I screwed up. I have desperately wanted chunky highlights in my hair for ages, but am horribly poor (can’t buy food this week poor.) I decide that because I am experiancing quite a case of fall-itis, (read: it snowed last night, winter is coming, aka depression season…) I need a change. Bought a home highlighting kit. You know where this is heading…
I now have golden yellow roots for about two inches from the crown of my head, extending about an inch and half from the part. Luckily, I was clever enough to part on one side, so I can part on the other side tomorrow and not look like a total freak. Or wear a wig. It IS Halloween, afterall. Maybe people will think it’s temporary. I can tell them I’m a sun spot. It kind of looks like that guy from Orgy. I’VE MADE FUN OF THE GUY FROM ORGY’S HAIR! ::
I still don’t have the money to get someone else to fix it, and I’m thinking if I buy some dye that approximated my original hair color (a light-medium brown), I can get my friend, who does this all the time with smashing results, to darken up the roots. The rest of the hair extending from the roots is prefectly fine, in fact, it looks good. I think. It’s hard to tell with the bright yellow spot on my head. I KNOW any hair dressers out there will tell me not to do this, and to not touch it until I can afford a hairdresser, but I really am horrifically vain and can’t walk around town like this. So given that I am going to do this stupid thing ( It’s sort of like sex ed. ), any tips? Should I just dye my entire head back to one color, or will that just give me the same effect, but with a DARKER pallet? Or should I just apply the brown to the effected area? And JUST when my hair was getting long again.
Can I still be the board’s aristocratic beauty if I have silly looking hair? I’ll add this on my list of things that you REALLY need to follow the directions with. Assemble your own furniture, nuclear fusion, home hair highlighting.
Off to go see how horrid it looks now that it’s semi-dry. Oy vey iz mir. This is something Lucy Ricardo would have done, had home highlighting been possible.
My wife says there is a continuum of self-destructive behavior, with suicide on one end and home highlighting kits on the other.
But hair does not make an aristocrat. Overcoming bad hair; making it your own style; making the rest of us want hair as bad as yours–THAT’S aristocratic!
Yikes! Been there, done that. The last time I colored my hair myself was a total disaster. It came out some awful color and I had to go to the grocery store with a knit winter hat on my head to get more hair color that very night (the grocery store was the only thing open at night).
I stayed up very late that night trying to get my hair to some reasonable color–it sucked. I think I ended up going one shade darker than what I wanted…it was still horrible, but I could at least go to work the next day.
besides, as I am an insomniac who works the night shift, I rarely go to bed before 2 or 3. I started this debaucle at 10:00, which is early for me. Being tired has nothing to do with it, not wearing that godammed cap DOES. My reasoning? They don’t put one on my head when I get my hair professionally highlighted…
Oy, vey. Thank GOD I have a lot of head kerchiefs.
Before you re-dye, you might want to see if you can get a cheap consultation with a hairdresser, to make sure that the dye you want to use isn’t going to react badly with the highlighting stuff. As bad as a bright yellow patch it, a vivid orange patch would be worse. (well maybe not for tomorrow, since it is Halloween, as you said.)
swiddles sans hair no good Mully. swiddles in any way shape of form actually very good, but hey, the punk rock effect can be achieved in any number of ways and still be hot.
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Just tell’em its “PUNK ROCK!”
Wear lots of leather
Have a scowl on your face when people stare, and say, “What are you staring at?!” really loud, then say, “ITS PUNK ROCK, OK!!!”
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SwimmingRiddles, every box of hair dye has on it a number to call for assistance with hair disasters. I would recommend going to the store and getting the number off a Clairol or L’Oréal box - call them up and explain what happened. They are very knowledgeable about telling you how to fix whatever got messed up and can recommend the correct shade to buy.
They are probably going to tell you anyway to see a professional hairdresser, but they may be able to tell you what to do as an emergency measure. I would guess that you are probably going to have to try and cover that one spot, and then possibly the rest of your head afterward; if you cover everything at once, that spot is probably still going to be lighter unless you use a shade much darker than your natural color.
Really, though, call Clairol or L’Oréal - all they can tell you is to get to a salon.
Everyone take heed: you are NEVER poor enough to experiment on your own hair (and, yes, I have done that, too). Save up the money—no matter how long it takes—and have a professional do it. Shall I tell you about the time I wound up with Lucille Carmichael hair because I figured I could dye it myself?
