as in WHITE) or red! Everything in between always seems off and boring!

I'm going to dye my hair really bright red in a few weeks and am wondering what to do if the brown hasn't faded yet..

**omgitssarah** · August 28th, 2012, 01:16 PM

You guyssss, I'm so close to shoulder!

**oktobergoud** · August 28th, 2012, 02:45 PM

Originally Posted by omgitssarah

You guyssss, I'm so close to shoulder!

Man, your hair is thick!! Amazing

My hair is so close to shoulder as well.. the front is longer though, so it's hard to see what length it is. I mean, when I stretch a strand of hair at the front, it ALMOST hits my collar bones!

It's confusing. I have decided that the back of my hair need to hit a certain mole on my back (lol I know!) before I have officially reached shoulder length :P Hopefully just 2 more months or so...

posting a pic for fun as well.. my hair is so fine and fluffy ugh. I also look like a ghost, sorry for that :P And I miss my red hair dearly! I'm looking into techniques to let the brown fade as fast as possible. Any tips?

**lapushka** · August 28th, 2012, 03:32 PM

Originally Posted by oktobergoud

And I miss my red hair dearly! I'm looking into techniques to let the brown fade as fast as possible. Any tips?

Patience?

Maybe try and wash more often, so the dye fades faster. Isn't it one of those "fades after x-number of washes" dyes?

**browneyedsusan** · August 28th, 2012, 04:29 PM

Originally Posted by oktobergoud

And I miss my red hair dearly! I'm looking into techniques to let the brown fade as fast as possible. Any tips?

This is probably not a TLHC approved method, but I've faded haircolor with it once or twice: Wash your hair in hot water with dish soap, like Dawn or Palmolive. Rinse and repeat until you don't see any more color in your rinse water. It's a little harsh because the hot water opens up the hair shaft and the dish soap strips everything off. My hair is usually pretty dry afterward, so you might want to follow up with a SMT or other deep conditioning treatment.

I've also read in the forums that repeated hennas seem to remove old hair color. It shrinks the old dye molecules and blasts them out of the hairshaft somehow. My hair seems to support this idea: I started growing after my first henna, and I covered a salon brunette haircolor and gray roots. After repeated hennas, the last 2 inches of my hair seems to be a brighter red than the rest--almost like the henna took the place of the brunette dye?

Good luck with it, and I do think the brown is very pretty. I can see how you would get tired of it, though. I had my salon brunette for 4 weeks and got so sick of it!

**omgitssarah** · August 28th, 2012, 04:39 PM

Thanks, oktober! I've decided that I'm calling shoulder as soon as I can get away with it. xD

**oktobergoud** · August 29th, 2012, 02:33 AM

Originally Posted by lapushka

Patience?

Maybe try and wash more often, so the dye fades faster. Isn't it one of those "fades after x-number of washes" dyes?

Yeah it is, but it's 28 washes!! For me that would be 14 weeks.. so about 3,5 months? :P I already wash my hair more often now but it's still so dark!

I don't have patience haha. Thing is, my roots are much lighter and are coming in now, so it looks really weird.. going from very light to really dark to gradually lighter :P

Originally Posted by browneyedsusan

This is probably not a TLHC approved method, but I've faded haircolor with it once or twice: Wash your hair in hot water with dish soap, like Dawn or Palmolive. Rinse and repeat until you don't see any more color in your rinse water. It's a little harsh because the hot water opens up the hair shaft and the dish soap strips everything off. My hair is usually pretty dry afterward, so you might want to follow up with a SMT or other deep conditioning treatment.

I've also read in the forums that repeated hennas seem to remove old hair color. It shrinks the old dye molecules and blasts them out of the hairshaft somehow. My hair seems to support this idea: I started growing after my first henna, and I covered a salon brunette haircolor and gray roots. After repeated hennas, the last 2 inches of my hair seems to be a brighter red than the rest--almost like the henna took the place of the brunette dye?

Good luck with it, and I do think the brown is very pretty. I can see how you would get tired of it, though. I had my salon brunette for 4 weeks and got so sick of it!

Thanks! I'll try it out. I also read something about baking soda, might try that out as well. I'd love to use henna a few times before I died it a chemical red (which I want to do, just once) but I was afraid that somehow the henna would somehow eh.. make the hairdye stick longer? I'm not sure though.. I'll just wait a few more weeks I think. I might just use a soap cap (bleach with low vol. & very diluted with shampoo, always works!)

**lapushka** · August 29th, 2012, 09:50 AM

Originally Posted by oktobergoud

Yeah it is, but it's 28 washes!! For me that would be 14 weeks.. so about 3,5 months? :P I already wash my hair more often now but it's still so dark!

I don't have patience haha. Thing is, my roots are much lighter and are coming in now, so it looks really weird.. going from very light to really dark to gradually lighter :P

Would washing 3 to 4 times a week be doable? I know, it seems like it's not much of a solution, but... I wouldn't bleach it out, that's for sure. Washing a few times more a week is really all it's going to take.