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i need to change my hair colour but im afraid its Overprocessed.
can someone help me?
My original hair color is dark brown. I have very long wavy hair. 2 years ago I had virgin hair and decided i wanted to go purple and used one of those XXL LIVE (permanent). Then that faded, and i used a semi permanent ebony black. and when that faded i used another XXL LIVE (permanent) this time in black! and now for the last time after about 10 months of nothing i dyed it XXL LIVE again but this time in red. I never bleached my hair to achieve these colours, it stayed dark most of the time with the color reflex's.
Now i would like to make some light brown highlights and go again with a semi permanent on top, in ash brown.
Would this be safe? I fear that after 3 permanents and 1 semi my hair wont resist.
Thank you ladies.
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Do a few good deep conditioning treatments a few weeks/days prior. If your just talking highlights, it won't do a lot of damamge because your just doing some sections of hair. However, if you want to go lighter as in a highlight, a semi-permanent color won't lift or lighten your hair. So you will need to use a high lift tint or bleach which neither are semi permanent, and both ARE going to cause some dryness. You may want to put a semipermant color on over your highlights if you want, but if you find someone to lighten it, and they are a professional, they will do whatever will cause minimal damage. (Hairdresser for 10 years). Good luck!
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I was thinking of using a mixture of 40 vol cream developer and bleaching powder, and some foils to make a few highlights (not too thick) and let them get very light, and then later on dye all over with semi permanent ash brown. I imagine that the highlights would still come through but as a light ash brown. am i thinking correctly?
Thank you for your help!:)
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40vol is extremely harsh on your hair!
Ive used it and it TRASHES your hair.
Stick with 20 vol and go over it after a few weeks to get the desired colored.
You unfortunately might have to put up with a slightly yellow tinge for a bit but it’s better than your hair breaking.
A decent toner should help fix that anyway 🙂 -
If you do a ash over light blonde out will turn gray…..don’t do it. If you are striping all the natural color out you have to put warmth back in
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Actually I have been using 40 vol with bleach for about a year now all over and my hair is fried. I am going to low light it to get it back like my profile picture on here……..
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Actually I have been using 40 vol with bleach for about a year now all over and my hair is fried. I am going to low light it to get it back like my profile picture on here……..
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Strand testing is the only safe way to go if your not sure- a pain i know, as it costs you the price of something that you might not even be able to use!
However being able to walk down the street without a bag on your head cos' you didnt mess it up……..priceless! 🙂
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