My Over-Dyed Hair. Let Me Not Show You It.

[plumtreeblossom]

My hair is way, way, way too dark for my liking. Unless I'm in direct sunlight, it looks like the goth black I was dying it 20 years ago. I don't want this severe a look. Nice, sedate, medium browns are the colors I see on the boxes of coloring I purchase and use. But apparently my hair has become too porous, and the result is just-this-side-of-black. Do not want.

I guess that once I get back from the holidays, I'll just have to suck it up and have a stylist get it back to a color I like. This is not something that's in my routine beauty ablutions budget, so it will have to be on the understanding that I'll be doing the root touch-ups myself at home, and thus the color choice has to facilitate that. Sometimes I miss my blond phase, but it really wasn't compatible with my skin tone (it made me look sunburn red all the time). A simple, pretty brown is what I'm after.

/it's all about me

Comments

[beowabbit]

I’m sure I’ll love it; I always love your hair! (I’ll be happier when you love it too, though.)

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Thank you, sweet sweetie! I love your beautiful hair.

Too bad I can't swap my scalp with someone who can't wait for their hair to go gray. Then they could buzz the dyed hair off and let the grayer-than-gray grow in. :-)

[kissoflife.livejournal.com]

Is increased porousness part of *cough* natural maturation in hair, or due to the color work, do you know?

I've been fussing with what color to do my hair too(though half-curious to see what the natural grey is actually like- I'll investigate in maybe 5 years! lol), and have also concluded I need economical stylist help to work out something reasonable. Is too much for me alone!

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

It's porous from being dyed. I have to do the roots every 3 weeks, but usually I just do the roots and not the rest. This time I just decided to give all of it a color boost, using a color called "neutral medium brown," and I got almost black. I expect it will fade a bit with a number of washings, but it's dark-ass-dark right now!

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

I wonder if using a "warm" tone brown rather than a "neutral" would give better results?

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I've thought of that, but I fear it would come out too red...

[http://users.livejournal.com/urban_faerie_/]

FYI

When I had my hair emergency 3 weeks ago the nice lady at supercuts did an excellent corrective dye job for me. it may not be out of your price range!

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of going the "fast food salon" route with something like Supercuts. I don't need anything elaborate.

Once about 6 years ago I decided to treat myself to a Newbury street salon coloring. I estimated that it would cost about $200, and price was not discussed beforehand. All told it came out to $480 dollars -- for a coloring. It was really hard not to cry.

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Dude, go to my hairdresser at Salon Luiz. It totally should not cost that much.

I really liked when your hair was sort of soft blond/light brown.