Hello! I would very much appreciate any of you hair geeks reading my long tale of hair and giving me an opinion....
I am hoping to have a bit of a hair makeover in the New Year, but think I am probably a nightmare client - I never know what I want, which is now complicated further because I don't know what's even possible as far as colour goes due to all the things I've done to my hair in the last couple of years.
My natural hair colour is a mousy blonde, I don't know the base but have been told it's a medium beige blonde, though to my mind it does have a fair bit of red in it. After having full head highlights for a while I decided to go whole head, which initially I had done at the salon but was a poor student at the time so ended up doing the upkeep myself using OTC powder/peroxide, lifting to very pale blonde, almost white, which I maintained with a silver shampoo and conditioner I bought from a salon. It was actually in really good condition for such processed hair and I liked the colour, but as my hair is long it was a lot of faffing for me to do my roots and I was worried about condition long term, so decided to sack the blonde. I went red, using various OTC permanent and semi-permanent colours, once I got a decent level of depth I stuck to semi-permanents or (I told you I was a nightmare client), once or twice, henna.
Now I am bored of red and would like to head back towards my natural colour with the eventual aim of having a few highlights, but don't want to grow it out with an auburn line round my head as I look like I'm going bald/grey! I put a light brown semi permanent on it a couple of weeks ago - it's currently light reddish-brown I would say.
What options might I have? I am willing to have a good few inches cut off, which would get rid of all the bleached hair, but in light of me putting henna on would I be able to have a mixture of highlights/lowlights?
Any advice you have would be brilliant, I am well aware it's going to be a long time before I'm blonde again! I'd like to get an idea of what might be possible before I consult a colourist (I still have to choose one
never mind tell them what I want!) as I feel sorry enough for them having to do my hair, the least I can do is have an idea or two!
CC xo
ps if anyone has any links to a good resource for pictures of cuts I'd be very grateful too!
I am hoping to have a bit of a hair makeover in the New Year, but think I am probably a nightmare client - I never know what I want, which is now complicated further because I don't know what's even possible as far as colour goes due to all the things I've done to my hair in the last couple of years.
My natural hair colour is a mousy blonde, I don't know the base but have been told it's a medium beige blonde, though to my mind it does have a fair bit of red in it. After having full head highlights for a while I decided to go whole head, which initially I had done at the salon but was a poor student at the time so ended up doing the upkeep myself using OTC powder/peroxide, lifting to very pale blonde, almost white, which I maintained with a silver shampoo and conditioner I bought from a salon. It was actually in really good condition for such processed hair and I liked the colour, but as my hair is long it was a lot of faffing for me to do my roots and I was worried about condition long term, so decided to sack the blonde. I went red, using various OTC permanent and semi-permanent colours, once I got a decent level of depth I stuck to semi-permanents or (I told you I was a nightmare client), once or twice, henna.
Now I am bored of red and would like to head back towards my natural colour with the eventual aim of having a few highlights, but don't want to grow it out with an auburn line round my head as I look like I'm going bald/grey! I put a light brown semi permanent on it a couple of weeks ago - it's currently light reddish-brown I would say.
What options might I have? I am willing to have a good few inches cut off, which would get rid of all the bleached hair, but in light of me putting henna on would I be able to have a mixture of highlights/lowlights?
Any advice you have would be brilliant, I am well aware it's going to be a long time before I'm blonde again! I'd like to get an idea of what might be possible before I consult a colourist (I still have to choose one
never mind tell them what I want!) as I feel sorry enough for them having to do my hair, the least I can do is have an idea or two!CC xo
ps if anyone has any links to a good resource for pictures of cuts I'd be very grateful too!