OOooohhh, poor Swiddles! Consulting your friend sounds like a good plan for the immediate relief. Bring her along to help you pick the right color - sometimes two sets of eyes can do that better than one (upset) set.
By the way, if I have interpreted dropzone correctly, he is not referring to lack of sleep, but to number of days one has in which to correct the problem. Whenever possible, I always schedule anything hair-related, even just a trim, for Friday night or Saturday. That way, if anything goes wrong, I have the rest of the weekend to figure out how to deal with it.
I dyed my hair this weekend. It’s supposed to be black, but it has funky blue highlights that I didn’t expect. Which is OK. I still like myself. And even with a big sun-spot on your head, we still like you, Miss Riddles.
Seriously, though, call the maker of your dye, as missbunny suggested. But I suspect they will advise you to hie yourself to the nearest salon.
Or you could bleach it, and then dye it all a consistent color. But that would be tres extreme.
Look at Marie Antoinette and Louis the XIV. Having silly looking hair is practically de rigueur for aristocrats. Just don’t adopt Marie’s solution to a bad 'do.
This is going to sound like a lie, try to believe me. I have highlighted my hair many times, and a few times thought, OMIGOD my hair is almost orangey yellow. Really? Not that bad. It ALWAYS looks WORSE to you. ALWAYS.
Yes, this is shutting the door after the cows are bleached, but I always do it on the weekend and generally have some semi-backup ready (extra Shimmer lights conditioner if the blond is too brassy, for example). Plus if you bleach your scalp can be all red and funny looking for a day, so that’s another reason.
Here’s a few ideas on what you do (unless you’ve already called Miss Clairol):
Buy one of them brushes to apply the color if you don’t have one already.
Get your friend over to help you apply.
Get two boxes of semi-permanent color that’s perhaps a touch darker than your natural color, and, using just one of them, apply to your ** roots only ** (the part that is too light) for the recommended amount of time, blending throughout your all your hair for only last two-to-three minutes, just so everything blends a little.
Clairol has a coloring system called “Jazzing” that you might want to try - it’s “temporary to semi-permanent” depending on how long you leave it on and whether or not you use heat. You could use this to apply just to your roots, and use heat (hair dryer) and apply more if it’s not dark enough (it doesn’t require mixing with anything else). That way you can fine-tune the result.
I’m recommending semi-permanent because it’s easier to fix mistakes - if it gets too dark, you can shampoo about three times and it’ll lighten up right there.
OK, I am dying the roots back even as we speak. Actually, with the roots darker, I think it’ll end up looking like a natural blonde streak, which I think will be pretty cool.
Here’s what I’m blameing it on: the directions. They give you one of those highlighting caps, but then they tell you that you can brush on the bleach for “create your own effects”. Damn straight. No one has hair like this. If they told me to just use the godammed highlighting cap, I would have. And that’s my rationalization for the day.
Thanks for the niceness, guys. Soul, where the hell have you been? Is that 18 year old still keeping you…“busy?”
Twenty minutes is up. Off to wash off THIS attempt at dye. I’ll keep yall informed.
I’ve dyed my hair for…probably close to 10 years. At first, it was just using Sun-In. When I graduated from college, I was a blonde. I wanted a change, so I started dying it reddish brown. I forget the EXACT sequence of events, but one day I wanted to dye it red, but my hair (I thought) was too dark. (I’d been dying it for around…9 months.)
I saw a box of “Hair Color Stripper” at the Cosmetic Center, so I picked up a box. And a box of Clairol Hydrience. Went home. Woke up Saturday and decided to do my hair. Did the strand test for the stripper, and found it was around 20 minutes. Put it all over my hair, and waited. Then rinsed it out.
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Well, we had forgotten something. The hair NEAR MY SCALP didn’t have as much dye. So my hair was rainbow colored - WHITE roots, then going from blonde, to gold, to orange, to clown nose red. I panicked. And grabebd the box of hair color. Well, THAT turned out really badly too…was WAY too bright. So I ran out with a baseball cap on, and bought a box of the darkest brown I could find. And immediately covered my head in it. My hair went down to a tolerable level after that.
So Swiddles? I feel your pain, hon. Hope it turns out.
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